Published By U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Issued over 9 years ago
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Contains data for FDA Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein (HVP) Containing Products recalls since February, 2010.
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued over 9 years ago
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<p>ADN was developed by the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC), while HAN was developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory to be a propellant. Alliant Techsystems Inc (ATK) is predominantly evaluating ADN for future use, while Ball Aerospace was awarded a NASA Technology Demonstration Mission (TDM) to use HAN as a monopropellant to be launched from KSC/Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Kennedy Space Center needs the technology in place prior to their arrival and needs to make recommendations as to their adoption if significant issues are found.</p><p>This is novel work that is necessary to safely support the evaluation and development of the next generation of &ldquo;green&rdquo; propellants.&nbsp;The goal of this project is to develop leak detection and related technologies for the two new &rdquo;green&rdquo; monopropellants. This project is in its&nbsp;early stage of development; information regarding this project will be updated in the near future.</p>
Published By US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior
Issued over 9 years ago
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This map was produced by the Division of Realty to depict landownership at Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge. It was generated from rectified aerial photography, cadastral surveys and recorded documents.
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued over 9 years ago
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The LAT Second Pulsar Catalog is available as a .tgz (tarred and zipped) archive file. The archive includes a main catalog FITS file with the data from the paper tables, images of the light curve and spectral energy distributions (SEDs) for each pulsar, FITS files containing the data points used in those images, and the timing parameters used in the analysis. A full description of the online archive is given in Appendix B of the preprint. Upon final publication, this catalog will also be generated as a BROWSE table that will be linked to this page.
Published By US Census Bureau, Department of Commerce
Issued over 9 years ago
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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.
Published By U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Issued over 9 years ago
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Medicare and Medicaid Research Review published data brief. Ellen Bouchery
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued over 9 years ago
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ABSTRACT: Under the auspices of the GPPDI, NPP estimates were compiled for 2,523 sites and 5,164 half-degree grid cells, by investigators based at the Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Tennessee, USA and the Department of Geography, University of Maryland, USA. The GPPDI database includes NPP measurements collected over a long time period by many investigators using a variety of methods.
Published By Department of Housing and Urban Development
Issued over 9 years ago
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NSP Snapshot Reports provide a synopsis of financial performance of NSP grantees. The snapshots provide data on commitments, drawdowns, activity types, and program income. There are program-wide snapshots for NSP1, NSP2, and NSP3 as well as individual snapshots for each grantee. These snapshots are intended to increase transparency to the public about the progress of NSP. Snapshots are posted quarterly.
Published By Department of Transportation
Issued over 9 years ago
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The Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS), otherwise known as Cash for Clunkers, was a program intended to provide economic incentives to United States residents to purchase a new and more fuel efficient vehicle when trading in a less full efficient vehicle. The program was promoted as providing stimulus to the economy by boosting auto sales, while putting safer, cleaner and more fuel efficient vehicles on the road.
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued over 9 years ago
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The concept of a smart device capable of communicating and making its own local decisions for wireless sensing, monitoring control, data acquisition, tracking, and identification has already been implemented and tested by military and commercial world in recent years. Methods for improving wireless transmission efficiency, data rate, power consumption, security, flexibility, scalability, and availability have also been proposed and some are implemented and tested. However, the usage trends for wireless sensors are changing from a single sensing purpose to a wide range of multipurpose services such as geo-location, first response, identification, security, and multimedia. This is making the limited quantity of radio frequency spectra a scarce resource (expensive) and is forcing an optimization shift to software programmable capability that provides control of a variety of modulation technologies for wideband or narrowband applications, emergency, and security functions. Mobitrum is proposing an innovative Software Defined RF Transceiver targeted for emerging wireless sensor with multiple capabilities from real-time data acquisition and monitoring to emergency response, geo-location via GPS, security, images, and RFID applications. The device will be designed to be low power, reliable, secure, high speed, low cost, and highly portable in a small self-contained form factor for easy plug-and-play.
Published By U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Issued over 9 years ago
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In 2004, Medicare implemented a risk-adjustment system that pays Medicare Advantage (MA) plans based on diagnoses reported for their enrollees, giving the plans an incentive to identify more diagnoses. As reported in the article, Measuring Coding Intensity in the Medicare Advantage Program, published in Volume 4, Issue 2 of Medicare and Medicaid Research Review, each year since 2004 the average MA risk score increased faster than the average fee-for-service (FFS) score. This relative increase in scores largely reflects changes in diagnostic coding, not real increases in the morbidity of MA enrollees, as survey-based data shows no trend in MA risk scores relative to FFS scores. Increases in risk scores vary widely by MA contract, with some contracts coding very similarly to traditional Medicare and others more intensively than the MA average.
Frequency Modulated Integrated Cavity Output Spectroscopy: A General Technique for Trace Gas and Isotope Measurements with Unprecedented Sensitivity Project
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued over 9 years ago
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A new technique is proposed for improved trace gas detection and measurement that combines the high absorption depths afforded by mid-infrared Integrated Cavity Output Spectroscopy (ICOS) with the added precision and sensitivity of Frequency Modulated Spectroscopy (FMS). To our knowledge, the two-tone FM technique described and prototyped in this proposal is the first demonstration of this combination. This proposal requests funding to advance on the breakthrough preliminary work shown here and to fully realize FM ICOS as a means to achieve one a one order of magnitude increase in detection precision compared to the very sensitive ICOS technique, enabling a new era of trace gas quantification including isotope ratio determinations of carbon, nitrogen and oxygen species.
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued over 9 years ago
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A sampling of reports from flight crew of rotary wing aircraft.
Published By U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Issued over 9 years ago
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The Childrens Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA) established performance bonuses, giving states an incentive to support enrollment and retention of eligible children in Medicaid and CHIP and helping to defray the costs associated with increasing enrollment of the lowest income children.
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued over 9 years ago
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The proposed antenna is a Radial-Waveguide Array (RWA) that will operate at Ka band, 25.5-27.5 GHz in transmit and receive for left-hand, right-hand. This Phase I effort will develop the phase shifter element and control distribution layer. This planar antenna has the ability to reconfigure its beam width from a narrow, directive beam to a sector-wide beam. The design is easily scaleable to support the desired gain for the specific link. The design and the Parascan? phase shifter technology that makes this antenna possible are unique to Paratek Microwave, Inc. This antenna will enable NASA to realize a space-based telemetry system for their reusable launch vehicles, with substantial savings from their terrestrial-based telemetry systems and revolutionize broadband network links for both terrestrial and SATCOM communication networks.
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued over 9 years ago
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Incidents related to impaired human performance in space operations can be caused by environmental conditions, situational challenges, and operational deficiencies. Detecting, reporting, and correlating related incidents are key to preventing future incidents. NASA has made significant progress in standardizing the reporting of space incidents by developing electronic data entry and storage of information. While such information technology improves report consistency, incident data are not represented in a way that enables advanced computer-based reasoning about incidents. TRACLabs proposes to develop a human factors incident-reporting tool for authoring and utilizing human factors incident data. This project is innovative in combining semantic web technologies with automated assistive technologies to aid users in finding relationships among incidents. The semantic indexing provided by the use of incident reporting language permits more sophisticated search of archives. During Phase I we defined a semantic language for incident reporting in XML and designed a technology approach for authoring and utilizing incident reports represented in this language. In Phase II we will implement this software and evaluate its effectiveness for the space human factors community at JSC. At the end of Phase II, software for reporting space human factors incidents will be delivered to NASA.
Published By US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior
Issued over 9 years ago
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This Comprehensive Conservation Plan CCP was written to guide management on Banks Lake NWR for the next 15 years. This plan outlines the Refuge vision and purpose and describes how Banks Lake NWR will contribute to the overall mission of the Refuge System. The plan provides an introduction to the Refuge, an overview of the CCP process, information about plan development and the management direction, and strategies for implementation. Key planning issues include: wildlife management, habitat management, resource protection, visitor services, and Refuge administration.
Published By U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Issued over 9 years ago
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This searchable database contains establishments (engaged in the manufacture, preparation, propagation, compounding, assembly, or processing of medical devices intended for human use and commercial distribution) and listings of medical devices in commercial distribution by both domestic and foreign manufacturers. Note: This database is updated once a week.
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued over 9 years ago
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High-performance, radiation-hard, widely-tunable integrated laser/modulator chip and large-area avalanche photodetectors (APDs) are key components of optical transmitters and receivers that can dramatically lower the barriers to deployment and operation of high capacity in-space optical communication links. Agility Communications develops and manufactures widely-tunable CW sources and transmitters based on chip-scale integration of a Sampled-Grating Distributed Bragg Reflector (SG-DBR) laser with an Electroabsorption or Mach-Zehnder modulator. The performance characteristics of these devices include 40 nm wavelength coverage, multi- Gigabit/sec data rates, low drive voltage, and compatibility with high spectral efficiency and high-sensitivity modulation formats. Agility has licensed low-noise APD structures patented at the University of Texas at Austin. These devices have achieved record-setting noise and gain-bandwidth performance and are ideally suited for space-based, high-bandwidth optical links. During Phase I of this project we will study the effects of proton irradiation for SG-DBR lasers, InGaAsP bulk electroabsorption and electro-optic modulators, and APDs with InAlAs multiplication structure. Based on the results of Phase I, optimum chip design and process technology will be selected for development of small, efficient, radiation-hard integrated optical components in Phase II of the project.
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued over 9 years ago
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Thermal Spray of UV/Visible Light-Curable Polymide Powders Project
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued over 9 years ago
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Project involves development of new flexible FR polyurethane (PU)insulation foams through a non-toxic environmentally friendly composite approach. Foams have bound-in polymeric phosphonate FRs, with added synergists and smoke suppressants. Such foams will not leach FR. Foams have fine cell structure and excellent flexible foam properties. Cone performance of the identified foam family (368 peak rate of heat release versus 1670 control - 78% reduction in PHRR) clearly surpasses that of standard commercial flexible PU foams: 502 to 913 for CAL 133 compliant foams, 953 for BS5852 compliant foam, and 1154 for CAL 117 compliant PU foam. Project foams easily comply with NASA 6001 open flame testing. Foams with under 3.0 pcf are available. Procedures for incorporation of significant Aerogel concentrations (5 pbw to 15 pbw), useful for cryogenic and low temperature insulation, have been identified and tested. Results are based on over 200 foams made in small scale and 100 foams prepared as 5L molded foams. Phase II of Project involves scale-up of foams in the foam family, preparation of intermediate scale samples capable of more detailed application testing, performing such testing (Eg. cryogenic insulation testing), and sampling of foams to potential customers identified by the project expert Commercialization Panel. In working with foam vendors on intermediate scale sample preparation, potential commercial partners will be identified and assessed. Large scale runs are also planned. Potential commercial partners will have the opportunity to gain experience with the foams in intermediate scale sample preparation. Selected partners will have the opportunity to share their experience with the Commercialization Panel to focus on highest value applications and needed performance. Such interaction will lead to partnering, licensing and joint venture discussions.
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued over 9 years ago
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This SBIR Phase I effort will demonstrate the feasibility of developing a fully packaged, efficient, short pulse, high repetition rate frequency doubled micro-chip laser for use in NASA-JPL's Time Resolved Raman Spectrometer (TRRS) to analyze elemental and mineral compositions in remote planetary environments. Time Resolved Raman Spectroscopy can identify mineral content in natural geological context with enhanced discrimination from impurity-based interfering fluorescence making it a leading candidate for in situ exploration of planetary bodies. The combination of a high repetition rate, short pulse width laser with commercially available single photon avalanche detector (SPAD) arrays will enable the development of a robust, compact, electrically efficient TRRS instrument that is well suited for space-based use.
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued over 9 years ago
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Hourly-averaged deep space magnetic field, plasma, and ephemerides. This web service includes data from missions including Helios1, Helios2, OMNI_M, Pioneer10, Pioneer11, Pioneer Venus, Stereo-A, Stereo-B, Ulysses, Voyager1, Voyager2, Mariner2, Pioneer6, Pioneer7.
Published By U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior
Issued over 9 years ago
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The Umpqua River drains 12,103 square kilometers (4,673 square miles) in southwest Oregon before flowing into the Pacific Ocean at Winchester Bay near the city of Reedsport. In cooperation with the Portland District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), the USGS evaluated sediment transport and gravel storage along the downstream alluvial reaches of the North and South Umpqua Rivers and the entire mainstem Umpqua River. This includes the lower 46.8 kilometers (29.1 miles) of the North Umpqua River and the lower 122.6 kilometers (76.2 miles) of the South Umpqua River. The Umpqua River gravel transport study involved multiple analyses, including tracking patterns of historical channel change and estimation of a sediment budget. To support these analyses, digital channel maps were produced to depict channel and floodplain conditions along the Umpqua River system from different time periods. GIS layers defining the active channel of the Umpqua River system were developed for three time periods: 1939, 1967, and 2005. For the South Umpqua River and the 19 kilometers (12 miles) of the mainstem Umpqua River downstream from the confluence of the North and South Umpqua Rivers, GIS layers were also developed for the time periods 1994, 2000, and 2009. For this project, the active channel was defined as area typically inundated during annual high flows, and includes the low-flow channel as well as side channels, islands, and channel-flanking gravel bars. The active channel datasets were developed by digitizing from aerial photographs. Aerial photographs from 1939 and 1967 were scanned, rectified, and mosaiced for this project. Digital orthophotographs from 1994, 2000, 2005, and 2009 are publicly available (See metadata for each photograph set for more information on the rectification process and resolution of each dataset). Although our study area encompasses the Umpqua River and lower reaches of the North and South Umpqua Rivers, the extent of each dataset depended upon the underlying aerial photographs; for example, the 1967 photographs extend only as far downstream as floodplain kilometer 7, whereas the 1939 and 2005 datasets extend to the mouth of the Umpqua River at the Pacific Ocean.
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued over 9 years ago
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Global Earthquake Hazard Frequency and Distribution is a 2.5 minute grid utilizing Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS) Earthquake Catalog data of actual earthquake events exceeding 4.5 on the Richter scale during the time period 1976 through 2002. To produce the final output, the frequency of an earthquake hazard is calculated for each grid cell, and the resulting grid cells are then classified into deciles (10 classes consisting of an approxiamately equal number of grid cells). The greater the grid cell value in the final output, the higher the relative frequency of hazard posed by earthquakes. This dataset is the result of collaboration among the Columbia University Center for Hazards and Risk Research (CHRR) and Columbia University Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN).