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Producing return fuel on Mars rather than carrying it from Earth significantly reduces the mass that must be lifted from Earth for a manned mission to Mars. The most practical propulsion combination that can be produced is methane and oxygen. Using propellant components made on Mars to generate electric power on the return voyage further reduces the mass that must be lifted. We are proposing to develop an energy conversion system to utilize the components of this propulsion combination to generate electricity for that voyage. The core of the system will be a direct methane oxygen solid oxide fuel cell (DMSOFC). To enhance conversion efficiency we will use the waste heat from the fuel cell stack to produce additional electricity before it is radi-ated away. (The combined efficiency of all stages of this system will exceed 70%.) Phase I will select an anode electrocatalyst, demonstrate a single cell fuel cell, select a heat re-covery system, and develop a design for the complete system, which will be built in Phase II.

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This memo discusses plans for the sambar deer hunt on St. Vincent National Wildlife Refuge in 1987. Consideration is given as to whether or not the whitetailed deer hunt and the sambar deer hunt should take place simultaneously.

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IDEA Part B State Performance Plan and Annual Performance Report, Fiscal Year 2006 (IDEA Part B SPP/APR FY2006) is a study that is part of the IDEA Part B State Performance Plan and Annual Performance Report (IDEA Part B SPP/APR) program; program data is available since 2002-03 at . IDEA Part B SPP/APR FY2006 (http://idea.ed.gov/explore/home) is a cross-sectional study that collects State Performance Plans that evaluate the state lead agency�s efforts to implement the requirements and purposes of Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and describe how the lead agency will improve such implementation. The study also collects Annual Performance Reports which report annually to the public on the intervention service programs located in the state on the targets in the lead agency�s performance plan. They study�s response rate was 100 percent. Key statistics produced from IDEA Part B SPP/APR FY2006 are children age 3-21 participating in intervention programs and effectiveness of such programs, and other performance indicators.

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This document estimates the fox population on Kiska island during the summer of 1983. The objective of the study is to estimate the size of the fox population on Kiska Island and to determine the feasibility of conducting a successful fox eradication program. The historical population, management efforts, results were attached.

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The Grayscale Shaded Relief of Alaska map layer is a 100-meter resolution grayscale shaded relief image of Alaska, in an Albers Equal-Area Conic projection. Shaded relief was created with the ArcGIS Hillshade command, with 45-degree sun elevation, 315-degree azimuth, and a z-factor of 1.0. Very dark and very light shades both represent steeper terrain. Mid-range grays represent flatter terrain. The grayscale shaded relief data were derived from the National Atlas 100-meter resolution elevation data. The elevation data were derived from 2012 National Elevation Dataset (NED) data and show the terrain of Alaska at a resolution of 100 meters. The NED is a raster product assembled by the U.S. Geological Survey, designed to provide national elevation data in a seamless form with a consistent datum, elevation unit, and projection. Data corrections made in the NED assembly process minimize artifacts, permit edge matching, and fill sliver areas of missing data. More information on NED can be found at .

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Recent developments in digital terrain and geospatial database management technology make it possible to protect this investment for existing and future projects to a much greater extent than was possible in the past. The minimum requirement for hydraulics data includes input and output files for all hydraulic models and spatial datasets that are needed to implement the models. (Source: FEMA Guidelines and Specs, Appendix M)

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Accuracy Assessment, Observation and Plot Points

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The notices and orders concerning the institution and/or settlement of administrative proceedings issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2010.

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This data set shows the commitment type of patients admitted to the California State Hospitals during fiscal years 1995-2014. The Department of State Hospitals (DSH) admits patients that are mandated for treatment by a criminal or civil court. Patients in this data set that are sent to DSH through the criminal court system and have committed or have been accused of committing a crime linked to their mental illness are referred to as "forensic" commitments. Patients in this data set committed to DSH from civil courts because they are a danger to themselves or others are referred to as "civil" commitments.

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This data set contains precipitation stations and precipitation-zone boundaries of west-central Nevada.

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Ionospheric Parameters such as FoF2, FoF1, FoE derrived from hand scaling of analog Ionograms

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Source: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), 2012.

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These data identify, in general, the areas where final critical habitat for the Louisiana Black Bear (Ursus americanus luteolus) occur.

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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 Address Ranges Relationship File (ADDR.dbf) contains the attributes of each address range. Each address range applies to a single edge and has a unique address range identifier (ARID) value. The edge to which an address range applies can be determined by linking the address range to the All Lines Shapefile (EDGES.shp) using the permanent topological edge identifier (TLID) attribute. Multiple address ranges can apply to the same edge since an edge can have multiple address ranges. Note that the most inclusive address range associated with each side of a street edge already appears in the All Lines Shapefile (EDGES.shp). The TIGER/Line Files contain potential address ranges, not individual addresses. The term "address range" refers to the collection of all possible structure numbers from the first structure number to the last structure number and all numbers of a specified parity in between along an edge side relative to the direction in which the edge is coded. The address ranges in the TIGER/Line Files are potential ranges that include the full range of possible structure numbers even though the actual structures may not exist.

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Bear Lake is a tectonic lake that has existed for at least several hundred thousand years. The lake basin is a relatively simple half graben, a spoon-shaped depression tilted toward the main fault on the east side of the lake. The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with researchers from several universities, has been studying the sediments of Bear Lake since 1996. The general purpose of this effort is to reconstruct past limnological conditions and regional climate on a range of timescales, from hundreds of years to hundreds of thousands of years. This research relates to a variety of human concerns, including water usage in the Bear River basin. Past work has included several coring operations, a seismic-reflection survey, sediment-trap deployments, a barge-mounted drilling operation with the GLAD800 drill rig, and a variety of other studies. The objectives of the September, 2002 operations, preliminarily reported here, were (1) to compile a detailed bathymetric map of the lake using swath-mapping techniques, in order to provide baseline data for a variety of applications and studies, and (2) to complete a sidescan-sonar survey of the lake, providing a nearly complete acoustic image of the lake floor. Limited amounts of subbottom acoustic-reflection data (chirp) were also collected, along with samples of lake-floor sediments representative of different kinds of backscatter patterns. These surveys followed an earlier subbottom acoustic-reflection survey (1997), using boomer and 3.5 kHz systems (S. M. Colman, unpublished data).

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This report summarizes the Waterfowl Breeding Population and Habitat Survey for Central Quebec during 2000. The primary purpose of the survey is to provide information on spring population size and trajectory for certain North American duck species. Survey methods, habitat and weather conditions, breeding population indices, and tables of population estimates are provided.

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NODC Accession 0129851 includes physical and profile data collected aboard the ROGER REVELLE during cruise RR1213 in the North Pacific Ocean and South Pacific Ocean from 2012-10-04 to 2012-11-05. These data include CONDUCTIVITY, SALINITY and WATER TEMPERATURE. The instruments used to collect these data include CTD. These data were collected by Jerome Smith of University of California - San Diego; Scripps Institution of Oceanography as part of The Equatorial Mixed Layer and Upper Ocean Mixing and UAV Test. The Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) submitted these data to NODC as part of the NSF sponsored Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.

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This dataset creates a collection of reports for the ODAR hearing offices by the average number of days until final disposition of the hearing request. The average shown will be a combined average for all cases completed in that hearing office. Users will be able determine where a particular hearing office stands among the total with respect to this workload category.

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Collect and deliver high-density elevation point data derived from multiple-return light detection and ranging (LiDAR) measurements for use in supporting topographic analysis, including applications such as flood plain mapping. The Nominal Point Spacing Value for the final lidar is 3.2 ft (~1 m). Deliver LiDAR Bare Earth and Contour lines within the areas designated in areas of Clay, Itawamba, Monroe, and Lowndes Counties to aid in visual interpretation of Flood Basin elevations and for addition to the MDEM elevation dataset. Comply with mapping guidelines and specifications as stated in the FEMA Procedure Memorandum No. 61

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This map layer portrays the State boundaries of the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The map layer was created by extracting county polygon features from the CENSUS 2006 TIGER/Line files produced by the U.S. Census Bureau. These files were then merged into a single file and county boundaries within States were removed. This is a revised version of the July 2012 map layer.

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Maximizing Sitka blacktailed deer Odocoileus hemionus sitkensis harvestopportunities on Kodiak Island, and minimizing deer impacts on native flora andfauna, are the primary goals of the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge, but thesegoals require statisticallyrobust estimates of trends in deer abundance. Weevaluated the feasibility of using distance sampling, applied to traditional linetransectaerial counts, to estimate, with statistical confidence, abundances of Sitkablacktailed deer in nonforested habitats of Kodiak Island. We completed 3aerial survey replicates on the Aliulik Peninsula of Kodiak Island, between 16May and 22 May, 2012. We observed an average of 64 deer in 39 groups persurvey. After correcting for estimated deer detection using Program Distance 6.0,which took into account distance to the observer and habitat type, we estimatedthat there were 115 deer SE15.82 on the Aliulik Peninsula. Moreover, wedemonstrated that distance sampling can be used to produce statistically robustestimates of trends in deer abundance, in nonforested regions of Kodiak Island.We provide recommendations for adapting the distance sampling method tosurvey deer across a wider region of Kodiak Island.

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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). The file is georeferenced to earth's surface using the UTM projection and coordinate system. The specifications for the horizontal control of DFIRM data files are consistent with those required for mapping at a scale of 1:12000.

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Piezoelectric motors operate on the principal of high frequency oscillation of high force precision ceramic elements. The high power oscillations are converted to rotary motion through a novel conversion mechanism to produce high torque precision motion when compared with traditional electromagnetic motors. Dynamic Structures and Materials (DSM) proposes to focus the Phase I innovation on the development and design of a precision rotary conversion mechanism that will take the piezoelectric oscillatory power and produce rotary motion for operation at cryogenic and extreme environments. DSM has already demonstrated operation of its high force linear motor actuators for environments as low as 77 K. The proposed rotary motor should operate from approximately 25K to 400 K and should provide very low or no outgassing as well as operational capabilities in hard vacuum. The technology is proposed for applications in the area of rover control, driving operational equipment, instruments, and other such facilities. This proposal addresses DSM's perceived approach to the development of flight-scalable demonstration components for the novel rotary motor technology.

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These data identify, in general, the areas of FINAL critical habitat for Peromyscus polionotus allophrys (Choctawhatchee beach mouse).

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The Form 41 Financial Reports contain financial information on large certified U.S. air carriers. Financial information includes balance sheet, cash flow, employment, income statement, fuel cost and consumption, aircraft operating expenses, and operating expenses. This data is collected by the Office of Airline Information of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.