New England Regional Health Equity Profile & Call to Action

Good health is a foundation that allows people to participate in the most important aspects of life. The purpose of the New England Regional Health Equity Profile and Call to Action is to identify where differences in good health exist among racial, ethnic, and disability populations in New England as well as foster policy, programmatic, and individual action to combat health disparities and achieve health equity for racial, ethnic, disability and underserved populations in New England. The report was written by the members of the New England Regional Health Equity Council (RHEC), one of ten regional health equity councils formed by the Office of Minority Health at the federal Department of Health and Human Services. The mission of the New England RHEC is to achieve health equity for all through collective action in the New England region. The New England RHEC’s vision is to achieve health equity through cross-sector interaction and collaboration of activities and resources to optimize health for all where they live, learn, work, and play. The New England Regional Health Equity Profile and Call to Action uses a “social determinants of health” approach. A social determinants of health approach focuses on understanding how the intersection of the social and physical environments; individual behaviors; and access to education, income, healthy foods and health care, impacts a wide range of health and quality-of-life outcomes. The report examines the following topics: Socio-Economic Status, Healthy Eating and Physical Activity, Risky Behaviors, Cultural Competency in Health Care, Health Care Access, Health Outcomes, and the Intersection of Race/Ethnicity & Disability. It also includes a description of State Health Equity Activities and a Regional Call to Action

VAS sounding data evaluation

The VAS soundings derived by NOAA personnel and NASA personnel and rawinsonde soundings are compared: (1) directly by plotting on Skew t-log p diagrams; (2) by pairing rawinsonde soundings with the closest satellite soundings and calculating the mean and standard deviations of differences between the two data sets; and (3) by constructing synoptic and subsynoptic scale analyses with rawinsonde and satellite data. Differences for various parameters are discussed

8Be Nuclear Data Evaluation

An R-matrix analysis of experimental nuclear data on the reactions 4He(alpha,alpha), 4He(alpha,p), 4He(alpha,d), 7Li(p,alpha), 7Li(p,p), 7Li(p,n), 7Be(n,p), 6Li(d,alpha), 6Li(d,p), 6Li(d,n) and 6Li(d,d), leading to the 8Be intermediate state, has been completed in the last two years. About 4700 data points from 69 experimental references are included. The excitation energy above the 8Be ground state is 25-26 MeV for all reactions except 4He(alpha,alpha) and 7Be(n,p). The data for the reactions 4He(alpha,alpha) and 6Li(d,d) do not fit well, but the other reactions fit with a chi^2/(point) of less than the overall value of 7.9. Most of the 19 resonances found in the R-matrix analysis correspond to resonances formerly known from experiment. Evaluated integrated 4He(alpha,p), 4He(alpha,d), 7Li(p,alpha), 7Li(p,n), 7Be(n,p), 6Li(d,alpha), 6Li(d,p) and 6Li(d,n) reaction cross-sections are presented. Evaluated cross-section and angular dependence files in ENDF format were prepared for the twelve reactions p 7Li, n 7Be, d 6Li -> alpha 4He, p 7Li, n 7Be, d 6Li. Maxwellian averaged temperature-dependent cross-sections in NDI format were prepared for the six reactions 7Li(p,alpha), 7Li(p,n), 7Be(n,p), 6Li(d,alpha), 6Li(d,p) and 6Li(d,n).Comment: Published in proceedings of International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology (ND2004), Santa Fe, NM, 26 September - 1 October 2004, LaTeX, 4 pages, 8 encapsulated postscript figure

Data driven ontology evaluation

The evaluation of ontologies is vital for the growth of the Semantic Web. We consider a number of problems in evaluating a knowledge artifact like an ontology. We propose in this paper that one approach to ontology evaluation should be corpus or data driven. A corpus is the most accessible form of knowledge and its use allows a measure to be derived of the 'fit' between an ontology and a domain of knowledge. We consider a number of methods for measuring this 'fit' and propose a measure to evaluate structural fit, and a probabilistic approach to identifying the best ontology

MARCE data evaluation

The Get Away Special (GAS) 007 Project Explorer Experiment data recorded and radio downlinked by the Marshall Amateur Radio Club Experiment (MARCE), the first GAS radio experiment, are compared and evaluated. A compatibility assessment, of the student experiments and the MARCE power, control and data systems, during the STS-61C Columbia flight in January 1986 is presented. Analysis of the GAS container's thermal environment, located near the center of the GAS Bridge is discussed

Automatization of TDS data evaluation

Tato práce se zabývá automatizací vyhodnocování dat termální desorpční spektroskopie (TDS). Teoretická část pojednává o procesích adsorpce a desorpce atomů a molekul a teplotní závislosti desorpce. Součástí práce je také kvantitativní analýza signálu měřícího přístroje. Hlavním cílem praktické části bylo vytvoření počítačového programu na automatizaci vyhodnocování dat TDS. Popis programu a uživatelská příručka jsou také součástí práce. Proběhlo testování programu na předchozích měření a kinetické parametry desorpce byly zjištěny u několika vzorků.This bachelor thesis is focused on automatization of post-processing and evaluation of thermal desorption spectroscopy (TDS) data. The theoretical part discusses the processes of adsorption and desorption of atoms and molecules on surfaces and the thermal dependence of the latter. This work also provides a quantitative analysis of the measured signal from the instrument. The main objective of the practical part is to create a computer tool for automatization of TDS data evaluation. Description of the program, as well as a user guide, is included in the work. Comprehensive tests of the created program were concluded on previously measured TDS spectra and the kinetic parameters of several samples were determined.

Data reduction and evaluation procedures

The computational procedures that are involved in exhaust emissions data reduction and the use of these computational procedures for determining the quality of the data that is obtained from exhaust measurements were considered. Four problem areas were calculated: (1) the various methods for performing the carbon balance, (2) the method for calculating water correction factors, (3) the method for calculating the exhaust molecular weight, and (4) assessing the quality of the data