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Book Chapters

Transition-edge Sensors

Author(s)
Douglas Bennett
Near the end of the 20th century, there was renewed excitement about the potential appli- cations of a type of superconducting detector known as the transition

Atomic Spectroscopy

Author(s)
William C. Martin, Wolfgang L. Wiese, Alexander Kramida
This chapter outlines the main concepts of atomic structure, with some emphasis on terminology and notation. Atomic radiation is discussed, in particular the

Properties of Refrigerants

Author(s)
Marcia L. Huber, Mark O. McLinden
This table gives physical properties, safe exposure limits, GWP and ODP for compounds that have been used as working fluids in traditional refrigeration systems

Agile Industrial Robots

Author(s)
Craig I. Schlenoff, William P. Shackleford, Zeid Kootbally, Brian Antonishek, Frederick M. Proctor, Thomas Kramer, William Harrison, Anthony Downs
In this chapter, we explore existing robot agility research efforts, while focusing on key technologies that help to enable agility, such as the ones mentioned

Core-hole potentials and related effects

Author(s)
Eric L. Shirley, Lars G. Pettersson, D. Prendergast
We consider the constrained-occupancy and (linear-response) self-consistent-field methods for screening of core-hole potentials that affect core excitation near

Evaluating Ventilation Performance

Author(s)
Andrew K. Persily
The evaluation of building ventilation performance is critical to understanding indoor contaminant transport dynamics and interpreting indoor contaminant

Units for Magnetic Quantities

Author(s)
Ronald B. Goldfarb
The centimeter-gram-second (CGS) system of units was adopted by the pioneers of electromagnetism in the nineteenth century. By the early twentieth century, two

Voice Biometrics: Future Trends and ChallengesAhead

Author(s)
Doug Reynolds, Craig Greenberg
Voice has become woven into the fabric of everyday human-computer interactions via ubiquitous assistants like Siri, Alexa, Google, Bixby, Viv, etc. The use of

Advances in Production Management Systems: Issues, Trends, and Vision Towards 2030

Author(s)
Boonserm Kulvatunyou, David Romero, Gregor V. Cieminski, Paolo Gaiardelli, Ilkyeong Moon, Giuditta Pezzotta, Stefan Wiesner, Marco Macchi, Jannicke B. Hauge, Irene Roda, Daryl Powell, Torbj?rn Netland, Nick Szirbik, Christoph Roser, Erlend Alfnes, Martin Rudberg
Since its inception in 1978, the IFIP Working Group 5.7 on Advances in Production Management Systems (APMS) has played an active role in the conception

Reservoir computing leveraging the transient non-linear dynamics of spin-torque nano-oscillators

Author(s)
Mathieu Riou, Jacob Torrejon, Flavio Abreu Araujo, Sumito Tsunegi, Guru Khalsa, Damien Querlioz, Paolo Bortolotti, Nathan Leroux, Danijela Markovic, Vincent Cros, K. Yakushiji, Akio Fukushima, Hitoshi Kubota, Shinji Yuasa, Mark D. Stiles, Julie Grollier
Present artificial intelligence algorithms require extensive computations to emulate the behavior of large neural networks, operating current computers near

Chapter 3: Engaging Communities and Stakeholders in Implementing NNBF

Author(s)
Maria Dillard, Cath Brooks, Helen Fisher, Hans Pietersen, Alwin Nijhuis, Anita van Breda, Susan Durden
Engagement is an important and necessary part of all planning and decision-making for any infrastructure project. Engagement is included at each step of the

Thermal Conductivity of Liquids

Author(s)
Marcia L. Huber
This is an update to the chapter on liquid thermal conductivity in the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 102nd Ed.

The OCEAN Project

Author(s)
Eric L. Shirley, John T. Vinson, Keith Gilmore
This chapter presents a high-level description of a suite of programs denoted by the acronym OCEAN (Obtaining Core Excitation spectra ab initio and with NBSE)

Remote sensing using open-path dual-comb spectroscopy

Author(s)
Kevin Cossel, Eleanor M. Waxman, Esther Baumann, Fabrizio Giorgetta, Brian Washburn, Caroline Alden, Sean Coburn
Open-path dual-comb spectroscopy (DCS) is an emerging technique for long open-path measurements across km-scale paths. It provides both broad spectral coverage

Object Measurements from 2D Microscopy Images

Author(s)
Peter Bajcsy, Joe Chalfoun, Mylene Simon, Mary C. Brady, Marcin Kociolek
This chapter addresses object measurements from 2D microscopy images. Object measurements (called image features) vary in terms of theoretical formulas for the

Chapter 8: Machine Performance Evaluation

Author(s)
Shawn Moylan
Machine performance evaluation is vital for objectively demonstrating that a machine can meet specification, standards and quality management system, and for