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Book Chapters

COST IC1004: Cooperative Radio Communications for Green Smart Environments

June 1, 2016

Author(s)

Kamran Sayrafian, Ramona Rosini

Recommendations for Autonomous Industrial Vehicle Performance Standards

May 31, 2016

Author(s)

Roger V. Bostelman

A workshop was held at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, called: "Autonomous Industrial Vehicles: From the Laboratory to the Factory...

Towards Development of an Automated Guided Vehicle Intelligence Level Performance Standard

May 31, 2016

Author(s)

Roger V. Bostelman, Elena R. Messina

Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV's) have typically used for industrial material handling since the 1950's. Since then, US and European safety standards have...

Overview to the Book "Autonomous Industrial Vehicles: From the Laboratory to the Factory Floor.

May 31, 2016

Author(s)

Roger V. Bostelman, Elena R. Messina

Automatic Guided Vehicles (AGVs) were one of the earliest applications for mobile robots. The first AGVs were deployed in the 1950's to transport materials in...

Preface (Semiconductor Materials for Solar Photovoltaic Cells)

May 18, 2016

Author(s)

Winnie Wong-Ng, Mariappan Paranthaman, Raghu Bhattacharya

This introductory chapter briefly describes the book "Semiconductor Materials for Solar Photovoltaic Cells", coedited by M. Parans Paranthaman, Winnie Wong-Ng...

Human Response to and Consequences of the May 22, 2011, Joplin Tornado

May 15, 2016

Author(s)

Erica D. Kuligowski, Frank Lombardo, Long T. Phan

Tornadoes wreak havoc and destruction across the United States every year. One such tornado occurred in Joplin, Missouri on May 22, 2011. This tornado killed...

Chapter 7: Quantitative Assessment of Stress Relaxation in Tin Films by the Formation of Whiskers, Hillocks, and Other Surface Defects

March 15, 2016

Author(s)

Nicholas Clore, Dennis D. Fritz, Wei-Hsun Chen, Maureen E. Williams, John E. Blendell, Carol A. Handwerker

This chapter focuses on a study to develop & validate a surface defect counting procedure to be applied in research on the specific mechanisms responsible for...

Analytical Measurements of Nanoparticles in Challenging and Complex Environments

March 3, 2016

Author(s)

Bryant C. Nelson, Vytautas Reipa

Robust analytical methods for the characterization and measurement of engineered nanoparticles (ENPs) in complex media (e.g. soils, air, foods, tissues) are...

Validation and Verification of Collisional-Radiative Models

February 25, 2016

Author(s)

Yuri Ralchenko

Quality control is as relevant to scientific computing as to any other software. For complex collisional-radiative (CR) models that are used to calculate plasma...

MEMS Nanopositioners

January 1, 2016

Author(s)

Jason J. Gorman

This book chapter provides a review of the state of the art for MEMS nanopositioners. The motivation for MEMS nanopositioners is presented with respect to the...

The importance of exposure dose in communicating the ecotoxicology of engineered nanomaterials

November 20, 2015

Author(s)

Thomas A. Duster

Future policy decisions related to the control of engineered nanomaterials during consumer use and disposal will be predicated in part on their toxicities to...

Representation of Human Behavior in Fire

November 9, 2015

Author(s)

Erica D. Kuligowski, Steve Gwynne

N/A -- this is a chapter for a Springer book on evacuation modeling.

Human Behavior in Fire

November 9, 2015

Author(s)

Erica D. Kuligowski

N/A for an SFPE Handbook Chapter

Computer Evacuation Models for Buildings

November 9, 2015

Author(s)

Erica D. Kuligowski

N/A for SFPE Handbook Chapters. Included here is text from the chapter introduction: "With the rapid increase in computer capability and the increase in egress...

Making Contact to Molecular Layers: Linking Large Ensembles of Molecules to the Outside World

November 4, 2015

Author(s)

Christina A. Hacker, Sujitra J. Pookpanratana, Curt A. Richter, Mariona Coll

In this chapter we examine the various approaches to making electrical contact to large area molecular junctions. We will highlight the experimental concerns...

Solar cell characterization

October 23, 2015

Author(s)

Behrang H. Hamadani, Brian P. Dougherty

QconCAT: Internal Standard for Protein Quantification

October 21, 2015

Author(s)

Kerry M. Bauer, Karen W. Phinney, Illarion V. Turko

Protein quantification based on stable-isotope labeling mass spectrometry (SIL-MS) involves adding known quantities of stable-isotope labeled internal standards...

Glycan Analysis of NIST mAb Reference Material

October 15, 2015

Author(s)

John E. Schiel, Catherine A. Mouchahoir

N-linked glycosylation is a common post-translational modification that imparts structural heterogeneity to recombinant monoclonal antibody therapeutics. The...

A Global Partnership Advancing Biopharmaceutical Development: Summary and Future Perspectives

October 15, 2015

Author(s)

John E. Schiel, Michael J. Tarlov, Karen W. Phinney, Oleg Borisov, Darryl Davis

Not applicable

Chemical Kinetics and Fire

October 7, 2015

Author(s)

Gregory T. Linteris, John Griffiths

The purpose of this chapter is to set out the principles of chemical kinetics as they apply to combustion in flames and fires. Chemical equilibrium, which was...

Protein labeling in Escherichia coli with 2H, 13C and 15N

August 23, 2015

Author(s)

Zvi Kelman, Prasad T. Reddy

A number of structural biology techniques such as nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) can be performed with proteins with...

Combinatorial Testing: Theory and Practice

August 18, 2015

Author(s)

David R. Kuhn, Renee Bryce, Feng Duan, Laleh Ghandehari, Yu Lei, Raghu N. Kacker

Combinatorial testing has rapidly gained favor among software testers in the past decade as improved algorithms have become available, and practical success has...

Isotopic Labeling of Proteins in Halobacterium salinarum

August 4, 2015

Author(s)

Thomas E. Cleveland, Zvi Kelman

It is often necessary to obtain isotopically labeled proteins containing 15N, 13C or 2H for NMR; and 2H for small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) or neutron...

Deuteration in Biological Neutron Reflectometry

June 30, 2015

Author(s)

Frank N. Heinrich

Neutron reflectometry is uniquely positioned in structural biology, because of its ability to characterize biomimetic interfacial architectures like lipid...

Small-Angle X-ray Scattering of Ionic Liquids

June 1, 2015

Author(s)

Fan Zhang, Joshua A. Hammons, Jan Ilavsky

Small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) is a powerful technique that is used to resolve the size and structure of phases on the nanometer scale, within a sample...

Dynamics of Magnetic Nanoparticles and Nanodevices

May 31, 2015

Author(s)

Stephen E. Russek, Eric R. Evarts, Robert J. Usselman

Nanoscale magnetic devices and particles are being developed for a wide variety of applications including magnetic memory, nanoscale sensors, magnetic resonance...

Area Coverage in a Fixed-Obstacle Environment using Mobile Sensor Networks

May 17, 2015

Author(s)

Kamran Sayrafian, Hamid Mahboubi, Amir Aghdam

In this chapter, efficient deployment strategies for mobile sensor networks are proposed to improve the coverage area in target fields containing obstacles. The...

Nonlinear Optics for Quantum Frequency Conversion

April 14, 2015

Author(s)

Kartik A. Srinivasan

Evaluating automatic face recognition systems with human benchmarks

April 9, 2015

Author(s)

P. Jonathon Phillips, Alice O'Toole

Human face recognition skills are often considered the gold standard against which machines must compete. Over the last two decades, however, international...

Nanophotonics: From Quantum Confinement to Collective Interactions in Metamaterial Heterostructures

March 18, 2015

Author(s)

Anna L. Rast, Vinod K. Tewary

Nanophotonic materials have unique properties that are due to behavior on the quantum scale, as well as properties that emerge due to collective interactions...

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