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Conferences

How Random is Your RNG?

Author(s)
Meltem Sonmez Turan, John M. Kelsey, Kerry A. McKay
Cryptographic primitives need random numbers to protect your data. Random numbers are used for generating secret keys, nonces, random paddings, initialization

A 4D Immersive Platform to Visualize RF Propagation in BAN

Author(s)
John G. Hagedorn, Kamran Sayrafian, Judith E. Terrill, Kamya Yekeh Yazdandoost
Recent advances in micro-electronics technology to build small radio-enabled implantable and wearable medical sensors have sparked considerable interest in body

Dynamic Flow Stress Measurements for Machining Applications

Author(s)
Steven P. Mates, Eran Vax, Richard Rhorer, Michael B. Kennedy, Eric P. Whitenton, Stephen W. Banovic, Timothy J. Burns
Metals undergo a combination of rapid loading and rapid heating during normal and high speed machining processes. Constitutive models for these materials

193 nm scatterfield microscope illumination optics

Author(s)
Martin Y. Sohn, Richard M. Silver
A scatterfield microscope for deep sub-wavelength semiconductor metrology using 193 nm light has been designed. In addition to accommodating the fixed numerical

Cryocooled 10 V Programmable Josephson Voltage Standard

Author(s)
Alain Rufenacht, Logan A. Howe, Anna E. Fox, Robert E. Schwall, Paul D. Dresselhaus, Charles J. Burroughs, Samuel P. Benz
Improvements in fabrication and packaging of our 10 V Programmable Josephson Voltage Standard circuits have enabled the successful operation of these devices on

Ignition of Mulch beds exposed to firebrand showers

Author(s)
Samuel L. Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki
Mulch is commonly found near buildings and is a useful surrogate to study various fuels that may be present near buildings. To this end, mulch beds were exposed

Recent Work Leading Toward a New Evaluation of Neutron Standards

Author(s)
Allan D. Carlson, V G. Pronyaev, R. Capote, G M. Hale, F. J. Hambsch, T Kawano, S. Kunieda, W Mannhart, R O. Nelson, D. Neudecker, P Schillebeeckx, S Simakov, P Talou, X Tao, D. L. Smith, W Wang, A. Wallner
A number of national cross section libraries are planning new versions of their libraries including ENDF/B and JEFF. The first step in producing these new

The Prehydration of Cement and Its Mitigation

Author(s)
Julyan Stoian, Tandre Oey, Jeffrey W. Bullard, Jian Huang, Aditya Kumar, Magdalena Balonis, Narayanan Neithalath, Gaurav Sant
Ordinary portland cement (OPC) prehydrates during storage or handling in moist environments, forming hydration products on or near its particles' surfaces

High Performance Visualization in Science and Research

Author(s)
Tomasz P. Bednarz, John Taylor, Tony Huang, Wesley N. Griffin, Steven G. Satterfield, Judith E. Terrill, John G. Hagedorn
This work showcases four examples of scientific visualizations across various domains of research and science that were prepared at CSIRO in Australia, and NIST

International Comparisons of Network Time Protocol Servers

Author(s)
Michael A. Lombardi, Judah Levine, Jose M. Lopez, Francisco Jimenez, John Bernard, Marina Gertsvolf, Harold Sanchez, Oscar G. Fallas, Liz C. Hernandez Ferero, Ricardo de Carvalho, Mario Fittipaldi, Raul Solis, Franklin Espejo
This paper describes a recently designed system that measures the time transmitted by network time protocol (NTP) servers located in North, Central, and South
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