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Conferences

New Developments in the NIST Infrared Optical Properties of Materials Program

July 1, 2014

Author(s)

Leonard M. Hanssen, Sergey Mekhontsev, Jinan Zeng, John H. Burnett

The Infrared Optical Properties of Materials program in the Sensor Science Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) continues to...

Determination of the Planck constant at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

July 1, 2014

Author(s)

Stephan Schlamminger, Darine El Haddad, Frank C. Seifert, Leon S. Chao, David B. Newell, Ruimin Liu, Richard L. Steiner, Jon R. Pratt

In 2013, a new measurement of the Planck constant h was performed using a watt balance at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The value...

A Tool for Evaluating Fault Detection and Diagnostic Methods for Fan Coil Units

June 29, 2014

Author(s)

Shokouh Pourarian, Jin Wen, Daniel Veronica, Xiaohui Zhou, Ran Liu

Dynamic simulation software "tools" are needed for the research and development of improved methods for automatic control and automated fault detection and...

Persistence-based Structural Recognition

June 28, 2014

Author(s)

Chunyuan Li

This paper presents a framework for object recognition using topological persistence. In particular, we show that the so-called persistence diagrams built from...

Preserving Privacy More Than Reading a Message

June 27, 2014

Author(s)

Susanne M. Furman, Mary F. Theofanos

Social media has become a mainstream activity where people share all kinds of personal and intimate details about their lives. These social networking sites...

Ultra-low Phase Noise Frequency Synthesis from Optical Atomic Frequency Standards

June 26, 2014

Author(s)

David A. Howe, Archita Hati, Craig W. Nelson

We discuss frequency synthesizer needs and recent phase-noise results of a multi-level frequency divider that are consistent with phase noise of new high...

LDPC Error Correction for Gb/s QKD

June 24, 2014

Author(s)

Alan Mink, Anastase Nakassis

Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) error correction is a one-way algorithm that has become popular for quantum key distribution (QKD) post-processing. Graphic...

On architecting and composing through-life engineering information services to enable smart manufacturing

June 24, 2014

Author(s)

Vijay Srinivasan, Nenad Ivezic, Boonserm Kulvatunyou

Engineering information systems play an important role in the current era of digitization of manufacturing, which is also known as smart manufacturing...

Character Strings, Memory and Passwords: What a Recall Study Can Tell Us.

June 22, 2014

Author(s)

Brian C. Stanton, Kristen Greene

Many users must authenticate to multiple systems and applications, often using different passwords, on a daily basis. At the same time, the recommendations of...

I Can't Type That! P@$$w0rd Entry on Mobile Devices

June 22, 2014

Author(s)

Kristen Greene, Melissa A. Gallagher, Brian C. Stanton, Paul Y. Lee

Given the numerous constraints of onscreen keyboards, such as smaller keys and lack of tactile feedback, remembering and typing long, complex passwords an...

A Cognitive-Behavioral Framework of User Password Management Lifecycle

June 22, 2014

Author(s)

Yee-Yin Choong

Passwords are the most commonly used mechanism in controlling users access to information systems. Little research has been established on the entire user...

Development of a Scale to Assess the Linguistic and Phonological Difficulty of Passwords

June 22, 2014

Author(s)

Jennifer R. Bergstrom, Stefan A. Frisch, David C. Hawkins, Joy Hackenbracht, Kristen K. Greene, Mary Theofanos, Brian Griepentrog

Increasingly, institutions are requiring or recommending that their employees use secure, system-generated passwords. It is not clear how well linguistic and...

Figure metrology for x-ray focusing mirrors with Fresnel holograms and photon sieves

June 20, 2014

Author(s)

Ulf Griesmann, Johannes A. Soons, Quandou (. Wang, Lahsen Assoufid

We report on interferometric measurements of the figure error of an ultra-precise mirror with the shape of an elliptical toroid for the diffraction limited...

Predictive analytics for manufacturing sustainability performance

June 20, 2014

Author(s)

Seungjun Shin, Jungyub Woo, Sudarsan Rachuri

The Smart Manufacturing (SM) system should be capable of handling high volume data, process high velocity data and manipulate high variety data. Big data...

The stability of milling: an impact oscillator with delay

June 20, 2014

Author(s)

Matthew A. Davies, Tony Schmitz, Timothy J. Burns

Potential artifacts and misinterpretations when evaluating the ecotoxicological effects of nanomaterials

June 16, 2014

Author(s)

Elijah J. Petersen, Theodore Henry, Jian Zhao, Robert MacCuspie, Teresa L. Kirschling, Vincent A. Hackley, Baoshan Xing, Jason White

Engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) have significant commercial potential in a broad range of industries for consumer products as a result of their novel properties...

Designing a Uniaxial Tension/Compression Test for Springback Analysis in High-Strength Steel Sheet

June 16, 2014

Author(s)

Mark R. Stoudt, Lyle E. Levine, Li Ma

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Quantitative Assessment of Nanoparticle Induced Oxidative Damage to DNA Using Isotope Dilution Mass Spectrometry

June 16, 2014

Author(s)

Elijah J. Petersen, Pawel Jaruga, M Miral Dizdar, Bryant C. Nelson

Mass spectrometry techniques have been employed as one of the primary analytical tools for investigating the effects of oxygen-derived free radicals on the...

Effects of Temperature on Surface Accumulation and Release of Silica Nanoparticles in an Epoxy Nanocoating Exposed to UV Radiation

June 16, 2014

Author(s)

Chun-Chieh Tien, Ching-Hsuan Chang, Bernard Hao-Chih Liu, Deborah Jacobs, Savelas A. Rabb, Lee L. Yu, Tinh Nguyen, Li Piin Sung

Polymer nanocoatings are increasingly used outdoors and in harsh environments. However, because most common polymers degraded by the weathering elements...

Multi-method analysis of multiwall carbon nanotube polymer nanocomposite samples after photodegradation

June 16, 2014

Author(s)

Elijah Petersen, Thomas F. Lam, Justin Gorham, Keana Scott, Chris Long, Renu Sharma, Li Piin Sung, James Alexander Liddle, Tinh Nguyen

Nanomaterials can be used as nanofillers to enhance the properties of polymeric materials. However, the effect of weathering on nanocomposites and the potential...

A Study of Nanosilica Release From Weathered Polymer Nanocomposites at Different Temperatures Using ICP-OES

June 15, 2014

Author(s)

Savelas A. Rabb, Deborah S. Jacobs, Li Piin Sung, Tinh Nguyen, Lee L. Yu

The impact of nanoparticles on the environment and, more importantly, the human population has been of great interest for the past few years. Release of these...

An analysis of the nonlinear spectral mixing of didymium and soda-lime glass beads using hyperspectral imagery (HSI) microscopy

June 13, 2014

Author(s)

Ronald G. Resmini, Robert S. Rand, Christopher Deloye, David Allen

Nonlinear spectral mixing occurs when materials are intimately mixed. Intimate mixing is a common characteristic of granular materials such as soils. A linear...

Uncertainty in Measurement of the Maximum Cutting Tool Temperature by Infrared Thermography

June 13, 2014

Author(s)

Brandon M. Lane, Eric P. Whitenton, Viswanathan Madhavan, M A. Donmez

This paper presents an analysis of the uncertainty in measurement of the peak temperature on the side face of a cutting tool by infrared thermography. An...

Inter-BAN Interference Mitigation: A Correlated Equilibrium Perspective

June 13, 2014

Author(s)

Vladimir Marbukh, Kamran Sayrafian, Martina Barbi, Mehdi Alasti

A Body Area Network (BAN) is a wireless network of wearable or implantable computing devices. A BAN typically consists of several miniaturized radio-enabled...

Fiber orientation angle effects in machining of unidirectional CFRP laminated composites

June 13, 2014

Author(s)

Vis Madhavan, Gary Lipczynski, Brandon Lane, Eric P. Whitenton

Experiments were carried out at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, in collaboration with The Boeing Company, to obtain force and temperature...

SHREC14 Track: Retrieval and classification on Textured 3D Models

June 12, 2014

Author(s)

Afzal A. Godil

This contribution reports the results of the SHREC 2014 track: Retrieval and classification on textured 3D models, whose goal is to evaluate the performance of...

SHREC14 Track: Large Scale Comprehensive 3D Shape Retrieval

June 12, 2014

Author(s)

Afzal A. Godil, Chunyuan Li

The objective of this track is to evaluate the performance of 3D shape retrieval approaches on a large-sale com- prehensive 3D shape database which contains...

SHREC 2014 track on automatic location of landmarks used in manual anthropometry

June 12, 2014

Author(s)

Afzal A. Godil, Chunyuan Li

In this paper we report the results of the SHREC 2014 track on automatic location of landmarks used in manual anthropometry. The track has been organized to...

SHREC14 Track: Extended Large Scale Sketch-Based 3D Shape Retrieval

June 12, 2014

Author(s)

Afzal A. Godil, Chunyuan Li

Large scale sketch-based 3D shape retrieval has received more and more attentions in the community of content- based 3D object retrieval. The objective of this...

SHREC14 Track: Shape Retrieval of Non-Rigid 3D Human Models

June 12, 2014

Author(s)

Afzal A. Godil, Chunyuan Li

We have created a new benchmarking dataset for testing non-rigid 3D shape retrieval algorithms, one that is much more challenging than existing datasets. Our...

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