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Conferences

Tunable Laser Techniques for Improving the Precision of Optical Astronomy

September 13, 2012

Author(s)

Keith R. Lykke, Claire E. Cramer, John T. Woodward IV, Steven W. Brown, Ping-Shine Shaw

Improving the precision of optical astronomy requires not only new telescopes and instrumentation, but also advances in observing protocols, calibrations and

Calibrating the sag due to gravity of horizontal interferometer reference flats

September 13, 2012

Author(s)

Ulf Griesmann, Jan Burke

We describe a method for measuring the deflection due to gravity (sag) of horizontally mounted reference flats of phase shifting interferometers. The planarity

Near-field Calibration of an Objective Spectrophotometer to NIST Radiometric Standards for the Creation and Maintenance of Standard Stars for Ground- and Space-Based Applications

September 13, 2012

Author(s)

John T. Woodward IV, Keith R. Lykke, Claire E. Cramer, John T. McGraw, Peter Zimmer, Daniel C. Zirzow, Susana Deustua, Dean Hines

NIST-calibrated detectors will be used by the ground-based 100mm diameter Astronomical Extinction Spectrophotometer (AESoP) to calibrate the spectral energy

Cross-View Action Recognition via a Transferable Dictionary Pair

September 12, 2012

Author(s)

P J. Phillips, Jingjing Zheng, Zhuolin Jiang, Rama Chellappa

Discriminative appearance features are effective for recognizing actions in a fixed view, but generalize poorly to changes in viewpoint. We present a method for

Measurements of Infrared Spectral Directional Emittance at NIST - A Status Update

September 12, 2012

Author(s)

Boris Wilthan, Leonard Hanssen, Sergey Mekhontsev

Over the past two decades, the Sensor Science Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed extensive capabilities for the

Fatigue Crack Growth of Pipeline Steels in Gaseous Hydrogen- Predictive Model Calibrated to API-5L X52

September 9, 2012

Author(s)

Robert L. Amaro, Elizabeth S. Drexler, Neha N. Rustagi, Nicholas Nanninga, Yaakov Levy, Andrew J. Slifka

A phenomenological fatigue crack growth (FCG) model has been proposed to predict the FCG of API-5L X100 steel in high-pressure gaseous hydrogen [1]. The model

FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH OF TWO X52 PIPELINE STEELS IN A PRESSURIZED HYDROGEN ENVIRONMENT

September 9, 2012

Author(s)

Andrew J. Slifka, Elizabeth S. Drexler, Neha N. Rustagi, Damian S. Lauria, Joseph D. McColskey, Robert L. Amaro

Fatigue crack growth tests were conducted on two API 5L X52 pipeline steel alloys. One alloy was from a new linepipe that was installed for hydrogen service in

Phase-shifting algorithms for the interferometric measurement of form error, diameter variation and refractive index inhomogeneity of fused silica spheres

September 9, 2012

Author(s)

Chu-Shik Kang, Ulf Griesmann, Johannes A. Soons

High-precision spheres have many applications in precision engineering and metrology, such as the calibration of transmission spheres for interferometry

Measurement of the diameter variation and refractive index inhomogeneity of a fused silica sphere using four-surface phase-shifting interferometry

September 9, 2012

Author(s)

Chu-Shik Kang, Ulf Griesmann, Johannes A. Soons

The diameter variation and refractive index inhomogeneity of a fused silica sphere were measured with a frequency-shifting Fizeau interferometer in a four

ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW METHODS FOR ION CHANNEL STRUCTURE-FUNCTION MEASUREMENT

September 7, 2012

Author(s)

Joseph W. Robertson, Vitalii Ivanovich Silin, John J. Kasianowicz

Boundary Discovery in Complex Systems

September 5, 2012

Author(s)

Eric D. Simmon, Joseph Chalfoun, Arthur Griesser

Many of todays extremely complex meta-systems are cross-domain, they require development by multiple stakeholder groups with different goals each implementing

Web-based Declarative 3D Graphics for Anthropometry Visualization and Education

September 4, 2012

Author(s)

Sanford P. Ressler

graphics system that is integrated seamlessly with web browsers. Users can select anthropometric landmarks and learn their names, view the body from many points

Data Quality for High Content Screening

September 3, 2012

Author(s)

YaShian Li-Baboud, Oleg Aulov, Peter Bajcsy

TO HAVE CONFIDENCE IN THE KNOWLEDGE GLEANED FROM DATA, IT IS ESSENTIAL TO VERIFY THE QUALITY OF THE DATA SOURCES AND TO HAVE A MEANS OF QUANTIFYING THE

Preface

September 2, 2012

Author(s)

Andrew M. Dienstfrey, Ronald F. Boisvert

Evaluation of Low-Ohmic Resistance Measurement Capabilities Between VSL and NIST

September 1, 2012

Author(s)

Marlin E. Kraft, Jan van der Beek, Gert Rietveld

The low-ohmic resistance measurement capa¬bilities of VSL and NIST were compared using a set of resistors with values 100 mOhm, 10 mOhm, 1 mOhm, and 100 mOhm

Measurement Techniques for Evaluating Current Range Extenders from 1 Amp to 3000 Amps

September 1, 2012

Author(s)

Marlin E. Kraft

When measuring standard resistors at different ratios with a Direct Current Comparator (DCC) incorporating Current Range Extenders (CREs) how do you know the

The TriTon Transformation

August 27, 2012

Author(s)

Daniel C. Smith-Tone

Many new systems have been proposed which hide an easily invertible multivariate quadratic map in a larger structure by adding more variables and introducing

Service Life Prediction for Sealants

August 27, 2012

Author(s)

Christopher C. White, Donald L. Hunston, Kar T. Tan

Previous industry consensus postulated that four elements of the weather: Temperature, Humidity, Ultraviolet Radiation, and Mechanical loading were responsible

Simulating Quantum Magnetism with Correlated Non-Neutral Ion Plasmas

August 27, 2012

Author(s)

John J. Bollinger, Joseph W. Britton, Brian C. Sawyer

By employing forces which depend on the internal atomic state (or spin) of an atomic ion, the Coulomb potential energy of a strongly coupled array of ions can

3D Precision Imaging with a Terahertz-bandwidth, Comb-calibrated Swept Laser

August 26, 2012

Author(s)

Esther Baumann, Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, Ian R. Coddington, Kevin O. Knabe, Laura C. Sinclair, William C. Swann, Nathan R. Newbury

A frequency-comb and MEMS-based external-cavity laser are integrated into a THz-bandwidth LIDAR system. Range to a diffuse target is measured at sub-msec update

Metrology for Nanosystems and Nanoelectronics Reliability Assessments

August 20, 2012

Author(s)

Yaw S. Obeng, Chukwudi A. Okoro, Joseph J. Kopanski

The traditional models and techniques for studying reliability in integrated circuits may not be appropriate for nanoelectronics and nanosystems. In this paper

Transient Convection-Diffusion Modelling of Peak Temperature in Orthogonal Cutting

August 19, 2012

Author(s)

Timothy J. Burns, Steven P. Mates, Richard L. Rhorer, Eric P. Whitenton, Debasis Basak

Numerical finite-difference simulations of a two-dimensional transient fast convection-slow diffusion model of the temperature field in orthogonal cutting, due

INVESTIGATING THE MECHANISM OF ENZYME-CATALYZED RING-OPENING COPOLYMERIZATIONS

August 19, 2012

Author(s)

Matthew T. Hunley, Fahriye N. Sari, Kathryn L. Beers

As the research interest in degradable polymers has risen, an ever increasing number of manuscripts report the synthesis of copolymers through ring-opening

Security Control Variations Between In-House and Cloud-Based Virtualized Infrastructures

August 19, 2012

Author(s)

Ramaswamy Chandramouli

Virtualization-related components (such as Hypervisor, Virtual Network and Virtual Machines (VMs)) in a virtualized data center infrastructure need effective

CHARACTERIZING SUSTAINABILITY FOR MANUFACTURING PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT

August 17, 2012

Author(s)

Mahesh Mani, Jatinder Madan, Jae H. Lee, Kevin W. Lyons, Satyandra K. Gupta

Manufacturing industries lack the measurement science and the needed information base to measure and effectively compare performances of manufacturing processes

An overview of sustainability indicators and metrics for discrete part manufacturing

August 16, 2012

Author(s)

Duck B. Kim, Swee K. Leong, Chin-Sheng Chen

Sustainable manufacturing (SM) has become an emerging environmental, economic, societal, and technological challenge to the industry, the academia, and the

Performance Evaluation of Consumer-Grade 3D Sensors for Static 6DOF Pose Estimation Systems

August 16, 2012

Author(s)

Jeremy A. Marvel, Marek Franaszek, Jessica Wilson, Tsai Hong Hong

Low-cost 3D depth and range sensors are steadily becoming more widely available, affordable, and thus popular for robotics enthusiasts. As basic research tools

Web-enabled Real-time Quality Feedback for Factory Systems using MTConnect

August 15, 2012

Author(s)

John L. Michaloski, Byeong Eon Lee, Frederick M. Proctor, Sid Venkatesh

Quality is a key element to success for any manufacturer, and the fundamental prerequisite for quality is measurement. In the discrete parts industry, quality

Proposal for a standardized test artifact for additive manufacturing machines and processes

August 15, 2012

Author(s)

Shawn P. Moylan, John A. Slotwinski, April L. Cooke, Kevin K. Jurrens, M A. Donmez

Historically, standardized test parts are used to quantitatively evaluate the performance of a machine or process. While several different additive

Design and Fabrication of a Three-DoF MEMS Stage Based on Nested Structures

August 15, 2012

Author(s)

Yong Sik Kim, Nicholas G. Dagalakis, Satyandra K. Gupta

This paper presents the design, fabrication and testing of a Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) based positioning stage which is capable of generating

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