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Conferences

Modeling the Vapor Pressure of Biodiesel Fuels

February 22, 2012

Author(s)

O. Castellanos Diaz, F. Schoeggl, H.W. Yarranton, Marco Satyro, Tara Lovestead, Thomas J. Bruno

The composition, vapour pressure, and heat capacity of nine biodiesel fuels from different sources were measured. The vapour pressure of the biodiesel fuels is...

Multiscale assessment of the osteochondral interface width in the femoral head

February 4, 2012

Author(s)

Sara E. Campbell, Donna C. Hurley, Virginia L. Ferguson

Hyperspectral Imaging of Ischemic Wounds

February 1, 2012

Author(s)

David Allen

Optical imaging has the potential to achieve high spatial resolution and high functional sensitivity in wound assessment. However, clinical acceptance of many...

OASIS Collaborative Energy Standards, Facilities, and ZigBee Smart Energy

February 1, 2012

Author(s)

David G. Holmberg, William Cox, Don Sturek

The enterprise integration-style interfaces and information models in the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Systems (OASIS)...

Validating the LASSO Algorithm by Unmixing Spectral Signatures in Multicolor Phantoms

February 1, 2012

Author(s)

Daniel V. Samarov, Matthew L. Clarke, Ji Y. Lee, David W. Allen, Maritoni A. Litorja, Jeeseong Hwang

As hyperspectral imaging (HSI) sees increased implementation into the biological and medical fields it becomes increasingly important that the algorithms being...

A Three-Antenna Technique for Determining the Total and Radiation Efficiencies of Antennas in Reverberation Chambers

February 1, 2012

Author(s)

Christopher L. Holloway, Ryan J. Pirkl, William F. Young, David A. Hill, John M. Ladbury

In this paper, we present a three-antenna reverberation chamber method that allows for the determination of the antenna efficiency of three antennas. While...

Determining Authentication Strength for Smart Card-based Authentication Use Cases

January 30, 2012

Author(s)

Ramaswamy Chandramouli

Smart cards are now being extensively deployed for identity verification(smart identity tokens) for controlling access to Information Technology (IT) as well as...

EFFECT OF ETHANOL FUEL AND MICROBIOLOGICALLY INFLUENCED CORROSION ON THE FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH BEHAVIOR OF PIPELINE STEELS

January 25, 2012

Author(s)

Jeffrey W. Sowards, Timothy S. Weeks, Joseph D. McColskey, James R. Fekete, Jain Luke, Charles H. Williamson

Ethanol fuel production and consumption is expected to increase significantly in the near future. Existing pipeline infrastructure could be repurposed to...

Frequency Characterization of an External-Cavity Quantum Cascade Laser at 4.5 υm using a Frequency Comb

January 25, 2012

Author(s)

Kevin O. Knabe, Paul A. Williams, Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, Chris Armacost, Michael Radunsky, Nathan R. Newbury

We measure the frequency noise spectrum of a free-running external-cavity quantum cascade laser at 4.5 υm through sum frequency generation with a fiber...

The Effects of Folding on High Strength Fibers Used in Soft Body Armor

January 23, 2012

Author(s)

Haruki Kobayashi, Walter G. McDonough, Joy Dunkers, Jae H. Kim, Hae-Jeong Lee, Scott Wight, Amanda L. Forster, Kirk D. Rice, Gale A. Holmes

Poly (p-phenylene benzobisoxazole) (PBO) fibers have been used in soft body armor (SBA) because of their high mechanical strength. However, there was an...

Optimization and analysis of code-division multiplexed TES microcalorimeters

January 20, 2012

Author(s)

Joseph W. Fowler, William B. Doriese, Gene C. Hilton, Kent D. Irwin, Daniel R. Schmidt, Greg Stiehl, Daniel S. Swetz, Joel N. Ullom, Leila R. Vale

We are developing code-division multiplexing (CDM) readout systems for TES arrays for good scalability to large multiplexing factors. We report high energy...

High-resolution, high-accuracy dual comb spectroscopy with over 40 THz bandwidth

January 20, 2012

Author(s)

Alexander M. Zolot, Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, Esther Baumann, William C. Swann, Jeff Nicholson, Ian R. Coddington, Nathan R. Newbury

Most spectroscopic instruments directly measure optical wavelength, which is converted to frequency and calibrated against spectral features that have...

Analysis of Suppressant-Enhanced Overpressure in the FAA Aerosol Can Simulator

January 18, 2012

Author(s)

Gregory T. Linteris, Donald R. Burgess Jr., Jeffrey A. Manion, Peter B. Sunderland, John L. Pagliaro, Viswanath R. Katta, Fumiaki Takahashi, Oliver Meier

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Texture Evolution in TRIP 590 Steels

January 3, 2012

Author(s)

Adam A. Creuziger, Lin Hu, Thomas H. Gnaeupel-Herold, A. D. Rollett

Evolution of Anisotropic Stress Factors with Texture in the Biaxial Deformation of HSLA50 Steel

January 3, 2012

Author(s)

Thomas H. Gnaeupel-Herold, Adam A. Creuziger, Mark A. Iadicola

The effects of crystallographic texture produced by biaxial deformation on the diffraction elastic constants (DEC) are discussed. Predictions of DEC values from...

Through-focus Scanning Optical Microscopy

December 31, 2011

Author(s)

Ravikiran Attota

Through-focus scanning optical microscopy (TSOM) method provides three-dimensional information (i.e. the size, shape and location) about micro- and nanometer...

A Novel Method for Determining the Lower Bound of Antenna Efficiency

December 31, 2011

Author(s)

Jason B. Coder, John M. Ladbury, Mark Golkowski

Determining the absolute antenna efficiency has been a difficult task since the inception of the antenna itself. While there are methods that can measure an...

The LaTeXML Daemon: Editable Math on the Collaborative Web

December 31, 2011

Author(s)

Deyan Ginev, Heinrich Stammerjohanns, Bruce R. Miller, Michael Kohlhase

The language of the \TeX/\LaTeX} typesetting system has become all-pervasive in scientific publications and has proven its stability, convenience and...

Vulnerability Hierarchies in Access Control Configurations

December 27, 2011

Author(s)

David R. Kuhn

This paper applies methods for analyzing fault hierarchies to the analysis of relationships among vulnerabilities in misconfigured access control rule...

NATURAL AND FORCED VENTILATION OF BUOYANT GAS RELEASED IN A FULL-SCALE GARAGE: COMPARISON OF MODEL PREDICTIONS AND EXPERIMENTAL DATA

December 19, 2011

Author(s)

Kuldeep R. Prasad, William M. Pitts, Marco G. Fernandez, Jiann C. Yang

Increase in the number of hydrogen fueled applications in the marketplace will require a better understanding of the potential for fires and explosion...

When Does a Circuit Really Fail?

December 15, 2011

Author(s)

Jason T. Ryan, Lan Wei, Jason P. Campbell, Richard G. Southwick, Kin P. Cheung, Tony Oates, Phillip Wong, John S. Suehle

Experimentally Based Methodology for Charge Pumping Bulk Defect Trapping Correction

December 15, 2011

Author(s)

Jason T. Ryan, Richard G. Southwick, Jason P. Campbell, Kin P. Cheung, Chadwin Young, John S. Suehle

We develop a simple experimental approach to remove bulk trap contributions from charge pumping data collected on devices which suffer from large amounts of...

Influence of Interfacial Chemistry and Molecular Length on the Electronic Properties of Metal-Molecule-Silicon Junctions Produced by Flip Chip Lamination

December 15, 2011

Author(s)

Michael A. Walsh, Mariona Coll, Benjamin Jones, Curt A. Richter, Christina A. Hacker

Thermodynamic analysis of suppressant-enhanced overpressure in the FAA Aerosol Can Simulator

December 14, 2011

Author(s)

Gregory T. Linteris, Fumiaki Takahashi, Viswanath R. Katta, Harsha K. Chelliah

Halon 1301 has been banned for most applications but it is still used in come critical applications for which suitable replacements have not yet been found. One...

Energy Efficiency Analysis for a Casting Production System

December 14, 2011

Author(s)

Jonatan K. Berglund, John L. Michaloski, Swee K. Leong, Guodong Shao, Frank H. Riddick, Jorge Arinez, Stephan Biller

A growing number of manufacturing industries are initiating efforts to address sustainability issues. A study by the National Association of Manufacturers...

A METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT OF INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS USING SIMULATION

December 14, 2011

Author(s)

Erik Lindskog, Linus Lundh, Jonatan K. Berglund, Yung-Tsun Lee, Anders Skoogh, Bjorn Johansson

Effective assessment and communication of environmental footprint is increasingly important to process development and marketing purposes. Traditionally, static...

Universal Low-rank Matrix Recovery from Pauli Measurements

December 12, 2011

Author(s)

Yi-Kai Liu

We study the problem of reconstructing an unknown matrix M of rank r and dimension d using O(rd poly log d) Pauli measurements. This has applications in quantum...

Extracting Hierarchies With Overlapping Structure From Network Data

December 11, 2011

Author(s)

Brian D. Cloteaux

Relationships between entities in many complex systems, such as the Internet and social networks, have a natural hierarchical organization. Understanding these...

Linear Algebra and Sequential Importance Ssampling for Network Reliability

December 11, 2011

Author(s)

David G. Harris, Francis Sullivan, Isabel M. Beichl

The reliability polynomial of a graph gives the probability that a graph is connected as a function of the probability that each edge is connected. The...

Three-dimensional Nanometrology with TSOM Optical Method

December 10, 2011

Author(s)

Ravikiran Attota

Through-focus scanning optical microscopy (TSOM) is a new metrology method that achieves 3D nanoscale measurement sensitivity using conventional optical...

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