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Conferences

An Analysis of the Performance of Smoke Alarms

Author(s)
Thomas G. Cleary
Test results from the NIST 2008 Smoke Alarm Sensitivity Study were used in a smoke alarm performance analysis to examine the effects of pre-movement time

APPLICATIONS OF HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING TOOLS FOR THERMOELECTRIC MATERIALS

Author(s)
Winnie K. Wong-Ng, Howard L. Joress, Joshua B. Martin, Yonggao Y. Yan, Jihui Yang, Makoto Otani, Evan L. Thomas, Martin L. Green, Jason Hattrick-Simpers
The increased research and development on thermoelectric materials in recent years has been driven primarily by the need for improved efficiency in the global

Frequency-comb based approaches to precision ranging laser radar

Author(s)
Nathan R. Newbury, Tze-Ann Liu, Ian R. Coddington, Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, Esther Baumann, William C. Swann
The output of pulsed femtosecond lasers can be controlled to generate pulse trains with very precise timing and optical frequency. This source can be used in

Parametric study of micropillar array solar cells

Author(s)
Heayoung Yoon, Yu A. Yuwen, Haoting Shen, Nikolas J. Podraza, Thomas E. Mallouk, Elizabeth C. Dickey, Joan A. Redwing, Christopher R. Wronski, Theresa S. Mayer
Micro/nano pillar arrays can be a promising architecture for high efficiency solar cells based on less expensive photovoltaic materials with short minority

Can Crowdsourcing Improve HCI?

Author(s)
Serge M. Egelman
Much of HCI research focuses on improving the user experience by using data from human subjects experiments. Designing a laboratory study, observing

A Roadmap for STEP-NC Enabled Interoperable Manufacturing

Author(s)
Fiona Zhao, Frederick M. Proctor, Martin Hardwick, Sid Venkatesh, David Odendahl, Xun Xu
STEP-NC is the result of a ten-year international effort to replace the RS274D (ISO 6983) G and M code standard with a modern associative language. The new

Statistical analysis of fiber gripping effects on Kolsky bar test

Author(s)
Jae Hyun Kim, Nathanael A. Heckert, Stefan D. Leigh, Haruki Kobayashi, Walter G. McDonough, Richard L. Rhorer, Kirk D. Rice, Gale A. Holmes
Preliminary data for testing fibers at high strain rates using the Kolsky bar test by Ming Cheng et al. 1 indicated minimal effect of strain rate on the tensile

Division Polynomials for Jacobi Quartic Curves

Author(s)
Dustin Moody
In this paper we fi nd division polynomials for Jacobi quartics. These curves are an alternate model for elliptic curves to the more common Weierstrass equation

Examination of United States Carbon Dioxide Emission Databases

Author(s)
Robert P. Borthwick, James Whetstone, Jiann C. Yang, Antonio Possolo
This paper compared carbon dioxide emissions from plants obtained in two ways, first from the US Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration EIA-767
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