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Julie Haney, Sandra Prettyman, Mary Frances Theofanos, Susanne M. Furman
Many professional domains require the collection and use of personal data. Protecting systems and data is a major concern in these settings, necessitating that...
Yee-Yin Choong, Kerrianne Buchanan, Olivia Williams
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Unsupported smart home devices can pose serious safety and security issues for consumers. However, unpatched and vulnerable devices may remain connected because...
The precise measurement of magnetic fields is a fundamental tool of remote sensing. However, accurately measuring the direction of magnetic fields is...
William Borders, Nitin Prasad, Brian Hoskins, Advait Madhavan, Matthew Daniels, Vasileia Gerogiou, Tiffany Santos, Patrick Braganca, Mark Stiles, Jabez J. McClelland
Increasingly higher demand in chip area and power consumption for more sophisticated artificial neural networks has catalyzed efforts to develop architectures...
Bivek Bista, Prafful Golani, Fengdeng Liu, Tristan Truttmann, Georges Pavlidis, Andrea Centrone, Bharat Jalan, Steven Koester
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The development of risk-targeted design loads for recovery-based design first requires consensus around acceptable levels of building risk, specifically in...
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Abdeen Basel, Ehab Al-Sheer, Anoop Singhal, Latifur Khan, Kevin Hamlen
Cybercriminals relentlessly pursue vulnerabilities across cyberspace to exploit software, threatening the security of individuals, organizations, and...
Atasi Dan, Joel Rutkowski, Patrick McArdle, Erica Freire Antunes, Nathan Tomlin, Malcolm White, Michelle Stephens, John H. Lehman
Effect of oxygen (O2) plasma treatment on reflectance properties and surface morphology of CNT-based paint was investigated. We demonstrate a specular...
Smart and highly automated factories rely on time sensitive networks (TSNs) to coordinate the actions of robots working together to complete a task. The dense...
There is no standard definition for cybersecurity, with current definitions often being technically-complex and targeted at practitioners and academics. However...
KC Morris, Vincenzo Ferrero, Buddhika Hapuwatte, Noah Last, Nehika Mathur
A successful transition to a circular economy (CE) will require global participation, but the path to that transition will follow many unique routes depending...
Nikolas Dale Barrera, Jacob Pawlik, Eugene Yoon, James Booth, Christian Long, Nathan Orloff, Ellis Meng, Angela Stelson
Parylene C thin films are commonly used as a passivation layer, protective coating, or substrate material in implantable medical devices. However, fluid or...
Wesley Garey, Richard A. Rouil, Evan Black, Tanguy Ropitault, Weichao Gao
The Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) Alliance is the industry led standardization effort, with the sole purpose of evolving the Radio Access Network (RAN) to...
Zhelun Chen, Yicheng Li, Jin Wen, Liang Chung Lo, Gabriel Grajewski, Zheng O'Neill, Amanda Pertzborn, Vance (Wm.) Payne, Steven T. Bushby
As one of the primary users of the electric grid, buildings and building equipment, including heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, can be...
Simulation is a useful and effective way to analyze and study complex, real-world systems. It allows researchers, practitioners, and de- cision makers to make...
We develop a method to estimate the sum of conditional means of a sequence of random variables given our access to only a subsequence by spot-checking. The...
Mariella Särestöniemi, Kamran Sayrafian, Marko Sonkki, Jari Iinatti
Flexible electronics are envisioned to play a major role in future wearable medical devices. An important component of this technology is flexible antennas...
Anirudha Sahoo, Pu Tian, Tanguy Ropitault, Steve Blandino, Nada T. Golmie
The next generation WiFi such as IEEE 802.11ad and 802.11ay can provide stringent Quality of Service (QoS) due to its support of contention free channel access...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Center for Neutron Research operates a 20 MW research reactor whose primary purpose is to produce cold...
Anouar Rahmouni, Lijun Ma, Ruixuan Wang, Jingwei Li, Xiao Tang, Thomas Gerrits, Qing Li, Oliver T. Slattery
We demonstrate efficient photon pair generation via implementing spontaneous four-wave mixing in a compact, high-quality-factor microring resonator in the 4H...
Yaniv Shaposhnik, Osman Celikten, Jeremy Cook, Abdullah Weiss, Dagistan Sahin
A conceptual design of a replacement reactor at the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR), referred to as the NIST Neutron Source (NNS), is underway in...
Dagistan Sahin, Thomas H. Newton, Steven Dewey, Osman Celikten, Paul C. Brand, Lap-Yan Cheng
After the incident in February 2021, NBSR implemented three license amendment requests (LAR) to allow the restart of the reactor. The first LAR was to modify...
Guodong Shao, Simon P. Frechette, Vijay Srinivasan
ISO has recently issued a series of standards (ISO 23247) that deals with a digital twin framework for manufacturing. It is a generic framework that can be...
Joshua Bienfang, Edwin J. Heilweil, Anand Sampath, Gregory Garrett, Jonathan Shuster, Jeremy Smith, Michael Derenge, Daniel Habersat, Reza Gandhi, Sergei Dolinsky, Enrico Bellotti, michael wrabeck
Ultraviolet single-photon avalanche detectors (UV-SPAD) that are low cost, size, weight, and power as well as resilient to shock, high temperatures and stray...
The number and types of sensors used to monitor additive manufacturing (AM) processes and parts in real time are growing. The emerging digital twins (DTs)...
Paritosh Manurkar, Joshua Kast, Dylan Williams, Rob Horansky, Dan Kuester, Kate Remley
In a millimeter-wave modulated-signal measurement system with several calibration reference planes, we want the measured signal to be a close replica of the...
In an alternate universe, XML (1998) and XSLT 1.0 (1999) were not developed so early, and did not have to wait for the rest of the web to catch up. In ours, it...