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Conferences

Milk: Does it Measure Up? - One Year Later - A Report on the Accuracy of Net Content Labeling of Milk

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

Lena Jung

This federal/state study follows up on a study conducted last year on the accuracy of net content labeling of milk and other products. The 1997 study found that...

The Customer Speaks: Satisfaction With and Use of Library Resources

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

Barbara P. Silcox

The Research Advisory Committee (RAC) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in its 2000 Annual Report to the NIST Director expressed concern...

NCWM Publication 5, National Type Evaluation Program - Index of Device Evaluationa, Tenth Edition, Supplement 1

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

L T. Sebring

This publication contains index listings and copies of Certificates of conformance for all devices that have been type evaluated under the National Type...

New Approaches to Serving Library Users

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

C L. Clark

The NIST Research Library serves over 3,000 Science & Technology customers; provides access to 200,000 items, 1,000 journal subscriptions, 700 databases...

Overview of the Development of Technical Infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific Region: the Work of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Sub-Committee on Standards and Conformance (SCSC) and the Specialist Regional Body

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

C R. DeVaux

The development and maintenance of an economy's standards and conformance technical infrastructure is critical to its economic health. By increasing the...

Materials Processing in the Advanced Technology Program

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

Clare M. Allocca

The NIST Advanced Technology Program is a unique partnership between government and private industry to accelerate the development of high-risk technologies...

Small-Firm Experience in the Advanced Technology Program

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

J Powell

This paper assesses plans and progress of high technology small firms (HTSF) funded by the Advanced Technology Program (ATP), a U.S. civilian science and...

AutoMap et AutoLink: Outils aidant a la gestion de types de donnes avec MPI [AutoMap and AutoLink: Tools for Communicating Complex and Dynamic Data Structures Using MPI]

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

Martial Michel, J E. Devaney

This article describes two software tools, AutoMap and AutoLink, that facilitate the use of data structures in MPI. AutoMap is a program that parses a file of...

Robustness Experiments with Two Variance Components

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

A Aviles

In many experimental settings, different types of factors affect the measured response. The factors that can be set independently of each other are called...

Craze Growth in Stress Relaxation Conditions: Effects of Physical Aging

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

M Delin, G B. McKenna

Growth of crazes during stress relaxation has been examined under physical aging conditions at four temperatures, from ambient to 60 degrees} C, for a styrene...

Effects of Proteins on Metal Corrosion

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

H J. Mueller

A previous report (Mueller, IMS, Ottawa, Canada, 1998) revealed that the modeled equivalent electrical circuits for either silver or copper surfaces were...

Incorporation of Stereo, Regio and Comonomer Defects Into the Crystalline Regions of Isotactic Polypropylene: Results From NMR, Molecular Dynamics and Chemical Shift Calculations

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

David L. VanderHart, Marc R. Nyden, R G. Alamo, L Mandelkern

We have shown that under conditions of crystallization during cooling at 1C/min, substantial amounts of 'defects' of the types a) stereo-mrrm, b) regio-2,1...

Measuring Flow Boundary Conditions and Nano-Scale Coating Processes During Sharkskin Melt Fracture

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

Kalman Migler

Micelles formed of amphiphilic diblock copolymers may have applications in drug delivery and in understanding the physics of biological structures. Wormlike...

A Finite Volume PDE Solver Using Python (FiPy)

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

Jonathan E. Guyer, Daniel Wheeler, James A. Warren

We present an object oriented partial differential equation (PDE) solver written in Python based on a standard finite volume (FV) approach.The solution of...

Microscale Test Technique and Test Results for Aluminum Thin Films

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

David T. Read, Joseph D. McColskey, Yi-Wen Cheng

A microscale, skyhook-type tensile-test technique has been developed to extend tensile testing to micrometer-scale specimens. This technique has been used to...

Characterization of the Alloy-Solution Interface

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

H J. Mueller

For metals undergoing corrosion, a layer of water molecules becomes charged due to electrons accumulating on the outer metal surface and hydrated positive ions...

Perspectives on the Future of Manufacturing Engineering

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

R Jackson

Technology-based competition is heating up everywhere. One economist uses the analogy-not of a race--but of a casino to convey the flavor of the global...

Surface-Enganced Thermal Pulse Measurements of the Thermal and Electrical Properties of Polyimide Films

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

A S. DeReggi, Erik K. Hobbie, P Bloss, H Schafer

Polyimide films formed on silicon by spin coating and curing of foils glued to substrates generally show a sharp surface-bound negative charge layer with a half...

Experimental Procedures and Results for Benchmark 3: Stage 2 Forming Process

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

Mark Iadicola, Timothy J. Foecke, T B. Stoughton

The Numisheet 2005 Benchmark #3 consists of a two stage forming process performed on four materials (three steels and one aluminum). Stage 1 consists of forming...

Process Monitoring of Polymer/Clay Nanocomposites Compounding Using Dielectric, Optical Transmission and Fluorescence Measurements

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

Anthony J. Bur, T Y. Lee, S C. Roth, P R. Start

A family of nylons, nylon 6, 11 and 12, have been compounded with organo modified clays using a twin screw extruder that was instrumented with dielectric and...

Measurement of Slippage Induced by a Polymer Processing Additive

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

Kalman Migler, C L. Gettinger, V P. Thlacker, R Conway

Flow profiles of a linear density polyethylene (LLDPE) were measured in an optical slit die situated at the exit of a twin screw extruder. The velocities of...

Process Monitoring at the National Instute of Standards and Technology: Celebrating 100 Years of Measurement Excellence

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

Anthony J. Bur, Kalman Migler, Robert S. Roth

Two events that coincide in the year 2001 are the NIST centennial year anniversary and the inauguration of the SPE Special Interest Group on Process Monitoring...

Modeling Morphological Evolution During Dendritic Solidification Using a Cellular Automation

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

R E. Napolitano, T H. Sanders

Morphological evolution of a dendritic growth front in a binary alloy is simulated using a cellular automation approach to establish the feasibility of modeling...

The Influence of Additives on the Room-Temperature Recrystallization of Electrodeposited Copper

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

Gery R. Stafford, Mark D. Vaudin, Thomas P. Moffat, N G. Armstrong, David R. Kelley

The recrystallization behavior of copper, electrodeposited from a copper sulfate-sulfuric acid plating bath into which various combinations of NaCl, sodium 3...

Report to The Medical Devices Standards Board

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

John A. Tesk

News of recent NIST standards-related activities are presented for information to the Medical Devices Standards Board. These include the release of reference...

Scanning Acoustic Microscopy Stress Measurements in Electronic Packaging

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

E Drescher-Krasicka, T M. Moore, T Hartfield, D Chery

Scanning acoustic microscopy has been successfully implemented for the nondestructive detection of cracks and delaminations in integrated circuit packages. In...

A Multi-Sample Melt Micro-Rheometer

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

Anthony J. Bur, Kalman Migler

A slit micro-rheometer that is used for simultaneous measurement of melt viscosities of four samples has been developed. Sample size is less than 100 mg. The...

Chromatographic Separation of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

Barry J. Bauer, Vardhan Bajpai, Jeffrey Fagan, Matthew Becker, Erik K. Hobbie

Size exclusion chromatography (SEC) has been used to separate single wall carbon nanotubes (SWNT) dispersed by chemical modification in organic solvents and by...

Effect of Signal-Processing Parameters on Phase Velocity Uncertainty

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

M C. Renken, C M. Fortunko, C T. Mullis

Quantification of signal-processing effects is required for an accurate determination (less than 1% uncertainty) of the absolute phase velocity, particularly...

A Description of the Fluoroelastomer Coating Evolution as a Polymer Processing Aid

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

Mathurin G. Meillon, D Morgan, D Bigio, Kalman Migler, S Oriani

For decades, fluoroelastomers have been used as polymer processing aids (PPA). Previous works have measured the thickness of the PPA coating, its effects on the...

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