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Conferences

Cellulose Nanocrystals the Next Big Nano-thing?

Author(s)
Michael T. Postek, Andras Vladar, John A. Dagata, Natalia Farkas, Bin Ming, Ronald Sabo, Theodore H. Wegner
Biomass surrounds us from the smallest alga to the largest redwood tree. Even the largest trees owe their strength to a newly-appreciated class of nanomaterials

Evidence-Based, Good Enough, and Open

Author(s)
Karen A. Scarfone
One of the holy grail questions in computer security is how secure are my organization systems? This paper describes our new approach to answering this question

CTOA Results for X65 and X100 Pipeline Steels:Influence of Displacement Rate

Author(s)
Roni Reuven, Christopher N. McCowan, Elizabeth S. Drexler, Avigdor Shtechman, Philippe P. Darcis, John M. Treinen, R. Smith, J. Merritt, Thomas A. Siewert, Joseph D. McColskey
The toughness and plasticity of steel generally decreases with increasing testing rate. The crack tip opening angle (CTOA) was measured on two types of

Power Loading Effects in Precision 1 Ohm Resistors

Author(s)
George R. Jones, Randolph E. Elmquist
Five manganin alloy Thomas-type 1 Ohm resistors serve as primary working standards at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the precision

Dynamic Apparatus for the CTOA Measurement in Pipeline Steels

Author(s)
Avigdor Shtechman, Christopher N. McCowan, Roni Reuven, Elizabeth S. Drexler, Philippe P. Darcis, John M. Treinen, R. Smith, J. Merritt, Thomas A. Siewert, Joseph D. McColskey
When a crack initiates and propagates in a pressurized pipe the only thing that might stop this high-velocity event is the release of internal pressure

STANDARDIZATION AND SOFTWARE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR GAS HYDRATE DATA COMMUNICATIONS

Author(s)
Kenneth G. Kroenlein, Ralf Loewner, Willa Wang, Vladimir Diky, Thomas Smith, Chris D. Muzny, Robert D. Chirico, Andrei F. Kazakov, E. D. Sloan, Michael D. Frenkel
Gas Hydrates Markup Language (GHML) has been under development since 2003 by CODATA Task Group Data for Natural Gas Hydrates as an international standard for

Robust Engineering Design for Failure Prevention

Author(s)
Jeffrey T. Fong, James J. Filliben, Nathanael A. Heckert, Roland deWit, Barry Bernstein
To advance the state of the art of engineering design, we introduce a new concept on the "robustness" of a structure by measuring its ability to sustain a

Forensic Protocol Filtering of Phone Managers

Author(s)
Wayne Jansen, Aurelien M. Delaitre
Phone managers are non-forensic tools sometimes used by forensic investigators to recover data from a cell phone when no suitable forensic tool is available for

Mechanisms of Moisture Attack in Adhesive bonds Exposed to High Humidity

Author(s)
Kar T. Tan, Christopher C. White, Cyril Clerici, Donald L. Hunston, Bryan D. Vogt, Sushil K. Satija, Joshua E. Goldman, Kristen L. Steffens
Studies have show that certain adhesive joints exhibit a dramatic loss of strength when exposed to humidities above a certain critical value. Although much is

Limits of Opinion-Finding Baseline Systems

Author(s)
Ian M. Soboroff, Craig Macdonald, Ben He, Iadh Ounis
In opinion-finding, the retrieval system is tasked with re- trieving not just relevant documents, but which also express an opinion towards the query target

Relevance assessment: are judges exchangeable and does it matter?

Author(s)
Ian M. Soboroff, Peter Bailey, Nick Craswell, Alan Smeaton, Emine Yilmaz, Paul Thomas
We investigate to what extent people making relevance judgments for a reusable IR test collection are exchangeable. We consider three classes of judge: gold
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