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Ram D. Sriram, Mehmet Sarigecili, Mehmet M. Baysal, Utpal Roy, Sudarsan Rachuri
The need to exchange information between organizations or departments of the same corporation is hampered by interoperability problems that mostly originate
In the ideal situation when imaging a hard drive, all sectors are completely and accurately acquired and saved to an image file. In reality, occasionally drives
Gerald T. Fraser, Steven W. Brown, Howard W. Yoon, Bettye C. Johnson, Keith R. Lykke
Absolute stellar photometry is based on 1970s terrestrial measurements of the star Vega referenced against the Cu fixed-point blackbody. Significant advances in
Ana Jofre, Jianyong Tang, M E. Greene, G M. Lowman, N Hodas, Rani B. Kishore, Kristian Helmerson, Lori S. Goldner
We report on improvements and innovations in the use of hydrosomes to encapsulate and study single molecules. Hydrosomes are optically-trappable aqueous
Behrang Hamadani, Jeremy LeBoeuf, R J. Kline, Iain McCulloch, Martin Heeney, Curt A. Richter, Lee J. Richter, David J. Gundlach
We investigate charge injection and transport in organic field-effect transistors fabricated by using poly(2,5-bis(3-tetradecylthiophene-2-yl)thieno[3,2-b
Test collections are most useful when they are reusable, that is, when they can be reliably used to rank systems that did not contribute to the pools. Pooled
The amount of control that an intelligent system has over their actions, whether they are able to act independently from their creator, plays a major factor in
Robert W. Ivester, Eric P. Whitenton, Jarred C. Heigel, T Marusich, C Arthur
This paper presents comparisons between finite element modeling and experimental measurement of chip segmentation in American Iron and Steel Institute 1045
The Terabyte Track explores how retrieval and evaluation techniques can scale to terabyte-sized collections, examining both efficiency and effectiveness issues
John H. Lehman, Tom Campbell, Anne Dillon, Roop Mahajan
Quantitative, systematic and reproducible metrology of carbon nanotubes is paramount to the fundamental understanding of these promising nanomaterials. Moreover
Nathan R. Newbury, William C. Swann, Ian R. Coddington, Paul A. Williams
Coherent optical sources in the 1550 nm region of the spectrum have a number of applications in frequency metrology, stable frequency transfer, precision
James J. Butler, B. Carol Johnson, Joseph P. Rice, Steven W. Brown, R Barnes
Historically, the traceability of the laboratory calibration of Earth-observing satellite instruments to a primary radiometric reference scale (SI units) is the
M Yarbrough, S Flora, M Feinholz, Terrance Houlihan, Yong S. Kim, Steven W. Brown, B. Carol Johnson, Kenneth Voss, Dennis Clark
Determination of the water-leaving spectral radiance using in-water instrumentation requires measurements of the up-welling spectral radiance (Lu) at several
Leonard M. Hanssen, Sergey Mekhontsev, V B. Khromchenko
A comparison of the spectral directional emissivity of samples as a function of wavelength was performed at the Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrophotometry
Recently, combinatorial phage display has emerged as a powerful method to design peptides capable of selective and enhanced binding affinity to organic
The paper evaluates performance of finned-tube evaporators at different refrigerant exit superheats to assess the impact of longitudinal heat conduction on
Jirun Sun, Nancy Lin, Marcus T. Cicerone, Sheng Lin-Gibson
One common method for probing cell-material interactions is direct visualization via confocal laser scanning microscopy, a technique widely used for studying
Nicholas G. Dagalakis, Yong Sik Kim, Daniel S. Sawyer, Craig M. Shakarji
Hundreds of thousands of joint arthroplasty operations are performed throughout the world every year providing life saving relief from pain and return of
The Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) is widely used as an authentication framework to control the access to wireless networks, e.g. in IEEE 802.11 and
Abstract. The effects of local B-cation distribution and octahedral tilting on the pre-edge structure in the Ti X-ray absorption K-spectra of the CaTi1-xZrxO3
With an ever-increasing awareness of the environmental impact of manufacturing, more and more political organizations (countries, states, and unions) are
A detailed understanding of the crystallography of metallic conductors in modern interconnect systems is essential if we are to understand the influence of
The Time and Frequency Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) maintains the laser-cooled Cesium primary fountain frequency
This paper describes a wireless sensor network (WSN) based on the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) s 1451.0, 1451.5, and 802.11
There is a growing need for the nation to be better prepared to deal with both man-made and natural disasters. The responses to the attacks on the World Trade
Understanding the nature of specific neural activity is essential to the progression of research in the field of brain disorders and diseases, as well as