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Charles M. Guttman, S Wetzel, Kathleen M. Flynn, B M. Fanconi, William E. Wallace, David L. VanderHart
NIST has sponsored a MALDI-TOF-MS interlaboratory comparison of mixtures of polymers of the same repeat unit with closely matching molecular masses but with
K B. Fielhauer, B G. Boone, J R. Bruzzi, Jeffery Kluga, J R. Connelly, M M. Bierbaum, Jason J. Gorman, Nicholas Dagalakis
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) plans to develop optical communication terminals for future spacecraft, especially in support of high
E Jabbari, K W. Lee, A C. Ellison, M J. Moore, John A. Tesk, M J. Yazemski
Standards for the characterization of scaffolds useful for tissue engineering are an ongoing development in Division IV of the ASTM. Terminology refers to
H Helaakoski, Shaw C. Feng, Kevin K. Jurrens, K Ojala
In recent years there has been increasing work where software agents have been used in manufacturing enterprises. Improving the information flow within the
Rapid prototyping of microfluidic handling devices has gained popularity due to the ability to quickly test and modify new design features several times in one
A new sampling comparator design employing a signal-dependent biasing scheme is described. The dynamic bias significantly reduces signal-induced thermal error
In coordinate metrology, evaluating task specific measurement uncertainty can be difficult, a problem which prompted the current development of several related
This report describes a database model currently under development at the Manufacturing System Integration Division (MSID) of the National Institute of
Tony Barbera, John A. Horst, Craig I. Schlenoff, Evan K. Wallace, David Aha
The building of knowledge-intensive real-time intelligent control systems is one of the most difficult tasks humans attempt. It is motivated by the desire to
Beam steering accuracy is critical to the successful operation of optical communications systems, especially those which take place over extreme length scales
The structure and suppression of laminar methane air co-flow diffusion flames formed on a cup burner have been studied experimentally and numerically using
The vector mixer characterization method first introduced by Dunsmore [1] can be used only for mixers where the Local Oscillator (LO) frequency lies between the
C D. O'Connell, Peter E. Barker, M A. Marino, P McAndrew, Donald H. Atha, Pawel Jaruga, M Birincioglu, H Rodriguez
To assure that tissue engineered medical products are free of genetic changes that might occur from inflammation during the development phase of the product
K L. Corwin, I Thomann, T Dennis, Richard W. Fox, W Swann, E A. Curtis, Christopher W. Oates, G Wilpers, A Bartels, S A. Gilbert, Leo W. Hollberg, Nathan R. Newbury, Scott Diddams, J W. Nicholson, M. F. Yan