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Conferences

Autonomous Relocation of Mobile Base Stations in Emergency Scenarios

September 12, 2017

Author(s)

Kamran Sayrafian, Ladan Rabieekenari, John Baras

Limited access to communication services is one of the challenges that emergency personnel and first responders could face during environmental disasters or...

A review of current machine learning techniques used in manufacturing diagnosis

September 7, 2017

Author(s)

Michael P. Brundage, Toyosi Ademujimi, Vittaldas Prabhu

Environmental KPI Selection Using Criteria Value and Demonstration

September 7, 2017

Author(s)

Shaw C. Feng, Deogratias Kibira

Determining key performance indicators (KPI) is a first step in achieving environmen-tal sustainability of manufacturing operations. KPI selection is a multi...

Business Process Context for Message Standards

September 7, 2017

Author(s)

Nenad Ivezic, Miroslav Ljubicic, Marija Jankovic, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Scott Nieman, Garret Minakawa

Despite unrelenting increase in complexity of message standards for enterprise systems integrations, there are no effective means to address this complexity...

Molecular engineering with artificial atoms: designing a material platform for scalable quantum spintronics and photonics

September 7, 2017

Author(s)

Matthew Doty, Xiangyu Ma, Joshua Zide, Garnett W. Bryant

Self-assembled InAs Quantum Dots (QDs) are often called artificial atoms" and have long been of interest as components of quantum photonic and spintronic...

A DOMAIN DRIVEN APPROACH TO METAMODELING IN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING

September 6, 2017

Author(s)

Peter O. Denno, Yan Lu, Paul Witherell, Sundar Krishnamurty, Ian Grosse, Douglas Eddy

Recent studies have shown advantages to utilizing metamodeling techniques to mimic, analyze, and optimize system input-output relationships in Additive...

Production System Identification with Genetic Programming

September 6, 2017

Author(s)

Peter O. Denno, Charles Dickerson, Jenny Harding

Modern system identification methodologies use artificial neural nets, integer linear programming, genetic algorithms, and swarm intelligence to discover system...

Evaluation of a Formaldehyde Emissions Reference Material

September 5, 2017

Author(s)

Dustin Poppendieck, Mengyan Gong

The development and use of low-volatile organic compounds (VOCs) building materials and products is a key strategy to reduce ventilation and energy use in...

Low-NEP pyroelectric detectors for calibration of UV and IR sources and detectors

September 5, 2017

Author(s)

George P. Eppeldauer, Vyacheslav B. Podobedov, Leonard Hanssen, P. Yvonne Barnes

Pyroelectric radiometers with spectrally constant response have been developed at NIST with the cooperation of a few detector manufacturers. The new devices...

Phase Retrieval Using Unitary 2-Designs

September 4, 2017

Author(s)

Yi-Kai Liu, Shelby Kimmel

We consider a variant of the phase retrieval problem, where vectors are replaced by unitary matrices, i.e., the unknown signal is a unitary matrix U, and the...

Bond Enhancement of Repair Mortar via Biodeposition

September 4, 2017

Author(s)

Didier Snoeck, Jianyun Wang, Dale P. Bentz, Nele De Belie

The bond between repair mortars and existing concrete substrates is critical for the long-term performance and durability of the repaired structure. The...

Multiple Sources in a Reverberant Environment: The "Cocktail Party Effect"

September 3, 2017

Author(s)

Perry F. Wilson

This electronic Acoustics and electromagnetics have a number of parallels based on similar equations describing propagation, reflection, and reverberation. This...

Using Cs and Rb Rydberg Atoms Simultaneously to Perform SI-Traceable RF Electric Field Measurements via Electromagnetically Induced Transparency

September 3, 2017

Author(s)

Christopher L. Holloway, Matthew T. Simons, Joshua A. Gordon

We discuss the use of cesium (Cs) and rubidium (Rb) Rydberg atoms to measure electric (E) field strengths. This work is leading to the development a...

Improvement Strategies for Manufacturers using the MESA MOM Capability Maturity Model

September 3, 2017

Author(s)

Quanri Li, Michael Brundage, Boonserm Kulvatunyou

Recently, the concept of smart manufacturing has emerged as a new paradigm, with which manufacturers can pursue their competitiveness in the market. Such a...

Application of desorption tube method to measure the gas-phase SVOC concentration adjacent to material surfaces

September 2, 2017

Author(s)

Mengyan Gong, Havishk Tripathi, Dustin Poppendieck

Semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOC) are ubiquitous indoors, commonly used in consumer products as additives to enhance product performance, and may be up to...

FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH RATES OF API X70 PIPELINE STEELS IN PRESSURIZED HYDROGEN GAS COMPARED WITH AN X52 PIPELINE IN HYDROGEN SERVICE

September 1, 2017

Author(s)

Elizabeth S. Drexler, Andrew J. Slifka, Robert L. Amaro, Damian S. Lauria, Jeffrey W. Sowards

At the present time, steel selection for hydrogen pipelines is limited to API X52 grade. However, the code is being modified to include higher strength steels...

2015 NIST Workshop on Analytical Transmission Scanning Electron Microscopy

September 1, 2017

Author(s)

Robert Keller

The Workshop on Analytical Transmission Scanning Electron Microscopy (t-SEM) was held at the NIST Boulder Laboratories of the U. S. Department of Commerce...

Small molecule inhibitors of DNA glycosylases as potential drugs in cancer therapy

August 31, 2017

Author(s)

M Miral Dizdar, Aaron C. Jacobs, Nathan Donley, Marcus J. Calkins, Ajit Jadhav, Dorjbal Dorjsuren, David Maloney, Anton Simeonov, Pawel Jaruga, Erdem Coskun, Amanda K. McCullough, R. S. Lloyd

Statement of the Problem: Most chemotherapeutic agents kill cancer cells by damaging DNA. Cancer cells overexpress DNA repair proteins and thus increase DNA...

A Thesaurus-guided Framework for Visualization of Unstructured Manufacturing Capability Data

August 31, 2017

Author(s)

Farhad Ameri, William Z. Bernstein

Manufacturing companies advertise their manufacturing capabilities and services on their company website using natural language text. The unstructured...

Metrology Outreach and Training: A Fulbright Experience in Mexico

August 30, 2017

Author(s)

Georgia L. Harris, Flora Mercader, Adriana Veraza, Salvador Echeverria Villagomez

2016 was an exciting year for international collaboration on metrology education and training. This paper provides a 3-part look at how a Fulbright Specialist...

Regret Minimization Based Adaptation of the Energy Detection Threshold in Body Area Networks

August 24, 2017

Author(s)

Vladimir V. Marbukh, Kamran Sayrafian

IEEE802.15.6 is a radio interface standard for wireless connectivity of wearable and implantable sensors and actuators located inside or in close proximity to...

Improving the Effectiveness of Speaker Verification Domain Adaptation With Inadequate In-Domain Data

August 24, 2017

Author(s)

Bengt Borgstrom, Elliot Singer, Douglas Reynolds, Omid Sadjadi, Gregory A. Sanders

This paper addresses speaker verification domain adaptation with inadequate in-domain data. Specifically, we explore he cases where in-domain data sets do not...

A Study on Performance Evaluation and Status-based Decision for Cyber-Physical Production Systems

August 23, 2017

Author(s)

Yan Lu, Feifan Wang, Feng Ju

In concert with the advances in information and communication technology and its applications to manufacturing environments, physical entities in factories are...

Predicting Face Recognition Performance in Unconstrained Environments

August 23, 2017

Author(s)

Amy Yates, P. Jonathon Phillips, J. R. Beveridge, Geof H. Givens

Developing an Assessment Methodology for Community Resilience

August 21, 2017

Author(s)

Maria Dillard

Communities can be characterized as complex systems, with resilience as an emergent property. Complex systems are systems composed of interconnected parts that...

The 2016 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation

August 20, 2017

Author(s)

Seyed Omid Sadjadi, Timothée N. Kheyrkhah, Audrey N. Tong, Craig S. Greenberg, Douglas A. Reynolds, Elliot Singer, Lisa Mason, Jaime Hernandez-Cordero

In 2016, NIST conducted the most recent in an ongoing series of speaker recognition evaluations (SRE) to foster research in robust text-independent speaker...

Combinatorial Testing of Full Text Search in Web Applications

August 18, 2017

Author(s)

M S Raunak, David R. Kuhn, Raghu N. Kacker

Database driven web applications are some of most widely developed systems today. Testing these applications effectively and discovering difficult-to-find bugs...

Should the repeatability of the instrument under test be included in test uncertainty?

August 18, 2017

Author(s)

Craig M. Shakarji, Steven D. Phillips

Should the repeatability of the instrument under test be included in test uncertainty? The answer which surprises manyis no, at least for the range of cases...

Combinatorial and MC/DC Coverage Levels of Random Testing

August 18, 2017

Author(s)

Sergiy Vilkomir, Aparna Alluri, D. Richard Kuhn, Raghu N. Kacker

Software testing criteria differ in effectiveness, numbers of required test cases, and processes of test generation. Specific criteria are often compared with...

Moisture Uptake Characterization in Nanocellulose Using Microwave Cavity

August 17, 2017

Author(s)

Caglar Emiroglu, Bharath N. Natarajan, Jeffrey W. Gilman, James Alexander Liddle, Jan Obrzut

Cellulose nanocrystal films with different helical modulation lengths are characterized. Films are obtained by tuning the rate of evaporation and surface...

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