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DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) pose a major threat to genome stability, if not promptly and properly repaired. Understanding where, along the genome, DSBs...
Randomized linear algebra algorithms have become a vital tool for a variety of areas including fast direct solvers, reduced order modeling, and data science...
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In 2024, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) initiated an interagency...
Yong Han Kim, Sidi Deng, Thomas Maani, Matthew Triebe, Nehika Mathur, John Sutherland
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Marat Andreev, Chinmay Gangal, Anthony Kotula, Jeffrey Weinhold, Jonathan Moore, Gregory Rutledge
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The efficacy of phishing simulation training is a hotly-debated topic. Three cybersecurity experts from academia and industry discuss the reasons why many...
Gretchen Ferguson, Albert Rigosi, Dominick Scaletta, David Newell, Dean Jarrett
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Marc Assael, Sofia Sotiriadou, Monika Thol, Marcia Huber
A new wide-ranging correlation for the thermal conductivity of neon, based on the most recent ab-initio dilute gas theoretical calculations, a simplified...
Elizaveta Pyatenko, Constantin Wansorra, Ralph Steininger, John Vinson, Wolfram Witte, Dimitrios Hariskos, Michael Powalla, Clemens Heske, Lothar Weinhardt, Dirk Hauschild
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Two-color refractivity measurements are reported for carbon dioxide, oxygen, binary mixtures of nitrogen--oxygen, natural dry air, and water vapor. For the '...
Katharina Fransen, Julia Casey, Gabrielle Godbille-Cardona, Natalie Mamrol, Jiale Shi, Alex Zappi, Jignesh Mahajan, Jiarui Lu, Debra Audus, Bradley Olsen
With growing concerns about increasing plastic pollution, interest in biodegradable polymers, particularly polyesters, continues to grow. Copolymerization is an...
Andrew Gayle, Sebastian Engmann, Ran Tao, Andrew Korovich, Polette Centellas, Yvonne Gerbig, Christopher Soles, Chris Michaels
Brillouin light scattering (BLS) offers an optical, noncontact, nondestructive method for probing the mechanical properties of next-generation semiconductor...
NIST is developing a suite of material metrology tools to understand and characterize the development of residual stresses during epoxy curing. In this work...
Kyle Tynan, Catherine Mouchahoir, Mark Lowenthal, Karen Phinney
dsRNA is a highly immunogenic byproduct generated during in vitro transcription of mRNA, leading to unwanted immunos- timulatory responses and reduced vaccine...
The best separation possible of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (Δ9-THC) in complex samples via liquid chromatography (LC) is particularly challenging due to the...
Harold Hatch, Christina Bergonzo, Marco Blanco, Guangcui N. Yuan, Sergei Grudinin, Mikael Lund, Joseph E. Curtis, Alexander Grishaev, Yun Liu, Vincent Shen
The authors initiate a correction to Hatch et al. [J. Chem. Phys., 161, 094113 (2024)]. If the particles are of the same type, particle swap symmetry was...
Isabel Vinterbladh, Jordan Bye, Robin Curtis, Harold Hatch, Sergei Grudinin, Mikael Lund
Computing molecular thermodynamic properties is instrumental in multiple scientific disciplines, such as statistical physics, N-body simulations, and molecular...
Zongze Li, Aaron Cornelius, Gonzalo Reyes, Edward Kinzel, Ryuta Sato, Gregory Vogl, Robert Landers
Machine tool deformations due to thermal loads from motors and part processing, as well as from changing ambient temperature, can dominate the machine tool's...
Dominick Scaletta, Ngoc Thanh Mai Tran, Marta Musso, Valery Ortiz Jimenez, Heather Hill, Dean Jarrett, Massimo Ortolano, Curt Richter, David Newell, Albert Rigosi
Bret Tantorno, Tuyen Truong, Lori Hoover, Gregory McKenna, Ran Tao, Fan Zhang
The relationship between dynamic and spatial heterogeneity in polymer blends is still not fully understood, yet it plays a crucial role in our understanding of...
Accurate prediction of Schottky barrier heights (SBHs) at metal-semiconductor (M-SC) interfaces is essential for understanding charge injection in electronic...
Albert Rigosi, Hansjorg Scherer, Mathieu Taupin, Luca Callegaro, Hans He, Susmit Kumar, Ali Eichenberger, Mattias Kruskopf, Yanfei Yang, Martina Marzano, Stephen Giblin, Sergiy Rozhko, Takehiko Oe, Dong-Hun Chae, Pierre Gournay
Katherine Shaw, Zachary Bramble, Sarah-Jeanne Royer, Matthias Egger, Matthew Iacchei, Jennifer Lynch, K David Hyrenbach
Plastic marine debris (PMD) is rapidly accumulating in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, exposing fishes living in the North Pacific garbage patch (NPGP) to...
Sarala N. Padi, Kinjal Mondal, David Hoogerheide, Frank N. Heinrich, Mihaela Mihailescu, Jeffery Klauda, Antonio Cardone
Antimicrobial resistance poses a major global health challenge, necessitating efficient strategies for discovering potent antimicrobial peptides (AMPs). While...