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Natural hazards compound COVID-19 impacts on small businesses disproportionately for historically underrepresented group operators

April 1, 2022

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Jennifer Helgeson, Payam Aminpour Mohammadabadi, Juan Fung, Alfredo Roa Henriquez, Ariela Zycherman, David Butry, Claudia Nierenberg, Yating Zhang

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic small businesses made headlines as hard hit by customer losses, revenue declines, and business closures. Yet, the impacts...

Preview of the 2022 Additive Manufacturing Benchmark Test Series and Conference (AM-Bench)

April 1, 2022

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Brandon Lane, Brian Simonds, Jonathan Seppala, Lyle E. Levine

Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy for polymers

April 1, 2022

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Shuyu Xu, Charles Camp, Young Jong Lee

Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy is a label-free chemical imaging modality capable of interrogating local molecular composition...

Complete genomic and epigenetic maps of human centromeres

April 1, 2022

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Nicolas Altemose, Glennis Logsdon, Andrey Bzikadze, Pragya Sidhwani, Sasha Langley, Gina Caldas, Justin Zook, Ivan Alexandrov, Karen Miga

Existing human genome assemblies have almost entirely excluded repetitive sequences within and near centromeres, limiting our understanding of their...

An Overview of Research Needs Concerning the Performance of Fiber Reinforced (FR) Composite Retrofit Systems for Buildings and Infrastructure

April 1, 2022

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Jazalyn Dukes, David Goodwin, Siamak Sattar, Li Piin Sung

FR composites have become popular for use as retrofit solutions for buildings and infrastructure due to their ease of application, lightweight properties, and...

Research Challenges and Progress in Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competitions

April 1, 2022

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Yu Sun, Joseph A. Falco, Maximo Roa, Berk Calli

This paper discusses the recent research progress in robotic grasping and manipulation in the light of the latest Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competitions...

A complete reference genome improves analysis of human genetic variation

April 1, 2022

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Sergey Aganezov, Stephanie Yan, Daniela Soto, Melanie Kirsche, Samantha Zarate, Justin Wagner, Jennifer McDaniel, Nathanael David Olson, Rajiv McCoy, Megan Dennis, Justin Zook, Michael Schatz

Compared to its predecessors, the Telomere-to-Telomere CHM13 genome adds nearly 200 million base pairs of sequence, corrects thousands of structural errors, and...

Conformance of a 3T Radiotherapy MRI Scanner to the QIBA Diffusion Profile

April 1, 2022

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Madeline Carr, Katy Keenan, Robba Rai, Peter Metcalfe, Amy Walker, Lois Holloway

Resonant X-ray Scattering in Polymer Science

April 1, 2022

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Brian Collins, Eliot Gann

Resonant Soft X-ray Scattering (RSoXS) is an emerging, powerful technique to probe the nano-to-mesoscale ordering of polymers and other molecules. It joins...

Achievement of 0.005 % combined transfer uncertainties in the NIST detector calibration facility

April 1, 2022

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Jeanne Houston, Clarence Zarobila, Howard W. Yoon

Improvements in a lamp-monochromator-based facility at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Visible near-infrared Spectral Comparator...

Effects of Polyamide Chemistry on Solution Permeance in Molecular Layer-By-Layer Desalination Membranes

April 1, 2022

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William Mulhearn, Christopher Stafford

We present a series of polyamide membranes synthesized via molecular layer-by-layer (mLbL) deposition, using a combination of two acid chlorides: trimesoyl...

Basic Cybersecurity Recommendations for HVAC Systems- Passwords

April 1, 2022

Author(s)

Michael Galler

Cybersecurity has been a topic of increasing importance for several years. While fully securing a large and complex system can be very complicated, there are...

Viscosity Reduction in Polymer Nanocomposites: Insights from Dynamic Neutron and X-ray Scattering

April 1, 2022

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Erkan Senses, Christopher Kitchens, Antonio Faraone

The addition of nanoparticles to a polymer matrix can in certain cases induce a reduction in viscosity, with respect to the pure matrix, in the resulting...

Hydrogen-Induced Cracking and Blistering in Steels: A Review

March 31, 2022

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May Ling Martin, Petros Sofronis

This paper presents a review of the current state of scientific understanding of the corrosion phenomenon known as Hydrogen-Induced Cracking (HIC). HIC is...

The complete sequence of a human genome

March 31, 2022

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Sergey Nurk, Sergey Koren, Arang Rhie, Mikko Rautiainen, Jennifer McDaniel, Nathanael David Olson, Justin Wagner, Justin Zook, Evan Eichler, Karen Miga, Adam Phillippy

Since its initial release in 2000, the human reference genome has covered only the euchromatic fraction of the genome, leaving important heterochromatic regions...

Three-Dimensional Molecular Orientation Imaging of a Semicrystalline Polymer Film under Shear Deformation

March 31, 2022

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Young Jong Lee, Shuyu Xu, Chad R. Snyder, Jeremy Rowlette

The 3D molecular orientations of polymer chains are imaged and compared for a quiescent spherulite region and a shear deformed region of a semicrystalline poly...

Polyoxovanadates as Precursors for the Synthesis of Colloidal Multi-Metal Oxide Nanocrystals

March 31, 2022

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Adam Biacchi, Lucas Johnson, Ashley Sweet, Eric Cal, Angela R. Hight Walker, Matthew Buck, Luke Barrante

Colloidal multi-metal oxide nanocrystals that contain the element vanadium are attractive materials for enabling diverse technologies. Few nanocrystal systems...

Chasing perfection: validation and polishing strategies for telomere-to-telomere genome assemblies

March 31, 2022

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Ann Mc Cartney, Kishwar Shafin, Michael Alonge, Justin Zook, Adam Phillippy, Arang Rhie

Advances in long-read sequencing technologies and genome assembly methods have enabled the recent completion of the first telomere-to-telomere human genome...

Effects of Monovalent Salt on Protein-Protein Interactions of Dilute and Concentrated Monoclonal Antibody Formulations

March 31, 2022

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Amy Y. Xu, Nicholas J. Clark, Joseph Pollastrini, Maribel Espinoza, Hyo-Jin Kim, Sekhar Kanapuram, Bruce Kerwin, Michael J. Treuheit, Susan T. Krueger, Arnold McAuley, Joseph E. Curtis

SuperMind: A survey of the potential of superconducting electronics for neuromorphic computing

March 30, 2022

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Michael Schneider, Emily Toomey, Graham Rowlands, Jeff Shainline, Paul Tschirhart, Ken Segall

Neuromorphic computing is a broad eld that uses biological inspiration to address computing design. It is being pursued in many hardware technologies both novel...

On the relation between Gegenbauer polynomials and the Ferrers function of the first kind

March 30, 2022

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Roberto S. Costas-Santos, Howard Cohl

Using the direct relation between the Gegenbauer polynomials C_n^λ(x) and the Ferrers function of the first kind P_μ^ν(x), we compute interrelations between...

A small-volume microcapillary rheometer

March 30, 2022

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Paul Salipante, Steve Kuei, Steven Hudson

We demonstrate a capillary device used to measure the shear rate dependent viscosity of microliter scale volumes. Liquid samples are driven pneumatically to...

Comprehensive Data via Spectroscopy and Molecular Dynamics of Chemically Treated Graphene Nanoplatelets

March 30, 2022

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Olasunbo Farinre, Hawazin Alghamdi, Mathew Kelley, Adam Biacchi, Albert Davydov, Christina Hacker, Albert Rigosi, Prabhakar Misra

Thermal Noise-Limited Laser Stabilization to an 8 mL Volume Fabry-Perot Reference Cavity with Microfabricated Mirrors

March 29, 2022

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Charles McLemore, Naijun Jin, Megan Kelleher, James Hendrie, David Mason, Yizhi Luo, Dahyeon Lee, Peter Rakich, Scott Diddams, Franklyn Quinlan

Lasers stabilized to vacuum-gap Fabry-Perot optical reference cavities display extraordinarily low noise and high stability, with linewidths much less than 1 Hz...

Coherent contributions to population dynamics in a semiconductor microcavity

March 29, 2022

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Jagannath Paul, Hendrik Rose, Ethan Swagel, Torsten Meier, Jared Wahlstrand, Alan Bristow

Multidimensional coherent spectroscopy (MDCS) is used to separate coherent and incoherent many-body contributions to the population-time dynamics in a GaAs...

Technology readiness: A global snapshot of 3D concrete printing and the frontiers for development

March 29, 2022

Author(s)

Guowei Ma, Richard Buswell, Wilson Ricardo Leal da Silva, Li Wang, Jie Xu, Scott Jones

Picosecond-resolution single-photon time lens for temporal mode quantum processing

March 28, 2022

Author(s)

Chaitali Joshi, Ben Sparkes, Alessandro Farsi, Thomas Gerrits, Sae Woo Nam, Varun Verma, Sven Ramelow, Alex Gaeta

Techniques to control the spectro-temporal properties of quantum states of light at ultrafast time scales are crucial for several applications in quantum...

Reassessing the Significance of Reduced Aggregation and Crystallinity of Naphthalene Diimide-Based Copolymer Acceptors in All-Polymer Solar Cells

March 28, 2022

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Eliot Gann, Christopher McNeill, Doan Vu, Martyn Jervic, Chao Wang, Lars Thomsen, Mats Andersson

Terpolymerization is a facile and effective strategy to control the aggregation and crystallinity of semiconducting polymers which has been exploited to improve...

Method of Moment Analysis of Carbon Nanotubes Embedded in A Lossy Dielectric Slab Using A Multilayer Dyadic Green's Function

March 28, 2022

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Edward Garboczi, Sumitra Dey, Ahmed Hassan, Deb Chatterjee

Modeling the electromagnetic response of Carbon Nanotube (CNT) reinforced composites is inherently a three dimensional (3D) multi-scale problem that is...

Models for an Ultraviolet-C Research and Development Consortium

March 25, 2022

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Dianne L. Poster, C Cameron Miller, Yaw S. Obeng, John J. Kasianowicz, Michael T. Postek, Norman Horn, Troy Cowan, Richard Martinello

The development of an international, precompetitive, collaborative, ultraviolet (UV) research consortium is discussed as an opportunity to lay the groundwork...

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