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Ying Hu, David J. Vanderah, Guangyao Liu, William J. Price, Milan Mrksich, G Scoles
Self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) terminated with oligo(ethylene glycol) (OEG) segments are known to resist non-specific protein adsorption and are used in...
M Cronin, K Ghosh, F Sistare, J Quackenbush, V L. Vilker, C D. O'Connell
A NIST sponsored workshop entitled Metrology and Standards Needs for Gene Expression Technologies: Universal RNA Standards was held on March 28-29, 2003 to...
Amino acid sequence differences between proteins are often interpreted by reference to a pairwise measure of amino acid similarity, based either on observed...
C18 modified silica gels with surface coverages of 2 mol/m2 to 8.2 mol/m2, were prepared by different synthetic pathways and characterized by Fourier Transform...
J Jaeger, J C. Legras, G F. Molinar, James W. Schmidt
As a part of a wide CCM key comparison, this report gives the results of a comparison of pressure measurements in the range of gauge pressure 0,05 MPa to 1 MPa...
I M. Aarts, A C. Pipino, J P. Hoefnagels, W M. Kessels, M C. van de Sanden
Polarized near-IR evanescent wave absorption spectra reveal the structure of awater monolayer bound to an ultra-smooth hydroxylated amorphous SiO2 surfaceunder...
A McIntosh, T Walther, R R. Lucchese, J W. Bevan, R D. Suenram, A C. Legon
The microwave spectrum and ground state structure of H^ 2O HI are reported. The fitted ground state constants include: A 0=428.9 GHz, B 0=2189.7351(10) MHz, C 0...
Gary L. Myers, W. G. Miller, J Coresh, J Fleming, Neil Greenberg, T Greene, T Hostetter, A S. Levey, Mauro Panteghini, Michael J. Welch, John H. Eckfeldt
Background:The National Kidney Disease Education Program (NKDEP) has promulgated suggestions for diagnosing and treating chronic kidney disease (CKD). The...
A A. Restrepo-Cossio, M Marquez, F Mari, Carlos A. Gonzalez
Highly correlated ab initio molecular orbital calculations have been used to study the energetics and mechanisms governing the reactions of a series of...
The recommended procedures and apparatus are described for calibrating vacuum gauges of the thermal conductivity type in the pressure range 10 -1 Pa (10 -3 Torr...
Walter S. Liggett Jr, Peter E. Barker, O J. Semmes, L H. Cazares
Consider functional canonical correlation analysis (CCA) applied to disjoint sections of lengthy protein mass spectra for the purpose of finding long-distance...
Isothermal Kovats retention indices of 21 sulfur compounds relevant to the fuel gas and food industries are reported on a poly (5% diphenyl/95%dimethylsiloxane)...
Kelly Halverson, R G. Panchal, T L. Nguyen, S Little, Martin Misakian, Sina Bavari, John J. Kasianowicz
Bacillus anthracis secretes three toxins (protective antigen, PA; lethal factor, LF; and edema factor, EF) that are the molecular basis of anthrax-induced cell...
X P. Gao, Radharaman Ray, Yan Xiao, Peter E. Barker, Prabhati Ray
Exposure of airway epithelial cells to 100 uM sulfur mustard significantly upregulated induced nitric oxide (iNOS) in cells. This response, quantitated by both...
In preparation for the certification of three Standard Reference Materials containing Ginkgo biloba, three extraction techniques are compared. For the three...
Nozomi Sakakibara, Rajesh Kasiviswanathan, E Melamud, Frederick P. Schwarz, Z Kelman
Minichromosome maintenance helicases are the presumptive replicative helicases, thought to separate the two strands of chromosomal DNA during replication. In...
P P. Khil, R D. Camerini-Otero, A Teplyakov, G Obmolova, A J. Howard, G L. Gilliland
The crystal structure determination of E. coli CobW was undertaken as part of a structural genomics effort (http://s2f.carb.nist.gov) in order to assist with...
Henry Lam, Eric Deutsch, James E. Eddes, Jimmy K. Eng, Nichole King, Stephen Stein, H. Ueda
A notable inefficiency of shotgun proteomics experiments lie in the repeated rediscovery of the same identifiable peptides by sequence database searching...
T P. Trainor, Anne M. Chaka, P J. Eng, M Newville, G A. Waychunas, J G. Catalano, G E. Brown
Hematite (alpha-Fe 2 O 3 ) is significantly more reactive to water and metal ions than its isostructure corundum (alpha-Al 2 O 3u) under environmental...
We describe the development of a new analytical formula for the electron stopping power (SP) for electron energies between 200 eV and 30 keV. This formula...
John J. Kasianowicz, S. E. Henrickson, B Robertson, H H. Weetall
We show here the principles for using a single nanometer-scale pore to detect a wide variety of analytes (e.g. small ions, proteins, antigens, antibodies, DNA...
J R. Tucker, M Rao, O W. Holland, P Chi, N A. Papanicolaou, J A. Freitas
Single and multiple energy As and Sb implantations were performed into p-type 6H-SiC epitaxial layers at room temperature (RT) and 800 degrees C. Secondary ion...
Li Guo, D Pietkiewicz, M M. Pavlov, John J. Kasianowicz, L M. Dejean, S J. Korsmeyer, B Antonsson, K W. Kinnally
l-2 family proteins regulate the appearance of the high-conductance channel MAC (mitochondrial apoptosis-induced channel) 1 in the outer membranes of...
In this study we describe the results of the application of several ab initio methods to the reactions of four unstabilized ylides (H[d3]P=CH[d2], H[d2]MeP=CH...
Z Samardzija, S Bernik, M Ceh, Ryna B. Marinenko, B Malic
Single crystals of KNbO 3 and NaNbO 3 were selected from the limited number of suitable alkali compounds that are available and evaluated as possible reference...
A Hasmy, Luis C. Rincon, R M. Hernandez, V Mujica, M Marquez, Carlos A. Gonzalez
In spite of the intense research activities devoted to the study of the achieved thinner wire (a suspended linear monatomic chain (1-19)), the high stability...
A system to accurately weigh the fluid contents of a small-scale liquid hydrogen test tank has been experimentally verified. It is intended for use as a...
I Chesnick, T Todorov, J M. Centeno, Dale Newbury, John A. Small, K Potter
Paramagnetic manganese (II) can be employed as a calcium surrogate to enhance the sensitivity of the magnetic resonance microscopy (MRM) technique to the...