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Barry I. Schneider, Bruce R. Miller, Bonita V. Saunders
In 1964 the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) published the Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables, AMS 55, edited
Denis E. Bergeron, Jeffrey T. Cessna, Ryan P. Fitzgerald, Leticia S. Pibida, Brian E. Zimmerman, Carine Michotte, Manuel Nonis, Andrew Fenwick, Kelly Ferreira, John Keightley
In 2016, comparisons of activity measurements of 18F and 64Cu using the Transfer Instrument of the International Reference System (SIRTI) took place at the
We investigate the performance of pose measuring systems which determine an object's pose from measurement of a few fiducial markers attached to the object
Mathieu Riou, Flavio Abreu Araujo, Jacob Torrejon, Sumito Tsunegi, Guru Khalsa, Damien Querlioz, Paolo Bortolotti, Vincent Cros, K. Yakushiji, Akio Fukushima, Hitoshi Kubota, Shinji Yuasa, Mark D. Stiles, Julie Grollier
Fabricating powerful neuromorphic chips the size of a thumb requires miniaturizing both hardware synapses and neurons. The challenge for neurons is to scale
Xiaodan Li, Zachary Grasley, Edward Garboczi, Jeffrey W. Bullard
A numerical model has been developed that combines finite element methods with microstructure development algorithms to quantitatively predict the stress
We investigate the influence of counter-ion solvation on the homogeneity of salt-free polyelectrolyte solutions based on coarse-grained model that includes an
The International System of Units (SI) is expected to be revised such that all seven base units, including the kilogram, will be defined in terms of fixed
Zahra Hussaini, Pin A. Lin, Bharath N. Natarajan, Wenhui Zhu, Renu Sharma
For a large number of reaction processes such as catalysis, phase transformation, nanomaterial synthesis etc., nanoscale observations at high spatial (atomic
Karl Stupic, Janusz H. Hankiewicz, Zbigniew Celinski, Robert E. Camley, Marek Przybylski, Jan Zukrowski, Nick Anderson, Noweir Alghamdi, Nicholas Hammelev
We investigate the use of Cu0.35Zn0.65Fe2O4 particles as temperature-dependent sensors in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This material has a Curie
The crystallization of a polymer melt is characterized by dramatic structural and mechanical changes that have a significant impact on the processing conditions
Jennifer M. Lynch, Jared M. Ragland, Amanda J. Moors, Rebecca S. Pugh, Jessica L. Reiner
Perfluorinated alkyl acids (PFAAs) have been used for more than 50 years in materials such as stain-resistant treatments for paper and clothing, lubricants, and
Ian B. Spielman, Carlos S? de Melo, Daisuke Yamamoto
Ultracold bosons in optical lattices are one of the few systems where bosonic matter is known to exhibit strong correlations. Here, to push the frontier of our
Albert Davydov, Sergiy Krylyuk, Payam Taheri, Kirby K. Smithe, Andrey V. Krayev, Connor S. Bailey, Hye R. Lee, Eilam Yalon, Ozgur B. Aslan, Miguel M. Rojo, Tony F. Heinz, Eric Pop
Understanding growth, grain boundaries (GBs), and defects of emerging two-dimensional (2D) materials is key to enabling their future applications. For quick
Schrödinger cat states are fundamental quantum states with no classical analogues. Schrödinger Gedanken experiment of 1935 described a cat apparently held in a
Vladimir I. Azarov, Alexander Kramida, M. Y. Vokhmentsev
The article describes a Java program that can be used in a user]friendly way to visually identify spectral lines observed in complex spectra with theoretically
Measurements of plasma electric fields are essential to the advancement of plasma science and applications. Methods for non-invasive in situ measurements of
Adrian P. Defante, Wyatt N. Vreeland, Kurt D. Benkstein, Dean C. Ripple
Nanoparticle tracking analysis (NTA) obtains particle size by analysis of particle diffusion through a time series of micrographs and particle count by a count
In this article, we review trends in cybersecurity vulnerabilities from 2008-2015, analyze vulnerability types and distributions, and prospects for the near
Nathan Mahynski, Jeffrey R. Errington, Vincent K. Shen
We derive an approach for extrapolating the free energy landscape of multicomponent systems in the grand canonical ensemble, obtained from flat- histogram Monte
Kristine A. Bertness, Wenjun Li, Matthew D. Brubaker, Bryan T. Spann, Patrick Fay
Top-gated GaN nanowire MOSFETs using Al2O3 as gate oxide have been experimentally demonstrated. The fabricated devices exhibit a minimum subthreshold slope of
Timothy Hall, Anirudha Sahoo, Robert C. Hagwood, Sarah B. Streett
In this study, we design and implement two algorithms for dynamic spectrum access (DSA) that are based on survival analysis. They use a non-parametric estimate
Harold W. Hatch, Nathan Mahynski, Marco A. Blanco Medina, Vincent K. Shen, Sally Jiao
Virial coefficients are predicted over a large range of both temperatures and model parameter values (e.g., alchemical transformation) from an individual Mayer
William Z. Bernstein, Arun Bala Subramaniyan, Alexander Brodsky, Ian C. Garretson, Karl Haapala, Donald E. Libes, Katherine C. Morris, Rong Pan, Vittaldas Prabhu, Arkopaul Sarkar, Arvind Shankar Raman, Zhenhua Wu
The design of manufacturing systems can see dramatic improvements through the use of digital technologies for modeling and simulation prior to deployment. At
Effective spin-spin interactions between N + 1 qubits enable the determination of the eigenvalue of an arbitrary Pauli product of dimension N with a constant
Slavomir Nemsak, Evgheni Strelcov, Tomas Duchon, Hongxuan Guo, Johanna Hackl, Alexander Yulaev, Ivan Vlassiouk, David Mueller, Andrei Kolmakov
Studies of the electrified solid-liquid interfaces are crucial for understanding of the biological and electrochemical systems. Until recently, the use of
Bin Li, Xili Cui, Dan O'Nolan, Hui-Min Wen, Mengdie Jiang, Rajamani Krishna, Hui Wu, Rui-Biao Lin, Yu-Sheng Chen, Daqiang Yuan, Huabin Xing, Wei Zhou, Qilong Ren, Guodong Qian, Michael J. Zaworotko, Banglin Chen
Realization of ideal molecular sieves, in which the larger gas molecules are completely blocked without sacrificing high adsorption capacities of the preferred
Melissa Singletary, Samantha Hagerty, Shinichiro Muramoto, Yasmine Daniels, William A. MacCrehan, Gheorghe Stan, June W. Lau, Oleg Pustovyy, Ludmila Globa, Edward E. Morrison, Iryna Sorokulova, Vitaly Vodyanoy
Responses of olfactory sensory neurons to odorants are intensely enhanced with the addition of small endogenous and engineered zinc nanoparticles, as shown by