Journals

A Method for Key Performance Indicator Assessment in Manufacturing Organizations

December 12, 2017

Author(s)

Patrick Hester, Barry Ezell, Andrew Collins, John A. Horst, Kaleen Lawsure

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are an essential element of an organization's ability to monitor its strategic health, helping to ensure the strategic goals...

DIC Challenge: Developing Images and Guidelines for Evaluating Accuracy and Resolution of 2D Analyses

December 11, 2017

Author(s)

Mark A. Iadicola, Philip Reu, Hugh Bruck, Elizabeth Jones, Daniel Turner

With the rapid spread in use of Digital Image Correlation (DIC) globally, it is important there be some standard methods of verifying and validating DIC codes...

Assessing the interactions of metal nanoparticles in soil and sediment matrices - A quantitative analytical multi-technique approach

December 10, 2017

Author(s)

Hind El Hadri, Stacey M. Louie, Vincent A. Hackley

The impact and behavior of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) in the environment is an important issue due to their growing use in consumer and agricultural...

Geometric contributions to chopper wheel optical attenuation uncertainty

December 9, 2017

Author(s)

Matthew T. Spidell, Joshua A. Hadler, Michelle S. Stephens, John H. Lehman, Paul A. Williams

Calibrated reflective optical choppers are used in NISTs high power laser calibration services due to their advantages in performance and safety over wedges...

Development of a kelp powder (Thallus laminariae) Standard Reference Material

December 9, 2017

Author(s)

Lee L. Yu, Joseph Browning, Carolyn Q. Burdette, George C. Caceres, Kaitlyn Chieh, William C. Davis, MIchael Ellisor, Brittany Kassim, Stephen E. Long, Karen E. Murphy, Rabia Oflaz, Rick L. Paul, Katherine E. Sharpless, Laura J. Wood, James H. Yen, Rolf L. Zeisler

A Standard Reference Material (SRM) of seaweed, SRM 3232 Kelp Powder (Thallus laminariae) has been developed to support food and dietary supplement measurements...

Influence of Substrate Moisture State and Roughness on Interface Microstructure and Bond Strength: Slant Shear vs. Direct Tension Testing

December 8, 2017

Author(s)

Dale P. Bentz, Igor de la Varga, Jose Munoz, Robert Spragg, Benjamin Graybeal, Daniel S. Hussey, David L. Jacobson, Scott Z. Jones, Jacob M. LaManna

There are conflicting views in the literature concerning the optimum moisture state for an existing substrate prior to the application of a repair material...

Second-Order Effects on Wind-Induced Structural Behavior of High-Rise Steel Buildings

December 8, 2017

Author(s)

Sejun Park, Donghun Yeo

This paper investigates P-Δ effects on wind-induced structural dynamic behavior of a 60-story high-rise steel structure known as the CAARC building model. These...

X-ray Diffraction Study of Double Perovskites R(Co3/4Ti1/4)O3 (R= La, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Dy, Ho)

December 8, 2017

Author(s)

Winnie K. Wong-Ng, Khawla AlHamdan, Jude Anike, James A. Kaduk

The crystal structure and powder patterns were prepared for the perovskite series R(Co3/4Ti1/4)O3 (R= La, Pr, Nd, Sm, Gd, Dy, Ho). The R(Co3/4Ti1/4)O3 members...

Stateful characterization of resistive switching TiO2 with electron beam induced currents

December 7, 2017

Author(s)

Brian D. Hoskins, Gina C. Adam, Evgheni Strelcov, Nikolai B. Zhitenev, Andrei A. Kolmakov, Dmitri B. Strukov, Jabez J. McClelland

Metal oxide resistive switches have become increasingly important as possible artificial synapses in next generation neuromorphic networks. Nevertheless, there...

L-Edge Spectroscopy of Dilute, Radiation-Sensitive Systems Using a Transition-Edge-Sensor Array

December 7, 2017

Author(s)

Daniel S. Swetz, William B. Doriese, Joseph W. Fowler, Johnathon D. Gard, Gene C. Hilton, Kelsey M. Morgan, Galen C. O'Neil, Joel N. Ullom

We present X-ray absorption spectroscopy and resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) measurements on the iron L-edge of 0.5 mM aqueous ferricyanide. These...

Dependence of transition width on current and critical current in transition-edge sensors

December 7, 2017

Author(s)

Kelsey M. Morgan, Christine G. Pappas, Douglas A. Bennett, Johnathon D. Gard, James P. Hays-Wehle, Gene C. Hilton, Carl D. Reintsema, Daniel R. Schmidt, Joel N. Ullom, Daniel S. Swetz

If transition-edge sensor (TES) X-ray detectors are to be useful in photon-rich environments,they must maintain high resolving power when pulse durations are...

New Insights into the Flow and Microstructural Relaxation Behavior of Biphasic Cellulose Nanocrystal Dispersions from RheoSANS

December 7, 2017

Author(s)

Alexander D. Haywood, Kathleen Weigandt, Partha Saha, Matthew Noor, Micha J. Green, Virginia A. Davis

Understanding microstructure and shear response is a prerequisite for the controlled and predictable assembly of anisotropic nanomaterials into large area...

Consumer Use Effects on Nanoparticle Release from Commercially Available Nanoceramic Cookware

December 7, 2017

Author(s)

Susana Addo Ntim, Samuel R. Norris, Keana Scott, Treye Thomas, Gregory Noonan

Food preparation and storage materials are often subjected to stressful conditions such as scraping and cleaning with abrasive pads throughout their lifecycle...

Effect of pulse asymmetry and nonlinear chirp on the accuracy of ultrafast pulsed laser interferometry

December 7, 2017

Author(s)

Lei Shao, Jason J. Gorman

Ultrafast pulsed laser interferometry (PLI) can measure picometer displacements at sub- nanosecond time scales, such as acoustic waves and vibrations in...

Nanoscale Particle Motion in Attractive Polymer Nanocomposites

December 6, 2017

Author(s)

Erkan NMN Senses, Suresh Narayanan, Yimin NMN Mao, Antonio Faraone

Using x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy, we examined slow nanoscale motion of silica nanoparticles individually dispersed in entangled poly (ethylene oxide)...

Evaluating the Hydration of High Volume Fly Ash Mixtures Using Chemically Inert Fillers

December 6, 2017

Author(s)

Igor de la Varga, Javier Castro, Dale P. Bentz, Franco Zunino, Jason Weiss

Fly ash is frequently used as a replacement for cement in concrete. However, questions remain regarding the influence that fly ash has on the hydration of...

Towards Replacing Resistance Thermometry with Photonic Thermometry

December 6, 2017

Author(s)

Nikolai Klimov, Thomas P. Purdy, Zeeshan Ahmed

Resistance thermometry provides a time-tested method for taking temperature measurements that has been painstakingly developed over the last century. However...

Correspondence: Phantom Phonon Localization in Relaxors

December 5, 2017

Author(s)

Peter M. Gehring, Daniel E Parshall, Leland Weldon Harriger, Christopher Stock, Guangyong Xu, Xiaobing Li, Haosu Luo

Manley et al. (Ref. [1]) report the observation of an unexpected, weak, phonon mode located in energy between that of the transverse acoustic (TA) and soft...

Spatial Distribution of Hydrophobic Drugs in Model Nanogel-core Star Polymers

December 5, 2017

Author(s)

Vivek M. Prabhu, Guangmin Wei, Robert D. Miller, Victoria A. Piunova, William Swope, Amber Carr

Star polymers with a cross-linked nanogel-core are promising carriers of cargo for therapeutic applications due the synthetic control of amphiphilicity of arms...

Role of Materials Science in the Resilience of the Built Environment

December 5, 2017

Author(s)

Stephanie S. Watson, Chiara C. Ferraris, Jason D. Averill

The resilience of U.S. communities, defined as the "ability to withstand and recover rapidly from disruptive events," is directly dependent upon the ability of...

Structural Basis for the Inhibitory Effects of Ubistatins in the Ubiquitin-Proteasome Pathway

December 5, 2017

Author(s)

Mark A. Nakasone, Timothy A. Lewis, Olivier Walker, Anita Thakur, Wissam Mansour, Carlos A. Castaneda, Jennifer L. Goeckeler-Fried, Frank Parlati, Tsui-Fen Chou, Ortal Hayat, Daoning Zhang, Christina M. Camara, Steven M. Bonn, Urszula K. Nowicka, Susan T. Krueger, Michael H. Glickman, Jeffrey L. Brodsky, Raymond J. Deshaies, David Fushman

The success of proteasome inhibitors has led to intense efforts to discover points of therapeutic intervention for nearly every component of the ubiquitin...

An Examination of National Supply-Chain Flow Time

December 4, 2017

Author(s)

Douglas Thomas, Anand M. Kandaswamy

The US and other national governments invest in research and development to spur competitiveness in their domestic manufacturing industries. However, there are...

A measurement technique for infrared emissivity of epoxy-based microwave absorbing materials

December 4, 2017

Author(s)

Derek A. Houtz, Dazhen Gu

Infrared emissivity is a critical parameter for modeling and predicting heat transfer by radiation. Microwave absorbing materials, having a high emissivity in...

Efimov States of Strongly Interacting Photons

December 4, 2017

Author(s)

Jacob M. Taylor, Alexey V. Gorshkov, Michael Gullans, D Ruzik, Seth Rittenhouse, J.P. D'Incao, Paul Julienne, S Diehl

We introduce a new system to study Efimov physics based on interacting photons in cold gases of Rydberg atoms. This system has a large anisotropy between the...

A New Wipe-Sampling Instrument for Measuring the Collection Efficiency of Trace Explosives Residues

December 3, 2017

Author(s)

Elizabeth L. Robinson, Edward R. Sisco, Matthew E. Staymates, Jeffrey A. Lawrence

Trace explosives detection, a crucial component of many screening environments, commonly employs wipe-sampling. Since collection of an explosive residue is...

Advancing Reverse Monte Carlo Structure Refinements to the Nanoscale

December 1, 2017

Author(s)

Maksim Eremenko, Victor Krayzman, Anton Gagin, Igor Levin

Selenium protein identification and profiling by mass spectrometry: A tool to assess progression of cardiomyopathy in a whale model

December 1, 2017

Author(s)

Colleen E. Bryan Sallee, Steven J. Christopher, William C. Davis, Lisa E. Kilpatrick, Gregory D. Bossart, Wayne E. McFee, Terrance X. O'Brien

Non-ischemic cardiomyopathy is a leading cause of congestive heart failure and sudden cardiac death in humans and in some cases the etiology of cardiomyopathy...

Estimating and Correcting the Device-Under-Test Transfer Function in Loaded Reverberation Chambers for Over-the-Air Tests

December 1, 2017

Author(s)

Catherine A. Remley, Ryan J. Pirkl, Chih-Ming Wang, Damir Senic, Arvand Homer, Matt V. North, Maria G. Becker, Robert D. Horansky, Christopher L. Holloway

We assess the potential error in measurements of the power transfer function corresponding to a reverberation chamber set-up when different antenna types are...

Data on crystal organization in the structure of the Fab fragment from the NIST reference antibody, RM 8671

December 1, 2017

Author(s)

David T. Gallagher, Ioannis L. Karageorgos, Jeffrey W. Hudgens, Connor V. Galvin

This article describes the crystal packing of the unliganded antibody fragment from the NIST reference antibody 8671, whose atomic coordinates are available as...

Modeling, Validation and Verification of Three-Dimensional Cell-Scaffold Contacts from Terabyte- sized Images

December 1, 2017

Author(s)

Peter Bajcsy, Sowon Joy Yoon, Stephen Florczyk, Nathan Hotaling, Mylene H. Simon, Piotr Szczypinski, Nicholas J. Schaub, Carl G. Simon Jr., Mary C. Brady, Ram D. Sriram

Background: Cell-scaffold contact measurements are derived from pairs of co-registered volumetric fluorescent confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) images...