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Lipid Nanodomains Change Ion Channel Function

August 22, 2017

Author(s)

Michael NMN Weinrich, David Worcester, Sergey M. Bezrukov

Signaling proteins and neurotransmitter receptors associate with cholesterol-rich fractions of cell membranes--lipid rafts. The different lipid environment in

Modelling and Influencing Human Behaviour in Fire

August 22, 2017

Author(s)

Steve Gwynne, Erica D. Kuligowski, Michael Kinsey, Lynn Hulse

The purpose of this article is to present a conceptual model of human behaviour in fire and its impact on evacuation modelling, life safety analyses, and

Blunt scratch strength of polycrystalline alumina

August 21, 2017

Author(s)

Robert F. Cook

A model for the fracture strength of brittle materials controlled by blunt (spherical) scratches is developed and compared with measurements on a

A serum small molecule biosignature of radiation exposure from total body irradiated patients

August 21, 2017

Author(s)

Evagelia C. Laiakis, Evan L. Pannkuk, Siddheshwar Chauthe, Yi-Wen Wang, Ming Liang, Tytus Mak, Christopher A. Barker, Giuseppe Astarita, Albert J. Fornace

The potential of radiological accidents and nuclear terrorism have increased the need for development of new rapid biodosimetry methods. In addition, in a

A simple autocorrelation method for thoroughly characterizing single-photon detectors

August 21, 2017

Author(s)

Michael Wayne, Joshua Bienfang, Sergey Polyakov

We introduce and demonstrate a simple and highly sensitive method for characterizing single- photon detectors. This method is based on analyzing multi-order

A Retrospective on the Impact of Annex 40 and Annex 47 Research on the International State of Building Commissioning

August 20, 2017

Author(s)

Natascha S. Milesi-Ferretti, Masato Miyata, Oliver Baumann

The need for improved building performance is global and has led to numerous international collaborations. Since 2000, the International Energy Agency (IEA)

Strain Measurement of 3D Structured Nanodevices by EBSD

August 20, 2017

Author(s)

William A. Osborn, Lawrence H. Friedman, Mark D. Vaudin

We present a new methodology to accurately measure strain magnitudes from 3D nanodevices using Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD). Because the dimensions

Baseline Assessment of 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Assay Performance: A Vitamin D Standardization Program (VDSP) Interlaboratory Comparison Study

August 18, 2017

Author(s)

Christopher T. Sempos, Stephen Wise, Karen W. Phinney, Susan Tai, Johanna Camara, Gary L. Myers, Ramon Durazo-Arvizu, Lu Tian, John H. Eckfeldt, Andrew N. Hoofnagle, W. Greg Miller, Lorin M. Bachmann, Ian S. Young, J Pettit, G. Caldwell, A Liu, S P. Brooks, K. Sarafin, M. Thamm, C. Scheidt-Nave, G. B. Mensink, M. Busch, M. Rabenberg, Kevin Cashman, Mairead Kiely, Michael Kinsella, K Galvan, J. Y. Zhang, K OH, S. W. Lee, C. L. Jung, L. Cox, G. Goldberg, K. Guberg, S. Meadows, A. Prentice, G. Swan, A. Tedstone, Graham D. Carter, Julia C. Jones, P. Brannon, R. M. Lucas, P. M. Crump, Glenville Jones, E. Cavalier, Joyce Merkel, J. M. Betz

The Vitamin D Standardization Program (VDSP) coordinated an interlaboratory study to assess the comparability of measurements of total 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25

Dispersive optical detection of magnetic Feshbach resonances in ultracold gases

August 18, 2017

Author(s)

Eite Tiesinga, B Sawyer, M Horvath, A Deb, N Kjaergaard

Magnetically tunable Feshbach resonances in ultracold atomic systems are chiefly identified and characterized through time consuming atom loss spectroscopy. We

Polymorphism and Structural Distortions of Ternary Mixed-Metal Oxide Photocatalysts Constructed with α-U3O8 Types of Layers

August 18, 2017

Author(s)

Nacole B. King, Jonathan Boltersdorf, Paul Maggard, Winnie K. Wong-Ng

A series of mixed-metal oxide structures based on the stacking of α-U3O8 type pentagonal bipyramid layers have been investigated for symmetry lowering

Intricate Resonant Raman Response in Anisotropic ReS2

August 18, 2017

Author(s)

Amber McCreary, Jeffrey R. Simpson, Yuanxi Wang, Daniel Rhodes, Kazunori Fujisawa, Luis Balicas, Madan Dubey, Vincent H. Crespi, M. Terrones, Angela R. Hight Walker

Rhenium disulfide is an exciting material due to its strong in-plane anisotropy, thus offering an additional physical parameter that can be tuned for advanced

Cryptography Standards in Quantum Time - New wine in old wineskin?

August 17, 2017

Author(s)

Lidong Chen

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of the U.S. Government announced a call for proposals for quantum-resistant public-key cryptographic

Coarse-grained model of the dynamics of electrolyte solutions

August 17, 2017

Author(s)

Jack F. Douglas, Marat Andreev, Juan J. de Pablo, Alexandros Chremos

Ion specific solvation has fundamental implications in biochemistry and the thermo- dynamics and dynamics of aqueous salt solutions has correspondingly been

Simultaneous Control of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction and Magnetic Anisotropy in Nanomagnetic Trilayers

August 17, 2017

Author(s)

Andrew L. Balk, Kyoung-Whan Kim, Daniel T. Pierce, Mark D. Stiles, John Unguris, Samuel Stavis

Magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) microscopy measurements of magnetic bubble domains demonstrate that Ar+ irradiation around 100 eV can tune the Dzyaloshinskii

Topological Controls on the Dissolution Kinetics of Glassy Aluminosilicates

August 17, 2017

Author(s)

Tandre Oey, Isabella Pignatelli, Yingtian Yu, Narayanan Neithalath, Jeffrey W. Bullard, Mathieu Bauchy, Gaurav Sant

Fly ash which encompasses a mixture of glassy and crystalline aluminosilicates is an abundant supplementary cementitious material (SCM), valuable for replacing

Collapse Indicators for Existing Nonductile Concrete Frame Buildings with Varying Column and Frame Characteristics

August 17, 2017

Author(s)

Siamak Sattar, Abbie B. Liel

Many existing reinforced concrete moment frame buildings in high seismic regions around the world, including the U.S., were built without adequate seismic

Overcoming challenges in single particle inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry measurement of silver nanoparticles

August 16, 2017

Author(s)

Jingyu Liu, Karen E. Murphy, Michael R. Winchester, Vincent A. Hackley

Single particle ICP-MS has evolved rapidly as a quantitative method for determining nanoparticle size and number concentration at environmentally relevant

Simulation-aided Correlations for the Dielectric Constant of H2S, SO2, and SF6

August 16, 2017

Author(s)

Allan H. Harvey, Raymond D. Mountain

A new method is developed for correlating the static dielectric constant of polar fluids over wide ranges of conditions where few experimental data exist

Interface Engineering for Nanoelectronics

August 16, 2017

Author(s)

Christina A. Hacker, Robert C. Bruce, Sujitra J. Pookpanratana

Innovation in the electronics industry is tied to interface engineering as devices increasingly incorporate new materials and shrink. Molecular layers offer a

Two-Directional Operation of Bistable Latchable Micro Switch Actuated by a Single Electrode

August 16, 2017

Author(s)

Lior Medina, Rivka Gilat, Robert Ilic, Slava Krylov

Curved micromechanical beams are a versatile platform for exploring multistable behavior, with potential applications in mechanical based logic and switching

Accuracy, repeatability and interplatform reproducibility measurements of T₁ quantification methods used for DCE-MRI: results from a multicenter phantom study.

August 16, 2017

Author(s)

Octavia Bane, Stefanie J. Hectors, Mathilde Wagner, Lori L. Arlinghaus, Madhava P. Aryal, Yue Cao, Thomas L. Chenevert, Fiona Fennessy, Wei Huang, Nola M. Hylton, Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, Katy Keenan, Dariya I. Malyarenko, Robert V. Mulkern, David C. Newitt, Stephen E. Russek, Karl Stupic, Michael A. Boss

Purpose: To determine the in vitro accuracy, test-retest repeatability, and interplatform reproducibility of T 1 quantification protocols used for dynamic

Single Molecule Nanopore Spectrometry for Peptide Detection

August 15, 2017

Author(s)

Amy Chavis, Joseph Robertson, Joseph E. Reiner, Kyle Brady, Grrace Hatmaker, Nuwan Kothalawala

Sensing and characterization of water-soluble peptides is of critical importance in a wide variety of bioapplications. Single molecule nanopore spectrometry

Modulus of continuity eigenvalue bounds for homogeneous graphs and convex subgraphs with applications to quantum Hamiltonians

August 15, 2017

Author(s)

Stephen P. Jordan, Michael Jarret

We adapt modulus of continuity estimates to the study of spectra of combinatorial graph Laplacians, as well as the Dirichlet spectra of certain weighted

Dynamics of Entangled Polymers Confined between Graphene Oxide Sheets as Studied by Neutron Reflectivity

August 15, 2017

Author(s)

Ki-In Choi, Tae-Ho Kim, Guangcui Yuan, Sushil K. Satija, Jaseung Koo

For graphene-based composites, polymer dynamics confined between graphene sheets is a key parameter governing the oeverall mechanical properties of the bulk

Evaluating the quality of a cell counting measurement process via a dilution series experimental design

August 14, 2017

Author(s)

Sumona Sarkar, Steven Lund, Ravi Vyzasatya, Padmavathy Vanguri, John Elliott, Anne Plant, Sheng Lin-Gibson

Cell counting measurements (methods to determine cell quantity) are critical in the research, development, and manufacturing of cell-based products and support

Epitaxially-grown self-assembled Bi2Se3/Bi2MnSe4 multilayer heterostructures

August 14, 2017

Author(s)

Joseph A. Hagmann, Xiang Li, Si-Ning Dong, Sergei Rouvimov, Sujitra J. Pookpanratana, Kin Man Yu, Tatyana Orlova, Curt A. Richter, David G. Seiler, Xinyu Liu, Jacek K. Furdyna, Margaret Dobrowolska

Progress in understanding topologically non-trivial systems offers the promise of predicting novel systems that demonstrate the remarkable properties associated

A mixture of two self- and mutually-associating liquids. I. Phase behavior, second virial coefficients, and entropy-enthalpy compensation in the free energy of mixing

August 14, 2017

Author(s)

Jack F. Douglas, Jacek Dudowicz, Karl Freed

The theoretical description of the phase behavior of polymers dissolved in binary mixtures of water and other miscible solvents is greatly complicated by the

Development of large aperture projection scatterometry for catalyst loading evaluation in proton exchange membrane fuel cells

August 12, 2017

Author(s)

Michael T. Stocker, Bryan M. Barnes, Martin Y. Sohn, Eric S. Stanfield, Richard M. Silver

Widespread commercialization of proton exchange membrane fuel cells remains curbed by various manufacturing and infrastructure challenges. One such technical

CRITICALLY EVALUATED ENERGY LEVELS, SPECTRAL LINES, TRANSITION PROBABILITIES, AND INTENSITIES OF SINGLY-IONIZED VANADIUM (V II)

August 11, 2017

Author(s)

Alexander Kramida, Edward B. Saloman

The energy levels, observed spectral lines, and transition probabilities of singly-ionized vanadium, V II, have been compiled. Also included are values for some

Critically Evaluated Energy Levels, Spectral Lines, Transition Probabilities, and Intensities of Neutral Vanadium (V I)

August 11, 2017

Author(s)

Alexander Kramida, Edward B. Saloman

The energy levels, observed spectral lines, and transition probabilities of the neutral vanadium atom, V I, have been compiled. Also included are values for