Journals

Predictive Blood Chemistry Parameters for Pansteatitis-Affected Mozambique Tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus)

April 26, 2016

Author(s)

John Bowden, Theresa M. Cantu, Robert W. Chapman, Stephen E. Somerville, Matthew P. Guillette, Hannes Botha, Andre Hoffman, Wilmien Luus-Powell, Willem J. Smit, Jeffrey Lebepe, Jan Myburgh, Danny Govender, Jonathan Tucker, Louis J. Guillette Jr., Ashley S. Boggs-Russell

One of the largest river systems in South Africa, the Olifants River, has witnessed significant changes in water quality due to anthropogenic activities. Since

Shape Retrieval of Non-Rigid 3D Human Models

April 26, 2016

Author(s)

Afzal A. Godil, David Pickup

3D models of humans are commonly used within computer graphics and vision, and so the ability to distinguish between body shapes is an important shape retrieval

"Perpendicular laser cooling with a rotating wall potential in a Penning trap"

April 26, 2016

Author(s)

Joseph W. Britton, Justin G. Bohnet, John Bollinger, Steven B. Torrisi

We investigate the impact of a rotating wall potential on perpendicular laser cooling in a Penning ion trap. By including energy exchange with the rotating wall

Permeability, Porosity, and Mineral Surface Area Changes in Basalt Cores Induced by Reactive Transport of CO₂-Rich Brine

April 26, 2016

Author(s)

Andrew J. Luhmann, Benjamin Tutolo, Brian C. Bagley, David F. Mildner, Jr. Seyfried, Martin O. Saar

Four reactive flow-through laboratory experiments (two each at 0.1 ml/min and 0.01 ml/min flow rates) at 150 °C have been conducted on intact basalt cores to

The Poisson-Influenced K-Means Algorithm, a Maximum-Likelihood Procedure for Clusters with a Known Probability Distribution

April 25, 2016

Author(s)

Zachary H. Levine, Brian P. Morris

We present an implementation of the Poisson-Influenced K-Means Algorithm (PIKA), first developed to characterize the output of a superconducting transition edge

Optical Spintronics in Organic-Inorganic Perovskites Photovoltaics

April 25, 2016

Author(s)

Junwen Li, Paul M. Haney

Organic-inorganic halide CH 3NH 3PbI 3 solar cells have attracted enormous attention in recent years due to their remarkable power conversion efficiency. These

Electronic Nature of the Lock-in Magnetic Transition in CeXAl₄Si₂

April 25, 2016

Author(s)

J. Gunasekera, Leland Harriger, A. Dahal, A. Maurya, T.W. Heitmann, Steven M.T. Disseler, A. Thamizhavel, S. Dhar, D. J. Singh, D. K. Singh

We have investigated the underlying magnetism in newly discovered single crystal Kondo lattices CeXAl 4Si 2, where X = Rh, Ir. We show that the compound

A universal Moiré effect and application in x-Ray phase-contrast imaging

April 25, 2016

Author(s)

Houxun Miao, Alireza Panna, Andrew A. Gomella, Eric E. Bennett, sami Znati, Lei Chen, Han Wen

A moiré pattern is created by superimposing two black-and-white or gray-scale patterns of regular geometry, such as two sets of evenly spaced lines. We observed

Direct imaging of coexisting ordered and frustrated sublattices in artificial ferromagnetic quasicrystals

April 25, 2016

Author(s)

Barry Farmer, Vinayak Bhat, Andrew L. Balk, Eric Teipel, Nathan Smith, John Unguris, D.J. Keavney, Todd Hastings, L .E. De Long

Quasicrystals are rarely found in nature and are difficult to grow in the laboratory, but exhibit unique physical properties resulting from their signature long

Synchrotron X-Ray Microbeam Diffraction Measurements of Full Elastic Long Range Internal Strain and Stress Tensors in Commercial-Purity Aluminum Processed by Multiple Passes of Equal-Channel Angular Pressing

April 23, 2016

Author(s)

Thien Q. Phan, Lyle E. Levine, I-Fang Lee, Jonathan Z. Tischler, Ruqing Xu, Yi Huang, Terrance G. Langdon, Michael E. Kassner

Synchrotron X-ray microbeam diffraction was used to measure the full elastic long range internal strain and stress tensors of low dislocation density regions

Solid-state electrochemistry on the nanometer and atomic scales: the scanning probe microscopy approach

April 21, 2016

Author(s)

Evgheni Strelcov, Sang Mo Yang, Stephen Jesse, Nina Balke, Rama Vasudevan, Sergei Kalinin

Energy technologies of the XXI century require understanding and precise control over ion transport and electrochemistry at all length scales from single

Configuring and Verifying Reverberation Chambers for Testing Cellular Wireless Devices

April 21, 2016

Author(s)

Catherine A. Remley, Jos N. Dortmans, Catherine Weldon, Thomas B. Meurs, Chih-Ming Wang, Christopher L. Holloway, Perry F. Wilson

Reverberation chambers provide a repeatable test environment for laboratory over-the-air testing and represent a viable solution for testing large-form-factor

Flame Retardant Emissions from Spray Polyurethane Foam Insulation

April 20, 2016

Author(s)

Dustin G. Poppendieck, Adam P. Blickley, Matthew Schlegel, Angelica Connor

The desire to build more energy efficient homes in the United States has led to the expansion of the residential spray polyurethane foam (SPF) insulation

Landauer's formula with finite-time relaxation: Kramers' crossover in electronic transport

April 20, 2016

Author(s)

Daniel S. Gruss, Kirill Velizhanin, Michael P. Zwolak

Landauer's formula relates the conductance of a region of interest to its transmission probability. It is the standard theoretical tool to examine ballistic

Test Methods for the Evaluation of Manufacturing Mobile Manipulator Safety

April 20, 2016

Author(s)

Jeremy A. Marvel, Roger V. Bostelman

A test methodology for evaluating the safety of mobile manipulators (robot arms mounted on mobile bases) is presented. This methodology addresses the safety

A Roadmap for Regulatory Science Research for Next Generation Sequencing Informatics

April 20, 2016

Author(s)

Justin M. Zook, Marc L. Salit, Russ B. Altman, Arend Sidow, Rachel Goldfeder, Euan Ashley, Elizabeth Mansfield

The Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) is a national effort in the United States to enable a new era of medicine through research, technology, and policies

Estimating and Reducing Uncertainty in Reverberation-Chamber Characterization at Millimeter-Wave Frequencies

April 20, 2016

Author(s)

Damir Senic, Catherine A. Remley, Chih-Ming Wang, Dylan F. Williams, Christopher L. Holloway, Diogo Ribeiro, Ansgar T. Kirk

This contribution provides techniques for accurately characterizing the measurement uncertainty due to chamber setup for total radiated power measurements at

Geometric Decompositions of Bell Polytopes with Practical Applications

April 20, 2016

Author(s)

Peter L. Bierhorst

In the well-studied (2,2,2) Bell experiment consisting of two parties, two measurement settings per party, and two possible outcomes per setting, it is known

How to measure absolute P3HT crystallinity via 13C CPMAS NMR

April 20, 2016

Author(s)

Ryan C Nieuwendaal

We outline the details of acquiring quantitative 13C cross-polarization magic angle spinning (CPMAS) NMR spectra on the most ubiquitous polymer for organic

Correlation of Firing Pin Impressions Based on Congruent Matching Cross-sections (CMX) Method

April 20, 2016

Author(s)

Hao H. Zhang, Jun-Feng Song, D Ott, Wei Chu

Comparison of firing pin impressions of cartridge cases is an important part of firearms evidence identification. However, compared with breach face impressions

Quantitative interpretation of molecular dynamics simulations for X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy of aqueous solutions

April 19, 2016

Author(s)

Cedric J. Powell, Giorgia Olivieri, Krista Parry, Douglas Tobias, Matthew Brown

Over the past decade, energy-dependent X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) has emerged as a powerful analytical probe of the ion spatial distributions at the

In situ observations of Berkovich indentation induced phase transitions in crystalline silicon films

April 19, 2016

Author(s)

Yvonne B. Gerbig, Chris A. Michaels, Robert F. Cook

The pressure induced phase transitions of crystalline Si films was studied in situ under a Berkovich probe using the Raman spectroscopy-enhanced instrumented

Exciton Dynamics in Monolayer Transition Metal Michalcogenides

April 19, 2016

Author(s)

Galan A. Moody, John Schaibley, Xiaodong Xu

Since the discovery of semiconducting monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides, a variety of experimental and theoretical studies have been carried out

Engineered metal nanoparticles in the sub-nanomolar levels kill cancer cells

April 18, 2016

Author(s)

Yasmine C. Daniels, William A. MacCrehan, Shinichiro Muramoto, Gheorghe NMN Stan, Vitaly Vodyanoy, Oleg Pustovyy

Zinc and copper metal nanoparticles were produced from bulk metal rods by an underwater high-voltage discharge method. The metal nanoparticles, with estimated

Multiaxial constitutive behavior of an interstitial-free steel: measurements through X-ray and digital image correlation

April 18, 2016

Author(s)

Youngung Jeong, Mark A. Iadicola, Thomas H. Gnaeupel-Herold, Adam A. Creuziger

Constitutive behaviors of an interstitial-free steel sample were measured using an augmented Marciniak experiment. In these tests, multiaxial strain field data

Carbon Dioxide Generation Rates for Building Occupants

April 18, 2016

Author(s)

Andrew K. Persily, Lilian de Jonge

Indoor carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations have been used for decades to characterize building ventilation and indoor air quality. Many of these applications

Efficient and low-noise single-photon-level frequency conversion interfaces using silicon nanophotonics

April 18, 2016

Author(s)

Qing Li, Marcelo I. Davanco, Kartik Srinivasan

Optical frequency conversion has applications ranging from tunable light sources to telecommunications band interfaces for quantum information science. Here, we

Low-template DNA: A single DNA analysis or two replicates?

April 18, 2016

Author(s)

Simone N. Gittelson, Carolyn R. Steffen, Michael D. Coble

This study investigates the following two questions: (i) Should the DNA analyst concentrate the DNA extract into a single amplification or should he/she split

Structural control of mixed ionic and electronic transport in conducting polymers

April 17, 2016

Author(s)

Jonathan Rivnay, Sahika Inal, Brian Collins, Michelle Sessolo, Eleni Stavrindou, Christopher Tassone, Dean DeLongchamp, George Malliaras

Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) doped with poly(styrenesulfonate), PEDOT:PSS, has been utilized for over two decades as a stable, solution-processable

Spin Dynamics and Two-Dimensional Correlations in the FCC Antiferromagnetic Sr₂YRuO₆

April 15, 2016

Author(s)

Steven M. Disseler, Jeffrey W. Lynn, R. F. Jardim, M. S. Torikachvili, E. Granado

The face-centered cubic lattice lattice of Ru 5+ spins in the double perovskite Sr 2YRuO 6 shows a delicate three dimensional antiferromagnetic (AFM) ground