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The problem of optimally removing a set of vertices from a graph to minimize the size of the largest resultant component is known to be NP-complete. Prior work...
Increases in computational capability enabled sophisticated materials design to evolve from trial-and-error approaches towards more informed methodologies that...
Ronald Colle, Lizbeth Laureano-Perez, Denis E. Bergeron
A new National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) tritiated-water (3H-labeled oxidane) standard was prepared and calibrated. It is the 17th in a...
Carin Osterberg, Henrik Fahlquist, Ulrich Haussermann, Craig Brown, Terrence J. Udovic, Maths Karlsson
The two alkali silanides ASiH 3 (A = K and Rb) were investigated by means of quasielastic neutron scattering, both below and above the order-disorder phase...
Wei-Shan NMN Chiang, Emiliano Fratini, Piero Baglioni, Daniel Georgi, Jin-hong Chen, Yun Liu
The understanding of methane adsorption is important for may industrial applications, especially for the shale gas production, where it is critical to...
Yutaka Sumino, Norifumi L. Yamada, Michihiro Nagao, Takuya Honda, Hiroyuki Kitahata, Yuri B. Melnichenko, Hideki Seto
A mimic of biological blebbing motions constructed by a purely chemical system has been studied to understand nanometer scale structure and their roles in the...
Matthew D. Brubaker, Alexana Roshko, Paul T. Blanchard, Todd E. Harvey, Norman A. Sanford, Kristine A. Bertness
The polarity of gallium nitride (GaN) nanowire nuclei grown on AlN layers was studied by piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM). N- or Al-polar AlN layers were...
Justin M. Zook, James Priest, Rachel Goldfeder, Megan Grove, Daryl Waggott, Matthew Wheeler, Euan Ashley, Marc L. Salit
As next-generation sequencing is becoming routinely applied to clinical care, the predictive characteristics and limitations of whole exome and whole genome...
Jorge O. Ona Ruales, Ruiz-Morales Yosadara, Stephen A. Wise
A methodology for the characterization of groups of PAHs using a combination of Normal Phase Liquid Chromatography with Ultraviolet-Visible Spectroscopy (NPLC...
Peter Bajcsy, Mylene H. Simon, Stephen J. Florczyk, Carl G. Simon Jr., Derek Juba, Mary C. Brady
We address the problem of estimating 3D segmentation performance when segmentation is applied to thousands of confocal microscopy images (z-stacks) of cells...
Shawn P. Moylan, Christopher U. Brown, John A. Slotwinski
One way to improve confidence and encourage proliferation of additive manufacturing (AM) technologies and parts is by generating more high quality performance...
Zeeshan Ahmed, Matthew Skorski, Jake Esenther, Abigail E. Miller, Hartings Mathew
3-D printing has captured the imagination of many and has enabled a culture of makers. The ability of this process to generate intricate structures from...
Marlin E. Kraft, Randolph E. Elmquist, Gert Rietveld, Jan van der Beek, Alessandro Mortara, Beat Jeckelmann
The low-ohmic resistance measurement capabilities of the Van Swinden Laboratorium, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the Federal Office of...
Frances Nilsen, John Bowden, Brittany L. Kassim, Colleen E. Bryan Sallee, Stephen E. Long, Benjamin B. Parrott, Stephen E. Somerville, Ted Lange, Patrick Delaney, Arnold Brunell, Louis J. Guillette
Mercury is a widespread environmental contaminant with exposures eliciting a well-documented catalog of negative outcomes in animals. Yet, our knowledge...
Denis E. Bergeron, Raphael Galea, Lizbeth Laureano-Perez, Brian E. Zimmerman
An informal bilateral comparison of 14C liquid scintillation (LS) counting at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) and the National Institute of...
Magnetic interfaces have been identified as promising systems upon which to base next-generation spintronic devices. In these nearly two-dimensional systems...
Brian E. Zimmerman, Denis E. Bergeron, Ryan P. Fitzgerald, Jeffrey T. Cessna
Tests for chemical stability were carried out on carrier-added 68Ge solutions prepared and calibrated in 2007 and 2011 to evaluate the suitability of the...
Using NIST-calibrated solutions of 131Ba and 131I in the 5 mL NIST ampoule geometry, measurements were made in three NIST-maintained Capintec activity...
The paper presents a brief history and background of metrology outreach efforts to colleges and universities. It also includes a summary of a 2015 international...
Maritoni A. Litorja, Banghe Zhu, Eva Sevick Muraca, John Rasmussen
To date, no emerging preclinical or clinical near-infrared fluorescence (NIRF) imaging devices for non-invasive and/or surgical guidance have their performances...
Cross-spectrum analysis is a commonly-used technique for the detection of phase and amplitude noise of a signal in the presence of interfering noise. It...
Kamran Sayrafian, Hamid Mahboubi, Walid Masoudimansour, Amir G. Aghdam
Consider a mobile sensor network that is used to monitor a moving target in a field with obstacles. In this paper, an efficient relocation technique that...
S. Sarker, D. Chandra, M. Hirscher, M. Dolan, D. Isheim, J. Wermer, D. Viano, M. Baricco, Terrence J. Udovic, D. Grant, O. Palumbo, A. Paolone, R. Cantelli
Most of the global H 2 production is derived from hydrocarbon-based fuels, and efficient H 2/CO 2 separation is necessary to deliver a high purity H 2 product...
Jun Li, Elena A. Medina, Judith K. Stalick, Arthur W. Sleight, M. A. Subramanian
Various oxides with the hibonite structure were synthesized and structurally analyzed using powder neutron diffraction. The structure of CaAl 12O 19 at 298 K...
K. W. Plumb, Kyusung Hwang, Yiming Qiu, Leland Harriger, G. E. Granroth, Alexander I. Kolesnikov, G. J. Shu, F. C. Chou, Ch. Ruegg, Yong Baek Kim, Young-June Kim
When the energy eigenvalues of two coupled quantum states approach each other in a certain parameter space, their energy levels repel each other and level...
Carlos A. Castaneda, Emma K. Dixon, Olivier Walker, Apurva Chaturvedi, Mark A. Nakasone, Joseph E. Curtis, Megan R. Reed, Susan T. Krueger, T. Ashton Cropp, David Fushman
Polyubiquitination, a critical protein post-translational modification, signals fora diverse set of cellular events via the different isopeptide linkages formed...