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Catherine A. Remley, David W. Matolak, Camillo A. Gentile, Christopher L. Holloway, Qiong Wu, Qian Zhang
We report on ground-based wireless channel characteristics for an urban environment in two public safety bands. Results are based upon measurements taken in
David S. Simons, Christopher W. Szakal, William A. Osborn, Kyung Joong Kim
A pilot study for the quantitative surface analysis of multi-element alloy films has been performed by the Surface Analysis Working Group (SAWG) of the
Allison B. Churnside, Ryan C. Tung, Jason P. Killgore
Viscoelastic property measurements made in liquid are key to characterizing materials for a variety of biological and industrial applications, but obtaining
sami Znati, N Chedid, Houxun Miao, Lei Chen, Han Wen, Eric E. Bennett
Filling high-aspect-ratio trenches with gold is a frequent requirement in the fabrication of X-ray optics as well as micro-electronic components and other
J. Aspnes, Z. Diamadi, A. Yampolskiy, K. Gjosteen, Rene Peralta
We introduce a new cryptographic primitive called a blind coupon mechanism (BCM). In effect, a BCM is an authenticated bit commitment scheme, which is AND
Yaghoob Farnam, Sarah Dick, Andrew Wiese, Jeffrey M. Davis, Dale P. Bentz, Jason Weiss
The conventional CaCl2-H2O phase diagram is often used to describe how a calcium chloride behaves when it is used on a concrete pavement undergoing freezing and
A Regional Metrology Organization (RMO) Key Comparison of dew/frost point temperatures was carried out by the National Institute of Standards and Technology
Mark O. McLinden, Richard A. Perkins, Eric W. Lemmon, Tara J. Fortin
We report comprehensive thermodynamic property measurements of 1,1,1,2,2,4,5,5,5-nonafluoro-4-(trifluoromethyl)-3-pentanone. The pρT behavior was measured
Aaron M. Katzenmeyer, Glenn E. Holland, Jungseok Chae, Alan H. Band, Kevin Kjoller, Andrea Centrone
An atomic force microscope equipped with temperature sensitive probes was used to measure locally the photothermal effect induced by IR light absorption. This
The Annellation Theory was applied for the establishment of the locations of maximum absorbance for the p and β bands in the UV-Vis spectra of 8 benzenoid cata
X-ray reference powder patterns and crystal structures have been determined for a series of titanium- and cobalt-containing layered alkaline-earth compounds
We report non-destructive measurements of the full elastic strain and stress tensors from individual dislocation cells distributed along the full extent of a 50
Inseok Yang, Laurent Pitre, Michael R. Moldover, Jintao Zhang, XiaoJuan Feng, Jin Seog Kim
We determined accurate values of ratios among the average molar masses MAr of 9 argon samples using two completely-independent techniques: (1) mass spectroscopy
Kurtis Sarafin, Ramon Durazo-Arvizu, Lu Tian, Karen W. Phinney, Susan Tai, Johanna Camara, Hubert W. Vesper, Joyce M. Merkel, Evan Green, Christopher T. Sempos, Stephen P. Brooks
Background: The Canadian Health Measures survey (CHMS) is an ongoing cross sectional national survey that includes a measure of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) by
William Loh, Aurelien C. Coillet, Frederick N. Baynes, Scott B. Papp, Scott A. Diddams, Joe Becker
We demonstrate an ultra-low noise laser that oscillates based on the stimulated Brillouin scattering nonlinearity in an optical microresonator. Our Brillouin
Semicontinous gold films 4 nm to 12 nm thick were characterized using patterned coplanar waveguides over a frequency range of 100 MHz to 20 GHz. Such films can
Robin Michael Daub Chisnell, Joel Helton, D. E. Freedman, D. K. Singh, R. I. Bewley, D. G. Nocera, Y. S. Lee
The success of band theory in describing the motion of quantum particles inside solids is a foundational accomplishment in modern physics. Recent excitement has
Yiping Feng, Elijah Petersen, Kun Lu, Xiangke Guo, Shixiang Gao, Liang Mao
Graphene has attracted considerable interest due to its numerous emerging applications. It is inevitable that graphene will be released into the environment
Yauheni Paulechka, Vladimir Diky, Andrei F. Kazakov, Kenneth G. Kroenlein, Michael D. Frenkel
COSMO-SAC model was re-parameterized using the critically evaluated data generated by the NIST ThermoData Engine for vapor-liquid equilibria, excess enthalpies
Kevin M. Kiesler, Katherine Gettings, Peter Vallone
The advent and adoption of next generation sequencing (NGS) is enabling analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) at an unprecedented scale, limited
Marcus H. Mendenhall, Donald A. Windover, Albert Henins, James P. Cline
We present a simple way to collect data from an optical position or angle encoder with a readout which interpolates values between the optical features, and to
Jungseok Chae, Basudev Lahiri, John M. Kohoutek, Glenn Holland, Henri Lezec, Andrea Centrone
Plasmonic nanostructures presenting either structural asymmetry or metal-dielectric-metal (M-D-M) architecture are commonly used structures to increase the
Katherine Gettings, Rachel A. Aponte, Kevin M. Kiesler, Peter Vallone
Sequence data was analyzed from the flanking and repeat regions of 22 autosomal STR loci in 183 population samples. The flanking regions of the loci sequenced
Based on known definite integrals of Bessel functions of the first kind, we obtain exact solutions to unknown definite integrals using the method of integral
Rachel A. Aponte, Katherine Gettings, David L. Duewer, Michael D. Coble, Peter Vallone
The development of next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies creates the potential for changing the method by which the forensic science community genotypes