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Fully Quantum Cross Second Virial Coefficients for the Three-Dimensional He-H2 Pair

September 21, 2014

Author(s)

Giovanni Garberoglio, Konrad Patkowski, Allan H. Harvey

We use a recent high-accuracy three-dimensional potential to compute the cross second virial coefficient B12(T) between helium and molecular hydrogen. The path...

Influence of glycosidic linkage on the solution conformational entropy of gluco- and mannobioses

September 19, 2014

Author(s)

Andre M. Striegel, Mallory J. Morris

Employing size-exclusion chromatography, an entropically-controlled separation technique, we have determined the solution conformational entropy (-delta S) of...

Charge Offset Stability in Si Single Electron Devices with Al Gates

September 19, 2014

Author(s)

Neil M. Zimmerman, Henry Yang, Nai Shyan Lai, Wee Han Lim, Andrew S. Dzurak

We report on the charge offset drift (time stability) in Si quantum dots defined with Al gates. The size of the charge offset drift (0.1 e) is intermediate...

Assessing the Verification and Validation of Building Fire Evacuation Models

September 19, 2014

Author(s)

Enrico Ronchi, Erica D. Kuligowski, Daniel Nilsson, Richard Peacock, Paul A. Reneke

To date there is no International standard on the verification and validation (V&V) of building fire evacuation models, i.e., model testers adopt inconsistent...

Creation of Libraries of Recurring Mass Spectra from Large Data Sets assisted by a Dual-Column Workflow

September 18, 2014

Author(s)

William G. Mallard, Stephen E. Stein, Halket M. John, Yuri A. Mirokhin, Nirina Rabe Andriamaharavo

An analytical methodology has been developed for extracting recurrent unidentified spectra (RUS) from large GC/MS data sets. Spectra were first extracted from...

Identification of phase boundaries in surfactant solutions via Compton spectrum quenching,Identification of phase boundaries in surfactant solutions via Compton spectrum quenching

September 18, 2014

Author(s)

Denis E. Bergeron

The critical micelle concentration and the phase boundary between isolated surfactant molecules and aggregates are probed via fluorescence spectroscopy and a...

1 V Josephson arbitrary waveform synthesizer

September 17, 2014

Author(s)

Samuel P. Benz, Steven B. Waltman, Anna E. Fox, Paul D. Dresselhaus, Alain Rufenacht, Jason M. Underwood, Charles J. Burroughs

A quantum-accurate waveform with a root-mean-square (RMS) output amplitude of 1 V has been synthesized for the first time. This four-fold increase in voltage...

Weak Localization, Spin Relaxation, and Spin-Diffusion: Crossover Between Weak and Strong Rashba Coupling Limits

September 17, 2014

Author(s)

Yasufumi Araki, Guru S. Khalsa, Allan H. MacDonald

Disorder scattering and spin-orbit coupling are together responsible for the diffusion and relaxation of spin-density in time-reversal invariant systems. We...

Visualizing Mass Transport in Desorption Electrospray Ionization using Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry, an In-Depth Study

September 16, 2014

Author(s)

Shinichiro Muramoto

Time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) was used to visualize the transport of analyte desorbed by a desorption electrospray ionization (DESI)...

The IEEE VSSC/1622: Voting System Standards

September 15, 2014

Author(s)

John P. Wack

This article presents an overview of the IEEE VSSC/1622 and its working groups. It contains information as to why a common data format for voting systems is...

Quantum correlations in a noisy neutron interferometer

September 15, 2014

Author(s)

Michael G. Huber, Muhammad D. Arif, Christopher Wood, D G. Cory, M. O. Abutaleb, Dimitry A. Pushin

We investigate quantum coherences in the presence of noise by entangling the spin and path degrees of freedom of the output neutron beam from a noisy three...

Loss of H2 and CO from Protonated Aldehydes in Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry

September 15, 2014

Author(s)

Pedatsur Neta, Yamil Simon, Yuxue Liang, Stephen Stein

Electrospray ionization mass spectrometry of 3-formylchromones and 3-formylcoumarins shows that collision-induced dissociation of the protonated ions results in...

An Average Enumeration Method of Hyperspectral Imaging Data for Quantitative Evaluation of Medical Device Surface Contamination

September 15, 2014

Author(s)

Hanh Le, Moon Kim, Jeeseong C. Hwang, Yi Yang, Pawneena U-Thainual, Jin Kang, Do-Hyun Kim

We propose a quantification method called Mapped Average Principal component analysis Score (MAPS) to enumerate the contamination coverage on common medical...

Simulation of the Hydration Kinetics and Elastic Moduli of Cement Mortars by Microstructural Modeling

September 15, 2014

Author(s)

Luca Valentini, Matteo Parisatto, Vincenzo Russo, Giorgio Ferrari, Jeffrey W. Bullard, Ross J. Angel, Maria C. Dalconi, Gilberto Artioli

The ability of the VCCTL microstructural model to predict the hydration kinetics and elastic moduli of cement materials was tested by coupling a series of...

A perspective on the origin of lubricity in petroleum distillate motor fuels

September 15, 2014

Author(s)

Peter Y. Hsieh, Thomas J. Bruno

Lubricity, or a substance's effect on friction and wear between two surfaces in relative motion, is affected by both chemical and physical mechanisms present at...

On-the-fly machine-learning for high-throughput experiments: search for rare-earth-free permanent magnets

September 14, 2014

Author(s)

Aaron Kusne, Christian Long, Ichiro Takeuchi, Tieren Gao

Advanced materials characterization techniques with ever-growing data acquisition speed and storage capabilities represent a challenge in modern materials...

Bromination of marine particulate organic matter through oxidative mechanisms

September 14, 2014

Author(s)

Bruce D. Ravel, Alessandra C. Leri, Kathleen Thornton, Lawrence M. Mayer

Although bromine is considered conservative in seawater, it exhibits a well established correlation with organic carbon in marine sediments. This carbon-bromine...

Melt Crystallization/Dewetting of Ultrathin PEO Films via Carbon Dioxide Annealing: the Effects of Polymer Adsorbed Layers

September 14, 2014

Author(s)

Mitsunori Asada, Naisheng Jiang, Levent Sendogdular, Jonathan Sokolov, Maya K. Endoh, Tadanori Koga, Masafumi Fukuto, Lin Yang, Bulent Akgun, Michael Dimitriou, Sushil K. Satija

Mutual Cross Modulation of Two Laser Beams at the Individual-Photon Level

September 12, 2014

Author(s)

Michael Gullans, Kristin M. Beck, Qian Lin, M D. Lukin, Vladan Vuletic, Wenlan Chen

The realization of deterministic photon-photon interactions is a long-standing goal in optical science. Using an atomic ensemble inside a cavity, we demonstrate...

A mini-review: Cell response to microscale, nanoscale, and hierarchical patterning of surface structure

September 12, 2014

Author(s)

Carl G. Simon Jr., Geunhyung Kim, HoJun Jeon

Cellular behavior can be influenced by the chemical and physical surface characteristics of biomedical substrates. To understand the relationships between...

Recommended isolated-line profile for representing high-resolution spectroscopic transitions

September 11, 2014

Author(s)

Joseph T. Hodges, Jonathan Tennyson, P F. Bernath, Alain Campargue, A Csaszar, L Daumont, R R. Gamache, D Lisak, Olga Naumenko, Lawrence Rothman, Ha Tran, N Zobov, Boone Chris, L Gianfrani, Jean M. Hartmann

Recommendations of an IUPAC Task Group formed in 2011 on Intensities and line shapes in high-resolution spectra of water isotopologues from Experiment and...

Degrees of Equivalence for Chemical Measurement Capabilities: Primary pH

September 10, 2014

Author(s)

David L. Duewer, Kenneth W. Pratt, Chainarong Cherdchu, Nongluck Tangpaisarnkul2 Nongluck Tangpaisarnkul2, Akiharu Hioki, Masaki Ohata, Petra Spitzer, Michal M?ri?ssy, Leo¿ Vysko¿il

The Key Comparison (KC) studies of the Consultative Committee for Amount of Substance Metrology in Chemistry (CCQM) help ensure the reliability of chemical...

Photon-number uncertainty in a superconducting transition-edge sensor beyond resolved-photon-number determination

September 10, 2014

Author(s)

Zachary H. Levine, Boris L. Glebov, Alan L. Migdall, Thomas Gerrits, Brice R. Calkins, Adriana E. Lita, Sae Woo Nam

As part of an effort to extend fundamental single-photon measurements into the macroscopic regime, we explore how best to assign photon-number uncertainties to...

Towards Robust Assembly with Knowledge Representation for the Planning Domain Definition Language (PDDL)

September 10, 2014

Author(s)

Zeid Kootbally, Craig I. Schlenoff, Christopher R. Lawler, Thomas R. Kramer, Satyandra K. Gupta

The effort described in this paper attempts to integrate agility aspects in the "Agility Performance of Robotic Systems" (APRS) project, developed at the...

Sub-wavelength interference of thermal light with photon-number resolving detection

September 10, 2014

Author(s)

Yanhua (. Zhai, Francisco E. Becerra Chavez, Jingyun Fan, Alan L. Migdall

We examine the spatial correlation of thermal-light diffracted through a double-slit using photon-number-resolved detection to directly measure high-order...

Sensitivity analysis for guarded-hot-plate apparatus: A methodology based on orthogonal experiment designs

September 9, 2014

Author(s)

Robert R. Zarr, James J. Filliben

Results and analyses of a sensitivity study of six control factors on the response of the National Institute of Standards and Technology 500 mm guarded-hot...

VALIDATION AND TRACEABILITY OF XRF AND SEM-EDS ELEMENTAL ANALYSIS RESULTS FOR SOLDER IN HIGH-RELIABILITY APPLICATIONS

September 9, 2014

Author(s)

John R. Sieber, Adam Mortensen

A procedure and calibration samples have been developed for X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (XRF) and scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive...

Determining sample alignment in X-ray Reflectometry using thickness and density from GaAs/AlAs multilayer certified reference materials

September 8, 2014

Author(s)

Donald Windover, David L. Gil, Yasushi Azuma, Toshiyuki Fujimoto

X-ray reflectometry (XRR) provides researchers and manufacturers with a non-destructive way to determine thickness, roughness, and density of thin films...

Fire Modeling for the Fire Research, Fire Protection, and Fire Service Communities

September 8, 2014

Author(s)

Kevin B. McGrattan, Randall J. McDermott, Glenn P. Forney, Kristopher J. Overholt, Craig G. Weinschenk, Jason E. Floyd

The Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) was first publicly released in 2000, and it has recently undergone its fifth major revision. Since its first release, FDS has...

Reflections on a Measurement of the Gravitational Constant Using a Beam Balance and 13 Tons of Mercury

September 8, 2014

Author(s)

Stephan Schlamminger, Ralph E. Pixley, Frithjof Nolting, Juergen Schurr, Ueli Straumann

In 2006, a final result of a measurement of the gravitational constant G performed by researchers at the University of Zuerich was published. A value of G=6.674...

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