Journals

Forensic Analysis Methodology for Thermal and Chemical Characterization of Homemade Explosives

November 24, 2013

Author(s)

Ashot Nazarian, Cary Presser

Forensic identification of homemade explosives is critical for determining the origin of the explosive materials and precursors, and formulation procedures...

Test Generation Using Model Checking and Specification Mutation

November 22, 2013

Author(s)

Paul E. Black

Although building quality into software is paramount, professionals find that testing is necessary to assure that the system will operate as desired. Developing...

A View on Energy Transfer Between Cold Atoms

November 22, 2013

Author(s)

Elizabeth A. Donley

This is an invited perspective article on a paper that will appear in the same issue. The perspective describes imaging energy transfer between cold Rydberg...

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Study of Atomic Motions in A₂B₁₂H₁₂ (A = Na, K, Rb, Cs): Anion Reorientations and Na^+} Mobility

November 22, 2013

Author(s)

Alexander V. Skripov, Olga A. Babanova, Alexei V. Soloninin, Vitalie Stavila, Kristina Verdal, Terrence J. Udovic, John J. Rush

To study the reorientational motion of icosahdral [B 12H 12] 2- anions and the translational diffusion of alkali-metal (A +) cations in A 2^B 12H 12 (A = Na, K...

Wavelength Dependent UV Inactivation and DNA Damage of Adenovirus 2 as Measured by Cell Culture Infectivity and Long Range Quantitative PCR

November 22, 2013

Author(s)

Sara E. Beck, Roberto A. Rodriguez, Karl G. Linden, Thomas M. Hargy, Thomas C. Larason, Harold B. Wright

Adenovirus is regarded as the most resistant pathogen to ultraviolet (UV) disinfection due to its demonstrated resistance to monochromatic, low-pressure (LP) UV...

Componentization in the Systems Modeling Language

November 20, 2013

Author(s)

Conrad E. Bock

This paper describes new capabilities in the Systems Modeling Language that reduce the complexity of specifying systems through componentization, and increase...

Assembly and evaluation of a pyroelectric detector bonded to vertically aligned multiwalled carbon nanotubes over thin silicon

November 20, 2013

Author(s)

John H. Lehman, Evangelos Theocharous, Savva Theocharous

A novel pyroelectric detector consisting of a vertically aligned nanotube array on thin silicon (VANTA/Si) bonded to a 60 μm thick crystal of LiTaO 3 has been...

Infrared Laboratory Oscillator Strengths of Fe I in the H-Band

November 19, 2013

Author(s)

Matthew Ruffoni, J C. Pickering, C. Allende Prieto, Gillian Nave

We report experimental oscillator strengths for 28 infrared Fe I transitions, for which no previous experimental values exist. These transitions were selected...

The limitations of an exclusively colloidal view of protein solution hydrodynamics and rheology

November 19, 2013

Author(s)

Prasad S. Sarangapani, Steven D. Hudson, Kalman D. Migler, Jai A. Pathak

Proteins are complex macromolecules with dynamic conformations and spatially heterogeneous charge distributions but also bear striking similarity to colloids...

Switching the Adhesive State of Catacholic Hydrogels using Phototitration

November 19, 2013

Author(s)

Evan M. White, Jonathan Seppala, Parker M. Rushworth, Suraj Sharma, Jason Locklin

A polyacrylamide hydrogel system that can be liquefied by remote activation using UV irradiation was investigated as a degradable adhesive. The linear...

Chirality from interfacial spin-orbit coupling effects in magnetic bilayers

November 19, 2013

Author(s)

Kyoung-Whan Kim, Hyun-Woo Lee, Kyung Jin Lee, Mark D. Stiles

Spin-orbit coupling causes many properties that make magnets technologically important as well as properties that interfere with optimal performance. As...

Identification and elimination of anomalous thermal decay in gamma-ray microcalorimeters

November 18, 2013

Author(s)

Robert D. Horansky, Douglas A. Bennett, Daniel R. Schmidt, Barry L. Zink, Joel N. Ullom

Microcalorimeter detectors rely on superconducting components and cryogenic temperatures to provide over an order-of-magnitude improvement in energy resolution...

Efficient quantification of experimental evidence against local realism

November 18, 2013

Author(s)

Yanbao Zhang, Scott C. Glancy, Emanuel H. Knill

To statistically quantify the evidence against local realism in an experiment, it is desirable to bound the probability according to local realism of a...

Isnt it time to get serious about standards?

November 18, 2013

Author(s)

Kristine A. Bertness

Current methods of composition measurement lack the ability to produce consistent results from laboratory to laboratory and across companies. NIST has developed...

ThermoData Engine (TDE): Software Implementation of the Dynamic Data Evaluation Concept. 9. Extensible Thermodynamic Constraints for Pure Compounds and New Model Developments

November 18, 2013

Author(s)

Vladimir Diky, Robert D. Chirico, Chris D. Muzny, Andrei F. Kazakov, Kenneth G. Kroenlein, Joe W. Magee, Ilmutdin M. Abdulagatov, Michael D. Frenkel

ThermoData Engine (TDE) is the ﬁrst full-scale software implementation of the dynamic data evaluation concept, as reported in this journal. The present article...

Quest for a Highly Connected Robust Porous Metal-Organic Framework on the Basis of a Bifunctional Linear Linker and a Rare Heptanuclear Zinc Cluster

November 18, 2013

Author(s)

Wen-Yang Gao, Rong Cai, Le Meng, Lukasz Wojtas, Wei Zhou, Taner N. Yildirim, Xiaodong Shi, Shengqian Ma

A strategy for achieving high-connected robust MOFs by linear ligands is exemplified by the construction of MTAF-4, a rare (6, 9)-connected 10 MOF based upon...

Polarization Enhanced Absorption Spectroscopy for Laser Stabilization"

November 15, 2013

Author(s)

Paul D. Kunz, Thomas P. Heavner, Steven R. Jefferts

We demonstrate a variation of pump-probe spectroscopy that is particularly useful for laser frequency stabilization. This polarization enhanced absorption...

Absolute line intensities for the nu3 band of oxirane (C2H4O)

November 15, 2013

Author(s)

Walter J. Lafferty, Jean-Marie Flaud, Fridolin Kwabia, A. Perrin, M. Ngom

Seven Fourier transform spectra of the ν3 band of oxirane (ethylene oxide) have been recorded with different pressures and used to derive individual line...

DETERMINATION OF TRACE LEVEL CADMIUM IN SRM 3280 MULTIVITAMIN/MULTIELEMENT TABLETS VIA ISOTOPE DILUTION INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY

November 15, 2013

Author(s)

Steven J. Christopher, R. Q. Thompson

Cadmium was quantified at 80.15 ng/g ± 0.86 ng/g in NIST SRM 3280 Multivitamin/Multielement Tablets, using double isotope dilution mass spectrometry. The method...

Irreversible thermodynamics of creep in crystalline solids

November 15, 2013

Author(s)

Yuri Mishin, James A. Warren, Robert F. Sekerka, William J. Boettinger

We develop an irreversible thermodynamics framework for the description of creep deformation in crystalline solids by mechanisms that involve vacancy diffusion...

Absolute line intensities for oxirane from 1420 to 1560 cm-1

November 15, 2013

Author(s)

F K. Tchana, M. Ngom, Agnes Perrin, Jean-Marie Flaud, Walter J. Lafferty, S. A. Ndiaye, El. A. Ngum

Absolute individual line intensities of numerous transitions of the fundamental ν2 and ν10 bands of oxirane (ethylene oxide, c-C2H4O) have been measured in the...

Determination of Trace Sulfur in Biodiesel and Diesel Standard Reference Materials by Isotope Dilution Sector Field Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry

November 14, 2013

Author(s)

Steven J. Christopher, Stephen E. Long, Renata Amais, Joaquim N¿ga

A method is described for quantification of sulfur at low concentrations on the order of 10 µg g-1 in biodiesel and diesel fuels using double isotope dilution...

ITRAP+10 Spectroscopic Radiation Portal Monitor Testing

November 14, 2013

Author(s)

Anne L. Sallaska, Leticia S. Pibida, Huaiyu H. Chen-Mayer, Luc Murphy, Christina Ward

The Illicit Trafficking Radiation Assessment Program (ITRAP+10) is an international effort of the Department of Homeland Securitys Domestic Nuclear Detection...

Introduction to Face Recognition and Evaluation of Algorithm Performance

November 14, 2013

Author(s)

P J. Phillips, J. R. Beveridge, Geof H. Givens, Bruce A. Draper, Yui M. Lui, David Bolme

The field of biometric face recognition blends methods from computer science, engineering and statistics, however statistical reasoning has been applied...

Results of aperture area comparisons for exo-atmospheric total solar irradiance measurements

November 13, 2013

Author(s)

Bettye C. Johnson, Maritoni A. Litorja, Joel B. Fowler, Eric L. Shirley, James J. Butler, Robert A. Barnes

Exo-atmospheric solar irradiance measurements made by the solar irradiance community since 1978 incorporate limiting apertures with diameters measured by a...

Atom probe tomography evaporation behavior of C-axis GaN nanowires: Crystallographic, stoichiometric, and detection efficiency aspects

November 13, 2013

Author(s)

Norman A. Sanford, David R. Diercks, Brian Gorman, R Kirchofer, Kristine A. Bertness, Matthew D. Brubaker

The field evaporation behavior of c-axis GaN nanowires was explored in two different laser-pulsed atom probe tomography (APT) instruments. Transmission electron...

Hyperfine structure of weakly bound levels in the lowest 1g state of molecular 87Rb2

November 13, 2013

Author(s)

Chin-Chun Tsai, T Bergeman, Eite Tiesinga, Paul S. Julienne, D J. Heinzen

Photoassociation resonances in the 87Rb2 1g state dissociating to 52S+52P1/2 were produced by the excitation of colliding 87Rb atoms in a far-off resonance...

Successive Frequency Domain Minimization for Time Delay Estimation

November 12, 2013

Author(s)

Ismet Sahin, Marwan A. Simaan, Anthony J. Kearsley

Estimating time delays for signal alignment is important for many applications. This paper extends a successful frequency domain cost function minimization...

Measuring the Half-Life of 111mPd

November 12, 2013

Author(s)

Richard M. Lindstrom, Dagistan NMN Sahin

An Understanding of High Entropy Alloy from Phase Diagram Calculation

November 12, 2013

Author(s)

Fan Zhang, Chuan Zhang, Shuang-Lin Chen, J Zhu, Wei-Sheng Cao, Ursula R. Kattner

The concept of High Entropy Alloy (HEA) is understood from the point of view of phase diagram calculation. The role of entropy of mixing on the phase stability...