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Bound-state field theory approach to proton structure effects in muonic hydrogen

May 17, 2013

Author(s)

Peter J. Mohr, J Griffith, J. Sapirstein

A bound-state field theory approach to muonic hydrogen is set up using a variant of the Furry representation in which the lowest-order Hamiltonian describes a...

Contemporary Fraction of bis(2-ethylhexyl) Phthalate in Stilton Cheese by Accelerator Mass Spectrometry

May 17, 2013

Author(s)

Michael A. Nelson, John M. Ondov, Michael C. VanDerveer, Bruce A. Buchholz

Measurements of the 14C abundance in five samples of bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) isolated from Stilton cheese were made by Accelerator Mass Spectrometry...

Proposed NIST Ballistics Identification System (NBIS) Based on 3D Topography Measurements on Correlation Cells

May 17, 2013

Author(s)

Jun-Feng Song

The invented "NIST Ballistics Identification System (NBIS)" using three-dimensional (3D) topography measurements on correlation cells can promote high accuracy...

An Analysis of OWL-based Semantic Mediation Approaches to Enhance Manufacturing Service Capability Models

May 16, 2013

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Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Nenad Ivezic, Jun H. Shin, Yunsu Lee

Manufacturers require timely and precise information about available manufacturing services to assemble optimal supply chains. Currently, multiple communities...

An Optimization Approach for Semantic-based XML Schema Matching

May 16, 2013

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Jaewook Kim, Yun Peng, Nenad Ivezic, Jun H. Shin

We propose a novel solution for semantic-based XML schema matching, taking a mathematical programming approach. This method identifies the globally optimal...

On Enhancing Communication of Manufacturing Service Capability Information

May 16, 2013

Author(s)

Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Nenad Ivezic, Yunsu Lee

A manufacturing service model contains both schema and schema-compliant descriptions of suppliers service information, such as locations, areas of...

High-resolution infrared and electron-diffraction studies of trimethylenecyclopropane ([3]-radialene)

May 16, 2013

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Corey Wright, Joshua Holmes, Joseph W. Nibler, Kenneth Hedberg, James D. White, Lise Hedberg, Alfons Weber, Thomas A. Blake

Combined high-resolution spectroscopic, electron-diffraction, and quantum theoretical methods are particularly advantageous for small molecules of high symmetry...

The magnetic structure of bixbyite a-Mn2O3: a combined density functional theory DFT+U and neutron diffraction study

May 15, 2013

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Eric Cockayne, Igor Levin, Hui Wu, Anna Liobet

First principles density functional theory DFT+U calculations and experimental neutron diffraction structure refinements were used to determine the low...

Development of Botanical and Marine Oil Standard Reference Materials for Fatty Acids

May 15, 2013

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Michele M. Schantz, Lane C. Sander, Katherine E. Sharpless, Stephen A. Wise, James H. Yen, A. NguyenPho, Joseph M. Betz

As part of a collaboration with the National Institutes of Healths Office of Dietary Supplements and the Food and Drug Administrations Center for Drug...

Boltzmann's H-Function and Diffusion Processes

May 15, 2013

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Steven P. Lund, Joseph B. Hubbard, Michael W. Halter

There exists a generalization of Boltzmann's $H$-function that allows for non-uniformly populated stationary states which may exist far from thermodynamic...

Operation of gamma-ray microcalorimeters at elevated count rates using filters with constraints

May 15, 2013

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Bradley K. Alpert, Robert D. Horansky, Douglas A. Bennett, William B. Doriese, Joseph W. Fowler, Andrew Hoover, Michael W. Rabin, Joel N. Ullom

We introduce a filter construction method for pulse processing that differs in two respects from that in standard optimal filtering, in which the average pulse...

Direct Experimental Study of the Effect of Dislocations on the Magnetization Reversal in a Quasi-Two- Dimensional Ferromagnet with Unidirectional Anisotropy

May 15, 2013

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V S. Gornakov, Valerian I. Nikitenko, I. V. Shashkov, M. A. Lebyodkin, Robert D. Shull

The effect of dislocations on the elementary acts of the magnetization reversal in the epitaxial heterostructure NiFe/NiO/MgO(001) has been studied using the...

Photonic microwave generation with high-power photodiodes

May 14, 2013

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Tara M. Fortier, Franklyn J. Quinlan, Archita Hati, Craig W. Nelson, Jennifer A. Taylor, Yang Fu, Joe Campbell, Scott A. Diddams

We utilize and characterize high-power, high-linearity modified uni-traveling carrier (MUTC) photodiodes for low-phase-noise photonic microwave generation based...

Applications of Profile Filtering in the Dimensional Metrology of Fuel Cell Plates

May 14, 2013

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Balasubramanian Muralikrishnan, Wei Ren, Eric S. Stanfield, Dennis S. Everett, Xiaoyu A. Zheng, Theodore D. Doiron

We describe the application of several surface profile filters as an enabling tool in the dimensional measurements of an engineering artifact, namely, a fuel...

Highly efficient counter-propagation-beams narrow-band ultraviolet frequency conversion in a quantum gas

May 14, 2013

Author(s)

chengjie Zhu, Lu Deng, Edward W. Hagley

We show that highly efficient ultraviolet frequency up conversion can be established in a single- component quantum gas in the counter-propagating weak pump...

Workshop for Fire Structure Interaction and Urban and Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fires Operation Tomodachi Fire Research

May 13, 2013

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Samuel L. Manzello, Tokiyoshi Yamada, Ann Jeffers, Yoshifumi Ohmiya, Keisuke Himoto, A C. Fernandez-Pello

A workshop, known as Operation Tomodachi Fire Research was held in Tokyo, Japan from July 1 to July 4, 2012. Tomodachi means friendship in Japanese. This...

Size tolerancing revisited: A basic notion and its evolution in standards

May 13, 2013

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Vijay Srinivasan, Edward Morse

Size is a fundamental descriptor of objects - it allows us to quantify 'how big' objects are, and to compare and classify objects based on this notion. In the...

Microwave measurements for gas thermometry up to the copper point

May 13, 2013

Author(s)

XiaoJuan Feng, Keith A. Gillis, Michael R. Moldover, James B. Mehl

We measured 5 microwave resonance frequencies f N of an argon-filled cylindrical cavity at temperatures up to 1349 K. The repeatability of both the measured...

Testing the Reliability of Non-LTE Spectroscopic Models for Complex Ions

May 11, 2013

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Yuri Ralchenko, S Hansen, S. Bastiani-Ceccotti, C. Bowen, H.-K. Chung, J. Colgan, F. de Gaufridy de Dortan, C. J. Fontes, F. Gilleron, J.-C. Marques, R. Piron, O. Peyrusse, M. Poirier, A. Sasaki, E. Stambulchik, F. Thais

Collisional-radiative atomic models are widely used to help diagnose experimental plasma conditions through fitting and interpreting measured spectra. Here we...

Secure Sealed-Bid Online Auctions Using Discreet Cryptographic Proofs

May 10, 2013

Author(s)

Rene C. Peralta, Jose A. Montenegro, Javier Lopez

This work describes the design and implementation of an auction system using secure multiparty computation techniques. Our aim is to produce a system that is...

CMSD - A Manufacturing Simulation Integration Standard: Overview and Case Studies

May 10, 2013

Author(s)

Yung-Tsun T. Lee, Frank H. Riddick, Bjoern J. Johansson

Standard representations for information entities common to manufacturing simulation could help reduce the costs associated with simulation model construction...

A stiff variable time step transport solver for CONTAM

May 10, 2013

Author(s)

David M. Lorenzetti, William Stuart Dols, Andrew K. Persily, Michael D. Sohn

CONTAM, a multizone model for predicting whole-building airﬂow and contaminant transport, has been updated to improve the speed and accuracy of its transport...

Controlling the group velocity of colliding atomic Bose-Einstein condensates with Feshbach resonances

May 10, 2013

Author(s)

Ranchu Mathew, Eite Tiesinga

We report on a proposal to change the group velocity upon colliding two atomic Bose-Einstein Condensates (BECs) in analogy to slowing of light passing through...

Categorization of Indicators for Sustainable Manufacturing

May 9, 2013

Author(s)

Shaw C. Feng, Che B. Joung, Prabir Sarkar, John Carrell

Manufacturers around the globe have become aware of the importance of sustainable manufacturing. They are increasing their efforts to become more sustainable by...

Differential cavity ring-down spectroscopy

May 9, 2013

Author(s)

Jeremie B. Courtois, Katarzyna E. Bielska, Joseph T. Hodges

We present a technique called differential cavity ring-down spectroscopy (D-CRDS) for reducing etaloning effects in a ring-down spectrometer. The method relies...

The Computational Materials Science of Concrete: Past-Present-Future

May 8, 2013

Author(s)

Edward Garboczi

From its small beginnings back in the 1960s, computational materials science has come a long way. The field is currently getting even more exciting with ideas...

UV/Ozone treatment to reduce metal-graphene contact resistance

May 8, 2013

Author(s)

Wei Li, Kurt Pernstich, Angela R. Hight Walker, Tian T. Shen, Guangjun Cheng, Christina A. Hacker, Curt A. Richter, Qiliang Li, David J. Gundlach, Xuelei Liang, Lianmao Peng, Yiran Liang

Three-body nonadditive potential for argon with estimated uncertainties and third virial coefficient

May 8, 2013

Author(s)

Allan H. Harvey, Mark O. McLinden, Wojciech Cencek, Krzysztof Szalewicz, Giovanni Garberoglio

The three-body nonadditive interaction energy between argon atoms was calculated at 300 geometries using coupled cluster methods up to single, double, triple...

Structure and Stability of SnO2 Nanocrystals and Surface-Bound Water Species

May 8, 2013

Author(s)

Rick L. Paul, Hsiu-Wen Wang, David J. Wesolowski, Thomas E. Proffen, Lucus Vicek, Wei Wang, Lawrence F. Allard, Alexander I. Kolesnikov, Mikhail Feygenson, Lawrence M. Anovitz

The structure of SnO2 nanoparticles (avg. 5 nm diameter) with a few layers of water on the surface has been elucidated by atomic pair distribution function (PDF...

Quantitative Analysis of Dendron-Conjugated Cisplatin-Complexed Gold Nanoparticles Using Scanning Particle Mobility Mass Spectrometry

May 8, 2013

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De-Hao D. Tsai, Tae Joon Cho, Sherrie R. Elzey, Julien C. Gigault, Vincent A. Hackley

We report a high-resolution and traceable method to quantify the drug loading on nanoparticle-based cancer therapeutics, and demonstrate this method using a...

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