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Michael D. Coble, Carolyn R. Steffen, John M. Butler
The PowerPlex Y23 kit contains 23 Y-chromosomal loci including all 17 of the markers in the Yfiler Y-STR kit plus six additional markers: DYS481, DYS533, DYS549...
Joshua A. Hadler, Edna L. Tobares, Marla L. Dowell
In random testing of 122 commercial laser pointers, we observed that 89.7 % of green pointers and 44.4 % of red pointers were not in compliance with the Code of...
There is a lack of understanding of how structural systems perform under realistic, uncontrolled fires. Fire protection of steel structures is usually provided...
A new method for obtaining Kikuchi diffraction patterns from thin specimens in transmission has been developed for use in the SEM, scanning electron microscope...
An analytical model is formulated for the irradiance on a surface (collector) with a rear (opposite the sun) planar vertical diffuse reflector, as is common for...
James E. Norris, Steven J. Choquette, Franklin R. Guenther, Joele Viallon, Philippe Moussay, Robert Wielgosz
Ambient ozone measurements in the U.S. and many other countries are traceable to a National Institute of Standards and Technology Standard Reference Photometer...
Xueyu Pang, Dale P. Bentz, Christian Meyer, Gary Funkhouser, Robert Darbe
Two different methods of evaluating cement hydration kinetics, namely chemical shrinkage and isothermal calorimetry tests, are used to investigate the early...
A K. Giri, Brigitte A. Paterson, Michael V. McLeod, Cindi L. Dennis, B S. Majumdar, Kyu C. Cho, Robert D. Shull
Prior to the development of commercial applications of magnetic refrigerator technology, a large magnetocaloric effect (MCE) in polycrystalline materials must...
Richard E. Cavicchi, Douglas C. Meier, Cary Presser, Suvajyoti S. Guha
Samples of suspended gold nanoparticles in the diameter range 10 nm to 100 nm were subjected to a single 7 ns pulse from a 532 nm laser to determine the effects...
Robert F. Cook, Sang-Min Lee, De-Hao D. Tsai, Vincent A. Hackley, Martin W. Brechbiel
We demonstrate a prototype approach to formulate gold nanoparticle (AuNP)based Xray absorbing adjuvant agents through surfaceengineering of cisplatin...
We generalize generating functions for hypergeometric orthogonal polynomials, namely Jacobi, Gegenbauer, Laguerre, and Wilson polynomials. These generalizations...
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were used to refine and extend a theoretical model that describes the interactions of single polyethylene glycol molecules...
Mohammad Olfatnia, Siddharth Sood, Jason J. Gorman, Shorya Awtar
This paper reports in-plane electrostatic combdrive actuators with stroke as large as 245 μm that is achieved by employing a novel Clamped Paired Double...
Hao Zhu, Curt A. Richter, Erhai Zhao, John E. Bonevich, William A. Kimes, Hyuk-Jae Jang, Hui Yuan, Abbas Arab, Oleg A. Kirillov, James E. Maslar, D. E. Ioannou, Qiliang Li
Topological insulators are unique electronic materials with insulating interiors but robust metallic surfaces. Device applications exploiting their remarkable...
M. Trassin, J. D. Clarkson, Samuel R. Bowden, j. Liu, J. T. Heron, R. J. Paull, Elke Arenholz, Daniel T. Pierce, John Unguris
We report local probe investigations of the magnetic interaction between BiFeO3 films and a ferromagnetic Co0.9Fe0.1 layer. Within the constraints of intralayer...
Qiang NMN Ye, Thomas R. Gentile, Jeffrey R. Anderson, Collin L. Broholm, WangChun Chen, Z DeLand, Ross W. Erwin, C. B. Fu, John E. Fuller III, Aaron V. Kirchhoff, J. A. Rodriguez-Rivera, V. Thampy, T G. Walker, Shannon Watson
We report substantial improvements in a compact wide angle neutron spin filter system that was recently employed on the Multi-Axis Crystal Spectrometer at the...
Gar W. Truong, Kevin O. Douglass, Stephen E. Maxwell, Roger D. van Zee, David F. Plusquellic, Joseph T. Hodges, David A. Long
Challenging applications in trace gas analyses require high precision and acquisition rates.1-4 Many continuous-wave laser spectroscopy techniques exhibit...
Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, William C. Swann, Laura C. Sinclair, Esther Baumann, Ian R. Coddington, Nathan R. Newbury
The transfer of high-quality time-frequency signals between remote locations underpins many applications, including precision navigation and timing, clock-based...
Ulrich J. Warring, C. Ospelkaus, Yves Colombe, Robert Jordens, Dietrich G. Leibfried, David J. Wineland
Individual-qubit addressing is a prerequisite for many instances of quantum information processing. We present this capability on trapped ions with microwave...
We use the path-integral Monte Carlo technique and a recent high-accuracy six-dimensional potential to compute the cross second virial coefficients for all...
Superconformal Au deposition is demonstrated in a Na_(3)Au(SO_(3))_(2 -) Na_(2)SO-(3) based electrolyte using underpotential deposited (upd) Pb to catalyze the...
Michele M. Schantz, Katherine E. Sharpless, Stephen A. Wise, Rebecca Heltsley, Jennifer Keller, John Kucklick, Stacy VanderPol, Stefan D. Leigh, Donald G. Patterson, Jr., Andreas Sjodon, Wayman E. Turner
Four new Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) have been developed to assist in the quality assurance required for human biomonitoring studies. These materials...
Reactor antineutrinos are used to study neutrino oscillation, search for signatures of non-standard neutrino interactions, and to monitor reactor operation for...
Dale P. Bentz, Edward J. Garboczi, Yang Lu, Nicos Martys, Aaron R. Sakulich, William J. Weiss
Concrete service life models have proliferated in recent years due to increased interest in designing infrastructure elements with at least a 75-year service...
Inductance is one of the fundamental defined parameters in electromagnetics and it takes on a variety of formulations and definitions in the electromagnetic...
We present an overview of the recent advances in collisional-radiative modeling of highly-charged ions of tungsten that are relevant to fusion research. The...
Elizabeth A. Goldschmidt, Sergey V. Polyakov, Alan L. Migdall, Sarah E. Beavan, Matthew J. Sellars
We demonstrate coherent generation, storage, and retrieval of excitations on a long-lived spin transition via spontaneous Raman scattering in a rare-earth ion...
Antony K. Chen, Frank W. DelRio, Alexander Peterson, Koo-Hyun Chung, Kiran Bhadriraju, Anne Plant
The extracellular matrix (ECM) consists of a complex mixture of biochemical and physical stimuli that together regulate cell behavior. Previously we showed that...
Chiara F. Ferraris, Paul E. Stutzman, Zhuguo Li, Min-Hong Zhang
Rheometers are usually calibrated using a standard reference oil. On the other hand the calibration of rheometer for paste or concrete cannot be calibrated...
Mark B. Campanelli, Raghu N. Kacker, RUEDIGER KESSEL
A novel variance-based measure for global sensitivity analysis, termed a total sensitivity gradient~(TSG), is presented for constructing uncertainty budgets...