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Dale P. Bentz, Chiara F. Ferraris, Michael A. Galler, John Guynn, Andrew Hansen
The rheological properties of blended cement-based materials depend strongly on mixture proportions and the characteristics of the components, such as cement
A historical article about the origins and the development ofatomic clocks and oscillators (Part III of a IV-part series). It describes the first atomic clock
Lawrence T. Hudson, B.R. Maddox, H.S. Parks, B A. Remington, C. Chen, S Chen, S. T. Prisbrey, A. Comley, C A. Back, C. Szabo, John F. Seely, Uri Feldman, Stephen M. Seltzer, M. J. Haugh, Z. Ali
Line emission and broadband x-ray sources with x-ray energies above 10 keV have been investigated using a range of calibrated x-ray detectors for use as x-ray
Angelos Stavrou, Jeff Voas, Tom T. Karygiannis, Stephen Quirolgico
Recent advancements in hardware have increased the computing power, memory, storage, and wireless connectivity of handheld mobile devices. Smart-phone devices
In this Brief Report, we discuss the use of linked-cluster expansions in solving quantum models that break certain symmetries of the underlying lattice. We
Candace M. Pfefferkorn, Frank Heinrich, Alexander J. Sodt, Alexander S. Malstev, Richard W. Pastor, Jennifer C. Lee
The role of phospholipids in modulating α-synuclein (α-syn) conformation is of great interest because α-syn aggregation is linked to Parkinson¿s disease. Using
Amir Kajbafvala, William Nachtrab, Xifeng Lu, Frank Hunte, Xiaotao Liu, Najib Cheggour, Terence Wong, Justin Schwartz
High strength, high modulus dispersion strengthened (DS) silver-aluminum alloys are studied for sheathing Bi 2Sr 2CaCu 2O8 +x (Bi2212) round wire. Dispersion
Sung Kim, Christopher L. Holloway, James R. Baker-Jarvis, Edward Kuester, A D. Scher
In this paper, we present the extraction for effective material parameters for a metamaterial from TE or TM waveguide measurements with generalized sheet
Bret Windom, Marcia L. Huber, Thomas J. Bruno, A L. Lown, C T. Lira
The increasing cost of diesel fuel, potential for supply disruptions, and environmental concerns have resulted in a great deal of research to improve the
In this paper we look at three families of elliptic curves with rational 3-torsion over a finite field. These families include Hessian curves, twisted Hessian
Bruce Ravel, C Patridge, Luisa Whittaker-Brooks, S Banerjee
The substitutional doping of Mo within VO2 substantially alters the electronic and structural phase diagrams of the host lattice, most notably by bringing the
William B. Doriese, Bradley K. Alpert, Joseph W. Fowler, Gene C. Hilton, Alex S. Hojem, Kent D. Irwin, Carl D. Reintsema, Daniel R. Schmidt, Greg Stiehl, Daniel S. Swetz, Joel N. Ullom, Leila R. Vale
In the detector-bias circuit of a transition-edge-sensor (TES) microcalorimeter, the TES-shunt resistor (Rsh) and the thermal conductance to the cryogenic bath
Vladimir Diky, Robert D. Chirico, Chris D. Muzny, Andrei F. Kazakov, Kenneth G. Kroenlein, Joe W. Magee, Ilmutdin M. Abdulagatov, Jeongwon J. Kang, 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 paper
Justin M. Shaw, Stefan Mathias, Chan La-O-Vorakiat, Hans T. Nembach, Thomas J. Silva, Mark Siemens, Henry Kapteyn, Margaret Murnane
The underlying physics of all ferromagnetic behavior is the cooperative interaction between individual atomic magnetic moments that results in a macroscopic
This review is focused on potential synergy between supercritical (SC) fluid properties and processing/combustion of biodiesel fuels. These fuels are the
Samuel M. Stavis, Jon C. Geist, Michael Gaitan, Laurie E. Locascio, Elizabeth A. Strychalski
A complex entropy gradient for confined DNA molecules was engineered for the first time. Following the second law of thermodynamics, this enabled the directed
Bottom-up copper filling of annular through-silicon-vias (TSV) is demonstrated using a CuSO_(4)-H_(2)SO-(4) electroplating bath containing chloride and a
Hyuk-Jae Jang, Oleg A. Kirillov, Oana Jurchescu, Curt A. Richter
We report on electron spin transport through electrochemically precipitated copper filaments formed in TaOX memristive devices consisting of Co(60nm)/TaOX(16nm)
Xin Li, Bin Wu, Yun Liu, Roger Pynn, Chwen-Yang Shew, Gregory S. Smith, Kenneth W. Herwig, J. Lee Robertson, Wei-Ren Chen, Li Liu
The use of contrast variation in spin-echo small angle neutron scattering (SESANS) experiments is discussed for the case of colloidal structural investigation
Peter Falus, Lionel Porcar, Emiliano Fratini, Wei-Ren Chen, Antonio Faraone, Kunlun Hong, Piero Baglioni, Yun Liu
Recently experiments that combine both small angle neutron scattering (SANS) and Neutron Spin Echo (NSE) have demonstrated that dynamic clusters can form in
Aspirin, also known as acetylsalicylic acid (ASA), is not only a wonderful drug, but also a good glass-former. Therefore,it serves as an important molecular
The influence of a new comb-shaped polycarboxylate-based superplasticizer (CSSP) on the hydration kinetics and transport properties of aged cement pastes has
Ming Zheng, Xiaomin X. Tu, Hagen Telg, Stephen K. Doorn, Juan Duque
Raman spectroscopy on the radial breathing mode is a common tool to determine the diameter d or chiral indices (n;m) of single walled carbon nanotubes. In this
Peter J. Lowell, Galen C. O'Neil, Jason M. Underwood, Joel N. Ullom
Normal metal - Insulator - Superconductor (NIS) tunnel junctions can be used to selectively remove the hottest elec- trons in the normal metal, thereby causing
Ritz wavelengths of 27 spectral lines of Fe II of have been derived from Fourier transform spectra. The lines selected are observable in absorption spectra from