Journals

SEISMIC ENERGY ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURES WITH NONLINEAR FLUID VISCOUS DAMPERS ALGORITHM AND NUMERICAL VERIFICATION

June 1, 2011

Author(s)

Kevin K. Wong

To protect structures from suffering significant damage during a major earthquake, fluid viscous dampers (FVDs) have been used in both newly constructed and

Development of Domain-Specific Scenarios for Training and Evaluation of Two-Way, Free Form, Spoken Language Translation Devices

June 1, 2011

Author(s)

Brian A. Weiss, Marnie Menzel

To create effective and accurate two-way, free form, spoken language translation devices, the technologies must have appropriate training data. The goal of the

Relationship between machinability index and in-process parameters during orthogonal cutting of steels

June 1, 2011

Author(s)

Eric P. Whitenton, Iban Arriola, Jarred Heigel, Pedro Arrazola

Temperature and plastic strain maps were obtained during orthogonal cutting of two AISI 4140 steels with different machinability indexes using a high-speed dual

Electromechanical Characterization of Bi-2212 Strands

June 1, 2011

Author(s)

Xifeng Lu

The uniaxial strain dependence of the critical current was measured both in tension and compression in Bi-2212 high-temperature superconducting round wires. We

Certification of Standard Reference Material 660b

June 1, 2011

Author(s)

David R. Black, Donald A. Windover, Albert Henins, James J. Filliben, James P. Cline

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) certifies a suite of Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) to address specific aspects of instrument

Metrology Needs and NIST Resources for the Forensic DNA Community

June 1, 2011

Author(s)

Michael D. Coble, Margaret C. Kline, John M. Butler

With the advent of Forensic DNA profiling in the mid-1980s, this technology has had a positive impact on the criminal justice system, helping to convict the

A Model for NBTI in Nitrided Oxide MOSFETs Which Does Not Involve Hydrogen or Diffusion

June 1, 2011

Author(s)

Patrick M. Lenahan, Jason Campbell, A.T. Krishnan, S. Krishnan

The negative bias temperature instability (NBTI) is, arguably, the single most important reliability problem in present day metal oxide silicon field effect

Electromagnetic Energy Density in Dispersive and Dissipative Media

June 1, 2011

Author(s)

Frederico D. Nunes, Thiago Vasconcelos, Marcel Bezerra, John Weiner

The description of the energy density associated with an electromagnetic field propagating through matter must treat two different phenomena: dispersion, the

Direct observation of phase transformation anisotropy in indented silicon using confocal Raman microscopy

May 31, 2011

Author(s)

Yvonne B. Gerbig, Stephan J. Stranick, Robert F. Cook

The theoretically-predicted anisotropic nature of the indentation phase transformation in silicon (Si) is observed directly in experiments using hyperspectral

HfFeGa₂ and HfMnGa₂: Transition-Metal-Based Itinerant Ferromagnets with Low Curie Temperatures

May 31, 2011

Author(s)

C. Marques, Y. Janssen, M.S. Kim, L. Wu, Song Xue Chi, Jeffrey W. Lynn, M.C. Aronson

Nanoscale-hydride formation at dislocations in palladium: Ab initio theory and inelastic neutron scattering measurements

May 31, 2011

Author(s)

Dallas R. Trinkle, Hyunsu Ju, Brent J. Heuser, Terrence J. Udovic

Hydrogen arranges at dislocations in palladium to form nanoscale hydrides, changing the vibrational spectra. An ab initio hydrogen potential energy model versus

Examining Capillary Depercolation in Cement-Based Materials: Measurement Techniques and Parameters which Influence their Interpretation

May 31, 2011

Author(s)

G Sant, Dale P. Bentz, Jason Weiss

The connectivity of the porosity in cement-based materials has an impact on material durability, the interpretation of experimental measurements such as

An Integrated Electrochromic Nanoplasmonic Optical Switch

May 25, 2011

Author(s)

Amit K. Agrawal, Benjamin James McMorran, Ceren Susut, Henri J. Lezec, Gery R. Stafford, Ugo Bertocci, Albert A. Talin

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Fluid interactions with metafilm/metasurfaces for tuning, sensing, and microwave assisted chemical processes

May 25, 2011

Author(s)

Joshua A. Gordon, Christopher L. Holloway, James C. Booth, James R. Baker-Jarvis, David R. Novotny, Sung Kim, Yu Y. Wang

In this paper we demonstrate tunability of a metafilm, which is the two-dimensional equivalent of a metamaterial, also referred to as a metasurface, by changing

Anemia, Hypothyroidism and Immune Suppression Associated with Polychlorinated Biphenyl Exposure in Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)

May 25, 2011

Author(s)

John Kucklick, Lori Schwacke, Eric Zolman, Brian C. Balmer, Sylvain De Guise, Clay George, Jennifer Hoguet, Steve Lamb, Milton Levin, J. L. Litz, W E. McFee, Ned Place, Forrest Townsend, Teresa Rowles, Randall Wells, Aleta Hohn

Background: Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and other legacy organohalogens are often monitored in marine mammals both to understand health risks for

Inelastic Neutron Scattering Study of Hydrogenated (Zr₅₅Cu₃₀Ni₅Al₁₀)_d99Y₁ Bulk Metallic Glass

May 25, 2011

Author(s)

Andrew Chih-Pin Chuang, Yun Liu, Terrence J. Udovic, Peter K. Liaw, Ge-Ping Yu, Jia-Hong Huang

Newkome-type dendron stabilized gold nanoparticles: Synthesis, reactivity, and stability

May 24, 2011

Author(s)

Tae Joon Cho, Rebecca A. Zangmeister, Robert I. MacCuspie, Anil K. Patri, Vincent A. Hackley

On Parameter Differentiation for Integral Representations of Associated Legendre Functions

May 24, 2011

Author(s)

Howard S. Cohl

For integral representations of associated Legendre functions in terms of modified Bessel functions, we establish justification for differentiation under the

Redox-Promoting Protein Motions in Rubredoxin

May 24, 2011

Author(s)

Jose M. Borreguero, Junhong He, F. Meilleur, Kevin Weiss, Craig Brown, D. A. A. Myles, Kenneth W. Herwig, Pratul K. Agarwal

Abstract Proteins are dynamic objects, constantly undergoing conformational fluctuations, yet the linkage between internal protein motion and function is widely

Observation of Collective Atomic Recoil Motion in a Degenerate Fermion Gas

May 23, 2011

Author(s)

Lu Deng, Edward W. Hagley

We demonstrate collective atomic recoil motion with a dilute, ultracold, degenerate fermion gas in a single spin state. By utilizing an adiabatically

Structural Changes in Block Copolymer Micelles Induced by Cosolvent Mixtures

May 23, 2011

Author(s)

Elizabeth G. Kelley, Thomas P. Smart, Andrew Jackson, Millicent O. Sullivan, Thomas H. Epps

The addition of tetrahydrofuran (THF) to aqueous solutions of poly(1,2-butadiene-b-ethylene oxide) [PBPEO] micelles decreased the core-corona interfacial

Subnanosecond Electro-optic Modulation of Triggered Single Photons from a Quantum Dot

May 23, 2011

Author(s)

Matthew T. Rakher, Kartik Srinivasan

Control of single photon wave-packets is an important resource for developing hybrid quantum systems which are composed of different physical systems

Temporal Correlation of Photons Following Frequency Up-conversion

May 23, 2011

Author(s)

Lijun Ma, Matthew T. Rakher, Martin Stevens, Oliver T. Slattery, Kartik Srinivasan, Xiao Tang

We demonstrate an approach to measure temporal correlations of photons in the near infrared range using frequency up-conversion. In this approach, the near

Effect of Initial Scarification and Overlay Treatment Timing on Chloride Concentrations in Concrete Bridge Decks

May 23, 2011

Author(s)

W. S. Guthrie, Curtis Nolan, Dale P. Bentz

Scarification and overlay (SO) procedures are often performed on concrete bridge decks to minimize the corrosion of reinforcing steel due to chloride ingress

Recent progress in spectroscopy of tungsten

May 20, 2011

Author(s)

Alexander Kramida

This contribution reviews experimental and theoretical work on spectroscopy of tungsten published since the last critical compilation of the energy levels and

Progress toward redetermining the Boltzmann constant with a fixed-path-length cylindrical resonator

May 20, 2011

Author(s)

Jin-Tao Zhang, H. Lin, X.J. Feng, J.P. Sun, Keith A. Gillis, Michael R. Moldover, Y.Y. Duan

We used a single, fixed-path-length cylindrical-cavity resonator to measure c 0 = (307.8252 ± 0.0012) m&#8226s −1, the zero-density limit of the speed of sound

Ontological Behavior Modeling

May 20, 2011

Author(s)

Conrad E. Bock, James Odell

This article gives an example of improving the effectiveness of behavior modeling languages using ontological techniques. The techniques are applied to

The Infrared Spectra of BF3+ and BF2OH+ Trapped in Solid Neon

May 20, 2011

Author(s)

Marilyn E. Jacox, Warren E. Thompson

Observations on a Ne:BF3 = 400:1 mixture into which a trace of normal or isotopically enriched water had been introduced, codeposited at 4.3 K with a beam of

Development of Standard Reference Materials for the Analysis of Dietary Supplements: The Story Continues

May 19, 2011

Author(s)

Katherine E. Sharpless, Lane C. Sander, Stephen A. Wise, A. NguyenPho, J. M. Betz

In 2004, we published an article in HerbalGram that described a collaboration among the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the National

Inter-ion Coulomb interactions in a Magneto-Optical Trap Ion Source

May 19, 2011

Author(s)

Jabez J. McClelland, Brenton J. Knuffman, Adam V. Steele

We have investigated the role played by inter-ion Coulomb interactions in a magneto-optical trap ion source (MOTIS). Using a Monte Carlo simulation accounting