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Journals

Report on Residential Fireground Field Experiments

November 7, 2011

Author(s)

Jason D. Averill, Lori Moore-Merrell, Adam M. Barowy, Robert Santos, Richard D. Peacock, Kathy Notarianni, Doug Wissoker

Service expectations placed on the fire service, including Emergency Medical Services (EMS), response to natural disasters, hazardous materials incidents, and...

Predicting the Optimal Dopant Concentration in Gadolinium Doped Ceria: A Kinetic Lattice Monte Carlo Approach

November 7, 2011

Author(s)

Pratik Dholabhai, Shahriar Anwar, James B. Adams, Peter A. Crozier, Renu Sharma

Gadolinium doped ceria (GDC) is a promising alternative electrolyte material for solid oxide fuel cells that offers the possibility of operation in the...

Electron Counting Capacitance Standard with an improved five-junction R-pump

November 7, 2011

Author(s)

Benedetta Camarota, Hansjoerg Scherer, Sergey Lotkhov, Gerd-Dietmar Willenberg, Franz Josef Ahlers, Mark W. Keller

The Electron Counting Capacitance Standard currently pursued at PTB, aims at the closure of the Quantum Metrological Triangle with a final precision of a few...

Viscoelastic Property Mapping with Contact Resonance Force Microscopy

November 4, 2011

Author(s)

Jason P. Killgore, Donna C. Hurley, Dalia Yablon, Joseph Turner, Philip Yuya, Roger Proksch, Anil Gannepalli, Andy Tsou

We demonstrate accurate nanoscale mapping of loss and storage modulus on a polystyrene-polypropylene blend with contact resonance force microscopy (CR-FM). The...

Mean Value Formulas for Twisted Edwards Curves

November 3, 2011

Author(s)

Dustin Moody

R. Feng and H.Wu recently established a certain mean-value formula for the coordinates of the n-division points on an elliptic curve given inWeierstrass form (A...

An Efficient Target Monitoring Scheme with Controlled Node Mobility for Sensor Networks

November 3, 2011

Author(s)

Vladimir V. Marbukh, Kamran Sayrafian, Hamid Mahboubi, Ahmadreza Momeni, Amir G. Aghdam

This paper is concerned with target monitoring using a network of collaborative mobile sensors. The objective is to compute (online) the desired sensing and...

The Latest and Greatest NIST PCR-based DNA Profiling Standard: Updates and Status of Candidate Standard Reference Material (SRM) 2391c

November 1, 2011

Author(s)

Margaret C. Kline, Carolyn R. Steffen, Jamie L. Almeida, Erica L. Romsos, Michael D. Coble, John M. Butler

Standard Reference Material 2391c (SRM 2391c) PCR-based DNA Profiling Standard is the third renewal of this SRM, originally released in 1995. SRM 2391c consists...

Electrochemical Inactivation of Bacillus Spores in Water Using a Quaternary Oxide Electrode

November 1, 2011

Author(s)

Vytautas Reipa, Andrea Giovannozzi, Jamie L. Almeida, Kenneth D. Cole

Bacillus thuringiensis (BT) spores and B. anthracis Sterne (BA) spores were used to investigate the effectiveness of electrochemical disinfection processes...

Innovative Solutions for Shaping and Forming of High Strength Steel, Titanium, and Light Metals

November 1, 2011

Author(s)

Mark R. Stoudt, Michael Miles, Mingdong Cai, Paul E. Krajewski

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Multi-Scale Modeling of Deformation

November 1, 2011

Author(s)

Mark R. Stoudt, Paul E. Krajewski, John E. Carsley, Michael Miles

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An Information Model Standard for Facility Integration With A Smart Grid

November 1, 2011

Author(s)

Steven T. Bushby

The National Electrical Manufacturer's Association (NEMA) and the American Society of Heating Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) are working...

Demand Response and Standards: Enabling a New Role for Buildings in the Smart Grid

November 1, 2011

Author(s)

David G. Holmberg

The role of buildings in the electric grid is steadily being transformed to that of active participant in managing the grid, serving as a key player in...

Evidence of a Transition to Reorientational Disorder in the Cubic Alkali-metal Dodecahydro-closo-dodecaborates

November 1, 2011

Author(s)

Kristina Verdal, Hui Wu, Terrence J. Udovic, Vitalie Stavila, Wei Zhou, John J. Rush

A neutron powder diffraction (NPD) and differential scanning calorimetry(DSC) study indicates that Cs 2B 12H 12 undergoes a second-order phase transition near...

Input-Output Approach to Predicting the Energy Efficiency of Residential Water Heaters Testing of Gas Tankless and Electric Storage Water Heaters

November 1, 2011

Author(s)

William M. Healy, Tania Ullah, John F. Roller

A study was conducted to evaluate the potential for using a linear relationship between the power input to a residential water heater and the output of thermal...

The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (Enhancing Online Choice, Efficiency, Security, and Privacy through Standards)

November 1, 2011

Author(s)

Jeremy A. Grant

Dear Password, Its time for you to retire. Youve served us well, but the reality is that youre woefully outdated and fundamentally insecure. Moreover, our...

Just Try

November 1, 2011

Author(s)

Isabel M. Beichl

"Just Try"

November 1, 2011

Author(s)

Isabel M. Beichl

Pinhole X -ray camera photos of an ECR ion source plasma

November 1, 2011

Author(s)

Lawrence T. Hudson, Sandor Biri, E Takacs, R. Racz, J. Palinkas

A 70 micrometer pinhole and an X-ray CCD camera in single photon counting mode were used to obtain spatially and spectral resolved images of an electron...

Verification of Noise-Parameter Measurements and Uncertainties

November 1, 2011

Author(s)

James P. Randa, Dazhen Gu, Dave K. Walker

We propose and implement verification methods for measurements of noise parameters of amplifiers and transistors. Because the verification rests on the...

Measuring Standby Power Use in the DOE Clothes Washers, Clothes Dryers and Dishwashers Test Procedures

November 1, 2011

Author(s)

Natascha S. Milesi-Ferretti, Michael A. Galler, Farhad Omar

This paper discusses the issue of standby power in the Department of Energys (DOE) residential appliance test procedures. Section 1 introduces DOEs...

Common-Arm Counter-Propagating Interferometer for Fiber Vibration Measurements

November 1, 2011

Author(s)

Craig W. Nelson, Archita Hati, David A. Howe

We propose and demonstrate a novel technique to measure the vibration sensitivity of two-port fiber-based optical components. It uses a common-arm counter...

Modeling Produces Insight into Fire Behavior

November 1, 2011

Author(s)

Adam M. Barowy, Daniel M. Madrzykowski

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is the leader in the development of computer-based fire models that simulate the movement of fire...

Tips and tools for digitizing a museum collection

November 1, 2011

Author(s)

Regina L. Avila, Susan A. Sanders, Keith R. Martin

This article is a "how to guide" for directing and managing a museum photography project. It is based on what the NIST Research Library learned as we went...

Discovery of giant magnetostriction in annealed Co1-xFex thin-films

November 1, 2011

Author(s)

Dwight Hunter, William Alexander Osborn, Ke Wang, Nataliya Kazantseva, Jason Hattrick-Simpers, Richard Suchoski, Ryota Takahashi, Marcus L. Young, Apurva Mehta, Leonid A. Bendersky, Sam E. Lofland, Manfred Wuttig, Ichiro Takeuchi

Chemical and structural heterogeneity and resulting interaction of coexisting phases can lead to extraordinary behaviors in oxides as observed in piezoelectric...

Mobile-App Addiction: Threat to Security?

November 1, 2011

Author(s)

George Hurlburt, Jeff Voas, Keith Miller

Giving individuals this kind of information processing power, along with unprecedented connectivity, might be the single most impressive technical achievement...

Local Weak Ferromagnetism in Single-Crystalline Ferroelectric BiFeO₃

November 1, 2011

Author(s)

M. Ramazanoglu, M. Laver, William D. Ratcliff, Shannon M. Watson, Wangchun Chen, Andrew Jackson, Karunakar NMN Kothapalli, Seongsu Lee, S.- W. Cheong, V. Kiryukhin

Polarized small-angle neutron scattering studies of single-crystalline multiferroic BefeO 3 reveal a long-wavelength spin density wave generated by 1° spin...

Linkage Disequilibrium Analysis of D12S391 and vWA in U.S. Population and Paternity Samples

November 1, 2011

Author(s)

Kristen E. Lewis, Carolyn R. Steffen, Peter Vallone, John M. Butler

Recently, the European Network of Forensic Science Institutes voted to adopt five additional STR loci (D12S391, D1S1656, D2S441, D10S1248, and D22S1045) to...

Effect of Neutron Irradiation on Dosimetric Properties of the TLD-600H (Lif6:Mg,Cu,P)

November 1, 2011

Author(s)

Alexander A. Romanyukha, Ronaldo Minniti, M. Moscovitch, Alan Keith Thompson, F. Trompier, Ronald Colle, A Sucheta, S. P. Voss, L. A. Benevides

Ideally, dosimeters should measure the dose without their dosimetric properties being affected by the radiation type being measured. Industry-wide occupational...

On the Development and Characterization of a Reduced Scale Continuous Feed Firebrand Generator

November 1, 2011

Author(s)

Sayaka S. Suzuki, Samuel Manzello

A new experimental apparatus, known as the NIST Reduced Scale Continuous Feed Firebrand Generator (the NIST continuous feed Baby Dragon) is presented for the...

Determination of perfluorinated compounds in human plasma and serum Standard Reference Materials using independent analytical methods

October 31, 2011

Author(s)

Jessica L. Reiner, Karen W. Phinney, Jennifer M. Lynch

Perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) were measured in three National Institute of Standards and Technology Standard Reference Materials (SRMs 1950 Metabolites in...

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