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Journals

Feedback-Enabled Discrimination and Classification Enhancement for Temperature Programmed Chemiresistive Microsensors

June 2, 2011

Author(s)

Phillip H. Rogers, Stephen Semancik

A method for correcting heater drift through operational feedback has been implemented during the acquisition of condition-dependent response data on a single...

Statistical Methods for Analyzing Color Differences

June 2, 2011

Author(s)

Maria E. Nadal, Carl C. Miller, Hugh Fairman

Multi-valued measurands, such as spectral reflectance or transmission, tristimulus values, are usually analyzed by reducing the data to a single-valued...

Thermodynamic Properties of 2,3,3,3-Tetrafluoroprop-1-ene (R1234yf): Vapor Pressure and p-ρ-T Measurements and an Equation of State

June 2, 2011

Author(s)

Markus Richter, Mark O. McLinden, Eric Lemmon

The p-ρ-T behavior of 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoroprop-1-ene (R1234yf) was measured from T = (232 to 400)K with pressures up to 10 MPa using a two-sinker densimeter. The...

Challenges and Opportunities in Smart Grid: A Position Article

June 1, 2011

Author(s)

George W. Arnold

This introductory article overviews the concepts and purpose of the Smart Grid and the important role of communications technology in its development. It...

Conversion of 7-ketocholesterol to oxysterol metabolites by recombinant CYP27A1 and retinal pigment epithelial cells

June 1, 2011

Author(s)

Illarion V. Turko, Gun-Young Heo, Ilya Bederman, Natalia Mast, Wei-Li Liao, Irina A. Pikuleva

Of different oxygenated cholesterol metabolites, 7-ketocholesterol (7KCh) is considered noxious oxysterol implicated in the development of certain pathologies...

Origin and Early History of Die Methode des Eichzusatzes or The Method of Standard Addition with Primary Emphasis on Its Origin, Early Design, Dissemination, and Usage of Terms

June 1, 2011

Author(s)

William R. Kelly, Kenneth W. Pratt, William F. Guthrie, Keith R. Martin

The Method of Standard Additions or the Standard Addition Method, often referred by its acronym as just SAM, is now a proverbial workhorse in both inorganic and...

Scanning the Issue Smart Grid: The Electric Energy System of the Future

June 1, 2011

Author(s)

Hamid Gharavi

This is an editorial article for a special issue on smart grid. The main objective is to report on some, if not all, of smart grid future technical challenges...

Evaluation of Self Diffusion Data Using Weighted Means Statistics

June 1, 2011

Author(s)

Carelyn E. Campbell, Andrew L. Rukhin

Several CALPHAD-based assessments of the self-diffusion mobility of Ni in pure Ni and Al in pure Al have been published. In an effort to determine which...

Bridging the Micro to Macro Gap: A New Application for Milli-probe X-ray Fluorescence

June 1, 2011

Author(s)

Jeffrey M. Davis, Dale E. Newbury, Nicholas W. Ritchie, Edward P. Vicenzi, Dale P. Bentz, Albert J. Fahey

X-ray elemental mapping and x-ray spectrum imaging are powerful microanalytical tools. However, their scope is limited spatially by the raster area of a...

Sustainable Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures through Embodied Energy Optimization

June 1, 2011

Author(s)

Dong Hun Yeo, Rene Gabbai

As the world struggles to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, much attention is focused on making buildings operate more efficiently...

Pixel Interlacing Based Video Transmission for Low-complexity Intra-frame Error Concealment

June 1, 2011

Author(s)

Hamid Gharavi

When multi-path fading and interference frequently disrupts a mobile radio communication system, it can seriously undermine its reliability for transmission of...

Automated Spectral Smoothing with Spatially Adaptive Penalized Least-Squares

June 1, 2011

Author(s)

Aaron A. Urbas, Steven J. Choquette

A variety of data smoothing techniques exist to address the issue of noise in spectroscopic data. The vast majority, however, require parameter specification by...

Boundary Effects on the Determination of the Effective Parameters of a Metamaterial from Normal Incidence Reflection and Transmission

June 1, 2011

Author(s)

Sung Kim, Edward E. Kuester, Christopher L. Holloway, James R. Baker-Jarvis, Aaron D. Scher

This paper presents a method for the determination of the effective electromagnetic parameters of a metamaterial, taking boundary effects at the interfaces...

Multigate Communication Network For Smart Grid

June 1, 2011

Author(s)

Hamid Gharavi

It is envisioned that one of the most important issues in Smart Grid will be to design a network architecture that is capable of providing secure and reliable...

Extinguishment of Methane Diffusion Flames by Inert Gases in Coflow Air and Oxygen-Enriched Microgravity Environments

June 1, 2011

Author(s)

Gregory T. Linteris, Fumiaki Takahashi, Vishwanath R. Katta

Extinguishment of laminar coflow diffusion flames in microgravity (μg) have been studied experimentally and computationally. The μg experiments were conducted...

Pulse Metrology, Part 1

June 1, 2011

Author(s)

Nicholas G. Paulter Jr., Donald R. Larson

Pulse metrology refers to the science of the measurement of pulses, which are transient phenomena. This article describes concepts important for pulse metrology...

Incoherent Neutron Scattering from Multi-Element Materials

June 1, 2011

Author(s)

Charles J. Glinka

Critical capture distances for highly charged ions above dielectric covered metal surfaces

June 1, 2011

Author(s)

Russell E. Lake, Joshua M. Pomeroy, C E. Sosolik

We model the first stage of the electronic interaction between an ion and a metal surface covered with a thin dielectric layer. Specifically, we seek to answer...

Identity Management and Privacy: A Rare Opportunity To Get It Right

June 1, 2011

Author(s)

Ari M. Schwartz

Since 1976, when Whitfield Diffie and Martin Helleman, first surmised the possibilities for the potential uses for digital signatures in an IEEE publication...

Graphene Production for Electrical Metrology

June 1, 2011

Author(s)

Randolph E. Elmquist, David B. Newell, George R. Jones, Felipe L. Marquez-Hernandez, Mariano A. Real, Tian T. Shen

Many material and electronic contributions must be favorable to produce devices with strong quantum Hall effect (QHE) plateaus that are suitable for precise...

HIGHLY CHARGED ION INTERACTIONS WITH THIN INSULATING FILMS

June 1, 2011

Author(s)

Joshua M. Pomeroy, Russell E. Lake, C E. Sosolik

The electrical conductance of magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) devices whose ultra-thin aluminum oxide tunnel barrier was irradiated by highly charged ions (HCIs)...

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...

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