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Michele M. Schantz, Katrice A. Lippa, R. Zeleny, S. Voorspoels, M. Ricci, Dorit Becker, M. Sittidech, A.M.F. Wong, D.H. Kim, S. Mingwu, S. Matsuyama
An international intercomparison involving eight National Metrology Institutes (NMIs) was conducted to establish their current measurement capabilities for...
Charles D. Fenimore, Michael McNitt-Gray, Luc Bidaut, Samuel G. Armato, Charles R. Meyer, Marios A. Gavrielides, Geoffrey McLennan, Nicholas Petrick, Binsheng Zhao, Anthony P. Reeves, Reinhard R. Beichel, Grace Kim
Rationale and Objectives: This manuscript describes issues and methods that are specific to the measurement of change in tumor volume as measured from CT images...
Daniel C. van der Laan, John (Jack) W. Ekin, Timothy J. Haugan, Paul N. Barnes, Dmytro Abraimov, Fumitake Kametani, David C. Larbalestier, Marty Rupich
The role of grains and grain boundaries in producing reversible strain effects on the transport current critical current (Ic) of YBa2Cu3O7-δ coated conductors...
Robert R. Swarthout, Jennifer Lynch, Margie Peden-Adams, Andre Landry, Patricia Fair, John Kucklick
The threat that exposure to organohalogen (OH) contaminants poses to endangered populations of Kemp's ridley (Lepidochelys kempii) and green sea turtles...
We report on the operation and characterization of a new ionization chamber system, called AUTOIC, featuring a commerical digital electrometer and a commerical...
Christopher L. Holloway, Richard Ziolkowski, Peng Jin, J. A. Nielsen, M. H. Tanielian
Both 300 MHz and 570 MHz versions of the electrically small coaxially-fed Z antenna were designed and tested. These two cases demonstrate the ability to change...
R. Rettew, J. Guthrie, Cherno Jaye, Daniel A. Fischer, Faisal Alamgir
Surface limited redox replacement (SLRR) is a potentially powerful tool for atomic monolayer-scale model catalyst fabrication for a plethora of spectroscopic...
Diamond nanoindentation probes may perform many thousands of indentations over years of service life. There is general agreement that the probes need frequent...
There are currently nine caesium fountain primary frequency standards regularly reporting calibrations of International Atomic Time to the Bureau International...
Christiaan Richter, Cherno Jaye, Eugen Panaitescu, Daniel A. Fischer, Laura H. Lewis, Ronald J. Willey, Latika Menon
It is demonstrated that vertically-aligned titania nanotube planar arrays fabricated by electrochemical anodization using standard potassium-containing...
Daniel A. Fischer, Saloman Turgman-Cohen, P K. Kilpatrick, Jan Genzer
The adsorption of asphaltenes onto flat silica surfaces modified with self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of alkyltrichlorosilanes of varying thickness due to a...
A two-dimensional analysis of three coincident gammas in Ag108m decay, detected by two Nal(T1) scintillation detectors, allows a direct measurement of the...
Leonard F. Pease III, De-Hao D. Tsai, Jeffrey A. Fagan, Barry J. Bauer, Rebecca A. Zangmeister, Michael J. Tarlov, Michael R. Zachariah
We present the first systematic characterization of well dispersed, length sorted single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) by electrospray-differential mobility...
A new approach for increasing the service life of concrete structures is evaluated in a series of mortar specimens. The new approach consists of employing...
Yu-Ju Lin, Robert L. Compton, Karina K. Jimenez Garcia, James V. Porto, Ian B. Spielman
Neutral atomic Bose condensates and degenerate Fermi gases have realized important many-body phenomena in their most simple and essential forms, without many of...
Mariona Coll Bau, Curt A. Richter, Christina A. Hacker
We present the results of an IR study of the effect of temperature on the formation of Au-monolayer-Si molecular junctions by using a flip-chip lamination...
C M. Brown, Alexander Kramida, Uri Feldman, Joseph Reader
Spectra of Mg emitted by a Penning discharge were recorded in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) on a 10.7-m grazing-incidence spectrograph with phosphor image...
This paper studies properties of conservative confidence ellipsoids for parameters of a general linear model. These regions are obtained on the basis of a...
Charles D. Fenimore, Charles R. Meyer, Samuel G. Armato, Geoffrey McLennan, Luc Bidaut, Daniel P. Barboriak, Marios A. Gavrielides, Nicholas Petrick, Edward F. Jackson, Michael McNitt-Gray, Paul E. Kinahan, Binsheng Zhao
Rationale and Objectives Early detection of tumor response to therapy is a key goal. Finding measurement algorithms capable of early detection of tumor response...
Rick L. Paul, Elizabeth A. Mackey, Rolf L. Zeisler, Rabia Oflaz, Bryan E. Tomlin
A combination of instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) and prompt gamma-ray activation analysis (PGAA) was used to value assign 35 elements in SRM...
Defects within the insulin signaling pathways are a major locus for the development of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. The phorbol 12-myristate 13...
Formalin-fixed, paraffin embedded tissue specimens for histopathology are cut to 3-20 μm thickness to allow transmission of light, and optimize tissue...
Geraldine S. Cheok, Marek Franaszek, James J. Filliben
An acceptance sampling method, based on obtaining physical measurements, for accepting 2D building plans generated from 3D imaging data is evaluated and...
Guerda Massillon, Ronaldo Minniti, Christopher G. Soares, M.J. Maryanski, S Robertson
In this work, the properties of the new BANG gel, specifically made for high-ionization density dosimetry, were investigated. The measurements were performed at...
Angela R. Hight Walker, Jeffrey A. Fagan, Stephanie A. Hooker, Michael T. Postek, Stephen A. Wise, Andras Vladar, Rolf L. Zeisler
Harmonized sample pre-treatment is an integral first step in ensuring metrological quality of measurements as regards repeatability, inter-laboratory...
Despite significant investment in tissue engineering research, few profitable products have come to market. Hence, there is a need to accelerate tissue...
This is an Editorial for the December, 2009 issue of IEEE Microwave Magazine. Kate Remley, the Editor-in-Chief, writes about timely topics for the members of...
A single, closed three-state -system in room-temperature rubidium is investigated experimentally using a copropagating beam parallel-polarization configuration...
Jun-Feng Song, Theodore V. Vorburger, Susan M. Ballou, Li Ma, Thomas Brian Renegar, Xiaoyu Alan Zheng, Martin Ols
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in collaboration with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) has developed the...