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Certification of Standard Reference Materials for Bitter Orange

July 1, 2008

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Lane C. Sander, K. Putzbach, Bryant C. Nelson, Catherine A. Rimmer, Mary Bedner, Jeanice M. Brown Thomas, Barbara J. Porter, Laura J. Wood, Michele M. Schantz, Karen E. Murphy, Katherine E. Sharpless, Stephen A. Wise, James H. Yen, P. H. Siitonen, R. I. Evans, A. NguyenPho, M. C. Roman, J. M. Betz

Radiochemical Measurement of 237Np in a Solution of Mixed Radionuclides: Experiences in Chemical Separation and Alpha Spectrometry

July 1, 2008

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and Outola I. Larosa j

On Using Laboratory Measurements to Predict Corrosion Service Lives for Engineering Applications

July 1, 2008

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Richard E. Ricker

Issues concerning making corrosion service life predictions on the basis of laboratory measurements are examined. Models for corrosion service life prediction...

Color Quality and Spectra

July 1, 2008

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Yoshihiro Ohno, Wendy L. Davis

Color quality, including white light chromaticity and color rendering performance, as well as luminous efficacy of radiation, for illumination sources are...

Molecular Dynamics Study of Surface-Tethered S(CH₂CH₂O)₆CH^d3: Helix Formation and Thermal Disorder

July 1, 2008

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Raymond D. Mountain, V Simmons, Curtis W. Meuse, Joseph B. Hubbard

Laser noise cancellation in single-cell CPT clocks

July 1, 2008

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Vladislav Gerginov, Svenja A. Knappe, V Shah, Leo W. Hollberg, John E. Kitching

We demonstrate a new technique for the suppression of noise associated with the laser source in atomic clocks based on coherent population trapping. The...

Bilateral optical power meter comparison between NIST and CENAM

July 1, 2008

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Igor Vayshenker, J. Bermudez, J. Molina, Z. Ruiz, David J. Livigni, Xiaoyu X. Li, John H. Lehman

We describe the results of a comparison of reference standards between the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST-USA) and Centro Nacional De...

Stiffening of the Extrapulmonary Arteries in Chronic Hypoxic Pulmonary Hypertension

July 1, 2008

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Elizabeth S. Drexler, J. E. Bischoff, Christopher N. McCowan, Andrew Slifka, Timothy P. Quinn, R Shandas, Dunbar Ivy, K. R. Stenmark

It is increasingly appreciated that changes in the compliance properties of large blood vessels are critical determinants of ventricular afterload and...

Frequency and duration of communication system outages resulting from polarization mode dispersion

July 1, 2008

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D. Yevick, M. Reimer, H. Yaffe, Paul Leo, D Peterson, S.C. T. Wang, Kent B. Rochford

In this paper, we employ measurements of transponder tolerance to both differential group delay (DGD) and second-order polarization mode dispersion (SOPMD) and...

Magnetic Materials for 3-D Damascene Metallization: Void-free Electrodeposition of Ni and Ni_(subscript 70)Fe_(subscript 30) Using 2-Mercapto-5-benzimidazolesulfonic Acid

July 1, 2008

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Chang H. Lee, John E. Bonevich, Thomas P. Moffat

Superconformal filling of sub-micrometer trenches with Ni is demonstrated using NiSO_(subscript 4)-NiCl_(subscript 2)-FeSO_(subscript 4) electrolyte containing...

The Atomic-Scale Investigation of Graphene Formation on 6H-SiC(0001)

July 1, 2008

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N Guisinger, Gregory M. Rutter, Jason Crain, Christian Heiliger, P First, Joseph A. Stroscio

The growth of graphene on the silicon terminated face of 6H-SiC(0001) was investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) measurements. The initial stages...

The Escherichia coli YdcF binds S-adenosyl-L-methionine and adopts an alpha/beta fold characteristic of nucleotide-utilizing enzymes

July 1, 2008

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Kinlin L. Chao, Kap Lim, C Lehmann, V Doseeva, A J. Howard, Frederick P. Schwarz, Osnat Herzberg

The crystal structure of YdcF at a resolution of 0.18 nm reveals a fold of the adenine nucleotide α hydrolase-like family. Following the structural clues, a...

Neutron Imaging Investigation of Liquid Water Distribution in and the Performance of a PEM Fuel Cell

July 1, 2008

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J Park, X Li, D Tran, T Abdel-Baset, Daniel S. Hussey, David L. Jacobson, Muhammad D. Arif

In this study neutron radiography is applied to investigate the performance of a PEM fuel cell based on the effect of liquid water accumulation in the cell...

Chapter 2Combustion Products and Their Effects on Life Safety

June 30, 2008

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Richard G. Gann, Nelson P. Bryner

All combustibles produce heat and smoke that, in sufficiently high concentration, may be hazardous to life safety. Incapacitation can result from exposure to...

Composition-Explicit Distillation Curves of Mixtures of Diesel Fuel with Biomass-Derived Glycol Ester Oxygenates: A Tool for Decreased Particulate Emissions

June 28, 2008

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Thomas J. Bruno, Lisa S. Ott, Beverly L. Smith

We have recently introduced several important improvements in the measurement of distillation curves for complex fluids. The modifications provide for (1) a...

Variability of Biodiesel Fuel and Comparison to Petroleum-Derived Diesel Fuel: Application of a Composition and Enthalpy Explicit Distillation Curve Method

June 28, 2008

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Thomas J. Bruno, Lisa S. Ott

We have recently introduced several important improvements in the measurement of distillation curves for complex fluids. This new method is a significant...

R-22 Replacement Status (in Russian)

June 25, 2008

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J M. Calm, Piotr A. Domanski

Since its initial recognition in 1928 and commercialization in 1936, R-22 has been applied in systems ranging from the smallest window air conditioners to the...

Steady-state and time-resolved photoluminescence from relaxed and strained GaN nanowires grown by catalyst-free molecular-beam epitaxy

June 24, 2008

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John B. Schlager, Kristine A. Bertness, Paul T. Blanchard, Lawrence H. Robins, Alexana Roshko, Norman A. Sanford

We report steady-state and time-resolved photoluminescence (TRPL) measurements on individual GaN nanowires (6-20 micrometers in length, 30-940 nm in diameter)...

High-efficiency, ultra-low-noise all-fiber photon pair source

June 20, 2008

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Shellee D. Dyer, Martin J. Stevens, Burm Baek, Sae Woo Nam

We demonstrate an all-fiber photon pair source with the highest coincidence-to-accidental ratio (CAR) reported to date in the fiber optic telecom C-band. We...

Reflective attenuator for high energy laser measurements

June 20, 2008

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John H. Lehman, David J. Livigni, Xiaoyu X. Li, Christopher L. Cromer, Marla L. Dowell

A high-energy laser attenuator in the range of 250 mJ (20 nsec pulse width, 10 Hz repetition rate, 1064 nm wavelength) is described. The optical elements which...

Estimation of Contact Area of Nanoparticles in Chains Using Continuum Elastic Contact Mechanics

June 19, 2008

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Jaroslaw Grobelny, Pradeep N. Namboodiri, Doo-In Kim

The key challenge in understanding the nanomechanical behavior of nanoparticle chains is strongly dependent on accurate determination of the contact area...

Micro-engineered local field control for high-sensitivity multi-spectral MRI

June 19, 2008

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Gary Zabow, Stephen Dodd, John M. Moreland, Alan P. Koretsky

In recent years, biotechnology and biomedical research have benefited from the introduction of a variety of specialized nanoparticles whose well-defined...

Entangled states of trapped atomic ions

June 19, 2008

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Rainer Blatt, David J. Wineland

This article reviews recent experiments on entanglement and quantum information processing that use trapped ions. It is intended to give a brief summary of the...

Effect of CuO Nanoparticle Concentration on R134a/Lubricant Pool Boiling Heat Transfer

June 18, 2008

Author(s)

Mark A. Kedzierski

This paper quantifies the influence of copper (II) oxide (CuO) nanoparticle concentration on the boiling performance of R134a/polyolester mixtures on a...

A Molecular Model for Toughening in Double-Network Hydrogels

June 18, 2008

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Vijay Tirumala, Sanghun Lee, Taiki Tominaga, Eric K. Lin, Jian P. Gong, Paul D. Butler, Wen-Li Wu

A molecular mechanism is proposed for the toughness enhancement observed in double network (DN) hydrogels prepared from poly (2 acrylamido, 2-methyl, 1...

Assessment of the Diffusion Mobilities in the Gamma Prime and B2 Phases in the Ni-Al-Cr System

June 18, 2008

Author(s)

Carelyn E. Campbell

This work presents the assessment of the diffusion mobilities in both the Gamma prime and B2 phases in the Ni-Al-Cr system utilizing the phenomenological model...

Surface Effects on the Elastic Modulus of Te Nanowires

June 17, 2008

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Gheorghe Stan, Sergiy Krylyuk, Albert Davydov, Mark D. Vaudin, Leonid A. Bendersky, Robert F. Cook

Nondestructive elastic property measurements have been performed on Te nanowires with diameters in the range 20 150 nm. By using contact resonance atomic force...

Non-planar nanofluidic devices for single molecule analysis fabricated using nanoglassblowing

June 17, 2008

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Elizabeth Strychalski, Samuel Stavis, Harold G. Craighead

A method termed 'nanoglassblowing' is presented for fabricating integrated microfluidic and nanofluidic devices with gradual depth changes and wide, shallow...

The Kirkwood-Buff Integrals for One-Component Liquids

June 16, 2008

Author(s)

Yedhud A. Ben-Naim

The Kirkwood-Buff integrals (KBIs) for one-component systems are calculated from either the pair correlation functions or from experimental macroscopic...

Third order Intermodulation Distortion in Film Bulk Acoustic Resonators at Resonance and Antiresonance

June 15, 2008

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Eduard Rocas, Juan C. Collado Gomez, Jordi Mateu, Nathan D. Orloff, Alberto Padilla, Juan Callaghan, James C. Booth, Robert Aigner

This paper presents recent measurements and modeling of the third order intermodulation products of a Film Bulk Acoustic Resonator (FBAR), for a various values...

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