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Richard W. Bukowski, R P. Fleming, Jeffrey Tubbs, Christopher Marrion, Jill Dirksen, Chris Duke, Debbie Prince, Lee F. Richardson, Dave Beste, Dottie Stanlaske
The development of firefighter elevators and special application egress elevators is reviewed. Recent activities of the elevator industry and NIST to develop
Edward J. Garboczi, Geraldine S. Cheok, William C. Stone
In previous publications, we have shown how using x-ray computed tomography to obtain the raw 3-D data for the coordinates of the surface, and then converting
S. H. McLaren, D. Gao, L. Chen, J. R. Eshleman, V. Dawson, M. A. Trush, V. Bohr, M. Dizdaroglu, G. M. Williams, C. Wei
Graft failure in coronary artery bypass grafts (CABGs) utilizing the saphenous vein is significantly higher than in those utilizing the internal mammary artery
Robert E. Chapman, Priya D. Lavappa, Amy S. Rushing
Economic tools are needed to help the owners and managers of commercial and institutional buildings to select cost-effective combinations of protection
N Smith, Sung Kim, Prasad T. Reddy, David T. Gallagher
ABSTRACT: The crystal structure of the class IV adenylyl cyclase from Yersinia pestis is reported at 1.9 resolution. The class IV fold is distinct from the
Christopher W. Meyer, Douglas C. Meier, Christopher B. Montgomery, Stephen Semancik
A fluorescence microscope has been constructed for measuring surface temperatures of microhotplate platforms. The microscope measures temperature-dependent
Abstract: Self-organization is central to the formation of numerous biological structures and the emulation of this process through the creation of synthetic
Zeb Barber, C Hoyt, Christopher W. Oates, Leo W. Hollberg, A. V. Taichenachev, V. I. Yudin
We report direct single laser excitation of the strictly forbidden (6s 2) ^s1S_0-(6s6p)^ 3P_0 clock transition in the even 174Yb isotope confiend to a 1-D
Chang Xu, Tao Wu, Charles M. Drain, J Batteas, Michael J. Fasolka, Kathryn L. Beers
Block copolymer (BC) brush gradient libraries were explored as high-throughput platforms to study the effect of relative block thickness on the BC response to
Ion-implanted materials are commonly used in secondary-ion mass spectrometry for the calibration of instruments. This international Standard was prepared to
L A. Bailey, Matthew Becker, J S. Stephens, Nathan D. Gallant, Christine M. Mahoney, N Washburn, Aarti Rege, J Kohn, Eric J. Amis
Tyrosine-derived polycarbonates are extremely promising degradable materials for use in orthpedic applications and two-dimensional thin films consisting of
Allan D. Carlson, S A. Badikov, Z Chen, E V. Gai, G M. Hale, F-J Hambsch, H M. Hofmann, T Kawano, N M. Larson, S Oh, V G. Pronyaev, D L. Smith, S Tagesen, H Vonach
We have measured the Raman band intensities and frequencies of two 30-mer ribonucleotides that represent the wild type (WT) and dyskeratosis mutant GC (107-108)
The issue of system size effects in the reverse perturbation nonequilibrium molecular dynamics method for determining transport coefficients of fluids is
Jeonghwan Kim, Sanjit Bhowmick, Ilja Hermann, Brian R. Lawn
A study is made of the behavior of cracks approaching interfaces in all-ceramic crown-like bilayers. Flat specimens are fabricated by fusing porcelain veneers
Sudarsan Rachuri, Y H. Han, Sebti Foufou, Shaw C. Feng, Utpal Roy, Fujun Wang, Ram D. Sriram, Kevin W. Lyons
The important issue of mechanical assemblies has been a subject of intense research over the past several years. Most electromechanical products are assemblies
Xiao Tang, Lijun Ma, Alan Mink, Anastase Nakassis, Haolang Xu, Barry J. Hershman, Carl J. Williams, Joshua Bienfang, David H. Su, Ronald Boisvert, Charles W. Clark
This is a general article on a Monte Carlo method different from the traditional Metropolis algorithm. Sampling is done according to a non-uniform probability
Born-Oppenheimer approximation Hylleraas (Hy) variational calculations with up to 7034 expansion terms are reported for the singlet sigma g+ ground state of
We demonstrate highly efficient cavity ringdom spectroscopy in which a broad-bandwidth optical frequency comb is coherently couple to a high finesse optical
A system for measuring the impulse spectrum amplitude of the output of impulse generators and the response of receivers is described. The calibration procedures
Over the past decade, the human identity testing community has settled on a set of core short tandem repeat (STR) loci that are widely used for DNA typing
James P. Randa, Eyal Gerecht, Dazhen Gu, Robert L. Billinger
We report precision measurements of the effective input noise temperature of a cryogenic (liquid helium temperature) MMIC amplifier at the amplifier reference
We have designed and characterized superconducting integrated circuits for the ac Josephson voltage standard that demonstrate significantly improved performance
M H. Park, Y K. Hong, B C. Choi, S H. Gee, Michael J. Donahue
Magnetization configuration of vortex head-to-head (HTH) domain walls and the wall formation process in Ni80Fe20 ring elements were investigated using magnetic
Yi-hua D. Tang, Clark Hamilton, Harold Parks, David Deaver, Barry Wood
The National Conference of Standards Laboratories International (NCSLI) 2005 Josephson voltage standard (JVS) Interlaboratory Comparison (ILC) provides
Kristine A. Bertness, C. M. Wang, Marc L. Salit, Gregory C. Turk, Therese A. Butler, Albert J. Paul, Larry Robins
Inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy is shown to confirm a recent correlation between photoluminescence (PL) peak energy for AlGaAs