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Thermal stabilization of human albumin by medium- and short-chain n-alkyl fatty acid anions

March 1, 2006

Author(s)

A. Shrake, D. Frazier, Frederick P. Schwarz

Elevator Controls

March 1, 2006

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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...

Using LADAR to characterize the 3-D shape of aggregates: Preliminary results

March 1, 2006

Author(s)

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...

Oxidative Stress and DNA Damage-DNA Repair System in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells in Artery and Vein Grafts

March 1, 2006

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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...

Thin films of Type 1 collagen for cell by cell analysis of morphology and tenascin-C promoter activity

March 1, 2006

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K J. Langenbach, John T. Elliott, Alessandro Tona, Dennis P. McDaniel, Anne L. Plant

Life-Cycle Cost Analysis Tool for Chem/Bio Protection of Buildings: Software Primer

March 1, 2006

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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...

Crystal Structure of the Class IV Adenylyl Cyclase From Yersinia Pestis

March 1, 2006

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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...

Temperature Measurements of Microhotplates Using Fluorescence Thermometry

March 1, 2006

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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...

Symmetry, Equivalence and Molecular Self-Organization

March 1, 2006

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K Van Workum, Jack F. Douglas

Abstract: Self-organization is central to the formation of numerous biological structures and the emulation of this process through the creation of synthetic...

Direct Excitation of the Forbidden Clock Transition in Neutral 174Yb Atoms Confined to an Optical Lattice

March 1, 2006

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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...

Effect of Block Thickness on Solvent Response of Block Copolymer Brushes: A Combinatorial Study With Block Copolymer Brush Gradients

March 1, 2006

Author(s)

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...

Summary of ISO/TC 201 Standard: XIII. ISO 18114:2003 - Surface Chemical Analysis - Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry - Determination of Relative Sensitivity Factors From Ion-Implanted Reference Materials

March 1, 2006

Author(s)

David S. Simons

Ion-implanted materials are commonly used in secondary-ion mass spectrometry for the calibration of instruments. This international Standard was prepared to...

Cellular Response to Phase-Separated Blends of Tyrosine-Derived Polycarbonate

March 1, 2006

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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...

An International Evaluation of the Neutron Cross Section Standards

March 1, 2006

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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

Magnetic Field-Induced Spectroscopy of Strongly Forbidden Optical Transitions

March 1, 2006

Author(s)

Alexey Taychenachev, V Yudin, Christopher W. Oates, C Hoyt, Zeb Barber, Leo W. Hollberg

We propse a method that uses a static magnetic field to enalbe direct optical excitation of forbidden electric dipole transitions that are otherwise...

Structural Analysis of the Telomerase RNA Pseudoknot Domain by Raman Spectroscopy

March 1, 2006

Author(s)

Donald H. Atha, G Niaura, Vytautas Reipa

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)...

System Size and Control Parameter Effects in Reverse Perturbation Nonequilibrium Molecular Dynamics

March 1, 2006

Author(s)

Raymond D. Mountain

The issue of system size effects in the reverse perturbation nonequilibrium molecular dynamics method for determining transport coefficients of fluids is...

Assembly Model Representation from Conceptual to the Detailed Design

March 1, 2006

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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...

Experimental Study of High Polarization-Coding Quantum Key Distribution wih Sifted-Key Rates Over Mbit/s

March 1, 2006

Author(s)

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

The Other Monte Carlo Method

March 1, 2006

Author(s)

Isabel M. Beichl, Francis Sullivan

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...

High Precision Variational Calculations for the Born-Oppenheimer Energies of the Ground State of the Hydrogen Molecule

March 1, 2006

Author(s)

James S. Sims, Stanley A. Hagstrom

Born-Oppenheimer approximation Hylleraas (Hy) variational calculations with up to 7034 expansion terms are reported for the singlet sigma g+ ground state of...

Broadband Cavity Ringdown Spectroscopy for Sensitive and Rapid Molecular Detection

March 1, 2006

Author(s)

M Thorpe, K D. Moll, R J. Jones, B Safdi, Jun Ye

We demonstrate highly efficient cavity ringdom spectroscopy in which a broad-bandwidth optical frequency comb is coherently couple to a high finesse optical...

Experimental Design of NCSLI 2005 Josephson Voltage Standard Interlaboratory Comparison

March 1, 2006

Author(s)

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...

High-accuracy determination of epitaxial AlGaAs composition with inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy

March 1, 2006

Author(s)

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...

Measurement of Impulse Spectrum Amplitude for Use in EMI Susceptibility Tests

March 1, 2006

Author(s)

Nicholas Paulter, Donald R. Larson

A system for measuring the impulse spectrum amplitude of the output of impulse generators and the response of receivers is described. The calibration procedures...

Genetics and Genomics of Core Short Tandem Repeat Loci Used in Human Identity Testing

March 1, 2006

Author(s)

John M. Butler

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...

Precision Measurement Method for Cryogenic Amplifier Noise Temperatures Below 5 K

March 1, 2006

Author(s)

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...

Resonance-free Low-pass Filters for the ac Josephson Voltage Standard

March 1, 2006

Author(s)

Michio Watanabe, Paul Dresselhaus, Samuel Benz

We have designed and characterized superconducting integrated circuits for the ac Josephson voltage standard that demonstrate significantly improved performance...

Vortex Head-to-Head Domain Walls and Their Formation in Onion-State Stable Ring Elements

March 1, 2006

Author(s)

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...

Transverse Fracture of Brittle Bilayers Relevance to Failure of All-Ceramic Dental Crowns

March 1, 2006

Author(s)

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...

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