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Journals

Nexplorer: Phylogeny-based exploration of sequence family data

January 1, 2006

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J. A. Aust, W. Qiu, M. Chen, Arlin B. Stoltzfus

Structural analysis of ligand binding and catalysis in chorismate lyase

January 1, 2006

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N. Smith, A. Roitberg, E. Rivera, A. Howard, Marcia J. Holden, M. Mayhew, S. Kaistha, David Gallagher

Toolkits for Nuclear Science: Data and Spreadsheets

January 1, 2006

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Richard M. Lindstrom

The tools for performing everyday nuclear science have undergone great transformations in the past decade. Because of the ubiquity and speed of networked...

Investigating Guns, Bombs, and Rockets: A New NIST Reference Material for Smokeless Powder Measurements

January 1, 2006

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William A. MacCrehan, Mary Bedner

This short article describes how the compositional measurements of smokeless powder have important forensic and military applications. It also details a NIST...

Relaxation Effects in Small Critical Nozzles

January 1, 2006

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Aaron N. Johnson, C L. Merkle, Michael R. Moldover, John D. Wright

We computed the flow of four gases (He, N 2, CO 2, and SF 6) through a critical nozzle by augmenting traditional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) with a rate...

A Hierarchical Rule-Based Fault Detection and Diagnostic Method for HVAC Systems

January 1, 2006

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J Schein, Steven T. Bushby

Radiative Decay Mode of the Free Neutron

January 1, 2006

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Jeffrey S. Nico, Maynard S. Dewey, Thomas R. Gentile, Hans P. Mumm, Alan K. Thompson, B M. Fisher, I Kremsky, Fred E. Wietfeldt, T E. Chupp, R L. Cooper, E J. Beise, K G. Kiriluk, J Byrne, K Coakley

Chemisorption-Induced Spin Symmetry Breaking In Gold Clusters and the Onset of Paramagnetism in Capped Gold Nanoparticles

January 1, 2006

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Carlos A. Gonzalez, Y Simon-Manso, M Marquez, V Mujica

We present a simple model to describe the induction of magnetic behavior on gold clusters upon chemisorption of one organic molecule with different chemical...

Covariance-Based Uncertainty Analysis of the NIST Electrooptic Sampling System

January 1, 2006

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Dylan F. Williams, Arkadiusz C. Lewandowski, Tracy S. Clement, C. M. Wang, Paul D. Hale, Juanita M. Morgan, Darryl A. Keenan, Andrew Dienstfrey

We develop a covariance matrix describing the uncertainty of mismatch-corrected measurements performed on the National Institute of Standards and Technology's...

Effects of Organochlorine Contaminants on Loggerhead Sea Turtle Immunity: Comparison of a Correlative Field Study and In Vitro Exposure Experiments

January 1, 2006

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Jennifer M. Lynch, P.D. McClellan-Green, John R. Kucklick, D.E. Keil, Margie Peden-Adams

Form-Profiling of Optics Using the Geometry Measuring Machine and NIST M-48 CMM

January 1, 2006

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Nadia Machkour-Deshayes, John R. Stoup, John Lu, Johannes A. Soons, Ulf Griesmann, Robert S. Polvani

We are developing an instrument, the Geometry Measuring Machine (GEMM), to measure the profile errors of aspheric and free form optical surfaces, which require...

Uncertainty Analysis for Vector Measurands Using Fiducial Inference

January 1, 2006

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Chih-Ming Wang, Hariharan K. Iyer

This paper presents a method for constructing uncertainty regions for a vector measurand in the presence of both type-A and type-B errors. The method is based...

Large-Scale Metrology Instrument Performance Evaluations at NIST

January 1, 2006

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William T. Estler, Daniel S. Sawyer, Bruce R. Borchardt, Steven D. Phillips

The ASME B89 Committee on Dimensional Metrology has approved a new American National Standard B89.4.19 - Performance Evaluation of Laser Based Spherical...

Nano-Tip Electron Gun for the Scanning Electron Microscope

January 1, 2006

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Andras Vladar, Zsolt Radi, Michael T. Postek, David C. Joy

Through this study the most important questions and problems associated with nano-tips and their possible applications to SEMs were investigated. These were...

Simpler Bayesian Alternative to the ISO Guides Use of the Welch-Satterthwaite Formula

January 1, 2006

Author(s)

Raghu N. Kacker

The n-qubit concurrence canonical decomposition (CCD) is a generalization of the two-qubit canonical decomposition SU(4)=[SU(2) (x) SU(2)] ? [SU(2) (x) SU(2)]...

Evaluation Of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament, Medical Collateral Ligament, Achilles Tendon and Patellar Tendon as Cell Sources For Tissue-Engineered Ligament

January 1, 2006

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James A. Cooper, L A. Bailey, Janell N. Carter, Cynthia Castiglioni, Michelle D. Kofron, Frank K. Ko, Cato T. Laurencin

Characterization of High Explosive Particles Using Cluster Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry

January 1, 2006

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John G. Gillen, Scott A. Wight, Christine M. Mahoney, Richard T. Lareau

Mesoporous nanoparticle TiO2 thin films for conductometric gas sensing on microhotplate plateforms

January 1, 2006

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Kurt D. Benkstein, Stephen Semancik

Effect of Shear Flow on Multi-Component Polymer Mixtures

January 1, 2006

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Charles C. Han, Yonghua Yao, C.L. Zhang, Erik K. Hobbie

There is considerable interest in the phase behavior of multi-component polymer mixtures, the so-called polymer blends, due to their broad technological...

Report On The 4Th Annual Nist Polymer Mass Spectrometry Workshop: 'Future Directions In Soft Ionization Of Polymers'

January 1, 2006

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William E. Wallace

Characterization of single functionalized quantum dots using combined atomic force and confocal fluorescence microscopy

January 1, 2006

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D S. Kim, K Okamoto, Lori S. Goldner, Jeeseong C. Hwang

Raman Spectroscopic Moinitoring of Droplet Polymerization in a Microfluidic Device

January 1, 2006

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Susan E. Barnes, Zuzanna T. Cygan, Jesse K. Yates, Kathryn Beers, Eric J. Amis

Coefficient of Contribution to the Combined Standard Uncertainty

January 1, 2006

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Raghu N. Kacker, Rudiger Kessel, Michael Berglund

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement (GUM) describes a generic procedure for...

Current Induced DomainWall Distortions

January 1, 2006

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Willard C. Uhlig, John Unguris

We have directly imaged the spin transfer torque induced distortion of domain walls in current carrying ferromagnetic wires. Domain walls ranging from vortex...