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John M. Butler, Amy E. Decker, Margaret C. Kline, Peter M. Vallone
Y-chromosome short tandem repeat (Y-STR) markers are being touted as potential tools for distinguishing low levels of male DNA in the presence of excess female...
Microcalorimetry and high-performance liquid chromatography (h.p.l.c) have been used to conduct a thermodynamic investigation of the following nitrilase...
Today s modern commercial building has multiple control systems programmed to run different building systems. Network communications carry commands from...
Evacuation calculations are increasingly becoming a part of performance-based analyses to assess the level of life safety provided in buildings. In some cases...
Dibenzylidene sorbitol (DBS) is a sugar derivative that is capable of self-organizing into a 3D nanofibrillar network at relatively low concentrations in a wide...
John S. Villarrubia, Andras Vladar, Michael T. Postek
Abstract: The ability of a critical dimension scanning electron microscope (CD-SEM) to resolve differences in the widths of two lines depends on the instrument...
The National Software Reference Library (NSRL) of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) collects software from various sources and...
Cytochromes P450 are known to exhibit a wide variety of catalytic functions, as well as to possess activity against a large number of hydrocarbon substrates...
S H. Lee, Stephen R. Thomas, C L. Macken, Robert E. Chapman, R L. Tucker, I H. Kim
This paper measures the value of best practices based on data taken from the Construction Industry Institute Benchmarking and Metrics database. A three-step...
Elizabeth Mirowski, John M. Moreland, Arthur Zhang, Stephen E. Russek, Michael J. Donahue
We have integrated a microfluidic magnetic trap platform with an external magnetic force microscope (MFM) cantilever. The MFM cantilever tip serves as a...
We present a method for defining the magnetic moment of a reference material based on a torsional resonator with a patterned magnetic film on its surface. Given...
N Noda, Y E. Lee, Anthony J. Bur, Vivek Prabhu, Chad R. Snyder, S C. Roth, M M. McBrearty
Nylon 6/ clay nanocomposites were studied by dielectric relaxation spectroscopy (DRS) to correlate morphology and microstructure with relaxation behavior of the...
X-ray diffraction topography was used to investigate the relationship between sub-surface damage, near-surface microstructure, and fracture strength in a series...
Charles M. Guttman, S Wetzel, Kathleen M. Flynn, B M. Fanconi, David L. VanderHart, William E. Wallace
A matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) interlaboratory comparison was conducted on mixtures of synthetic...
The current-induced magnetization dynamics of a spin valve are studied using a macrospin (single-domain) approximation and numerical solutions of a generalized...
L Granasy, T Pusztai, G -. Tegze, James A. Warren, Jack F. Douglas
Many structural materials (metal alloys, polymers, minerals, etc.) are formed by quenching liquids to form crystalline solids. This highly non-equilibrium...
Vladislav Gerginov, C E. Tanner, Scott Diddams, A Bartels, Leo W. Hollberg
The output of a mode-locked femtosecond-laser is used for high resolution single-photon spectroscopy of ^133}Cs in an atomic beam. The laser is referenced...
To determine an equilibrium state between two pressure balances accurately, the measurement method using a precise pressure transducer and two air-operated...
XuanFang Zha, Ram D. Sriram, M Fernandez, F Mistree
Engineering design is essentially a collaborative decision-making process that requires rigorous evaluation, comparison and selection of design alternatives and...