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Process Specification Language for Project Information Exchange

August 1, 2003

Author(s)

Michael Gruninger, Ram D. Sriram, J. Cheng, K Law

There are many project scheduling and management programs employed in the construction industry. Standards-based translation is one way to achieve...

UML 2 Activity and Action Models, Part 2: Actions

August 1, 2003

Author(s)

Conrad E. Bock

This is the second in a series introducing the activity model in the Unified Modeling Language, version 2 (UML 2), and how it integrates with the action model...

A Logical Model of Conceptual Integrity in Data Integration

August 1, 2003

Author(s)

David W. Flater

Conceptual integrity is required for the result of data integration to be cohesive and sensible. Compromised conceptual integrity results in semantic faults...

Combinatorial Approach to the Edge Delamination Test for Thin Film Reliability - Concept and Simulation

August 1, 2003

Author(s)

Martin Chiang, Wen-Li Wu, J He, Eric J. Amis

A high-throughput combinatorial approach to the edge delamination test is proposed. This approach can construct the failure map as a function of temperature and...

Time-Division Superconducting Quantum Interference Device Multiplexer for Transition-Edge Sensors

August 1, 2003

Author(s)

Piet DeKorte, Joern Beyer, Steven Deiker, Gene C. Hilton, Kent D. Irwin, Michael MacIntosh, Sae Woo Nam, Carl D. Reintsema, Leila R. Vale, Martin Huber

We report on the design and performance of our second-generation 32-channel time-division multiplexer developed for the read-out of large-format arrays of...

Multihop Sensor Network Design for Wideband Communications

August 1, 2003

Author(s)

Hamid Gharavi, K Ban

This paper presents a master/slave cellular based mobile ad-hoc network architecture for multihop multimedia communications. The proposed network is based on a...

Designing Damage-Resistant Brittle-Coating Structures: II. Trilayers

August 1, 2003

Author(s)

P Miranda, Antonia Pajares, F Guiberteau, Y N. Deng, H Zhao, Brian R. Lawn

An extension of the FEA-based damage analysis for bilayers in Part I is presented for trilayers consisting of a functional outer layer on an underlying...

Designing Damage-Resistant Brittle-Coating Structures: I. Bilayers

August 1, 2003

Author(s)

P Miranda, Antonia Pajares, F Guiberteau, Y N. Deng, Brian R. Lawn

A FEA study of coating/substrate bilayers is conducted as a foundation for damage analysis. Attention is focused on the stresses along the contact axis...

Angular Response Characteristics of Ellipsoidal Radiometers

August 1, 2003

Author(s)

A V. Murthy, D P. DeWitt, Gerald T. Fraser

This paper presents an experimental study of the angular response of an ellipsoidal radiometer performed using a 25 mm diameter variable temperature blackbody...

Atomistic Description of the Electronic Structure of T-Shaped Quantum Wires

August 1, 2003

Author(s)

Javier Aizpurua, G C. Bryant, W Jaskolski

We use an atomistic tight-binding theory to study arrays of T-shaped GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wires. An atomistic approach allows us to provide a theory of the...

High Resolution Spectrum of Xenon Ions at 13.4 nm

August 1, 2003

Author(s)

S S. Churilov, Y N. Joshi, Joseph Reader

The spectrum of xenon excited in a low-inductance vacuum spark was photographed at high resolution in the region 9.5 nm - 15.5 nm. The observed transitions were...

A Semantic Web Service Framework to Intelligent Distributed Manufacturing

August 1, 2003

Author(s)

Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Hyunbo Cho, Y J. Son

As markets become unexpectedly turbulent with a shortened product life cycle and a power shift towards buyers, the need for methods to rapidly and cost...

Integration Framework of Process Planning based on Resource Independent Operation Summary to Support Collaborative Manufacturing

August 1, 2003

Author(s)

Boonserm Kulvatunyou, R A. Wysk, Hyunbo Cho, Albert T. Jones

In today?s global manufacturing environment, manufacturing functions are distributed as never before. Design, engineering, fabrication, and assembly of new...

Model-Driven Integration Using Legacy Models

August 1, 2003

Author(s)

Peter O. Denno, Michelle P. Steves, Donald E. Libes, Edward J. Barkmeyer Jr.

The paper describes a model-driven method of systems integration using legacy models. The method defines relationships between elements of legacy models to...

Design and Characterization of a Photometer/Colorimeter Standard

August 1, 2003

Author(s)

J Racz, George P. Eppeldauer

A photometer/tristimulus colorimeter has been developed at the National Institute of Standards and TEchnology (NIST) to realize a color scale. A novel...

Special Section on Compound Semiconductor Microelectronics Manufacturing: The Future Is Here

August 1, 2003

Author(s)

Rolf Jaeger, Jesus A. Del Alamo, Masumi Fukuta, Herbert S. Bennett, Christopher M. Snowden

A 420 MHz Cr:forsterite Femtosecond Ring Laser and Its Use for Continuum Generation in the 1-2 Micron Range

August 1, 2003

Author(s)

I Thomann, A Bartels, Kristan L. Corwin, Nathan R. Newbury, Leo W. Hollberg, Scott Diddams, Jeffrey W. Nicholson, M. F. Yan

We demonstrate a chromium-doped forsterite femtosecond ring laser that generates 30-fs pulses at a 420-MHz repetition rate with nearly 500 mW of average power...

Ion energy disribution and optical measurements in high-density, inductively coupled C^4F^6 discharges

August 1, 2003

Author(s)

Eric C. Benck, Amanda N. Goyettes, Yicheng Wang

Quantum Yield of the Iodide/Iodate Chemical Actinometer: Dependence on Wavelength and Concentration

August 1, 2003

Author(s)

R O. Rahn, M I. Stefan, J R. Bolton, E Goren, Ping-Shine Shaw, Keith R. Lykke

The quantum yield (QY) of the iodide/iodate chemical actinometer (0.6 M KI/ 0.1 M K103) was determinedirradiation between 214 run and 330 mu. The photoproduct...

Rapid Deformation of Thin Gold Layers in Polymer Matrices Studied by X-Ray Reflectivity

August 1, 2003

Author(s)

K Shin, H Wang, Sushil K. Satija, Charles C. Han, Daniel Josell, John E. Bonevich

We have used X-ray reflectivity to measure the morphological profiles of thin Au layers of three different average thicknesses sandwiched between two...

The Polmerization of Actin: Thermodynamics Near the Polymeriztion Line

August 1, 2003

Author(s)

P S. Niranjan, H Yim, D Forbes, S C. Greer, J Dudowicz, Karl Freed, Jack F. Douglas

We report here new measurements of the extent of polymerization of rabbit muscle actin as a function of T , initial G-actin concentration and initiating salt...

Elastic Constants of Natural Quartz

August 1, 2003

Author(s)

Paul R. Heyliger, H M. Ledbetter, Sudook A. Kim

We measured the elastic constants of a natural-quartz sphere using resonance-ultrasound spectroscopy (RUS). Our measurements of the near-traction-free...

Validation of CMM Task Specific Measurement Uncertainity Software

August 1, 2003

Author(s)

M P. Henke, J M. Baldwin, K Summerhays, B Rasnick, P Murray, Daniel S. Sawyer, Bruce R. Borchardt, Steven D. Phillips, Craig M. Shakarji

Task specific CMM measurement uncertainty statements can be generated using computer (Monte Carlo) simulation. REcently, commercial products using this powerful...

420 MHz Cr:forsterite femtosecond ring laser and continuum generation in the 1-2 micron range

August 1, 2003

Author(s)

I Thomann, A Bartels, K L. Corwin, Nathan R. Newbury, Leo W. Hollberg, Scott Diddams, J W. Nicholson, M. F. Yan

What Are Lighting Controls Protocols, and Why Does Anyone Care About Them?

July 31, 2003

Author(s)

Stephen J. Treado

Lighting controls protocols are discussed. Key elements are power and flexibility, both in system design and implementation, and in operation. The overriding...

Application of Control Charts for Detecting Faults in Variable-Air-Volume Boxes

July 31, 2003

Author(s)

J Schein

This paper describes a fault detection method developed for application to variable-air-volume (VAV) boxes. VPACC (VAV Box Performance Assessment Control Charts...

Base-Dependent Competitive Adsorption of Single-Stranded DNA on Gold

July 30, 2003

Author(s)

H Y. Kimura-Suda, D Y. Petrovykh, Michael J. Tarlov, L J. Whitman

Aqueous solutions of single-stranded DNA probes (ssDNA) are widely used with gold surfaces in current biotechnology and emerging nanotechnology applications...

Building a Filtering Test Collection for TREC 2002

July 28, 2003

Author(s)

Ian M. Soboroff, S E. Robertson

Test collections for the filtering track in TREC have typically used either past sets of relevance judgments, or categorized collections such as Reuters Corpus...

Demonstration of a Low-Noise Near-Infrared Photon Counter with Multiphoton Discrimination

July 28, 2003

Author(s)

Aaron J. Miller, Sae Woo Nam, John M. Martinis, A. Sergeinko

We have demonstrated a system capable of directly measuring the photon-number state of a single pulse of light using a superconducting transition-edge sensor...

Synthesis and Characterization of C₁₃ to C₁₈ Stationary Phases by Monomeric, Polymeric, and Self-assembled Monolayer Approaches

July 25, 2003

Author(s)

Catherine A. Rimmer, Lane C. Sander, Stephen A. Wise, J. G. Dorsey

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