Journals

Ignition Propensity and Heat Flux Profiles of Candle Flames for Fire Investigation

January 28, 2003

Author(s)

Scott E. Dillon, Anthony Hamins

Common household open flame and radiant ignition sources are the actual or suspected cause for many fires. Because of their popular use, fire investigators have...

Forensic Analysis of Hair Surface Components Using Off-Line Supercritical Fluid Extraction and Large Volume Injection

January 28, 2003

Author(s)

J V. Goodpaster, J J. Bishop, Bruce A. Benner Jr.

Experimental Demonstration of a Technique to Generate Arbitrary Quantum Superposition States of a Harmonically Bound Spin-1/2 Particle

January 24, 2003

Author(s)

A Ben-kish, B M. Demarco, V Meyer, Mary A. Rowe, Joseph W. Britton, Wayne M. Itano, Branislav M. Jelenkovic, Christopher Langer, Dietrich Leibfried, Till P. Rosenband, David J. Wineland

Using a single, harmonically trapped 9Be+ ion, we experimentally demonstrate a technique for generation of arbitrary states of a two-level particle confined by...

Laser-cooled ion plasmas in Penning Traps

January 23, 2003

Author(s)

John J. Bollinger, J M. Kriesel, T B. Mitchell, L B. King, M J. Jensen, Wayne M. Itano, D H. Dubin

Evidence for Structural Changes in Carboxyl-Terminal Peptides of Transducin Alpha-Subunit Upon Binding a Soluble Mimic of Light-Activated Rhodopsin

January 21, 2003

Author(s)

D M. Brabazon, N G. Abdulaev, John Marino, K D. Ridge

Although a high-resolution crystal structure for the ground state of rhodopsin is now available, portions of the cytoplasmic surface are not well resolved and...

Determination of Cr in Certified Reference Material HISS-1, Marine Sediment, by Cold Plasma Isotope Dilution ICP-MS and INAA: Comparison of Microwave versus Closed (Carius) Tube Digestion

January 16, 2003

Author(s)

William R. Kelly, Karen E. Murphy, D. A. Becker, Jacqueline L. Mann

Thermodynamics of the Lipase-Catalyzed Transesterification of 1-Phenyl-1-Alkanols and Butyl Acetate in Organic Solvents

January 16, 2003

Author(s)

Yadu D. Tewari, David J. Vanderah, J D. Rozzell

The thermodynamics of the lipase-catalyzed transesterification reactions of butyl acetate and 1-phenyl-1-alkanols from C 1 to C 4 have been studied in organic...

Mechanical Behavior of Caulks and Sealants

January 15, 2003

Author(s)

Donald L. Hunston, Christopher C. White

ulks and Sealants are important examples of consumer products where performance depends critically on rheological properties. This work describes the...

Determination of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons with Molecular Weight 300 and 302 in Environmental-Matrix Standard Reference Materials by Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry

January 15, 2003

Author(s)

Patricia Schubert, Michele M. Schantz, Lane C. Sander, Stephen Wise

A Mechanism for Brightening: Linear Stability Analysis of the Curvature Enhanced Coverage Model

January 6, 2003

Author(s)

Geoffrey B. McFadden, Sam R. Coriell, Thomas P. Moffat, Daniel Josell, Daniel Wheeler, W Schwarzacher

This work presents experiments and theory describing a mechanism for how brighteners in electrolytes function. The mechanism involves change of local coverage...

Temperature and Field Dependence of High-Frequency Magnetic Noise in Spin Valve Devices

January 6, 2003

Author(s)

N. A. Stutzke, S. L. Burkett, Stephen E. Russek

High-frequency noise of micrometer-dimension spin valve devices has been measured as a function of applied field and temperature. The data are well fit with...

Testing with Model Checker: Insuring Fault Visibility

January 5, 2003

Author(s)

Vadim Okun, Paul E. Black, Yelena Yesha

To detect a fault in software, a test case execution must be chosen so intermediate errors propagate to the output. We describe two modeling methods for...

Single-Cooper-Pair Transistors: Requirements for Robust 2e Periodicity

January 3, 2003

Author(s)

Joe Aumentado, Mark W. Keller, John M. Martinis

The superconducting analog of the single-electron transistor (SET), the single-Cooper-pair transistor (SCPT), is comprised of two ultrasmall tunnel junctions in...

An investigation of two unexplored periodic error sources in differential-path interferometry

January 2, 2003

Author(s)

Tony L. Schmitz, J F. Beckwith

This paper describes two sources of periodic error in differential-path interferometry that have remained largely unexplored: dynamic periodic error that is...

Oxygen Atom Interactions with Fused Silica Surfaces: ^1_andu3P State-Resolved Energy Transfer Dynamics

January 1, 2003

Author(s)

Steven A. Buntin, Maritoni A. Litorja

A laser-based O atom beam source together with state-resolved detection techniques are used to characterize the energy transfer dynamics of ground ( 3PJ) and...

Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry Using Cluster Primary Ion Beams

January 1, 2003

Author(s)

John G. Gillen, Albert J. Fahey

At the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) we have a capability for conducting cluster SIMS experiments on both our ion microscope and TOF...

Combinatorial Investigations of Interfacial Failure

January 1, 2003

Author(s)

A J. Crosby, Alamgir Karim, Eric J. Amis

Effect of Acidic Comonomers on Methacrylate Conversion and Mechancial Strength of Bioreactive Composites Based on Amorphous Calcium Phosphate

January 1, 2003

Author(s)

Joseph M. Antonucci, Walter G. McDonough, D W. Liu, Drago Skrtic

Effect of Acidic Comonomers on Methacrylate Conversion and Mechanical Strength of Bioactive Composites Based on Amorphous Calcium Phosphate

January 1, 2003

Author(s)

Joseph M. Antonucci, Walter G. McDonough, Da-Wei Liu, Drago Skrtic

Prior research utilizing a monomer system consisting of the dental monomers Bis-GMA and TEGDMA at equal masse levels with neutral, hydrophilic monomers...

Chemistry of Silanes Interfaces in Dental Polymers and Composites

January 1, 2003

Author(s)

Joseph M. Antonucci, Sabine H. Dickens, Bruce O. Fowler, H H. Xu, Walter G. McDonough

The performance and service life of glass- or ceramic-filled polymeric composites depend on the nature of their resin, filler and interfacial phases as well as...

MALDI of Structured Polymer Particles

January 1, 2003

Author(s)

Barry J. Bauer, Kathleen M. Flynn

A layered preparation method is introduced that produces structured MALDI targets with well-defined phase sizes and compositions. Tri-a-naphthyl benzene is a...

Combinatorial Investigation of Dewetting: Polystyrene Thin Films on Gradient Hydrophilic Surfaces

January 1, 2003

Author(s)

K M. Ashley, J C. Meredith, Eric J. Amis, D T. Raghavan, Alamgir Karim

Practical Aspects of Acoustic Emission Source Location by a Wavelet Transform

January 1, 2003

Author(s)

Marvin A. Hamstad, K S. Downs, Agnes O'Gallagher

An algoithmic approach to improve the accuracy of AE source location was demonstrated by using a large database of wideband-acoustic-emission-(AE)-modeled...

Femtosecond laser stabilization: Time and frequency domain applications

January 1, 2003

Author(s)

R J. Jones, K W. Holman, Jun Ye, E Potma, X S. Xie

Delivery of high stability optical and microwave frequency standards over an optical fiber network

January 1, 2003

Author(s)

Jun Ye, J -. Peng, R J. Jones, K W. Holman, John L. Hall, D J. Jones, Scott A. Diddams, John E. Kitching, S Bize, James C. Bergquist, Leo W. Hollberg, Lennart Robertsson, L -. Ma