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NCWM Publication 15, Interim Meeting Agenda - January 2003

January 1, 2003

Author(s)

H V. Oppermann, T L. Grimes

This is the agenda for the four Standing Committees of the National Conference on Weights and Measures. The meeting will be held in Bethesda, MD, January 27-30...

Earning the Stamp of Approval: How to Achieve Optimal Usability

January 1, 2003

Author(s)

Susan L. Makar

Since the NIST Virtual Library (NVL) was first launched in 1994, scientists and engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have relied on...

Preliminary Results of Aperture Area Comparison for Exo-Atmospheric Solar Irradiance

January 1, 2003

Author(s)

Bettye C. Johnson, Maritoni A. Litorja, James J. Butler

Improvements to the NIST Fire Dynamics Simulator

January 1, 2003

Author(s)

Kevin B. McGrattan, J E. Floyd, Glenn P. Forney, Howard R. Baum, Simo A. Hostikka

A new version of the NIST Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) was released in the fall of 2001. Improvements have been made to the combustion and radiation routines...

System-level Calibration of a Transfer Radiometer used to Validate EOS Radiance Scales

January 1, 2003

Author(s)

Bettye C. Johnson, Steven W. Brown, George P. Eppeldauer, Keith R. Lykke

Thermal and Flammability Properties of a Silica-Poly(methylmethacrylate) Nanocomposite

January 1, 2003

Author(s)

Takashi Kashiwagi, A B. Morgan, Joseph M. Antonucci, Mark R. VanLandingham, Richard H. Harris Jr., W H. Awad, John R. Shields

MMA, poly(metheylmethacrylate), nanocomposites were made by in situ radical polymerization of MMA, methylmethacrylate, with colloidal silica (ca. 12 nm) to...

Molecular Dynamics Calculation of the Diffusivity of Sodium Chloride in Steam

January 1, 2003

Author(s)

Allan H. Harvey, Raymond D. Mountain

Molecular dynamics simulation is used to calculate the diffusivity of sodium chloride at infinite dilution in high-temperature steam at seven state points...

The Apex Method in Image Sharpening and the Use of Low Exponent Levy Stable Laws

January 1, 2003

Author(s)

Alfred S. Carasso

The APEX method is an FFT-based direct blind deconvolution technique that can process complex high-resolution imagery in a few minutes of cpu time on current...

Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer Between Donor-Acceptor Pair on Two Oligonucleotides Hybridized Adjacently to a DNA Template

January 1, 2003

Author(s)

Lili Wang, Adolfas K. Gaigalas, J L. Blasic, Marcia J. Holden, David T. Gallagher, R Pires

We have used fluorescein as the energy donor and rhodamine as the acceptor to measure the efficiency of fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) in a set...

The Influence of Liquid Pool Temperature on the Critical Impact Weber Number for Splashing

January 1, 2003

Author(s)

Samuel L. Manzello, Jiann C. Yang

An experimental study is presented to determine the influence of liquid pool temperature on splashing behavior. Water droplets with initial diameter of 3.1 mm 0...

Processing Degradation of Polyamide 6/Montmorillonite Clay Nanocomposites and Clay Organic Modifier

January 1, 2003

Author(s)

Rick D. Davis, Jeffrey W. Gilman, David L. VanderHart

Under injection molding conditions, typical of industrial processing, in situ polymerized montmorillonite/polyamide 6 nanocomposites significantly degraded...

Comparative Electronic Structure of a Lanthanide and Actinide Diatomic Oxide: Nd versus U

January 1, 2003

Author(s)

Morris Krauss, W J. Stevens

Using a modified version of the ALCHEMY electronic structure code and relativistic pseudopotentials, the electronic structure of the ground and low-lying...

The ASTM Copper Strip Corrosion Test: Application to Propane with Carbonyl Sulfide and Hydrogen Sulfide

January 1, 2003

Author(s)

W C. Andersen, Ilmutdin Abdulagatov, Thomas J. Bruno

Carbonyl sulfide (COS), which occurs as an impurity in commercial sources of propane, can hydrolyze in the presence of water to form hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and...

Recent Results of NIST Realizations of the ITS-90 Below 84 K

January 1, 2003

Author(s)

Weston L. Tew, Christopher W. Meyer

The results at NIST of realizations and comparisons of the ITS-90 below 84 K are presented. The 3He and 4He vapor pressure scales (0.65 K to 5.0 K), and the...

Linearity of InGaAs Photodiodes

January 1, 2003

Author(s)

Howard W. Yoon, James J. Butler, Thomas C. Larason, George P. Eppeldauer

Effects of Ultraviolet Radiation Exposure on Vinyl Ester Resins: Characterization of Chemical, Physical, and Mechanical Damage

January 1, 2003

Author(s)

A Signor, Joannie W. Chin, Mark R. VanLandingham

The increased use of fiber-reinforced vinyl ester composites in outdoor applications has led to questions concerning the environmental durability of these...

Certification of Standard Reference Material 970, Ascorbic Acid in Serum, and Analysis of Associated Interlaboratory Bias in the Measurement Process

January 1, 2003

Author(s)

S A. Margolis, M Vangel, David L. Duewer

Crystal structure of the YajQ protein from Haemophilus influenzae reveals a tandem of RNP-like domains

January 1, 2003

Author(s)

A Teplyakov, G Obmolova, Prasad T. Reddy, A J. Howard, G L. Gilliland

A hypothetical protein encoded by the gene YajQ of Haemophilus influenzae was selected, as part of a structural genomics project, for x-ray crystallographic...

The Influence of Agarose Concentration in Gels on the Electrophoretic Trapping of Circular DNA

January 1, 2003

Author(s)

Kenneth D. Cole, B. Akerman

The concentration of agarose in electrophoresis gels was found to have significant effects on the apparent density and release characteristics of the...

Micromechanical Instruments for Ferromagnetic Measurements

January 1, 2003

Author(s)

John M. Moreland

I review some of the novel methods for measuring ferromagnetic properties of thin films based on micromechanical magnetometers. Measurements rely on the...

Determination of Polychlorinated Biphenyl Congeners and Chlorinated Pesticides in a Fish Tissue Standard Reference Material

January 1, 2003

Author(s)

Dianne L. Poster, John R. Kucklick, Michele M. Schantz, Barbara J. Porter, Stefan D. Leigh, Stephen A. Wise

Beauty Baryons and Neutrinos as Dark Matter

January 1, 2003

Author(s)

Egon Marx

Dark matter, according to a model of strong, weak, and electromagnetic interactions of elementary particles called the SWEEP model, is composed of beauty...

Photomask Dimensional Metrology in the SEM Part I: Has Anything Really Changed?

January 1, 2003

Author(s)

Michael T. Postek, Andras Vladar, Marylyn H. Bennett

Photomask dimensional metrology in the scanning electron microscope (SEM) has not evolved as rapidly as the metrology of resists and integrated circuit features...

Information Transfer Capability and Signal Processing Performance of Modern Scanning Electron Microscopes

January 1, 2003

Author(s)

Zsolt Radi, Andras Vladar, Michael T. Postek

The scanning electron microscope (SEM) produces images with signals generated through the interaction of the primary electrons and the sample material. The...

Collinear Optical Coherence and Confocal Fluorescence Microscopies for Tissue Engineering

January 1, 2003

Author(s)

Joy P. Dunkers, Marcus T. Cicerone, N. R. Washburn

We have combined confocal optical coherence (OCM) and confocal fluorescence (CFM) microscopies to gather simultaneous structural and functional information on...

Chemistry and Properties of Phenolic Resins and Networks

January 1, 2003

Author(s)

Sheng Lin-Gibson, J S. Riffle

This book chapter emphasizes the recent mechanistic and kinetic findings on phenolic oligomer synthesis and network formation. The synthesis and...

Scaffold Structure and Cell Function Through Multimodal Imaging and Quantitative Visualization

January 1, 2003

Author(s)

Joy P. Dunkers, Marcus T. Cicerone

Calibrated thermal microscopy of the tool-chp interface in machining

January 1, 2003

Author(s)

Matthew A. Davies, Howard W. Yoon, Tony L. Schmitz, Timothy J. Burns, Michael Kennedy

This paper presents the results of calibrated, microscopic measurement of the temperature fields at the tool-chip interface during the steady-state, orthogonal...

Subsolidus Phase Equilibria and Crystal Chemistry in the System BaO-TiO₂-Ta₂O₅

January 1, 2003

Author(s)

Terrell A. Vanderah, Robert S. Roth, T Siegrist, W Febo, J. M. Loezos, Winnie K. Wong-Ng

Subsolidus phase relations have been determined for the BaO: TiO 2Ta 2O 5 system. Approximately 100 specimens were prepared in air at temperatures near but...

Friction and Adhesion Measurements Between a Fluorocarbon Surface and a Hydrocarbon Surface in Air

January 1, 2003

Author(s)

P M. McGuiggan

In this abstract, we report the first measurements of the friction between a fluorocarbon monolayer and a hydrocarbon monolayer. Because the fluorocarbon and...

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