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Dimerization of two homologous strands of genomic RNA is an essential feature of retroviral replication. In the human immunodeficiency virus type I (HIV-1), a...
A growing number of applications are utilizing so-called intelligent systems. As for any complex system, specifications are necessary for guiding the...
Kevin B. McGrattan, Howard R. Baum, Ronald G. Rehm, Glenn P. Forney, Kuldeep R. Prasad
Scientists and engineers are often asked to make predictions of the state of technology in the future and are usually laughably wrong. The best prognosticators...
Thomas P. Moffat, Daniel Wheeler, C Witt, Daniel Josell
This paper demonstrates superconformal electrodeposition of copper in trenches using a two step process. The substrate is first derivitized with a submonolayer...
Jeffrey W. Gilman, W H. Awad, Rick D. Davis, John R. Shields, Richard H. Harris Jr., C H. Davis, A B. Morgan, T E. Sutto, J H. Callahan, Paul C. Trulove, H DeLong
The limited thermal stability of alkylammonium cations intercalated into smectite minerals (e.g., montmorillonite, MMT) and the processing instability of some...
The lattice Boltzmann method is a promising approach for modeling single and multicomponent fluid flow in complex geometries like porous materials. Here, we...
Xiaohong Gu, D T. Raghavan, Jack F. Douglas, Alamgir Karim
We investigate the dewetting of aqueous, evaporating polymer [poly(acrylic acid)] solutions cast on hydrophobic (polystyrene) substrates. As with typical...
We received two copies of the discussion: one from the journal and a corrected version directly from Dr. Chatterji. Based on the differences between the two...
This work falls within the scope of a genera! problem regarding the assessment of concrete manufactured from waste materials. The main objective is to study the...
Diane K. Hancock, Frederick P. Schwarz, F H. Song, L J. Wong, Barbara C. Levin
Most pathogenic human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations are Heteroplasmic and are difficult to detect when present at very low levels in a population of...
Kuldeep R. Prasad, S L. Olson, Y N. Nakamura, K K. Nishizawa, K. Ito, Takashi Kashiwagi
A three-dimensional, time-dependent model is developed describing ignition and subsequent transition to flame spread over a thermally thin cellulosic sheet...
Richard D. Peacock, Paul A. Reneke, Jason D. Averill, Richard W. Bukowski, J H. Klote
As part of the passenger equipment rulemaking required by Congress, the Federal Railroad Adminstration (FRA) has issued new requirements making its existing...
W M. Gibson, A J. Schultz, Huaiyu H. Chen-Mayer, David F. Mildner, Thomas H. Gnaeupel-Herold, M E. Miller, H J. Prask, R Vitt, R Youngman, J M. Carpenter
J He, Martin Y. Chiang, Donald L. Hunston, Charles C. Han
The v-notch (losipescu) shear test was investigated as a mean for determining the in-plane shear modulus and strength of unidirectional hybrid composites. Two...
Procedures for testing research materials for the determination of the extent of within-specimen heterogeneity and between-specimen heterogeneity are described...
James C. Booth, S. Y. Lee, J. H. Lee, Jung Hoon Han, S. H. Moon, H. N. Lee, John H. Claassen
The surface resistance !RS" and the real part !!1" of the microwave complex conductivity of a #380-nm-thick polycrystalline MgB2 film with the critical...
Cher H. Davis, L J. Mathias, Jeffrey W. Gilman, D Schiraldi, Paul C. Trulove, T X. Suttos, H X. DeLong
The effects of melt intercalation processing conditons on the quality of poly(ethylene terephthalate) montmorillonite clay nanocomposites have been investigated...
This paper describes air interface standards for wireless local area network (LAN), wireless metropolitan area network (MAN), and wireless personal area network...