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The Use of Cyclic Phosphazene Additives to Enhance the Performance of the Head/Disk Interface

January 29, 1999

Author(s)

H J. Kang, Q Zhao, F E. Talke, D J. Perettie, B M. DeKoven, T A. Morgan, Daniel A. Fischer, Stephen M. Hsu, C S. Bhatia

Phase separation of phosphazene additives in perfluoropolyalkylether (PFPAE) lubricants is investigated as a function of additive concentration and lubricant...

The Strength of Solvent-Exposed Salt Bridges

January 28, 1999

Author(s)

R Luo, L David, H Hung, J Devaney, M K. Gilson

Effects of Wear Motion on Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene (HMWPE) Molecular Orientation

January 28, 1999

Author(s)

S Sambasivan, Daniel A. Fischer, M C. Shen, Stephen M. Hsu

In a human hip joint, the motion is complex and consists of flexion/extension, abduction, and adduction. Laboratory studies have shown that these motions...

User Evaluation of Automatically Generated Semantic Hypertext Links in a Heavily Used Precedural Manual

January 18, 1999

Author(s)

John M. Tebbutt

This paper is an interim report on our efforts at NIST to construct an information discovery tool through the fusion of Hypertext and Information Retrieval (IR)...

Simple Empirical Cluster Expansion Hamiltonians for Modeling Cation Order-Disorder in A(B'^d1/3B2/3)O3 Perovskites Such as Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3

January 15, 1999

Author(s)

Benjamin P. Burton

Brute force exploration of the simple cubic effective cluster interaction space indicates that linear triplet interaction is both necessary and sufficient to...

Logarithmic Convexity and the 'Slow Evolution' Constraint in Ill-Posed Initial Value Problems

January 15, 1999

Author(s)

Alfred S. Carasso

This paper examines a wide class of ill-posed initial value problems for partial differential equations, and surveys logarithmic convexity results leading to...

On The Reversion of an Asymptotic Expansion and the Zeros of the Airy Functions

January 15, 1999

Author(s)

Bruce R. Fabijonas, Frank W. Olver

The general theories of the derivation of inverses of functions from their power series and asymptotic expansions are discussed and compared. The asymptotic...

On the Distribution of the Limit of Products of I.I.D 2 x 2 Random Stochastic Matrices

January 15, 1999

Author(s)

A Mukherjea, Anastase Nakassis, J S. Ratti

This article extends the results of [3] by establishing sufficient conditions for the limit distribution of products of i.i.d. 2 x 2 random stochastic matrices...

The NIST Display Interface Testbed: The Development of a Centrally Controlled Testing System for the Automated Generation of Stimuli and Control Feedback

January 12, 1999

Author(s)

John W. Roberts, J A. Ward

Impressive advances are being made in the field of display metrology, as illustrated in standards such as the Video Electronics Standards Association's Flat...

Effect of Film Composition on the Orientation of (Ba,Sr)TiO₃ Grains in (Ba,Sr)_yTiO_2+y Thin Films

January 12, 1999

Author(s)

Debra L. Kaiser, Mark D. Vaudin, L D. Rotter, John E. Bonevich, J T. Armstrong

(Ba,Sr) yTiO 2+y thin films with 0.34 {1-xSr xTiO 3 (x {aproximately equal to} 0.06) and an amorphous phase. The orientation of the tetragonal Ba 1-xSr xTiO 3...

Electronic Structure and Spectra of Oxovanadium Silicate

January 11, 1999

Author(s)

Morris Krauss

The electronic structure and spectroscopy of the oxovanadium catalytic center on a silica surface is modeled with the molecule OV(OSIH 3)3. Excited electronic...

Standards for the rapid prototyping industry

January 4, 1999

Author(s)

Kevin K. Jurrens

This paper proposes that development of formalized standards for the rapid prototyping (RP) industry will help enable the continued growth and further...

Comparison of Results of Calibrating the Magnitude of the Sensitivity of Accelerometers by Laser Interferometry and Reciprocity

January 1, 1999

Author(s)

Beverly F. Payne, David J. Evans

Minimizing the uncertainty in the calibration of accelerometers by the reciprocity method requires minimizing the cross-axis component of the induced motion...

Real-Time Measurements of Condensed-Phase Spectra in Burning Polymers

January 1, 1999

Author(s)

Marc R. Nyden

A major goal of the Building and Fire Research Laboratory is to provide the polymer industry with the technical understanding and measurement tools that are...

Quantifying Fire Model Evaluation Using Functional Analysis

January 1, 1999

Author(s)

Richard D. Peacock, Paul A. Reneke, William D. Davis, Walter W. Jones

Comparisons of predictive fire models with each other or with experimental data have been largely qualitative. By treating these time series curves as infinite...

Upward Flame Spread on Composite Materials

January 1, 1999

Author(s)

Thomas J. Ohlemiller, Thomas G. Cleary

Three existing models of upward flame spread were tested against intermediate-scale experiments on a vinyl-ester/glass composite. Characterization of rate of...

Vapor Nucleation in a Cryogenic-Fluid-Dissovled-Nitrogen Mixture During Rapid Depressurization

January 1, 1999

Author(s)

Jiann C. Yang, Thomas G. Cleary, Marcia L. Huber, William L. Grosshandler

The behaviour of four cryogenic-fluid-dissolved-nitrogen mixtures inside a pressure vessel during rapid depressurization was investigated through experiment...

Comparisons of Control Charts for Autocorrelated Data

January 1, 1999

Author(s)

Nien F. Zhang

Recently, statistical process control (SPC) methodolgies have been developed to accommodate autocorrelated data. A primary method to deal with autocorrelated...

A Basic Reference State Suitable for Anomaly-Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Climate Models

January 1, 1999

Author(s)

Anthony J. Kearsley, J Macias, D Stephenson

A large class of ocean-atmosphere models exists in which the ocean state is coupled to the model of the atmosphere only through the anomalies of the ocean state...

Measurement of the 100 nm NIST SRM 1963 by Differential Mobility Analysis

January 1, 1999

Author(s)

George W. Mulholland, Nelson P. Bryner, C M. Croarkin

The number mean diameter of 100 nm NTST Standard Reference Material (SRM) 1963 was measured to be 100.7 nm with an expanded uncertainty at the 95% confidence...

Enhancement of R123 Pool Boiling by the Addition of N-Hexane

January 1, 1999

Author(s)

Mark A. Kedzierski

This paper presents the heat transfer data used to file international patent WO 94/18282. The data consisted of pool boiling performance of a GEWA-TTM surface...

Correlated-Photon Metrology without Absolute Standards

January 1, 1999

Author(s)

Alan L. Migdall

Cysteines beta 93 and beta 112 as Probes of Conformational and Functional Events at the Human Hemoglobin Subunit Interfaces

January 1, 1999

Author(s)

G B. Vasquez, M Karavitis, X Ji, I Pechik, W S. Brinigar, G L. Gilliland, C Fronticelli

Human hemoglobin is a tetrameric protein containing two types of subunits, [alpha] and [Beta]. They assemble forming two different interfaces. The [alpha 1[Beta...