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Uncertainty in the number of contributors in the proposed new CODIS set

July 17, 2015
Author(s)
Michael D. Coble, Jo-Anne Bright, John S. Buckleton, James Curran
The probability that multiple contributors are detected within a forensic DNA profile improves as more highly polymorphic loci are analysed. The assignment of the correct number of contributors to a profile is important when interpreting the DNA profiles

ADAPTING OECD AQUATIC TOXICITY TESTS FOR USE WITH MANUFACTURED NANOMATERIALS: KEY ISSUES, CONSENSUS RECOMMENDATIONS, AND DATA GAPS

July 16, 2015
Author(s)
Elijah J. Petersen, Alan Kennedy, Greg Goss, Ho Kay, Jamie Lead, Shannon Hanna, Kerstin Hund-Rinke, Brian Mader, Nicholas Manier, Pascal Pandard, Edward Salinas, Kathrin Schwirn, Doris Voelker
The unique or enhanced properties of manufactured nanomaterials (MNs) suggest that their use in nano-enabled products will continue to increase in the future. This will result in increasing potential for human and environmental exposure to MNs, during

Direct Observation of Carrier Cooling in Organic Semiconductors

July 16, 2015
Author(s)
Edwin J. Heilweil, Paul A. Lane, Paul D. Cunningham, Joseph S. Melinger
Photocurrent in an organic solar cell is generated by a charge transfer reaction between the electron donor and acceptor. The effect of excess excitation energy and the relative contributions of electron and hole transfer are the subject of intense

Indoor Environmental Resilience: White Paper

July 16, 2015
Author(s)
Andrew K. Persily, Steven J. Emmerich
NIST is developing a framework to define programs and strategies to increase community-based resilience in the face of a broad range of natural disasters and other extreme events. Many of these events will affect indoor environmental quality either through

Quantifying and Improving Clinical-grade Coverage and Accuracy using Augmented Exome Sequencing

July 16, 2015
Author(s)
Justin M. Zook, Anil Patwardhan, Marc L. Salit, Carlos Bustamante, Euan Ashley, Michael Snyder, John West, Richard Chen
Exome sequencing is increasingly used for the clinical evaluation of genetic disease, yet accuracy and coverage in medically interpretable parts of the genome remains under-characterized. We evaluate recently developed exome sequencing platforms in the

Challenges to the use of the GUM

July 15, 2015
Author(s)
Steven D. Phillips
Presentation at the BIPM on (1) Issues with the uncertainty evaluation associated with the calibration of indicating instruments; and (2) the growing problem with “outlier rejection” in measurements with measurands defined by “extreme values”

Defensive Resource Allocations with Security Chokepoints in IPv6 Networks

July 15, 2015
Author(s)
Assane Gueye, Peter M. Mell, Richard Harang, Richard J. La
Securely configured Internet Protocol version 6 networks can be made resistant to network scanning, forcing attackers to propagate following existing benign communication paths. We exploit this attacker limitation in a defensive approach in which

Formic Acid oxidation on platinum- a simple mechanistic study

July 15, 2015
Author(s)
Kathleen A. Schwarz, Ravishankar Sundararaman, Thomas P. Moffat, Thomas C. Allison
The oxidation of organic acids on noble metal sur-faces is of importance for industrial processes and of academic interest, but the basic reaction mechanisms continue to be a matter of debate. Historically, mechanisms involving the formic acid molecule

A simple and fast spline filtering algorithm for surface metrology

July 14, 2015
Author(s)
Hao H. Zhang, Daniel B. Ott, Jun-Feng Song, D Ott, Wei Chu
The spline filters and the corresponding robust filters are commonly used filters recommended in ISO standards for surface evaluation. Generally, these linear and non-linear spline filters, composed of symmetric, positive-definite matrices, are always

Fractionation and characterization of high aspect ratio gold nanorods using asymmetric-flow field flow fractionation and single particle inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

July 14, 2015
Author(s)
Thao M. Nguyen, Jingyu Liu, Vincent A. Hackley
Development of methods for the in situ fractionation and characterization of high aspect ratio (AR) gold nanorods (GNRs) is a rapidly growing area of interest within the nanotechnology field, particularly with respect to nanomanufacturing and biomedical

SIMULATION-BASED DESIGN CONCEPT EVALUATION FOR AMBULANCE PATIENT COMPARTMENTS

July 14, 2015
Author(s)
Deogratias Kibira, Yung-Tsun T. Lee, Jennifer L. Marshall, Allison Barnard Feeney, Larry Avery, Allie Jacobs
To address the inadequacy of existing standards regarding interior layout design, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the National Institute for
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