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In Trust we Trust

October 14, 2010
Author(s)
Keith Miller, Jeff Voas, Phillip Laplante
The term trust has had a well understood definition for centuries. However after e-trust came along, and then cloud, where e-trust is not sufficient due to the non-touchability of a public cloud, the need to reconsider what trust means for a public cloud

Reliability of Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems

October 14, 2010
Author(s)
Ram Chillarege, Jeff Voas
Cyber-physical systems feature a tight combination of a system's computational and physical elements. Understanding how to assess and design trustworthiness into these complex systems of systems remains an unsolved problem. This issue offers insights into

Workshop on Quantitative Tools for Condition Assessment of Aging Infrastructure

October 14, 2010
Author(s)
Ward L. Johnson, Thomas A. Siewert, Jessica Terry, Dat Duthinh, Mark Iadicola, William E. Luecke, Joseph D. McColskey
The Quantitative Tools for Condition Assessment of Aging Infrastructure Workshop was held May 4-5, 2010, in Boulder, Colorado. It was organized by a team of researchers within the National Institute of Standards and Technology s (NIST) Materials Science

Disaster Resilience: A Guide to the Literature

October 13, 2010
Author(s)
Stanley W. Gilbert
Although there is a great deal of high-quality information available on resilience-related topics hazard assessment, vulnerability assessment, risk assessment, risk management, and loss estimation as well as disaster resilience itself, there is no central

Dual frequency comb Fourier transform spectroscopy

October 12, 2010
Author(s)
Ian R. Coddington, William C. Swann, Nathan R. Newbury
Dual coherent frequency combs can be used in Fourier transform spectroscopy (FTS) to generate the full optical response of a sample with high frequency, and time, accuracy and resolution. The approach can be viewed equally well as a multiheterodyne

Further Studies of Bootstrap Variability for ROC Analysis on Large Datasets

October 11, 2010
Author(s)
Jin Chu Wu, Alvin F. Martin, Raghu N. Kacker
The nonparametric two-sample bootstrap is successfully applied to computing the measurement uncertainties in receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis on large datasets in areas such as biometrics, speaker recognition system, etc. To determine the

Localized Diffusive Motion on Two Different Time Scales in Solid Alkane Nanoparticles

October 11, 2010
Author(s)
Siao-Kwan Wang, E. Mamontov, Mengjun Bai, F.Y. Hansen, Haskell Taub, John R. Copley, Victoria Garcia Sakai, Goran Gasparovic, Timothy Jenkins, Madhu Sudan Tyagi, Kenneth W. Herwig, David B. Neumann, Wouter Montfrooij, U.G. Volkmann
High-energy-resolution quasielastic neutron scattering on three complementary spectrometers has been used to investigate molecular diffusive motion in solid nanoparticles of the alkane n-C 32H^66^. Nontranslational molecular diffusive motion in the plastic

Matching Observed Alpha Helix Lengths to Predicted Secondary Structure

October 11, 2010
Author(s)
Brian D. Cloteaux
Because of the complexity in determining the 3D structure of a protein, the use of partial information determined from experimental techniques can greatly reduce the overall computational expense. We investigate the problem of matching experimentally

Validation of Two-Sample Bootstrap in ROC Analysis on Large Datasets Using AURC

October 11, 2010
Author(s)
Jin Chu Wu, Alvin F. Martin, Raghu N. Kacker
Sampling variability can result in uncertainties of measures. The nonparametric two-sample bootstrap method has been used to compute uncertainties of measures in receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis on large datasets, such as the standard error

Active Millimeter-Wave Imaging: Detection of Concealed Weapons

October 10, 2010
Author(s)
Randy Direen, David R. Novotny, Katherine MacReynolds
Images are constructed from data collected with a near- eld planar scannar and a network analyzer. Data are collected at millimeter-wave frequencies. This imaging system is used to image both metal and nonmetal objects.

An Inconvenient Truth About Tunneled Authentications

October 10, 2010
Author(s)
Katrin Hoeper, Lidong Chen
In recent years, it has been a common practice to execute client authentications for network access inside a protective tunnel. Man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks on such tunneled authentications have been discovered early on and cryptographic bindings are

Link Relationship Measurements in Load-Modulated UHF RFID

October 10, 2010
Author(s)
Daniel G. Kuester, David R. Novotny, Jeffrey R. Guerrieri
This paper investigates the relative roles of the forward and reverse links in determining the operational range of passive UHF RFID systems. The relative importance the links are discussed first in the free field as a first-order model. We then present

Microencapsulated POSS in Cellulose Using 1-Ethyl-3-Methylimidazolium Acetate

October 10, 2010
Author(s)
Douglas M. Fox, Mauro Zammarano, Jeffrey W. Gilman
Polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) and cellulose were reacted in the ionic liquid, 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium acetate (EmiAc). Side reactions between the EmiAc and each reactant were prevalent, but use of water as the coagulating solvent produced

Contact Resistance of Flexible, Transparent Carbon Nanotube Films with Metals

October 7, 2010
Author(s)
Hua Xu, Lei Chen, Liangbing Hu, Nikolai B. Zhitenev
We studied the contact properties of different metals to flexible optically-transparent single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNTs) films. The SWCNT films are deposited on flexible polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrate and patterned in test structures

Practical Combinatorial Testing

October 7, 2010
Author(s)
David R. Kuhn, Raghu N. Kacker, Yu Lei
Combinatorial testing can help detect problems like this early in the testing life cycle. The key insight underlying t-way combinatorial testing is that not every parameter contributes to every fault and most faults are caused by interactions between a

Thermochemistry of Ammonium Nitrate, NH4NO3, in the Gas Phase

October 7, 2010
Author(s)
Karl K. Irikura
Hildenbrand and coworkers have shown recently that the vapor above solid ammonium nitrate includes molecules of NH4NO3, not only NH3 and HNO3 as previously believed. Their measurements led to thermochemical values that imply an enthalpy change of D298 = 98
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