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Voices of First Responders - Examining Public Safety Communication from the Rural Perspective

November 25, 2019
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Kristen K. Greene, Shanee Dawkins, Mary Theofanos, Michelle P. Steves, Susanne M. Furman, Yee-Yin Choong, Sandra S. Prettyman
With the newly created Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network (NPSBN), the public safety community has a unique opportunity to review and improve communication technology for first responders, in urban, suburban, and rural areas. Understanding the

A Nonlinear Multivariate Cryptosystem Based on a Random Linear Code

November 24, 2019
Author(s)
Daniel C. Smith-Tone, Cristina Tone
We introduce a new technique for building multivariate encryption schemes based on random linear codes. The construction is versatile, naturally admitting multiple modifications. Among these modifications is an interesting embedding modifier -- any

Augmenting Fiat Currency with an Integrated Managed Cryptocurrency

November 24, 2019
Author(s)
Peter M. Mell
In this work, we investigate how the governance features of a managed currency (e.g., a fiat currency) can be built into a cryptocurrency in order to leverage potential benefits found in the use of blockchain technology and smart contracts. The resulting

Implementing a Protocol Native Managed Cryptocurrency

November 24, 2019
Author(s)
Peter M. Mell, Aurelien M. Delaitre, Frederic J. de Vaulx, Philippe J. Dessauw
Previous work presented a theoretical model based on the implicit Bitcoin specification for how an entity might issue a cryptocurrency that mimics features of fiat currencies. Novel to this work were mechanisms by which the issuing entity could manage the

NIST Handbook 133: Checking the Net Contents of Packaged Goods (2020 Ed.)

November 24, 2019
Author(s)
Breyanna M. Blackwell, David Sefcik, Lisa Warfield
This handbook has been prepared as a procedural guide for the compliance testing of net content statements on packaged goods. Compliance testing of packaged goods is the determination of the conformance of the- results of the packaging, distribution, and

Enhancing Materials Property Prediction by Leveraging Computational and Experimental Data using Deep Transfer Learning

November 22, 2019
Author(s)
Kamal Choudhary, Dipendra Jha, Ankit Agrawal, Alok Choudhary, Wei-keng Liao, Francesca M. Tavazza, Carelyn E. Campbell
The availability of huge collections of data from DFT-computations has spurred the interest of materials scientists in applying machine learning techniques to build models for fast prediction of materials properties. Such modeling practice has helped to

Tunable quantum beat of single photons enabled by nonlinear nanophotonics

November 22, 2019
Author(s)
Qing Li, Anshuman Singh, Xiyuan Lu, John Lawall, Varun Verma, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Kartik Srinivasan
Integrated photonics is a promising approach for scalable implementation of diverse quantum resources at the chip-scale. Here, we demonstrate the integration of two essential building blocks for quantum information science - quantum sources and frequency

On Low-Energy Tail Distortions in the Detector Response Function of X-Ray Microcalorimeter Spectrometers

November 21, 2019
Author(s)
Galen C. O'Neil, Paul Szypryt, Endre Takacs, Joseph N. Tan, Sean W. Buechele, Aung Naing, Young I. Joe, Daniel S. Swetz, Daniel R. Schmidt, William B. Doriese, Johnathon D. Gard, Carl D. Reintsema, Joel N. Ullom, John S. Villarrubia, Yuri Ralchenko
We use narrow spectral lines from the X-ray spectra of various highly charged ions to measure low-energy tail-like deviations from a Gaussian response function in a microcalorimeter X-ray spectrometer with Au absorbers at energies from 650 to 3320 eV. We

Opaque Wrappers and Patching: Negative Results

November 21, 2019
Author(s)
Paul E. Black, Monika Singh
When a patch is released for buggy software, bad actors may be able to analyze the patch and create an attack on unpatched machines. A wrapper could block attacking inputs, but it, too, gives attackers critical information. An opaque wrapper hides such

Unexpectedly Strong Size-Sieving Ability in Carbonized Polybenzimidazole for Membrane H2/CO2 Separation

November 21, 2019
Author(s)
Maryam Omidvar, Hien Nguyen, Liang Huang, Cara Doherty, Anita Hill, Christopher Stafford, Xianshe Feng, Mark Swihart, Haiqing Lin
Polymers with high permeability and strong size-sieving ability are needed for H2/CO2 separation at temperatures ranging from 100 °C to 300 °C to enable an energy-efficient pre- combustion CO2 capture process. However, such polymers usually suffer from a

Vapor- and Liquid-Phase Adsorption of Alcohol and Water in Silicalite-1 Synthesized in Fluoride Media

November 21, 2019
Author(s)
Robert F. DeJaco, Matheus D. de Mello, Huong Giang Nguyen, Mi Young Jeon, Roger D. van Zee, Michael Tsapatsis, Ilja J. Siepmann
In this work, batch-adsorption experiments and molecular simulations are employed to probe the adsorption of binary mixtures containing ethanol or a linear alkane-1,n-diol solvated in water or ethanol onto silicalite-1. Since the batch-adsorption

Unveiling defect-mediated charge-carrier recombination at the nanometer scale in polycrystalline solar cells

November 20, 2019
Author(s)
Yohan Yoon, Wei-Chang Yang, Dongheon Ha, Paul M. Haney, Daniel Hirsch, Heayoung Yoon, Renu Sharma, Nikolai Zhitenev
In this work, we employ two techniques, near-field scanning photocurrent microscopy (NSPM) and transmission electron microscope based cathodoluminescence spectroscopy (TEM-CL), to analyze the nanoscale electrical and optical properties of CdTe solar cells

Cast Vote Records Common Data Format Specification Version 1.0

November 19, 2019
Author(s)
John P. Wack
This document is a specification for a common data format for cast vote records (CVR) produced by vote-capture devices such as ballot scanners. It supports the interoperable export of CVRs from these devices and the interoperable import and export of CVRs

Damping Enhancement in Coherent Ferrite-Insulating-Paramagnet Bilayers

November 19, 2019
Author(s)
Jacob J. Wisser, Alexander Grutter, Dustin A. Gilbert, Alpha T. N'Diaye, Christoph Klewe, Padraic Shafer, Elke Arenholz, Yuri Suzuki, Satoru Emori
High-quality epitaxial ferrites, such as low-damping MgAl-ferrite (MAFO), are promising nanosclae building blocks for all-oxide heterostructures driven by pure spin current. However, the impact of oxide interfaces on spin dynamics in such heterostructures

Dynamic Equivalence between Soft Star Polymers and Hard Spheres

November 19, 2019
Author(s)
Zhe Wang, Antonio Faraone, Panchao Yin, Lionel Porcar, Yun Liu, Changwoo Do, Kunlun Hong, Wei-Ren Chen
We measure a series of star polymer dispersions to study the dynamics of soft colloidal liquids. We find that as the concentration increases, the slowing of the long-time self-diffusivity of the star polymer, normalized by the short-time self-diffusivity

Eutectic Formation, V/III Ratio and Controlled Polarity Inversion in Nitrides on Silicon

November 19, 2019
Author(s)
Alexana Roshko, Matthew D. Brubaker, Paul T. Blanchard, Todd E. Harvey, Kristine A. Bertness
The crystallographic polarity of AlN grown on Si(111) by plasma assisted molecular beam epitaxy is intentionally inverted from N-polar to Al-polar at a planar boundary. The position of the inversion boundary is controlled by a two-step growth process that

Forced Edges and Graph Structure

November 19, 2019
Author(s)
Brian D. Cloteaux
For a degree sequence, its set of forced edges are the edges that appear in every realization of that sequence, while its forbidden edges appear in no realization. We examine sequences with forced or forbidden edges, showing relationships between these

Geometry Entrapment in Walk-on-Subdomains

November 19, 2019
Author(s)
Walid Keyrouz, Preston Hamlin, W. J. Thrasher, Michael V. Mascagni
One method of computing the electrostatic energy of a biomolecule in a solution combines the Walk-On-Spheres and Walk-On-Subdomains Monte Carlo algorithms. In the course of examining an implementation of this method, a performance issue was discovered in
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