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Reflectivity Study of Microwave Blackbody Targets

September 1, 2011
Author(s)
Dazhen Gu, Derek A. Houtz, James P. Randa, Dave K. Walker
We report on the characterization of blackbody target reflections as part of the recent progress on the development of brightness temperature standards for microwave remote sensing at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The very low

Rotationally Resolved C2 Symmetric Conformers of Bis-(4-hydroxyphenyl)methane: Textbook Examples of Excitonic Coupling in the S1 and S2 Electronic States

September 1, 2011
Author(s)
Shin G. Chou, Chirantha P. Rodrigo, Christian Muller, Kevin O. Douglass, Timothy Zwier, David F. Plusquellic
Rotationally resolved microwave and ultraviolet spectra of jet-cooled bis-4 hydroxy)-diphenylmethane (b4HBM) have been obtained using Fourier-transform microwave and UV laser/molecular beam spectrometers. A recent vibronic level study of b4HPM1 has

Single Photon Detection Using Frequency Up-conversion with Pulse Pumping

September 1, 2011
Author(s)
Lijun Ma, Oliver T. Slattery, Xiao Tang
This chapter delivers a general overview of the theoretical and experimental results of single photon up-conversion detectors with pulse pumping. After a brief introduction, we provide a detailed coverage of several key applications of up-conversion

Structural and Electromagnetic Scenarios for Firefighter Locator Tracking Systems

September 1, 2011
Author(s)
Anthony D. Putorti Jr., Francine K. Amon, Kathryn M. Butler, Catherine A. Remley, William F. Young, Christina Spoons
One of the most important aspects of effective firefighter response to an emergency event is awareness of the location of the firefighters involved, especially in cases with limited visibility due to darkness, heavy smoke, or unfamiliar and changing

SURF III: A flexible Synchrotron Radiation Source for Radiometry and Research

September 1, 2011
Author(s)
Uwe Arp, Charles W. Clark, Lu Deng, Nadir S. Faradzhev, Alex P. Farrell, Mitchell L. Furst, Steven E. Grantham, Edward W. Hagley, Shannon B. Hill, Thomas B. Lucatorto, Ping-Shine Shaw, Charles S. Tarrio, Robert E. Vest
The calculability of synchrotron radiation (SR) makes electron storage rings wonderful light sources for radiometry. The broadband nature of SR allows coverage of the whole spectral region from the x-ray to the far-infrared. Compact low-energy storage

Why Alite Stops Hydrating Below 80% Relative Humidity

September 1, 2011
Author(s)
Robert J. Flatt, George W. Scherer, Jeffrey W. Bullard
Cement hydration continues to have an intriguing character, surrounded as it is by a number of intensively debated questions. Among the unresolved issues is the reason why hydration stops at a relative humidity of about 80%, even though the system still

A Decision-Guided Energy Management Framework for Sustainable Manufacturing

August 31, 2011
Author(s)
Guodong Shao, Alexander Brodsky, Jorge Arinez , Daniel A. Menasce , Paul Ammann
A growing number of manufacturing industries are initiating efforts to address sustainability issues. According to the National Association of Manufacturers, the manufacturing sector currently accounts for about one third of all energy consumed in the

A STANDARD ANALYSIS APPROACH TO DETERMINE PRODUCT APPLICABILITY

August 31, 2011
Author(s)
Paul W. Witherell, Prabir Sarkar, Anantha Narayanan Narayanan, Jae H. Lee, Sudarsan Rachuri
Standards and regulations have become an important part of today’s society. Organizational and geographical dispersions of standards often create situations where manufacturers are forced to meet various standards for a product to reach expanded markets or

AN INFORMATION MODELING METHODOLOGY FOR STANDARDS

August 31, 2011
Author(s)
Anantha Narayanan Narayanan, Jae H. Lee, Paul W. Witherell, Prabir Sarkar, Sudarsan Rachuri
Standards are developed and introduced in the market to meet the needs of specific domains. Developed by experts within a particular domain, the modeling requirements necessary to represent the information associated with these standards are often not well

BUSINESS OBJECTS FOR INDUSTRIAL DATA STANDARDS

August 31, 2011
Author(s)
Allison Barnard Feeney, Keith A. Hunten
Business objects, as proposed for inclusion in the ISO 10303 family of industrial data standards developed in ISO TC 184/SC4 (SC4), are a layer over the ISO 10303 architecture that is intended to simplify and make the complex standards more accessible to a

DEXML: A FIRST STEP TOWARD A UML BASED IMPLEMENTATION FRAMEWORK FOR PLCS

August 31, 2011
Author(s)
Sylvere I. Krima, Joshua Lubell, Sudarsan Rachuri, Roch Bertucat, Sebti Foufou
Data exchange specifications not only must be broad and general to achieve acceptance, but also must be customizable in a controlled and interoperable manner to be useful. The Product Life Cycle Support (PLCS) suite of data exchange specifications (known

Improved First-Principles Calculation of the Third Virial Coefficient of Helium

August 31, 2011
Author(s)
Giovanni Garberoglio, Michael R. Moldover, Allan H. Harvey
We employ state-of-the-art pair and three-body potentials for helium to calculate its third density virial coefficient C(T) with uncertainties much smaller than those of the best experimental results, and approximately one-fourth the uncertainty of our

Integration of Life Cycle Inventories Incorporating Manufacturing Unit Processes

August 31, 2011
Author(s)
Mark B. Campanelli, Jonatan K. Berglund, Sudarsan Rachuri
Sustainable manufacturing (SM) concerns the manufacture of products with regard to environmental, social, and economic impacts over the entire life cycle. With a primary focus on environmental concerns, life cycle assessment (LCA) can support SM practices

NIST NCPDP Analysis - Suitability Assessment

August 31, 2011
Author(s)
Frank McKinney
This document completes the review of the NCPDP SCRIPT standard by reporting on several aspects related to its suitability as a standard to support Meaningful Use, including: completeness, correctness and internal consistency of the standard, ease of

Offset phase locking of noisy diode lasers aided by frequency division

August 31, 2011
Author(s)
Elizabeth A. Donley, Eugene N. Ivanov, Francois-Xavier R. Esnault
For heterodyne phase locking, frequency division of the beat note between two oscillators can improve the reliability of the phase lock and the quality of the phase synchronization. Frequency division can also reduce the size, weight, power, and cost of

Performance of New and Aged Residential Fire Sprinklers

August 31, 2011
Author(s)
Anthony D. Putorti Jr., William F. Guthrie, Jason D. Averill, Richard G. Gann
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) initiated a program to determine the effects of emissions from problem drywall on residential electrical, gas distribution, and fire safety components. As part of this program, the National Institute of

Process Intermittent Measurement for Powder-Bed Based Additive Manufacturing

August 31, 2011
Author(s)
April L. Cooke, Shawn P. Moylan
Process intermittent measurements of parts fabricated by additive manufacturing (AM) can enable both in-process improvement and characterization of parts' internal geometries. The planar, layer-upon-layer nature of most AM processes allows simple two

Synthetic spike-in standards for RNA-seq experiments

August 31, 2011
Author(s)
Marc L. Salit, Lichun Jiang, Felix Schlesinger, Brian Oliver, Carrie Davis, Yu Zhang, Renhua Li, Thomas R. Gingeras
High-throughput sequencing of cDNA (RNA-seq) is a widely deployed transcriptome profiling and annotation technique, but questions about the performance of different protocols and platforms remain. We used a newly developed pool of 96 synthetic RNAs with
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