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Kinetics of H Atom Addition to Cyclopentene

March 7, 2018
Author(s)
Jeffrey A. Manion, Iftikhar A. Awan
To provide benchmark information needed to develop kinetic models of the combustion and pyrolysis of hydrocarbon ring structures, we have used the single pulse shock tube technique to study the kinetics of H atom addition to cyclopentene at 863 K to 1167 K

Pre-Viking Swedish Hillfort Glass: A Novel Long-Term Alteration Analogue for Vitrified 6 Nuclear Waste

March 1, 2018
Author(s)
Jamie L. Weaver, Carolyn Pearce, Rolf Sjoblom, John McCloy, Micah Miller, Tamas Varga, Bruce Arey, Michele Conroy, David Peeler, Robert Koestler, Paula DePriest, Edward Vicenzi, Albert Kruger
Examining ancient anthropogenic glasses altered in natural environments over hundreds of years can inform and verify models for predicting long-term rates of glass corrosion. Understanding corrosion mechanisms is critical for modeling the performance of

SARD: Thousands of Reference Programs for Software Assurance

October 31, 2017
Author(s)
Paul E. Black
A corpus of computer programs with known bugs is useful in determining the ability of tools to find bugs. This article describes the content of NIST's Software Assurance Reference Dataset (SARD), which is a publicly available collection of thousands of

3D Nanometrology Based on SEM Stereophotogrammetry

September 18, 2017
Author(s)
Vipin N. Tondare, John S. Villarrubia, Andras Vladar
Three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of a sample surface from scanning electron microscope (SEM) images taken at two perspectives has been known for decades. However, this method has not been widely used in the semiconductor industry for 3D measurements

Shape Descriptors Comparison for Cell Tracking

October 15, 2015
Author(s)
Michael P. Majurski, Christopher Zheng, Joe Chalfoun, Alden A. Dima, Mary C. Brady
… into a one dimensional shape signature suitable for computing Fourier descriptors. The Fourier descriptors are …

Quantitative tool characterization of a 193 nm scatterfield microscope

September 9, 2015
Author(s)
Martin Y. Sohn, Bryan M. Barnes, Hui Zhou, Richard M. Silver
Optical microscope tool characterization has been investigated for the quantitative measurements of deep sub-wavelength features using a Fourier plane normalization method. The NIST 193 nm scatterfield microscope operating with an ArF Excimer laser, which

Thermochemical Characterization of Biodiesel Fuels using a Novel Laser-Heating Technique

August 4, 2015
Author(s)
Cary Presser, Ashot Nazarian, Thomas J. Bruno, Jacolin A. Murray, John L. Molloy
A state-of-the-art, rapid laser-heating technique, referred to as the laser-driven thermal reactor, was used to characterize National Institute of Standards and Technology Standard Reference Material (SRM) diesel and biodiesel fuels. Also described are the

Morphological Stability

December 5, 2014
Author(s)
Robert F. Sekerka, Sam R. Coriell, Geoffrey B. McFadden
The theory of morphological stability provides a dynamical analysis of the stability of the interface that separates phases during a phase transformation. We focus on crystallization from either a pure or alloy melt. One solves the governing equations for

A Spectral Analytic Method for Fingerprint Image Sample Rate Estimation

February 25, 2014
Author(s)
John M. Libert, Shahram Orandi, John D. Grantham, Michael D. Garris
This study examines the use of the NIST Spectral Image Validation and Verification (SIVV) metric for the application of detecting the sample rate of a given fingerprint digital image. SIVV operates by reducing an input image to a 1-dimensional power

Interoperability for Virtual Manufacturing systems

January 14, 2014
Author(s)
Yung-Tsun Lee, Juyeon Lee, Frank H. Riddick, Donald E. Libes, Deogratias Kibira
Manufacturing systems are often costly to develop and operate. Simulation technology has been demonstrated to be an effective tool for improving manufacturing system design and the efficiency of manufacturing operations and maintenance. However, to use

Metabolite Profiling of a NIST Standard Reference Material for Human Plasma (SRM 1950) GC/MS, LC/MS, NMR and Clinical Laboratory Analyses, Libraries and Web-based resources

October 22, 2013
Author(s)
Yamil Simon, Mark S. Lowenthal, Lisa E. Kilpatrick, Maureen L. Sampson, Kelly H. Telu, Paul A. Rudnick, William G. Mallard, Daniel W. Bearden, Tracey B. Schock, Dmitrii V. Tchekhovskoi, Niksa Blonder, Xinjian Yan, Yuxue Liang, Yufang Zheng, William E. Wallace, Pedatsur Neta, Karen W. Phinney, Alan T. Remaley, Stephen E. Stein
Recent progress in metabolomics and the development of increasingly sensitive analytical techniques have renewed interest in global profiling, i.e., semi-quantitative monitoring of all chemical constituents of biological fluids. In this work, we have

Fire Dynamics: The Science of Fire Fighting

October 1, 2013
Author(s)
Daniel M. Madrzykowski
Fire dynamics can provide a firefighter with means to understand how a fire will grow and spread within a structure and how best to control that growth. Researchers have generated experimental results and computer models to explain how fire dynamics

Thermal Issues in Machine Tools

October 19, 2012
Author(s)
Josef Mayr, Jerzy Jedrzejewski, Eckart Uhlmann, Alkan Donmez, Wolfgang Knapp, Frank H?rtig, Klaus Wendt, Paul Shore, Robert Schmitt, Christian Brecher, Timo W?rz, Konrad Wegener
… and thermal errors on machine tools. Especially in computing thermal errors of machine tools new procedures are …

Measuring Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Length Distributions from Diffusional Trajectories

August 27, 2012
Author(s)
Jason Streit, Sergei M. Bachilo, Anton V. Naumov, Constantine Y. Khripin, Ming Zheng, R B. Weisman
A new method is demonstrated for measuring the length distributions of dispersed single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) samples by analyzing diffusional motions of many individual nanotubes in parallel. In this method, termed Length Analysis by Nanotube

Modeling Methodologies and Simulation for Dynamical Systems

August 27, 2012
Author(s)
Ion Matei, Conrad E. Bock
Computer-interpretable representations of system structure and behavior are at the center of designing today’s complex systems. Engineers create and review such representations using graphical modeling languages that support specification, analysis, design

Data Dependency on Measurement Uncertainties in Speaker Recognition Evaluation

July 11, 2012
Author(s)
Jin Chu Wu, Alvin F. Martin, Craig S. Greenberg, Raghu N. Kacker
The National Institute of Standards and Technology conducts an ongoing series of Speaker Recognition Evaluations (SRE). Speaker detection performance is measured using a detection cost function defined as a weighted sum of the probabilities of type I and

Optimization of Imaging Polymer Based Scaffolds Using X-Ray Microcomputed Tomography

May 15, 2012
Author(s)
David E. Morris, Melissa L. Mather, Carl Simon Jr., John A. Crowe
The performance of polymer based scaffolds used in regenerative medicine is linked to their structural properties and as such strategies for structural characterization of scaffolds have been developed. X-ray microscopic computed tomography (X-ray micro CT
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