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Enhancing the ns-3 IEEE 802.11ad Model Fidelity: Beam Codebook, Multi-Antenna Beamforming Training, and Quasi-Deterministic mmWave Channel

June 21, 2019
Author(s)
Hany Assasa, Joerg Widmer, Tanguy Ropitault, Nada T. Golmie
… capabilities and service requirements. Millimeter-wave technology is expected to be able to satisfy these demands … the highly congested wireless networks operating in the sub-6 GHz band. However, realworld experimentation … to study large-scale wireless networks operating in the 60 GHz band, taking into account all of the essential …

High Fidelity Simulation of IEEE 802.11ad in ns-3 Using a Quasi-deterministic Channel Model

June 21, 2019
Author(s)
Hany Assasa, Joerg Widmer, Tanguy Ropitault, Anuraag Bodi, Nada T. Golmie
… been challenging for wireless technologies operating in the microwave band. Wireless communication in the millimeter band is a promising solution to address … and very low latency. However, efficient communication in this band poses a great challenge in terms of radio …

Accelerated Weathering Parameters for Some Aromatic Engineering Thermoplastics

May 24, 2019
Author(s)
Li Piin Sung, James E. Pickett, Olga Kuvshinnikova, Brett Ermi
… (SAN), all containing 3 % TiO2 (by mass), were exposed in the NIST (National Institutes of Standards and Technology) SPHERE (Simulated Photodegradation via High … gloss loss (9-16) kJ/mol. This means that a 10 °C increase in temperature results in a 20 % to 30 % increase in …

Unraveling the dislocation core structure in a van der Waals gap: Bismuth telluride as a prototype.

April 23, 2019
Author(s)
Doug L. Medlin, N Yang, Catalin D. Spataru, Lucas Hale, Yuri Mishin
… and as examples of topological insulators. Dislocations in such materials play a critical role during synthesis and … the discovery of such dislocations by electron microscopy in the early 1960s was one of the fi rst direct observations of dislocations in non-metallic materials, their atomic-level core structure …

Sources of Errors in Structured Light 3D Scanners

April 15, 2019
Author(s)
Prem K. Rachakonda, Bala Muralikrishnan, Daniel S. Sawyer
… sensitive to all the sources of errors that are present in these systems. The two VDI/VDE 2634 guidelines for … financial burden for organizations that intend to invest in the technology, but do not have appropriate standards to aid in … Sources of Errors in Structured Light 3D Scanners …

Generating multiscale gold nanostructures on glass without sidewall deposits using minimal dry etching steps

March 19, 2019
Author(s)
Saugandhika S. Minnikanti, Jungjoon Ahn, Yaw S. Obeng, Darwin Reyes-Hernandez
… The advent of new technologies in the nanoscience arena require new and improved methods for … allow for the optical monitoring of processes of interest in cells and other biological materials. While wet etching … down to 50 nm. By controlling the oxygen percentage in the plasma features with aspect ratios of 2 can be …

Threshold Schemes for Cryptographic Primitives

March 1, 2019
Author(s)
Luis T. A. N. Brandao, Nicky W. Mouha, Apostol T. Vassilev
… Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology is interested in promoting the security of implementations of cryptographic … are compromised. There is also an identified potential in providing resistance against side-channel attacks, which …

Comparison of volumetric and bead-based counting of CD34 cells by single-platform flow cytometry

February 20, 2019
Author(s)
Luisa Saraiva, Lili Wang, Martin Kammel, A. Kummrow, E Atkinson, J Y. Lee, B Yalcinkaya, M Akgoz, A Ruf, A Engel, Yu-Zhong Zhang, O O''Shea, M P. Sassi, C Divieto, T Lekishvili, J J. Campbell, Y Liu, J Wang, R Stebbings, Adolfas Gaigalas, P Rigsby, J Neukammer, S Vessillier
… Background: Over 2000 people a year in the UK need a bone marrow or blood stem cell transplant. … cells to predict whether the transplant will be successful in replenishing the immune system. However, they are present … method is a valid approach but that the adoption of this technology may be hindered without some form of external …

A Model for the Binding of Fluorescently Labeled Anti-Human CD4 Monoclonal Antibodies to CD4 Receptors on Human Lymphocytes

December 14, 2018
Author(s)
Lili Wang, Adolfas Gaigalas, Paul C. DeRose
… the T cell receptor complex which plays an important role in the human immune response. This manuscript describes the … consisted of the PBMC sample incubated for 30 min in labeling solutions containing progressively larger … The study supports the National Institute of Standards and Technology program to develop quantitative flow cytometry …

Recovering quantum gates from few average gate fidelities

October 24, 2018
Author(s)
Yi-Kai Liu, Ingo Roth, Richard Kueng, Shelby Kimmel, David Gross, Jens Eisert, Martin Kliesch
… Characterizing quantum processes is a key task in and constitutes a challenge for the development of quantum … not the favorable features of both worlds can be combined. In this work, we give a positive answer to this question. For … for a practical and guaranteed reconstruction also in that case. As a side result, we obtain a new statistical …

SATE V Report: Ten Years of Static Analysis Tool Expositions

October 23, 2018
Author(s)
Aurelien M. Delaitre, Bertrand C. Stivalet, Paul E. Black, Vadim Okun, Terry S. Cohen, Athos Ribeiro
… been the focus of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Software Assurance Metrics and Tool … one of the team’s prominent projects to advance research in and adoption of static analysis, one of several software … determine which tools fit their requirements. The results in this report are presented as examples and used as a basis …

Research Needs to Support Immediate Occupancy Building Performance Following Natural Hazard Events

August 21, 2018
Author(s)
Siamak Sattar, Therese P. McAllister, Katherine J. Johnson, Christopher T. Clavin, Christopher L. Segura, Steven L. McCabe, Juan F. Fung, Leslie Abrahams, Emily Sylak-Glassman , Marc L. Levitan, Kenneth W. Harrison, John L. Harris
… The performance of buildings in our communities depends on multiple factors including the … between current and desired performance of all buildings in our communities, a Congressional mandate tasked the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to identify research needs and …

Alerting under Imminent Threat: Guidance on alerts issued by outdoor siren and short message alerting systems

August 16, 2018
Author(s)
Erica D. Kuligowski, Amanda Kimball
… The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)’s Technical Investigation of the 2011 … accepted standards exist for emergency communications in tornado events and more specifically, policies involving … the use of communication systems to alert the public in advance of tornadoes. This publication provides …

Guidance for Evaluating Contactless Fingerprint Acquisition Devices

July 27, 2018
Author(s)
John M. Libert, John D. Grantham, Bruce Bandini, Stephen S. Wood, Michael D. Garris, Kenneth Ko, Frederick R. Byers, Craig I. Watson
… undertaken by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop measurements and a protocol for … (lesser or no contact). Contactless images by comparison, in most cases, are third-order renderings of an original … the ridge structure for rendering as a fingerprint similar in appearance to legacy contact captures. The rendering …

Roles and Responsibilities of NIST in the Development of Documentary Standards

July 27, 2018
Author(s)
Prem K. Rachakonda, Balasubramanian Muralikrishnan, Daniel S. Sawyer
… The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is a non-regulatory federal agency of the … institute of the US. The background of NIST's role in the development of voluntary consensus standards (VCS) is rooted in many policy decisions and government directives that …

An Ideal Molecular Sieve for Acetylene Removal from Ethylene with Record Selectivity and Productivity

December 20, 2017
Author(s)
Bin Li, Xili Cui, Dan O'Nolan, Hui-Min Wen, Mengdie Jiang, Rajamani Krishna, Hui Wu, Rui-Biao Lin, Yu-Sheng Chen, Daqiang Yuan, Huabin Xing, Wei Zhou, Qilong Ren, Guodong Qian, Michael J. Zaworotko, Banglin Chen
… Realization of ideal molecular sieves, in which the larger gas molecules are completely blocked … such as ethylene (C 2 H 4 ) and propylene (C 3 H 6 ) in the future. ^1-3^ Although extensive research endeavors …

Laser-Driven Calorimetry Measurements of Petroleum and Biodiesel Fuels

September 20, 2017
Author(s)
Cary Presser, Ashot Nazarian, Amit Millo
… determined for several National Institute of Standards and Technology Standard Reference Material petroleum-based and … was injected into a copper pan substrate that rests and is in contact with a fine-wire thermocouple. The reactor is … to achieve nearly uniform sample temperature. The change in sample temperature with time (i.e., thermogram) is …

ESTABLISHING BRDF CALIBRATION CAPABILITIES THROUGH SHORTWAVE INFRARED

September 5, 2017
Author(s)
Catherine C. Cooksey, Georgi T. Georgiev, James Butler, Kurtis J. Thome, Leibo Ding
… Satellite instruments operating in the reflective solar wavelength region require accurate … (BRDFs) of the laboratory and flight diffusers used in their pre-flight and on-orbit calibrations. This paper … with those made by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Spectral Tri-function Automated Reference …

Overcoming challenges in single particle inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry measurement of silver nanoparticles

August 16, 2017
Author(s)
Jingyu Liu, Karen E. Murphy, Michael R. Winchester, Vincent A. Hackley
… transport efficiency and the response of ionic standards. In this work, we present a comprehensive and systematic study … recently issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). We report for the first time, statistically significant differences in frequency-based and size-based measures of transport …

Associations between perfluorinated alkyl acids measured in blood and ovarian follicular fluid and ovarian function in women undergoing assisted reproductive treatment

June 26, 2017
Author(s)
Jessica A. Cloy-McCoy, Jacqueline T. Bangma, Jessica L. Reiner, John Bowden, John Schnorr, Michael Slowey, Tom O'Leary, Louis J. Guillette, Benjamin B. Parrott
… Endocrine disrupting contaminants, in combination with other environmental variables, are … with altered reproductive health. Assisted reproductive technology (ART) procedures offer valuable opportunities to … explore the connections between environmental contaminants in the ovarian microenvironment and measures of fertility, …

Calibration of spectral responsivity of IR detectors in the range from 0.6 mm to 24 mm

June 15, 2017
Author(s)
Vyacheslav B. Podobedov, George P. Eppeldauer, Leonard M. Hanssen, Thomas C. Larason
… performance of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) facility for spectral responsivity calibrations of infrared (IR) detectors in both radiant power and irradiance measurement modes. The … range of the previous scale, below 0.8 µm and above 19 µm in radiant power mode as well as above 5.3 µm in irradiance …

Benefits and Costs of Research: A Case Study of Fire Dynamics Simulation

February 19, 2017
Author(s)
Barbara C. Lippiatt
… program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has produced software that simulates fire … FDS to the science of fire protection device interactions in warehouses. Three fire protection devices were required in warehouses by the Uniform Fire Code (UFC), a prescriptive …

Annex 4. Description and interpretation of results from national trend studies: US-Alaska Seabirds

February 13, 2017
Author(s)
Stacy S. Schuur, Paul R. Becker, Colleen E. Bryan Sallee, Rebecca S. Pugh, David G. Roseneau
… (Larus hyperboreus and L. glaucescens) egg clutches began in 2004 at the request of subsistence harvesters and to … (USGS-BRD), and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to monitor long-term trends in environmental quality by (1) collecting seabird tissues …
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