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Zero-valent iron sand filtration can reduce human and plant pathogenic bacteria while increasing plant growth promoting bacteria in reclaimed water

November 2, 2020
Author(s)
Prachi Kulkarni, Nathanael David Olson, Joseph N. Paulson, Emmanuel F. Mongodin, Mihai Pop, Amy R. Sapkota
… The increasing use of reclaimed water for irrigation in areas that lack access to advanced wastewater treatment … of conventionally treated reclaimed water utilized in downstream applications. Over a two-month period, … was collected from a tertiary wastewater treatment plant in the Mid-Atlantic, U.S. and trucked to our greenhouse …

Status Report on the Second Round of the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Process

July 22, 2020
Author(s)
Dustin Moody, Gorjan Alagic, Daniel C. Apon, David A. Cooper, Quynh H. Dang, John M. Kelsey, Yi-Kai Liu, Carl A. Miller, Rene C. Peralta, Ray A. Perlner, Angela Y. Robinson, Daniel C. Smith-Tone, Jacob Alperin-Sheriff
… The National Institute of Standards and Technology is in the process of selecting one or more public-key … Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Process began in 2017 with 69 candidate algorithms that met both the …

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 … (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 managed …

Airflow and Indoor Air Quality Models of DOE Prototype Commercial Buildings

October 24, 2019
Author(s)
Lisa C. Ng, Amy Musser, Andrew K. Persily, Steven J. Emmerich
… DOE developed the EnergyPlus building models for use in assessing new technologies and supporting the development of energy codes in pursuing building energy efficiency improvements. The DOE … 1980, constructed between 1980- 2003, and constructed in 2004. Further details on the DOE reference building models …

Biomimetic Approach to Inhibition of Photooxidation in Organic Solar Cells Using Beta-Carotene as an Additive

October 14, 2019
Author(s)
Sebastian Engmann, Vida Turkovic, Michela Prete, Mikkel Bregnhoj, Liana Inasaridze, Dmytro Volyniuk, Filipp Obrezkov, Juozas V. Grazulevicius, Horst G. Rubahn, Pavel Troshin, Peter R. Ogilby, M. Madsen
… Recent improvements in the power conversion efficiencies of organic photovoltaic … are now the main bottleneck for further advances of this technology. As such, understanding and controlling events that result in OPV device degradation must now take center stage. The …

A general approach to multicomponent metal-decorated crumpled reduced graphene oxide nanocomposites using a flame-based process

September 25, 2019
Author(s)
Mohammad M. Mohammadi, Shikuan Shao, Santosh S. Gunturi, Anirudh R. Raghavan, Naveshkaanth Alexander, Christopher Stafford, Raymond D. Buchner, Mark Swihart
… Engineering Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA *[email protected] … Crumpled reduced graphene oxide Balls (CGB) are produced in a High Temperature Reducing Jet (HTRJ) reactor. The key … of non-oxide nanomaterials that can be reduced by H2 in the presence of H2O. Thus, CGBs are simultaneously …

IEEE 1451 Smart Sensor Digital Twin Federation for IoT/CPS Research

May 6, 2019
Author(s)
Yuyin Song, Martin J. Burns, Abhinav Pandey, Thomas P. Roth
… a common platform using a method called co-simulation. In order to facilitate a wide range of CPS simulations and experiments, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a universal CPS environment … behaviors and failure modes to simulate a real sensor in the field. This federation consists of three federates: an …

Certification of Standard Reference Material(R) SRM2687a Portland Cement Clinker

March 20, 2019
Author(s)
Paul E. Stutzman, Nathanael A. Heckert
… Materials at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The SRM clinkers are intended for use in developing and testing quantitative methods of phase … Rietveld refinement codes. These codes differed slightly in the determination of the silicate phases, which have very …

Large Outdoor Fires and the Built Environment: Summary of Kick-Off Workshop

February 4, 2019
Author(s)
Samuel L. Manzello, Sara McAllister, Sayaka Suzuki, Raphaele Blanchi, Elsa Pastor, Ronchi Enrico
… of the 11th Asia-Oceania Symposium on Fire Science and Technology (AOSFST) in Taipei, Taiwan. The working group is co-led by Sara … community engagement, including environmental issues in suppressing these fires. The overall objectives are to …

Status Report on the First Round of the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Process

January 31, 2019
Author(s)
Gorjan Alagic, Jacob M. Alperin-Sheriff, Daniel Apon, David Cooper, Quynh H. Dang, Carl Miller, Dustin Moody, Rene Peralta, Ray Perlner, Angela Robinson, Daniel Smith-Tone, Yi-Kai Liu
… The National Institute of Standards and Technology is in the process of selecting one or more public-key … future, including after the advent of quantum computers. In November 2017, 82 candidate algorithms were submitted to …

Experimental Study of Fire-Induced-Delamination of Cross Laminated Timber

January 1, 2019
Author(s)
Daniel Brandon, Birgit Ostman, Joseph Su, Amanda Kimball, Matthew Hoehler
… trends include having visible CLT surfaces, which, in the event of a fire, can become involved in the fire and act as fuel to the fire. A study by the Fire … (RISE; Sweden) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST; USA) has focused on the contribution of …

Evolution of Reference Materials for the Determination of Organic Nutrients in Food and Dietary Supplements - A Critical Review

December 1, 2018
Author(s)
Stephen Wise, Melissa M. Phillips
… Materials, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) introduced food-matrix CRMs with values … organic nutrients such as fatty acids and carotenoids in the late 1990s. The number of organic nutrients for which values are assigned has increased significantly in recently issued CRMs, and the approach and analytical …

Net-zero Nation: HVAC and PV Systems for Residential Net-Zero Energy Buildings across the United States

December 1, 2018
Author(s)
Wei Wu, Harrison Skye
… for a residential net-zero energy building (NZEB), in different climate zones across the United States. We used … ventilator (HRV) saved a significant amount of energy in cold winter months and hot summer months, and the energy … benefit for humid zones. The HRV was cost-effective in the cold northern latitudes of Chicago, Minneapolis, …

Validation of Single Particle ICP-MS for Routine Measurements of Nanoparticle Size and Number Size Distribution

November 25, 2018
Author(s)
Antonio R. Montoro Bustos, Premsagar P. Kavuri, Antonio M. Possolo, Natalia Farkas, Andras Vladar, Karen E. Murphy, Michael R. Winchester
… techniques applied to National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Reference Material (RM) 8013; (ii) … the existence of two distinct sub-populations of particles in the number size distributions for four of the 60 nm commercial suspensions, a fact that was not apparent in the measurement results obtained by transmission electron …

THREE APPROACHES TO QUANTIFICATION OF NDE UNCERTAINTY AND A DETAILED EXPOSITION OF THE EXPERT PANEL APPROACH USING THE SHEFFIELD ELICITATION FRAMEWORK

July 15, 2018
Author(s)
Jeffrey T. Fong, Nathanael A. Heckert, James J. Filliben, Steven R. Doctor
… of experience, the angle of probe, the flaw type, etc. In this paper, we describe three approaches with which uncertainty in NDE-risk-informed decision making can be quantified: (1) A … uncertainty information on the state of the art of the NDE technology employed from the early 1980s to the early 1990s. …

Challenges in migrating 90Y calibrations to new ionization chambers: geometry, height, and impurity effects.

May 1, 2018
Author(s)
Denis E. Bergeron, Jeffrey T. Cessna, Brian E. Zimmerman
… Yttrium-90 microspheres are used for targeted radiotherapy in patients with liver cancer. Activity measurements of … developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 1991. In 2014, it was deemed necessary to transfer the … Challenges in migrating 90Y calibrations to new ionization chambers: …

Standard Reference Material 2378 Fatty Acids in Frozen Human Serum. A Clinical SRM based on Endogenous Supplementation of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids

February 13, 2018
Author(s)
Bruce A. Benner Jr., Michele M. Schantz, Johanna Camara, Katherine E. Sharpless, James H. Yen, Lorna T. Sniegoski, Carissa D. Powers, Rosemary L. Schleicher
… and serum as an indicator of health status and diet. In addition, both the Centers for Disease Control & … of Health – Office of Dietary Supplements are interested in circulating fatty acids (FAs) because they may be … heart disease. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides a wide variety of reference …

Separation and characterization of cellulose nanocrystals by multi-detector asymmetric flow field-flow fractionation

December 18, 2017
Author(s)
Arnab K. Mukherjee, Vincent A. Hackley
… to advance the scientific and commercial use of CNCs. In the present study, we demonstrate an optimized method to … (dRI). A stable suspension of CNC (CNCD-1, NRC-Canada) in deionized water was prepared using a dispersion method … developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The as-prepared material was initially …

Characterization of Emissions from Spray Polyurethane Foam - Final Report to U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

September 8, 2017
Author(s)
Dustin G. Poppendieck, Mengyan Gong, Steven J. Emmerich
… heat losses through the building envelope and is used in both new construction and retrofit applications. Health … (CPSC) tasked the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) with performing research to assist CPSC staff in making determinations of the potential health impacts of …

Metagenomic assembly through the lens of validation: a review of recent advances in assessing and improving the quality of genes and genomes assembled from metagenomes.

August 6, 2017
Author(s)
Nathanael Olson, Chris M. Hill, Vistoria Cepeda-Espinoza, Jay Ghurye, Sergey Koren, Todd J. Treangen, Mihai Pop
… both within and across environments. Many microbes found in microbial communities are not easily grown in a culture making their DNA sequence our only clue into … represents the ideal objective - one contig per replicon. In between these two extremes, current methods have made …

Part-of-Math Tagging and Applications

June 28, 2017
Author(s)
Abdou S. Youssef
… mathematical literature, old and new, is online and mostly in natural-language form. Therefore, math content processing presents some of the same challenges faced in natural language processing (NLP), such as math … this goal, considerable math language processing (MLP) technology is needed. This project aims to advance MLP by …

Visualizing the Impact of a Journal Article: The Protein Data Bank in Nucleic Acids Research, 2000

June 18, 2017
Author(s)
Susan L. Makar, Amanda J. Malanowski, Talapady N. Bhat
… (PDB) was established at Brookhaven National Laboratories in 1971 as an archive for biological macromolecular crystal … molecules, including proteins and nucleic acids. In 1998, the management of the PDB became the responsibility … at San Diego; and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). In 2000, a NIST researcher co-authored the …

Classification of Scientific Journal Articles for the NIST Thermodynamics Research Center

June 7, 2017
Author(s)
Alden A. Dima, Kenneth G. Kroenlein, Sharief S. Youssef, Yuanyuan Feng
… as to the relevance of individual articles. This is done in the context of the data curation effort associated with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Thermodynamics Research Center (TRC). The … The choice of classifier was the most significant factor in determining the overall classification results. The choice …

Accurate TWSTFT time transfer with indirect links

January 31, 2017
Author(s)
Victor S. Zhang, Zhiheng Jiang, Thomas E. Parker, Jian Yao, Yi-Jiun Huang, Shinn-Yan Lin
… Frequency Transfer (TWSTFT or TW) time link should result in a smaller uncertainty than that of an indirect TW link … the use of the Global Positioning System (GPS) all-in-view [1], the UTC links, including Global Navigation … and using the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) or the USNO (US Naval Observatory) laboratory as …
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