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The Effect of Substrate Material on Silver Nanoparticle Antimicrobial Efficacy

December 1, 2010
Author(s)
Benita Dair, Dave M. Saylor, T. E. Cargal, Grace R. French, Kristen M. Kennedy, Rachel S. Casas, Jonathan E. Guyer, James A. Warren, Steven K. Pollack
With the advent of Nanotechnology, silver nanoparticles increasingly are being used in coatings, especially in medical device applications, to capitalize on their antimicrobial properties. The increased antimicrobial efficacy of nanoparticulate silver

The Role of High-Field Stress in the Negative Bias Temperature Instability

December 1, 2010
Author(s)
Jason P. Campbell, Kin P. Cheung, John S. Suehle, A Oates
In this study, a fast drain current measurement methodology which supports the standard threshold voltage and transconductance extractions associated with the fast dynamic negative-bias temperature instability (NBTI) is presented. Using this methodology

US Anti-Counterfeiting Standards Development Activities: An Overview

December 1, 2010
Author(s)
Yaw S. Obeng, Eric D. Simmon, YaShian Li-Baboud
Counterfeit electronics components impact performance, hence can be viewed as a reliability concern. Several different strategies have been proposed to mitigate the penetration and impact of counterfeits on the supply chain. Standards afford effective

A review of fatigue crack growth for pipeline steels exposed to hydrogen

November 30, 2010
Author(s)
Nicholas Nanninga, Andrew J. Slifka, Yaakov Levy, Calvin L. White
Hydrogen pipeline systems offer an economical means of storing and transporting energy in the form of hydrogen gas. Pipelines can be used to transport hydrogen that has been generated at solar and wind farms to and from salt cavern storage locations. In

Broadband Measurements of Nanofiber Devices: Repeatability and Random Error Analysis

November 30, 2010
Author(s)
Thomas M. Wallis, Atif A. Imtiaz, SangHyun S. Lim, Pavel Kabos, Kichul Kim, Paul Rice, Dejan Filipovic
On-wafer, broadband measurements of two-port nanofiber devices were made in order to test the short-term repeatability of a widely used measurement approach that builds on established on-wafer calibration techniques. The test devices used in this study

Cryptanalysis of the ESSENCE Family of Hash Functions

November 30, 2010
Author(s)
Nicky Mouha , Gautham Sekar, Jean-Philippe Aumasson , Thomas Peyrin, Soren S. Thomsen , Meltem Sonmez Turan, Bart Preneel
ESSENCE is a family of cryptographic hash functions, accepted to the first round of NIST's SHA-3 competition. This paper presents the first known attacks on ESSENCE. We present a semi-free-start collision attack on 31 out of 32 rounds of ESSENCE-512

Electrospray Tandem Quadrupole Fragmentation of Quinolone Drugs and Related Ions. On the Reversibility of Water Loss from Protonated Molecules

November 30, 2010
Author(s)
Pedatsur Neta, Bhaskar Godugu, Yuxue Liang, Yamil Simon, Xiaoyu Yang, Stephen E. Stein
Selected reaction monitoring (SRM) of quinolone drugs showed1 different sensitivities in aqueous solution vs. biological extract. The authors suggested formation of two singly protonated ions with different behavior, one undergoing loss of H 2O and the

Predicting Segmentation Accuracy for Biological Cell Images

November 29, 2010
Author(s)
Adele P. Peskin, Alden A. Dima, Joe Chalfoun
We have performed image segmentations on a very large number of images, using a wide variety of imaging conditions and cell lines, in order to study trends in the segmentation results and make predictions about segmentation accuracy. Comparing results from

Time-division SQUID multiplexers with reduced sensitivity to external magnetic fields

November 29, 2010
Author(s)
Greg Stiehl, Hsiao-Mei Cho, Gene C. Hilton, Kent D. Irwin, John A. Mates, Carl D. Reintsema, Barry L. Zink
We have developed time-division SQUID multiplexers to read out large arrays of transition-edge sensor (TES) detectors. These multiplexers are used in many applications that require exquisite control of systematic error. One important application is the

Toward a Preliminary Framework for Assessing the Trustworthiness of Software

November 26, 2010
Author(s)
Elizabeth N. Fong, Charline Cleraux, Frederick E. Boland Jr.
Is trustworthiness of software measurable? The determination of trustworthiness of a piece of software is difficult. There may be different quantifiable representations of trustworthiness. This paper proposes a preliminary framework for assessing the

A Human Inspired Local Ratio-Based Algorithm for Edge Detection in Fluorescent Cell Images

November 25, 2010
Author(s)
Adele P. Peskin, Joe Chalfoun, Alden A. Dima, John T. Elliott, James J. Filliben
We have developed a new semi-automated method for segmenting images of biological cells seeded at low density on tissue culture substrates, which we use to improve the generation of reference data for the evaluation of automated segmentation algorithms

Laplace Random Effects Models for Interlaboratory Studies

November 25, 2010
Author(s)
Andrew L. Rukhin, Antonio M. Possolo
A model is introduced for measurements obtained in collaborative interlaboratory studies, comprising measurement errors and random laboratory effects that have Laplace distributions, possibly with heterogeneous, laboratory-specific variances. Estimators

Biological Cell Feature Identification by a Modified Watershed-Merging Algorithm

November 24, 2010
Author(s)
David E. Gilsinn, Kiran Bhadriraju, John T. Elliott
Biological cells are composed of many subsystems and organelles. The subsystem called the cytoskeleton is composed of long rod-shaped structures. They give the cell form and help attach the cell to the substrate and neighbors. One of the filaments is

Core Manufacturing Simulation Data - UML Model Standard

November 24, 2010
Author(s)
Yung-Tsun T. Lee, Frank H. Riddick
This product, Core Manufacturing Simulation Data (CMSD), addresses interoperability between simulation systems and other manufacturing applications. The CMSD information model is a standard representation for core manufacturing simulation data. It provides

Observation of the red-blue detuning asymmetry in matter-wave superradiance

November 23, 2010
Author(s)
Lu Deng, Edward W. Hagley, Qiang Cao, Xiaorui Wang, Xinyu Luo, Ruquan Wang, Fan Yang, Xiaoji Zhou, Xuzong Chen, M. G. Payne, Mingsheng Zhan
We show the first experimental observations of matter-wave superradiance using blue-detuned light, and demonstrate a pump-laser detuning asymmetry in the collective atomic recoil motion. In contrast to all previous theoretical treatments, which predict
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