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Believable Statements of Uncertainty

February 8, 2017
Author(s)
Richard M. Lindstrom
Nearly fifty years ago, two landmark papers appeared that should have cured the problem of ambiguous uncertainty statements in published data. Eisenhart’s paper in Science called for statistically meaningful numbers, and Currie’s Analytical Chemistry paper

Spatial variation in perfluoroalkyl acids in a population of wild American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge (MINWR) surrounding the Kennedy Space Center (KSC)

January 26, 2017
Author(s)
John Bowden, Jacqueline T. Bangma, Martin Jones, Russell H. Lowers, Frances Nilsen, Jessica L. Reiner, Thomas R. Rainwater, Stephen E. Somerville, Louis J. Guillette Jr.
This study aimed to quantify fourteen perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) in the plasma of a population of alligators located at Merritt Island national Wildlife Refuge (MINWR). Male (n = 117) and female (n = 112) alligators were sampled in every month during

Lessons Learned from Monitoring Organic Contaminants in Three Decades of Marine Samples from the Pacific Basin Archived at the USA's Marine Environmental Specimen Bank

December 1, 2016
Author(s)
Stacy Schuur, Paul R. Becker, Colleen E. Bryan Sallee, Rebecca Pugh, Jared Ragland, Jessica Reiner, Jennifer Hoguet, Michele M. Schantz
The USA's Marine Environmental Specimen Bank (ESB) has archived marine wildlife collections dating back to 1976. Numerous lessons have been learned including collecting the correct species and tissues for environmental contaminant monitoring, developing

Comprehensive Assessment of Composition and Thermochemical Variability of Three Prototype Gas Turbine Fuels by GC/QToF-MS and the Advanced Distillation-Curve Method as a Basis of Comparison for Novel Fuel Development

October 26, 2016
Author(s)
Tara Lovestead, Jessica L. Burger, Nico Schneider, Thomas J. Bruno
Commercial and military aviation is faced with challenges that include high fuel costs, emissions, and supply chain security that result from the reliance on petroleum-based feedstocks. The development of alternative gas turbine fuels from renewable

Evaluation of chemical purity using quantitative 1H-nuclear magnetic resonance

September 28, 2016
Author(s)
Blaza Toman, Michael A. Nelson, Katrice A. Lippa
Chemical purity assessment using quantitative 1H-nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy is a method based on ratio references of mass and signal intensity of the analyte species to that of chemical standards of known purity. As such, it is an example of a

Application of the advanced distillation curve method for the characterization of two alternative transportation fuels prepared from the pyrolysis of polyethylene bags*

September 15, 2016
Author(s)
Thomas J. Bruno, Megan E. Harries, B. K. Sharma, Bidhya Kunwar
The properties of alternative fuels must be evaluated to determine their suitability for use in existing engines, either as blends with conventional petroleum products or as stand-alone substitutions (that is, drop in replacements). Alternative fuels made

An azeotropic cross-linked styrene-methacrylate network formed through rapid visible-light photo- polymerization

July 15, 2016
Author(s)
Yin Yang, Aaron A. Urbas, Andres Gonzalez-Bonet, Richard J. Sheridan, Jonathan E. Seppala, Kathryn L. Beers, Jirun Sun
A system containing well-defined functional material, a clinically practical procedure to make the material in situ, and proper analytical tools for chemical structure and kinetic studies is appealing, but currently unavailable. Herein, we introduce an all

LABORATORY FILTER MEDIA

June 1, 2016
Author(s)
Thomas J. Bruno
Filtration is the physical separation of a component or components (which may be solid, liquid, gel, etc.) from a matrix stream (which is usually a fluid), without causing any other changes such as chemical reactions. In the laboratory, filtration is most

Summary of results from the 2014/2015 Hydrocarbon Intercalibration Experiment (HIE)

May 27, 2016
Author(s)
Christopher Reddy, Stephen Wise, Lane C. Sander, Jacolin Murray
Following an open meeting entitled, "Hydrocarbon Chemistry QA/QC," at the 2014 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill and Ecosystem Science Conference in Mobile, Alabama, the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) initiated the Hydrocarbon Intercalibration

Towards a dynamic pressure standard based on laser absorption spectroscopy

May 20, 2016
Author(s)
Kevin O. Douglass, Douglas A. Olson
We describe an approach for creating a cost-effective, field deployable dynamic pressure standard based on measurement of fundamental quantum properties of molecular systems. From the linewidth and intensities of ro-vibrational transitions we plan on
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