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Certification of Standard Reference Material(R) 1955a Homocysteine in Frozen Human Serum

June 21, 2024
Author(s)
Carolyn Burdette, Elena Wood, Jerome Mulloor, Michael Nelson, Blaza Toman, Aaron Urbas
Standard Reference Material (SRM) 1955a Homocysteine in Frozen Human Serum is intended for use in validating homocysteine measurement procedures used by in vitro diagnostics manufacturers, reference laboratories, and clinical laboratories in the United

Conformal Flame Retardant Coating Systems

June 21, 2024
Author(s)
Thomas Kolibaba, Federico Carosio, Jaime Grunlan
Surface coatings represent an important class of fire protective treatments. When deposited conformally, these treatments offer extremely effective fire protection, especially to high surface area substrates (e.g., textiles and foams). Additionally, use of

Observation of topological frequency combs

June 21, 2024
Author(s)
Christopher Flower, Mahmoud Mehrabad, Lida Xu, Gregory Moille, Daniel Suarez-Forero, Yanne Chembo, Sunil Mittal, Kartik Srinivasan, Mohammad Hafezi
On-chip generation of optical frequency combs using nonlinear ring resonators has enabled numerous applications of combs that were otherwise limited to mode-locked lasers. Nevertheless, on-chip frequency combs have relied predominantly on single-ring

The Black Hole Explorer: Astophysics Mission Concept Engineering Study Report

June 21, 2024
Author(s)
Eliad Peretz, Peter Kurczynski, Michael D. Johnson, Janice Houston, Tirupati Kumara Sridharan, Jade Wang, Peter Galison, Ronald Gamble, Daniel P. Marrone, Scott Noble, Gary Melnick, Leonid Petrov, Hannah Rana, Kari Haworth, Sheperd S. Doeleman, Sara Issaoun, Shahar Hadar, Alexandru Lupsasca, Edward Tong, Kazunori Akiyama, Ranjani Srinivasan, Don Boroson, Guangning Yang, Tiffany Hoerbelt, Jeffrey Small, Mareki Honma, Bryan Bilyeu, Ed Canavan, Katia Shtyrkova, Robert Lafon, Lenny Paritsky, Laura Sinclair, Mark Silver, Leonid Gurvits, Yuri Kovalev, Robert Lehmensiek, Hua Jiao, Lindy Blackburn, Alexandra Brosius, Rick Butler, Andrew Chael, Dominic Chang, Koushik Chatterjee, Peter Cheimets, Daniel D'Orazio, Thomas Essinger-Hileman, Vincent Fish, Garret Fitzpatrick, Charles Gammie, Zachary Gelles, Michael H. Hecht, Jens Kauffmann, Jared Lucey, Chung-Pei Ma, Mark Matsumura, Daniel Palumbo, Dominic Pesce, Jeff Piepmeier, Christopher J. Roberts, Freek Roelofs, Paul Tiede, Jaye Verniero, Maciek Wielgus, Ed Wollack, George N. Wong, Kelsey Gilchrist, Kayla Carmical, Andrew Lewis, Maya Wertheim, Keshet Shavit
The Black Hole Explorer (BHEX) mission will enable the study of the fine photon ring structure, aiming to reveal the clear universal signatures of multiple photon orbits and true tests of general relativity, while also giving astronomers access to a much

The Chemical Assessment of Surfaces and Air (CASA) Study: Using chemical and physical perturbations in a test house to investigate indoor processes

June 21, 2024
Author(s)
Delphine K Farmer, Marina E Vance, Dustin Poppendieck, Jon Abbatt, Michael R Alves, Karen C Dannemiller, Cholaphan Deeleepojananan, Jenna Ditto, Brian P. Dougherty, Olivia R Farinas, Allen H Goldstein, Vicki H Grassian, Han Huynh, Deborah Kim, Jon C King, Jesse Kroll, Jienan Li, Michael Link, Liora Mael, Kathryn Mayer, Andrew B Martin, Glenn Morrison, Rachel O'Brien, Shubhransgshu Pandit, Barbara Turpin, Marc Webb, Jie Yu, Stephen Zimmerman
The Chemical Assessment of Surfaces and Air (CASA) study aimed to understand how chemicals transform in the indoor environment using perturbations (e.g., cooking, cleaning) or additions of indoor and outdoor pollutants in a well-controlled test house

Absence of a Bulk Thermodynamic Phase Transition to aDensity Wave Phase in UTe2

June 20, 2024
Author(s)
Florian Theuss, Avi Shragai, Gael Grissonnanche, Luciano Peralta, Ian Hayes, Shanta Saha, Yun Eo, Alonso Suarez, Andrea Capa Salinas, Ganesh Pokharel, Stephen Wilson, Nicholas Butch, Johnpierre Paglione
Competing and intertwined orders are ubiquitous in strongly correlated electron systems, such as the charge, spin, and superconducting orders in the high-Tc cuprates. Recent scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) measurements provide evidence for a charge

Borophene: Synthesis, Chemistry, and Electronic Properties

June 20, 2024
Author(s)
Kai Wang, Shilpa Choyal, Jeremy Schultz, James McKenzie, Linfei Li, Xiaolong Liu, Nan Jiang
As a neighbor of carbon in the periodic table, boron exhibits versatile structural and electronic configurations, with its allotropes predicted to possess intriguing structures and properties. Since the experimental realization of two-dimensional (2D)

Characterization of Reference Material 8210: Hemp Plant

June 20, 2024
Author(s)
Colleen E. Bryan Sallee, Walter Brent Wilson, Charles Barber, Monique Johnson, Jenna Klingsick, Jerome Mulloor, Blaza Toman, Elena Wood, Laura Wood, Andrea Yarberry
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Reference Material (RM) 8210 Hemp Plant delivers non certified values for cannabinoids and toxic elements in a dried ground hemp plant material to help cannabis and forensic laboratories for use as

A collaborative study on the precision of the Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms used for DNA profile interpretation

June 19, 2024
Author(s)
Sarah Riman, Jo-Anne Bright, Kaitlin Huffman, Lilliana Moreno, Sicen Liu, Asmitha Sathya, Peter Vallone
Several fully continuous probabilistic genotyping software (PGS) use Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms (MCMC) to assign weights to different proposed genotype combinations at a locus. Replicate interpretations of the same profile in these software are

Evaluating Large Language Models for Real World Vulnerability Repair in C/C++ Code

June 19, 2024
Author(s)
Lan Zhang, Qingtian Zou, Anoop Singhal, Xiaoyan Sun, Peng Liu
The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has enabled advancement in automated code generation, translation, and summarization. Despite their promise, evaluating the use of LLMs in repairing real-world code vulnerabilities remains underexplored. In this

Predicting the toughness of compatibilized polymer blends

June 19, 2024
Author(s)
Robert Ivancic, Debra Audus
Polymer blends can yield superior materials by merging the unique properties of their components. However, these mixtures often phase separate, leading to brittleness. While compatibilizers can toughen these blends, their vast design space makes

Suppression of Segmental Chain Dynamics on a Particle's Surface in Well-Dispersed Polymer Nanocomposites

June 18, 2024
Author(s)
Jihyuk Kim, Benjamin Thompson, Taiki Tominaga, Takahito Osawa, Takeshi Egami, Stephan Forster, Michael Ohl, Erkan Senses, Antonio Faraone, Norman J. Wagner
The Rouse dynamics of polymer chains in model nanocomposite polyethylene oxide/silica nanoparticles (NPs) was investigated using quasielastic neutron scattering. The apparent Rouse rate of the polymer chains decreases as the particle loading increases

Breaking Boundaries: Investigating the Effects of Model Editing on Cross-linguistic Performance

June 17, 2024
Author(s)
Somnath Banerjee, Avik Halder, Rajarshi Mandal, Sayan Layek, Ian Soboroff, Rima Hazra, Animesh Mukherjee
The integration of pretrained language models (PLMs) like BERT and GPT has revolutionized NLP, particularly for English, but it has also created linguistic imbalances. This paper strategically identifies the need for linguistic equity by examining several

Assessing girth weld quality of pipeline steels and their susceptibility to hydrogen embrittlement

June 16, 2024
Author(s)
Zack Buck, Newell Moser, May Ling Martin, Nicholas Derimow, Damian Lauria, Enrico Lucon, Douglas Stalheim, Peter Bradley, Matthew Connolly
Hydrogen is known to cause premature failure in various steel infrastructures due to effects of embrittlement, which is particularly detrimental to ferritic steel structures such as pipelines and pressure vessels. Therefore, understanding the

Anomaly Based Intrusion Detection using Large Language Models

June 15, 2024
Author(s)
Zineb Maasaoui, Abdella Battou, Mheni Merzouki, Ahmed LBATH
In the context of modern networks where cyber-attacks are increasingly complex and frequent, traditional Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) often struggle to manage the vast volume of data and fail to detect novel attacks. Leveraging Artificial Intelligence

United States Navy Nuclear Accident Dosimetry Program: History and Current Status

June 15, 2024
Author(s)
Alexander Romanyukha, Jessica Saunders, David Boozer, Keith Consani, Jeff Delzer
United States Code of Federal Regulations 10, § 835.1304 requires that installations possessing sufficient quantities of fissile material to potentially constitute a critical mass, such that the excessive exposure of individuals to radiation from a nuclear
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