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Impacts of Aging and Relative Humidity on Biomass Burning Smoke in an Indoor Environment

July 8, 2024
Author(s)
Marina Vance, Liora Mael, Sofie Schwink, Kathryn Mayer, Thomas Dunnington, Maximilian Schmid, Nicholas Gotlib, Andrew Martin, Dustin Poppendieck, Delphine Farmer
We studied the impacts of aging and relative humidity on simulated wildfire smoke in a test house during the Chemical Assessments of Surfaces and Air (CASA) study. We injected fresh and ozone-aged biomass burning smoke into the test house during times of

Recoil-Order and Radiative Corrections to the aCORN Experiment

July 8, 2024
Author(s)
Maynard Dewey, Jeffrey Nico, Fred Wietfeldt
The aCORN experiment measures the electron-antineutrino a-coefficient in free neutron decay. We update the previous aCORN results to include radiative and recoil corrections to first order. The corrected combined result is a = -0.10859 +/- 0.00125 (stat) +

Redetermination of the Gravitational Constant using the BIPM Torsion Balance

July 8, 2024
Author(s)
Stephan Schlamminger, Leon Chao, David B. Newell, Vincent Lee, Clive Speake
For the past several years, we have been using the torsion balance developed at the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM) to measure the gravitational constant $G$. The most notable feature of the apparatus is that it allows the measurement of

100-km entanglement distribution with coexisting quantum and classical signals in a single fiber

July 5, 2024
Author(s)
Anouar Rahmouni, Paulina Kuo, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud, Ivan Burenkov, Yicheng Shi, Jabir Marakkarakath Vadakkepurayil, Nijil Lal Cheriya Koyyottummal, Dileep Reddy, Mheni Merzouki, Lijun Ma, Abdella Battou, Sergey Polyakov, Oliver T. Slattery, Thomas Gerrits
The development of prototype metropolitan-scale quantum networks is underway and entails transmitting quantum information via single photons through deployed optical fibers spanning several tens of kilometers. Among the major challenges in metropolitan

Functional Recovery in Modern Reinforced Concrete Buildings

July 5, 2024
Author(s)
Dustin Cook, ABBIE LIEL, Amir Safiey
In the field of structural engineering, functional recovery is a new, but non-standardized building design objective intended to improve a building's capacity to maintain or rapidly restore basic intended functions after a hazard event, such as an

Investigating the use of network analysis metrics to benchmark Industrial Symbiosis development

July 5, 2024
Author(s)
Abheek Chatterjee, Oren Minsk, Buddhika Hapuwatte, Matthew Triebe, Daniel Kietzer, Sushma Kittali-Weidner, Katherine Morris, Nehika Mathur
Circular economy (CE) aims to reduce natural resource consumption, waste generation, and related detrimental environmental, social, and economic impacts by keeping valuable materials circulating in the economy. Industrial Symbiosis (IS) contributes to CE

Liquid Deuterium Cold Source Concept for the NIST Neutron Source

July 5, 2024
Author(s)
John Jurns, Philipp Arnold, Jeremy Cook, Osman Celikten
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) houses an aging reactor that serves more than 40 % of all cold neutron research needs in the U.S. First critical in 1967, the National Bureau of Standards Reactor

Morphologic alterations across three levels of biological organization following oral exposure to silver-polymer nanocomposites in Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes)

July 5, 2024
Author(s)
Melissa Chernick, Alan Kennedy, Treye Thomas, Keana C. K. Scott, Joana Sipe, Christine Hendren, Mark Wiesner, David Hinton
Polymer nanocomposites have diverse industrial and commercial uses. While many toxicity studies have assessed the individual materials (e.g., polymer, nanomaterial) comprising nanocomposites, few have examined the potential toxicity of the nanocomposite as

Neutron Vibrational Spectroscopic Study of the 1:1 Acetylene:Ammonia Cocrystal Relevant to Titan, Saturn's Moon

July 5, 2024
Author(s)
Morgan Kramer, Trump Benjamin, Luke Daemen, Rafael Balderas-Xicohtencatl, Yongqiang Cheng, Anibal J. Ramirez-Cuesta, Craig Brown, Tomce Runcevski
The surface of Titan, Saturn's icy moon, is believed to be comprised of various molecular minerals with a great diversity in structure and composition. Under the surface conditions, 93 K and 1.45 atm, most small molecules solidify and form minerals

Genome-wide profiling of genetic variation at tandem repeat from long reads

July 4, 2024
Author(s)
Helyaneh Jam, Justin Zook, Sara Javadzadeh, Jonghun Park, Aarushi Sehgal, Melissa Gymrek
Tandem repeats are frequent across the human genome, and variation in repeat length has been linked to a variety of traits. Recent improvements in long read sequencing technologies have the potential to greatly improve TR analysis, especially for long or

Solution Synthesis of NdTe3 Magnetic Nanosheets

July 4, 2024
Author(s)
Joel Swanson, Salah El Jamal, Tyler Hartman, Orlando Stewart, Priscilla Glaser, Adam Biacchi, DaVonne Henry, Amy Liu, Sarah Stoll
Neodymium tritelluride is a layered van der Waals material, with correlated electronic properties including high electronic mobility, charge density waves, and antiferromagnetism. We developed a solution synthesis method to form free standing nanosheets of

An Adaptable AI Assistant for Network Management

July 3, 2024
Author(s)
Amar Abane, Abdella Battou, Mheni Merzouki
This paper presents a network management AI assistant built with Large Language Models. It adapts at runtime to the network state and specific platform, leveraging techniques like prompt engineering, document retrieval, and Knowledge Graph integration. The

Coexistence of Superconductivity and Antiferromagnetism in Topological Magnet MnBi2Te4 Films

July 3, 2024
Author(s)
Wei Yuan, Zi-Jie Yan, Hemian Yi, Zihao Wang, Stephen Paolini, Yi-Fan Zhao, Ling-Jie Zhou, Annie G. Wang, Ke Wang, Thomas Prokscha, Zaher Salman, Andreas Suter, Purnima Balakrishnan, Alexander Grutter, Laurel E. Winter, John Singleton, Moses H. Chan, Cui-Zu Chang
The interface of two materials can harbor unexpected emergent phenomena. One example is interface-induced superconductivity. In this work, we employ molecular beam epitaxy to grow a series of heterostructures formed by stacking together two

Enhancing Network Data Plane Analysis with Native Graph Database

July 3, 2024
Author(s)
Amar Abane, Abdella Battou, Mheni Merzouki
As modern networks grow in complexity, ensuring their reliability and security becomes increasingly vital. Data plane analysis is a key process for verifying network behavior, but traditional data plane analysis tools face challenges in extensibility

Entanglement kinetics in polymer melts are chemically specific

July 3, 2024
Author(s)
Benjamin Dolata
We investigate the universality of entanglement kinetics in polymer melts. We compare predictions of a recently developed constitutive equation for disentanglement to molecular dynamics simulations of both united-atom polyethylene and Kremer-Grest models

Laboratory-Based Reference Channels for Millimeter-Wave Wireless Device Measurements

July 3, 2024
Author(s)
Joshua Kast, Paritosh Manurkar, Sudantha Perera, Mohamed Hany, Rob Horansky, Rick Candell, Kate Remley, Matt Simons
Industrial and consumer wireless devices increasingly make use of millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequencies to meet increasing requirements for bandwidth, device density, and latency. The complex propagation environment and design of phased-array antennas pose

SINGLE-MODULATOR, DUAL COMB SERRODYNE SPECTROSCOPY

July 3, 2024
Author(s)
Jasper Stroud, David Long, David Plusquellic
Dual optical frequency comb spectroscopy allows for high speed, broadband measurements without any moving parts. Here, we combine differential chirp down conversion to probe large spectral bandwidths in the near-infrared (NIR) and serrodyne modulation to

Investigation of the effect of peptide p5 targeting CDK5-p25 hyperactivity on Munc18-1(P67) regulating neuronal exocytosis using molecular simulations

July 2, 2024
Author(s)
Tejaswi Tammareddy, Walid Keyrouz, Ram Sriram, Harish Pant, Antonio Cardone, Jeffery Kluada
Munc18–1 is an SM (sec1/munc-like) family protein involved in vesicle fusion and neuronal exocytosis. Munc18–1 is known to regulate the exocytosis process by binding with closed- and open-state conformations of Syntaxin1, a protein belonging to the SNARE

Two-electron interference in two-photon attosecond double ionization of neon

July 2, 2024
Author(s)
Siddhartha Chattopadhyay, Carlos Marante, Barry I. Schneider, C. William McCurdy, Luca Argenti
The pump-probe experiments enabled by X-ray free-electron lasers (XFEL) will allow us to directly observe correlated electronic motion with attosecond time resolution by detecting photoelectron pairs in coincidence. In helium, the transition between the

Flexures for Kibble balances: Minimizing the effects of anelastic relaxation

July 1, 2024
Author(s)
Lorenz Keck, Stephan Schlamminger, Rene Theska, Frank Seifert, Darine El Haddad
Modern weighing cells would not be possible without flexure technology. Flexures are thin metal strips that form pivots, and they can be engineered to bend in a prescribed fashion, producing a desired restoring torque. In contrast to other pivots, flexures
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