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Robotic Sorting and Artificial Intelligence in Material Recovery Facilities: A Mixed-Methods Study of Published Research and Industry Perspectives

October 30, 2026

Author(s)

Tanmay Haldankar, Kelsea Schumacher

Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs) are essential to municipal recycling infrastructure, but face difficulties in sorting due to the growing complexity of recyclable material streams and contamination in their input. The limitations of traditional sorting

Advancing Resilience Across Lifeline Infrastructure Systems: The Need for Consistent Guidance

September 29, 2026

Author(s)

Katherine Johnson, Craig Davis, Ayse Hortacsu, Laurie Johnson, Thomas O'Rourke, Kent Yu

Consistent resilience guidelines are needed to address the performance and recovery of lifeline infrastructure systems during and after hazard events. Lifeline infrastructure systems (e.g., water, wastewater, electric power, gas and liquid fuel

Dependence of Segment Anything Model (SAM) Performance on Part Geometry in Bin Picking Applications

September 24, 2026

Author(s)

Marek Franaszek, Pavlo Piliptchak, Kamel Saidi

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) can segment novel, previously unseen objects from 2D images. This capability is especially important in automated bin picking applications, where low-volume and high-variability scenarios are common. When prompted by a

Evaluation and Modification of Commercial Equipment to Evaluate Air Permeability of Concrete

September 24, 2026

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Stephanie Watson, Ashley Carey, Benjamin (Ben) Johnsson

Pyrrhotite in concrete aggregate can lead to severe cracking due to expansion reactions. Most research has focused on screening methods and mix designs that lower the permeability of new structures. However, there is a need to evaluate the feasibility of

NISTCHO Cell Culture and Fed-Batch Bioreactor Protocols

September 24, 2026

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Ioannis Karageorgos, William O'Dell, Vamsi Bolla, Hussain Dahodwala, Hussain Dahodwala, Zvi Kelman, John Marino

The NISTCHO cell system (RM 8675) provides a standardized Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell culture platform for studies of recombinant monoclonal antibody production and bioprocess characterization. Reproducible recovery, expansion, cultivation, and

On concrete spalling - BLEVE or no BLEVE

September 24, 2026

Author(s)

Jiann Yang

The BLEVE (boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion) hypothesis on fire-induced spalling of concrete was examined using the superheated liquid theory. Water within a heated concrete pore was used as an idealized system to examine the thermodynamic behavior

Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) Near-Real Time RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) Security

September 24, 2026

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Scott Rose, Oliver Borchert, Simeon Wuthier, Douglas Montgomery

Radio Access Networks (RANs) are used to connect mobile network customer devices to the core network and the internet. Open RAN (ORAN) is an effort to have a standardized set of components and interfaces for the RAN so that a mobile network operator can

Quantified convergence of general homodyne measurements with applications to continuous variable quantum computing

September 23, 2026

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Emanuel Knill, Ezad Shojaee, James R. van Meter, Akira Kyle, Scott Glancy

In arXiv:2503.00188 we introduced broadband pulsed (BBP) homodyne measurements as a generalization of standard pulsed homodyne quadrature measurements. BBP can take advantage of detectors such as calorimeters that have the potential for high efficiency

A collaborative study evaluating the detection of virus-infected cells by transcriptomic high-throughput sequencing

September 22, 2026

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Noemie Deneyer, Pei-Ju Chin, Guillaume Bayon-Vicente, Pascale Beurdeley, Megan Cleveland, Anne-Sophie Colinet, Stephane Cruveiller, Marc Eloit, Shanaz Gilchrist, Noriko Hashiba, Christophe Lambert, Antonio Lembo, Ka-Wai Leong, Brandye Michaels, Sandrine Moreira, Reiko Nakashima, Simone Olgiati, Nasrin Salehi, Qinyu Sun, Kazuhisa Uchida, Oliver Vandeputte, Yuzhe Yuan, Keisuke Yusa, Valeria Maria Zanda, Arifa Khan

High-throughput sequencing (HTS) is an agnostic virus detection technology that can replace or supplement the conventional adventitious virus assays used for safety testing of biologics. Transcriptomic HTS is particularly suitable for the detection of

Distinction between inelastic scattering and dephasing exponents by current heating in gated epitaxial graphene

September 21, 2026

Author(s)

Wei-Chen Lin, Po-Shao Lai, Sung-Chieh Chiu, Pin-Chi Liao, Fa-Hua Chen, Ji-Song Hsu, Ying-Je Wu, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Shao-Yu Chen, Albert Rigosi, Yanfei Yang, Chi-Te Liang

TCRR: A Channel Quality Prediction Framework for Industrial Wireless Communication

September 21, 2026

Author(s)

Oishy Saha, Mohamed Hany, Jing Geng, Shuvra Bhattacharyya, Richard Candell

Reliable wireless communication in industrial Internet of Things (IoT) environments helps to manage varying operational conditions and ensure robust connectivity among devices, actuators, and machines. The anticipation of a channel's behavior can

Thermodynamic Modeling of Pure Elements from 0 K with Uncertainty Quantification using PyCalphad and ESPEI

September 21, 2026

Author(s)

Alexander Richter, Abdulmonem Obaied, Irina Roslyakova, Boris Wilthan, Allison Beese, Zi-Kui Liu

Thermodynamic modeling of pure elements is the foundation of the CALPHAD modeling of engineering materials. Recently, multiple physics-based models have been proposed to describe Gibbs energy of pure elements down to 0 K, extending from 298.15K in the

ARIA Evaluation Planning Manual: Elements of ARIA-Style AI Evaluations

September 18, 2026

Author(s)

Theodore Jensen, Mark Przybocki, Monica Kodwani, Kristen Greene, Patrick Hall, Razvan Amironesei, Craig Greenberg

This document outlines the components for evaluating an AI application using the NIST Assessing Risks and Impacts of AI (ARIA) approach. The ARIA Evaluation Planning Manual is designed to illustrate the various elements of conducting a holistic AI

Comment on "Electric polarizabilities of CH_4, CO, and O_2 determined by an optical refractometer"

September 18, 2026

Author(s)

Patrick Egan

The work of Zhao et al. has several problems. Here, the focus is on issues specific to oxygen. However, questions about units of magnetic susceptibility and the stability of elastic properties apply to their results for all gases.

Hall Resistance, van der Pauw Test Method - Tutorial

September 18, 2026

Author(s)

Jan Obrzut

The van der Pauw Hall Resistance test method offers exceptional insight into intrinsic electronic properties of nanomaterials, including graphene, and those of few layers graphene. In comparison, the measurements in accordance with the classical Hall-bar

What's next for metabolomics?

September 17, 2026

Author(s)

Tracey Johnston, Corey Broeckling, Clary Clish, Valerie Copie, Arthur S. Edison, Ulrich Gunther, Ewy Mathe, Vanessa Phelan, Robert Powers, Daniel Raftery, Nichole Reisdorph, Dajana Vuckovic, David S Wishart, Elizabeth Want

Metabolomics has become a mainstream approach that examines the metabolic composition of biological systems in relation to their physiological and disease states. Using analytical techniques such as nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and mass

A case study comparison of strain measurements in micromechanical testing using optical flow and DIC

September 16, 2026

Author(s)

Damian Lauria, Li-Anne Liew

We describe a case study on the application of an Optical Flow algorithm, using predictive velocity and pyramidal search, to the measurement of displacements in two 200 μm thick metal test specimens, compared with a traditional digital image correlation

A model carbonized papyrus roll opens a novel path to identifying readable rolls of the Herculaneum Library

September 16, 2026

Author(s)

DOUGLAS SEILER, Jacob LaManna, Michael McOsker, David Kreimer, Michael Daugherty, Jens Dopke

Our team successfully created a lab-made carbonized papyrus roll and virtually unrolled and read the words using X-ray tomography. The ability to create carbonized papyrus rolls will allow rolls to be created with varying formulations of ink to provide

Assessing Security Requirements for CUI: NIST SP 800-171Ar3 Small Business Primer

September 16, 2026

Author(s)

Daniel Eliot, Victoria Pillitteri

Small businesses juggle many competing priorities with their limited resources (time, budget, IT staff, etc.). A CUI security assessment can be unfamiliar and intimidating to those new and experienced with CUI security requirements. This guide provides

Advances in the Measurement of Vitamin D Binding Protein

September 15, 2026

Author(s)

Karen Phinney, Lisa Kilpatrick

Vitamin D binding protein (DBP) is a polymorphic protein known for its function in transporting vitamin D metabolites. DBP also plays several other important roles in the body's response to tissue damage and inflammation. Measurement of DBP is fundamental

Protecting Tokens and Assertions from Forgery, Theft, and Misuse: Implementation Recommendations for Agencies and Cloud Service Providers

September 15, 2026

Author(s)

Ryan Galluzzo, Andrew Regenscheid, Stephanie Nelson

This report provides implementation guidance to help federal agencies and cloud service providers (CSPs) protect tokens and assertions from forgery, theft, and misuse. Building on updates to NIST SP 800-53 (Release 5.1.1), it outlines principles for CSPs

Measured and Theoretical K?-alpha X-Ray Emission Linewidths of U, Np, and Pu

September 10, 2026

Author(s)

Abigail Wessels, Jonathan William Dean, Daniel Becker, Douglas Bennett, Matthew Carpenter, Mark Croce, Joseph Fowler, Johnathon Gard, Paul Indelicato, Katrina Koehler, John Mates, Daniel McNeel, David Mercer, Daniel Schmidt, Katherine Schreiber, Daniel Swetz, Duc Vo, Sophie Weidenbenner, Joel Ullom

We present measurements of the K-alpha-1 and K-alpha-2 natural x-ray linewidths of uranium, neptunium, and plutonium (Z=92, 93, 94) obtained using a superconducting transition-edge sensor microcalorimeter array. The relative uncertainties range from 0.5%

Automated Passive Interoperability Testing for Cellular V2X

September 9, 2026

Author(s)

Davide Pesavento, Yuyin Song

Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X), a critical component of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), is a wireless technology that enables vehicles to communicate with their surroundings (e.g., other vehicles, roadway infrastructure like traffic

Integrating IEEE 1451 Smart Transducers into IoT Environments using Node-RED Library

September 9, 2026

Author(s)

Yuyin Song, Helbert da Rocha, Antonio Espirito-Santo, Riccardo Brama

The interoperability and integration challenges to quickly develop Internet of Things (IoT) applications include heterogeneous IoT sensors/devices communicating through standardized or proprietary protocols, the need to integrate legacy devices/systems

Measurement Framework for Quantifying Braking Comfort in Automated Vehicles

September 9, 2026

Author(s)

Wenqi Guo, Thomas Roth, Zeid Kootbally, Ninad Harishchandrakar

Passenger comfort during braking remains a critical challenge in automated vehicles, as abrupt deceleration and motion transitions can degrade ride quality and user acceptance. Existing evaluation approaches often rely on isolated peak or aggregate metrics

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