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The Structure of Medium-Scale Pool Fires

February 19, 2020

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Ryan L. Falkenstein-Smith, Kunhyuk Sung, Jian Chen, Kimberly J. Harris, Anthony P. Hamins

This report documents a series of time-averaged gas species measurements made along the centerline of methanol, ethanol, and acetone pool fires steadily burning

Forensic Handwriting Examination and Human Factors: Improving the Practice Through a Systems Approach

February 18, 2020

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Melissa K. Taylor, Carolyne Bird, Brett Bishop, Ted Burkes, Michael P. Caligiuri, Bryan Found, Wesley P. Grose, Lauren R. Logan, Kenneth E. Melson, Mara L. Merlino, Larry S. Miller, Linton Mohammed, Jonathan Morris, John Paul Osborn, Nikola Osborne, Brent Ostrum, Christopher P. Saunders, Scott A. Shappell, H. David Sheets, Sargur N. Srihari, Reinoud D. Stoel, Thomas W. Vastrick, Heather E. Waltke, Emily J. Will

For some 6,000 years, humans have made an indelible mark on history through the loops, strokes, and other characters that constitute the written form of

Implementing Grain Traceability Standards: CART and Simulation

February 18, 2020

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Frank H. Riddick, Evan K. Wallace, Scott Nieman, Joe Tevis, R. A. Ferreyra

To ensure food safety, food manufacturers need the ability to quickly identify and trace food products to all equipment and processes throughout the entire

Quasi-two-dimensional magnon identification in antiferromagnetic FePS3 via magneto-Raman spectroscopy

February 18, 2020

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Amber D. McCreary, Jeffrey R. Simpson, Thuc T. Mai, Robert D. McMichael, Jason E. Douglas, Nicholas P. Butch, Cindi L. Dennis, Rolando Valdes Aguilar, Angela R. Hight Walker

Recently it was discovered that van der Waals-bonded magnets retain long range magnetic ordering even down to a monolayer thickness, opening many avenues in

Electron inelastic mean free path for LiF, CaF2, Al2O3 and liquid water from 433 keV down to the energy gap

February 17, 2020

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Miguel Flores-Mancera, John S. Villarrubia, G. Massillon

We report new calculations, which include the influence of the band gap and exciton states, of the electron inelastic mean free path (IMFP) for liquid water

HIV-1 gp120CD4-Induced Antibody Complex Elicits CD4 Binding SiteSpecific Antibody Response in Mice

February 17, 2020

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Andrey Galkin, Yajing Chen, Sijy O'Dell, Roderico Acevedo, James Steinhardt, Yimeng Wang, Richard Wilson, Chi-I Chiang, Alexander V. Grishaev, John Mascola, Yuxing Li

Elicitation of broadly neutralizing Ab (bNAb) responses toward the conserved HIV-1 envelope (Env) CD4 binding site (CD4bs) by vaccination is an important goal

Macroscopic degradation behaviors of polyethylene under the influence of UV radiation and temperature

February 17, 2020

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Hsiang C. Hsueh, Jae H. Kim, Sara V. Orski, Andrew Fairbrother, Deborah S. Jacobs, Donald L. Hunston, Christopher C. White, Li Piin Sung, Lakesha N. Perry

Accelerated weathering tests were performed to investigate the effects of multiple ultraviolet (UV) light intensities and temperatures on the tensile behavior

In-situ Raman spectroscopic measurements of the deformation region in indented glasses

February 15, 2020

Author(s)

Yvonne B. Gerbig, Chris A. Michaels

This paper describes the design and integration of a custom-built optical instrument for in- situ Raman microscopy suitable for collecting high-quality

A Benchmark Open-Source Implementation of COSMO-SAC

February 14, 2020

Author(s)

Ian H. Bell, Erik Mickoleit, Chieh-Ming Hsieh, Shiang-Tai Lin, Jadran Vrabec, Cornelia Breitkopf, Andreas J?ger

The COSMO-SAC modeling approach has found wide application in a range of industries due to its good predictive capabilities. While UNIFAC is in general more

Extending NIST's CAVP Testing of Cryptographic Hash Function Implementations

February 14, 2020

Author(s)

Nicky W. Mouha, Christopher T. Celi

This paper describes a vulnerability in Apple's CoreCrypto library, which affects 11 out of the 12 implemented hash functions: every implemented hash function

Optimization of Confined DART-MS

February 14, 2020

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Edward R. Sisco, Matthew E. Staymates, Thomas P. Forbes

The use of direct analysis in real time mass spectrometry (DART-MS) is seeing increased use in a number of fields, including forensic science, environmental

Simplified Ray Tracing for the Millimeter Wave Channel: A Performance Evaluation

February 14, 2020

Author(s)

Mattia Lecci, Paolo Testolina, Marco Giordani, Michele Polese, Tanguy Ropitault, Camillo A. Gentile, Neeraj Varshney, Michele Zorzi

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication is one of the cornerstone innovations of fifth- generation (5G) wireless networks, thanks to the massive bandwidth

TMPS: Ticket-Mediated Password Strengthening

February 14, 2020

Author(s)

John M. Kelsey, Dana Dachman-Soled, Meltem Sonmez Turan, Sweta Mishra

We introduce the notion of Ticket-Mediated Password Strengthening (TMPS), a technique for allowing users to derive keys from passwords while imposing a strict

Verifying executability of SysML behavior models using Satisfiability Modulo Theory solvers

February 14, 2020

Author(s)

Raphael Barbau, Conrad E. Bock

This report presents an approach to verifying executability of system behavior models by treating them as logical constraint problems solved using

CELL-FREE (Comparable Engineered Living Lysates for Research Education and Entrepreneurship) Workshop Report

February 13, 2020

Author(s)

Elizabeth A. Strychalski, Eugenia F. Romantseva

The CELL-FREE Workshop sought to identify and prioritize actionable steps towards more reproducible and comparable cell-free systems for practical applications

Development and Applications of a Four-Volt Josephson Arbitrary Waveform Synthesizer

February 13, 2020

Author(s)

Nathan E. Flowers-Jacobs, Alain Rufenacht, Anna E. Fox, Steven B. Waltman, Robert E. Schwall, Justus A. Brevik, Paul D. Dresselhaus, Samuel P. Benz

We have recently created a 4 V rms cryocooled JAWS (Josephson Arbitrary Waveform Synthesizer) using 204,960 nearly identical Josephson junctions (JJs) that are

First Direct Measurement of Sub-Nanosecond Polarization Switching in Ferroelectric Hafnium Zirconium Oxide

February 13, 2020

Author(s)

Pragya R. Shrestha, xiao Lyu, Mengwei Si, Kin P. Cheung, Pei D. Ye

In this work, we report on an ultrafast direct measurement on the transient ferroelectric polarization switching in hafnium zirconium oxide with a crossbar

Health Assessment Measurements Quality Assurance Program: Exercise 3 Final Report

February 13, 2020

Author(s)

Charles A. Barber, Carolyn Q. Burdette, Melissa M. Phillips, Catherine A. Rimmer, Laura J. Wood, Lee L. Yu, Shaun P. Kotoski

HAMQAP was launched in collaboration with the NIH ODS in 2017. HAMQAP was established to enable laboratories to improve the accuracy of measurements in samples

Hidden Fine Structure of Quantum Defects Revealed by Single Carbon Nanotube Magneto- Photoluminescence

February 13, 2020

Author(s)

Ming Zheng, Geyou Ao

Organic color-center quantum defects in semiconducting carbon nanotube hosts are rapidly emerging as promising candidates for solid-state quantum information

The NIST Cloud Federation Reference Architecture

February 13, 2020

Author(s)

Robert B. Bohn, Craig A. Lee, Martial Michel

This document presents the NIST Federated Cloud Reference Architecture model. This actor/role- based model used the guiding principles of the NIST Cloud

Outcomes and Conclusions from the 2018 AM-Bench Measurements, Challenge Problems, Modeling Submissions, and Conference

February 13, 2020

Author(s)

Lyle E. Levine, Brandon M. Lane, Jarred C. Heigel, Kalman D. Migler, Mark R. Stoudt, Thien Q. Phan, Richard E. Ricker, Maria Strantza, Michael R. Hill, Fan Zhang, Jonathan E. Seppala, Edward J. Garboczi, Erich D. Bain, Daniel Cole, Andrew J. Allen, Jason C. Fox, Carelyn E. Campbell

The Additive Manufacturing Benchmark Test Series (AM-Bench) was established to provide rigorous measurement test data for validating additive manufacturing (AM)

Ultrafast domain dilation induced by optical pumping in ferromagnetic CoFe/Ni multilayers

February 13, 2020

Author(s)

Dmitriy Zusin, Ezio E. Iacocca, Loic Le Guyader, Alexander H. Reid, William Schlotter, TianMin Liu, Daniel Higley, Giacomo Coslovich, Scott F. Wandel, Phoebe Tengdin, Sheena K. Patel, Anatoly Shabalin, Nelson Hua, Stjepan Hrkac, Hans T. Nembach, Justin M. Shaw, Sergio Montoya, Adam Blonsky, Christian Gentry, Mark Hoefer, Margaret M. Murnane, Henry C. Kapteyn, Eric E. Fullerton, Oleg Shpyrko, Hermann Durr, Thomas J. Silva

Ultrafast optical pumping of systems with spatially nonuniform magnetic textures is known to cause far-from-equilibrium spin transport effects, such as the

Imaging Carrier Inhomogeneities in Ambipolar Tellurene Field Effect Transistors

February 12, 2020

Author(s)

Samuel Berweger, Gang Qiu, Yixiu Wang, Benjamin Pollard, Kristen L. Genter, Thomas M. Wallis, Wenzhuo Wu, Peide Ye, Pavel Kabos

Bipolar transport underpins a wide range of semiconductor homojunction device functionalities such as pn junctions or transistors. The capability to image and

Linking mass measured by the quartz crystal microbalance to the SI

February 12, 2020

Author(s)

Corey A. Stambaugh, Hamza Shakeel, Maritoni A. Litorja, Joshua M. Pomeroy

The quartz crystal microbalance has been deployed across industry and academy for the monitoring of the film thickness during depositions. Over a half-a-century

Molecular Insight into Fluorocarbon Adsorption in Pore Expanded Metal-Organic Framework Analogs

February 12, 2020

Author(s)

Jian Zheng, Dushyant Barpaga, Benjamin A. Trump, Manish Shetty, Yanzhong Fan, Papri Bhattacharya, Jeromy J. Jenks, Cheng-Yong Su, Craig M. Brown, Guillaume Maurin, B. Peter McGrail, Radha Kishan Motkuri

The rapid growth in the global energy demand for space cooling requires the development of more efficient environmental chillers for which adsorption-based

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