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Plug-and-play protein biosensors using aptamer-regulated in vitro transcription

September 12, 2024
Author(s)
Heonjoon Lee, Tian Xie, Byunghwa Kang, Xinjie Yu, Samuel Schaffter, Rebecca Schulman
Molecular biosensors that accurately measure protein concentrations without external equipment are critical for solving numerous problems in diagnostics and therapeutics. Modularly transducing the binding of protein antibodies, protein switches or aptamers

Complex Precipitation Behavior in a Co-free High Entropy Alloy during Aging

September 11, 2024
Author(s)
Matthew Luebbe, Fan Zhang, Jonathan Poplawsky, Jiaqi Duan, Haiming Wen
High entropy alloys (HEAs) demonstrate high strength, thermal stability, and irradiation resistance, making them desirable for applications in nuclear reactors and other harsh environments. Many existing HEAs contain cobalt (Co), which makes them

Expansivity of fused quartz glass measured within 6 x 10^-10 K^-1

September 11, 2024
Author(s)
Patrick Egan
A method is described to measure the thermal expansion coefficient of fused quartz glass. The measurement principle is to monitor the change in resonance frequency of a Fabry–Perot cavity as its temperature changes; the Fabry–Perot cavity is made from

On Digital Signal Processing of Time Series for Spectrum Estimation

September 11, 2024
Author(s)
Dazhen Gu, Jake Rezac, Xifeng Lu, Dan Kuester
We present a study of power spectral density (PSD) estimation from data sampled in the time domain. This work was motivated by our recent development of digital radiometry, where radiation spectra were obtained by processing the digitally sampled signal

Quality Control in the Mass Spectrometry Proteomics Core: a Practical Primer

September 11, 2024
Author(s)
Ben Neely, Yasset Perez-Riverol, Magnus Palmblad
The past decade has seen widespread advances in quality control (QC) materials and software tools focused specifically on mass spectrometry–based proteomics, yet the rate of adoption is inconsistent. Despite the fundamental importance of QC, it typically

Calibration of a gamma ray Compton camera for radioactivity measurements

September 10, 2024
Author(s)
Heather H. Chen-Mayer, Dagistan Sahin, Bryan Remley, Steven Brown, David Goodman
A dual-plane Compton imaging detector previously developed for prompt gamma imaging has been further tested and calibrated for quantitative radioactivity determination, specifically to assess radioactive debris from a reactor fuel element containing

In-situ, Parallel Monitoring of Relative Temperature, Material Emission, and Laser Reflection in Powder-blown Directed Energy Deposition

September 10, 2024
Author(s)
Samantha Webster, Jihoon Jeong, Rujing Zha, Shuheng Liao, Alberto Castro, Lars Jacquemetton, Darren Beckett, Kornel Ehmann, Jian Cao
In-situ monitoring is critical for developing new control methods, advanced materials, and toolpath planning strategies in laser beam Directed Energy Deposition (DED-LB). Coaxial melt pool monitoring has typically been performed with cameras (e.g

NMR Spectroscopy and Multiscale Modeling Shed Light on Ion-Solvent Interactions and Ion Pairing in Aqueous NaF Solutions

September 10, 2024
Author(s)
Gosia Musial, Demian Riccardi, Chris Suiter, Ethan Sontarp, Samantha Miller, Robert Lirette, Kyle Covington-Rehmeier, Avik Mahata, Chris Muzny, Angela Stelson, Kathleen Schwarz, Jason A. Widegren
The balance between ion solvation and ion pairing in aqueous solutions modulates chemical and physical processes from catalysis to protein folding. Yet, despite more than a century of investigation, quantitative determination of the distribution of ion

Recommended Cybersecurity Requirements for Consumer-Grade Router Products

September 10, 2024
Author(s)
Michael Fagan, Katerina Megas, Paul Watrobski, Jeffrey Marron, Barbara Bell Cuthill, David Lemire, Brad Hoehn, Christopher Evans
Ensuring the security of routers is crucial for safeguarding not only individuals' data but also the integrity and availability of entire networks. With the increasing prevalence of smart home IoT devices and remote work setups, the significance of

Report on the Block Cipher Modes of Operation in the NIST SP 800-38 Series

September 10, 2024
Author(s)
Nicky Mouha, Morris J. Dworkin
This report focuses on the NIST-recommended block cipher modes of operation specified in NIST Special Publications (SP) 800-38A through 800-38F. The goal is to provide a concise survey of relevant research results about the algorithms and their

Feature Description for Assessing Autonomous Vehicle Performance

September 9, 2024
Author(s)
Edward Griffor, Hadhoum Hajjaj, Thoshitha Gamage, Thomas Roth, Wenqi Guo
This technical report presents a structured methodology for describing and assessing auto-mated vehicle (AV) features, with a focus on ensuring consistent and reproducible testing across various scenarios. The document delineates a systematic approach to

Linking excess entropy and acentric factor in spherical fluids

September 9, 2024
Author(s)
Tae Jun Yoon, Ian Bell
Introduced by Kenneth Pitzer in 1955, the acentric factor (ω) became a standard quantity in chemical thermodynamics, representing a molecule's "shape" effect on the deviation from the corresponding state behavior. Nevertheless, its interpretation remains

Statistical study and parallelization of multiplexed single-electron sources

September 9, 2024
Author(s)
S Norimoto, P See, N Schoinas, I Rungger, Tommy Boykin, Michael Stewart, J. P. Griffiths, C. Chen, D. A. Ritchie, M. Kataoka
Increasing electric current from a single-electron source is a main challenge in an effort to establish the standard of the ampere defined by the fixed value of the elementary charge e and operation frequency f . While the current scales with f , due to an

Value assignment and uncertainty evaluation for certified reference gas mixtures

September 9, 2024
Author(s)
Christina Cecelski, Jennifer Carney, Antonio Possolo
The procedures used to assign values to certified reference gas mixtures and to evaluate their associated uncertainties, which are described in ISO 6143, and that were variously improved by Guenther and Possolo (Anal Bioanal Chem 399:489–500, 2011. 10.1007

Random and systematic uncertainty in ship-based seawater carbonate chemistry observations

September 8, 2024
Author(s)
Brendan Carter, Jonathan Sharp, Maribel I. Garcia-Ibanez, Ryan J. Woosley, Michael Fong, Marta Alvarez, Leticia Barbero, Simon Clegg, Regina Easley, Andrea Fassbender, Xinyu Li, Katelyn Schockman, Zhaohui Aleck Wang, Andrew Dickson
Seawater carbonate chemistry observations are increasingly necessary to study a broad array of oceanographic challenges such as ocean acidification, carbon inventory tracking, and assessment of marine carbon dioxide removal strategies. As a result, efforts

Foundry manufacturing of octave-spanning microcombs

September 6, 2024
Author(s)
Jizhao Zang, Haixin Liu, Travis Briles, Scott Papp
Soliton microcombs provide a chip-based, octave-spanning source for self-referencing and optical metrology. We use a silicon nitride integrated photonics foundry to manufacture 280 single-chip solutions of octave-spanning microcombs on a wafer. By group

Anisotropic coarse-grain Monte Carlo simulations of lysozyme, lactoferrin, and NISTmAb by precomputing atomistic models

September 5, 2024
Author(s)
Harold Hatch, Christina Bergonzo, Marco Blanco, Guangcui Yuan, Sergei Grudinin, Mikael Lund, Joseph E. Curtis, Alexander Grishaev, Yun Liu, Vincent K. Shen
We develop a multiscale coarse-grain model of the NIST Monoclonal Antibody Reference Material 8671 (NISTmAb) to enable systematic computational investigations of high-concentration physical instabilities such as phase separation, clustering, and

CHARACTERIZATION OF MICROWAVE BLACKBODY WITH MONOSTATIC MEASUREMENT

September 5, 2024
Author(s)
Dazhen Gu, Jonah Smith, Adam Whitney, Omar Khatib, Natalie Rozman, Amanda Gregg, Willie Padilla, William Deal, Steven Reising
This paper describes a characterization method for measuring the reflectivity of blackbodies used as calibration devices in spaceborne instruments. The fundamental measurement principle is based on the scattering matrix theory. A monostatic apparatus has

Detailed radiation modeling of two flames relevant to fire simulation using Photon Monte Carlo - Line by Line radiation model

September 5, 2024
Author(s)
Chandan Paul, Somesh Roy, Johannes Sailer, Fabian Braennstroem, Mohamed Ahmed, Arnaud Trouve, Hadi Bordbar, Simo Hostikka, Randall J. McDermott
This work reports benchmark data sets for radiative heat transfer in two distinct fire configurations obtained from the Measurement and Computation of Fire Phenomena (MaCFP) working group database. The cases include a 19.2 kW non-sooting turbulent methanol

Monte Carlo molecular simulations with FEASST version 0.25.1

September 5, 2024
Author(s)
Harold Hatch, Daniel Siderius, Vincent K. Shen
FEASST is an open-source Monte Carlo software for particle-based simulations. This software, which was released in 2017, has been used to study phase equilibrium, self-assembly, aggregation or gelation in biological materials, colloids, polymers, ionic

Myxospore density of Kudoa inornata, varies significantly within symmetrical white muscle tissue replicates of its fish host, the spotted seatrout, Cynoscion nebulosus

September 5, 2024
Author(s)
Augustus Snyder, Eric McElroy, Isaure de Buron, Fabio Casu, Jody Beers
The spotted seatrout, Cynoscion nebulosus, is a popular game fish in the southeastern USA. It is estimated that nearly 90% of the adult population in South Carolina estuaries are infected in their skeletal muscle by the myxosporean, Kudoa inornata. However

Additive Construction in Practice - Realities of Acceptance Criteria

September 4, 2024
Author(s)
Megan Kreiger, Eric Kreiger, Stephan Mansour, Sean Monkman, Mohammad Aghajani Delavar, Petros Sideris, Casey Roberts, Mathew Friedell, Shawn Platt, Scott Jones
Additive Construction has increased dramatically within the United States in the last few years. Efforts to develop acceptance criteria have increased since 2020 and are being developed through integration of research efforts and early engagement with
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