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Certifying Industrial Energy Efficiency Performance: AligningManagement, Measurement, and Practice to Create Market Value

Description: More than fifteen years after the launch of programs in theU.K. and U.S., industry still offers one of the largest opportunities forenergy savings worldwide. The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimatesthe savings potential from cost-optimization of industrial motor-drivensystems alone at 7 percent of global electricity use. The U.S. Departmentof Energy (USDOE) Industrial Technologies Program estimates 7 percentsavings potential in total US industrial energy use through theapplication of pro… more
Date: July 1, 2007
Creator: McKane, Aimee; Scheihing, Paul & Williams, Robert
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Multizone Age-of-Air Analysis

Description: Age of air is a technique for evaluating ventilation that has been actively used for over 20 years. Age of air quantifies the time it takes for outdoor air to reach a particular location or zone within then indoor environment. Age of air is often also used to quantify the ventilation effectiveness with respect to indoor air quality. In a purely single zone situation this use of age of air is straightforward, but application of age of air techniques in the general multizone environment has not b… more
Date: July 1, 2007
Creator: Sherman, Max H.
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Entropy of near-extremal black holes in AdS5

Description: We construct the microstates of near-extremal black holes in AdS_5 x S5 as gases of defects distributed in heavy BPS operators in the dual SU(N) Yang-Mills theory. These defects describe open strings on spherical D3-branes in the S5, and we show that they dominate the entropy by directly enumerating them and comparing the results with a partition sum calculation. We display new decoupling limits in which the field theory of the lightest open strings on the D-branes becomes dual to a near-horizo… more
Date: July 24, 2007
Creator: Simon, Joan; Balasubramanian, Vijay; de Boer, Jan; Jejjala, Vishnu & Simon, Joan
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Deinococcus geothermalis: The Pool of Extreme Radiation Resistance Genes Shrinks

Description: Bacteria of the genus Deinococcus are extremely resistant to ionizing radiation (IR), ultraviolet light (UV) and desiccation. The mesophile Deinococcus radiodurans was the first member of this group whose genome was completely sequenced. Analysis of the genome sequence of D. radiodurans, however, failed to identify unique DNA repair systems. To further delineate the genes underlying the resistance phenotypes, we report the whole-genome sequence of a second Deinococcus species, the thermophile D… more
Date: July 24, 2007
Creator: Makarova, Kira S.; Omelchenko, Marina V.; Gaidamakova, Elena K.; Matrosova, Vera Y.; Vasilenko, Alexander; Zhai, Min et al.
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The Use of Small Coolers in a Magnetic Field

Description: Small 4 K coolers are used to cool superconducting magnets.These coolers are usually used with high temperature suerconductor (HTS)leads. In most cases, magnet is shielded with iron or active shieldcoils. Thus the field at the cooler is low. There are instances when thecooler must be in a magnetic field. Gifford McMahon (GM) coolers or pulsetube coolers are commercially available to cool the magnets. This paperwill discuss how the two types of coolers are affected by the straymagnetic field. St… more
Date: July 25, 2007
Creator: Green, Michael A. & Witte, Holger
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The Laminin 511/521 Binding Site on the Lutheran Blood Group Glycoprotein is Located at theFlexible Junction of Ig Domains 2 and 3

Description: The Lutheran blood group glycoprotein, first discovered on erythrocytes, is widely expressed in human tissues. It is a ligand for the {alpha}5 subunit of Laminin 511/521, an extracellular matrix protein. This interaction may contribute to vasocclusive events that are an important cause of morbidity in sickle cell disease. Using X-ray crystallography, small angle X-ray scattering and site directed mutagenesis we show that the extracellular region of Lutheran forms an extended structure with a di… more
Date: July 1, 2007
Creator: Mankelow, Tosti J.; Burton, Nicholas; Stedansdottir, Fanney O.; Spring, Frances A.; Parsons, Stephen F.; Pesersen, Jan S. et al.
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Recent Major Improvements to the ALS Sector 5 MacromolecularCrystallography Beamlines

Description: Although the Advanced Light Source (ALS) was initially conceived primarily as a low energy (1.9GeV) 3rd generation source of VUV and soft x-ray radiation it was realized very early in the development of the facility that a multipole wiggler source coupled with high quality, (brightness preserving), optics would result in a beamline whose performance across the optimal energy range (5-15keV) for macromolecular crystallography (MX) would be comparable to, or even exceed, that of many existing cry… more
Date: July 1, 2007
Creator: Morton, Simon A.; Glossinger, James; Smith-Baumann, Alexis; McKean, John P.; Trame, Christine; Dickert, Jeff et al.
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Electron cloud effects on an intense ion beam in a four solenoid lattice

Description: The Solenoid Transport Experiment (STX) at LBNL successfully demonstrated the transport of a space-charge dominated ion beam in a two-solenoid lattice. Initial experiments showed a strong dependence of electron cloud effects on solenoid field strength. A current-reducing aperture, two solenoids and in-bore diagnostics were added to the two-solenoid lattice in order to study electron cloud effects more closely. Experiments were conducted with a 10 {micro}s, singly charged potassium ion bunch at … more
Date: July 1, 2007
Creator: Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California at Berkeley,; 4155 Etcheverry Hall, MC 1730, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA-94720, USA.; University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-3511, USA.; Lawrence Liveremore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA.; Voss Scientific, Albuquerque, NM 87108, USA. et al.
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Sensitivity study of reliable, high-throughput resolution metricsfor photoresists

Description: The resolution of chemically amplified resists is becoming an increasing concern, especially for lithography in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) regime. Large-scale screening and performance-based down-selection is currently underway to identify resist platforms that can support shrinking feature sizes. Resist screening efforts, however, are hampered by the absence of reliable resolution metrics that can objectively quantify resist resolution in a high-throughput fashion. Here we examine two high-… more
Date: July 30, 2007
Creator: Anderson, Christopher N. & Naulleau, Patrick P.
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Defect Doping of InN

Description: InN films grown by molecular beam epitaxy have been subjected to 2 MeV He{sup +} irradiation followed by thermal annealing. Theoretical analysis of the electron mobilities shows that thermal annealing removes triply charged donor defects, creating films with electron mobilities approaching those predicted for uncompensated, singly charged donors. Optimum thermal annealing of irradiated InN can be used to produce samples with electron mobilities higher than those of as grown films.
Date: July 22, 2007
Creator: Jones, R. E.; van Genuchten, H. C. M.; Yu, K. M.; Walukiewicz, W.; Li, S. X.; A ger III, J. W. et al.
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Opportunities for Saving Energy and Improving Air Quality in Urban Heat Islands

Description: World energy use is the main contributor to atmospheric CO2. In 2002, about 7.0 giga metric tons of carbon (GtC) were emitted internationally by combustion of gas, liquid, and solid fuels (CDIAC, 2006), 2 to 5 times the amount contributed by deforestation (Brown et al., 1988). The share of atmospheric carbon emissions for the United States from fossil fuel combustion was 1.6 GtC. Increasing use of fossil fuel and deforestation together have raised atmospheric CO{sub 2} concentration some 25% ov… more
Date: July 1, 2007
Creator: Akbari, Hashem
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Patterns and Implications of Gene Gain and Loss in the Evolution of Prochlorococcus

Description: Prochlorococcus is a marine cyanobacterium that numerically dominates the mid-latitude oceans and is the smallest known oxygenic phototroph. Numerous isolatesfrom diverse areas of the world's oceans have been studied and shown to be physiologically and genetically distinct. All isolates described thus far can be assigned to either a tightly clustered high-light (HL)-adapted clade, or a more divergent low-light (LL)-adapted group. The 16S rRNA sequences of the entire Prochlorococcus group differ… more
Date: July 30, 2007
Creator: Lapidus, Alla; Kettler, Gregory C.; Martiny, Adam C.; Huang, Katherine; Zucker, Jeremy; Coleman, Maureen L. et al.
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Precise predictions for B -> Xs l+ l- in the large q2 region

Description: The inclusive B -> Xs l+ l- decay rate in the large q2 region (q2> m_psi'2) receives significant nonperturbative corrections. The resulting uncertainties can be drastically reduced by normalizing the rate to the B -> Xu l nu rate with the same q2 cut, which allows for much improved tests of short distance physics. We calculate this ratio, including the order 1/m_b3 nonperturbative corrections and the analytically known NNLO perturbative corrections. Since in the large q2 region an … more
Date: July 12, 2007
Creator: Ligeti, Zoltan; Ligeti, Zoltan & Tackmann, Frank J.
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Data Center Energy Benchmarking: Part 3 - Case Study on an ITEquipment-testing Center (No. 20)

Description: The data center in this study had a total floor area of 3,024 square feet (ft{sup 2}) with one-foot raised-floors. It was a rack lab with 147 racks, and was located in a 96,000 ft{sup 2} multi-story office building in San Jose, California. Since the data center was used only for testing equipment, it was not configured as a critical facility in terms of electrical and cooling supply. It did not have a dedicated chiller system but was served by the main building chiller plant and make-up air sys… more
Date: July 1, 2007
Creator: Xu, Tengfang & Greenberg, Steve
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Digital Frequency Domain Multiplexer for mm-Wavelength Telescopes

Description: An FPGA based digital signal processing (DSP) system for biasing and reading out multiplexed bolometric detectors for mm-wavelength telescopes is presented. This readout system is being deployed for balloon-borne and ground based cosmology experiments with the primary goal of measuring the signature of inflation with the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation. The system consists of analog superconducting electronics running at 250 mK and 4 K, coupled to digital room temperature backend electron… more
Date: July 23, 2007
Creator: Spieler, Helmuth G; Dobbs, Matt; Bissonnette, Eric & Spieler, Helmuth G.
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Kaolinite dissolution and precipitation kinetics at 22oC and pH4

Description: Dissolution and precipitation rates of low defect Georgia kaolinite (KGa-1b) as a function of Gibbs free energy of reaction (or reaction affinity) were measured at 22 C and pH 4 in continuously stirred flow through reactors. Steady state dissolution experiments showed slightly incongruent dissolution, with a Si/Al ratio of about 1.12 that is attributed to the re-adsorption of Al on to the kaolinite surface. No inhibition of the kaolinite dissolution rate was apparent when dissolved aluminum was… more
Date: July 16, 2007
Creator: Yang, Li & Steefel, Carl I.
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Optimization of Acetylene Black Conductive Additive andPolyvinylidene Difluoride Composition for High Power RechargeableLithium-Ion Cells

Description: Fundamental electrochemical methods were applied to study the effect of the acetylene black (AB) and the polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) polymer binder on the performance of high-power designed rechargeable lithium ion cells. A systematic study of the AB/PVDF long-range electronic conductivity at different weight ratios is performed using four-probe direct current tests and the results reported. There is a wide range of AB/PVDF ratios that satisfy the long-range electronic conductivity require… more
Date: July 1, 2007
Creator: Liu, G.; Zheng, H.; Battaglia, V.S.; Simens, A.S.; Minor, A.M. & Song, X.
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STATUS OF THE INTERNATIONAL MUON IONIZATION COOLING EXPERIMENT(MICE)

Description: An international experiment to demonstrate muon ionization cooling is scheduled for beam at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in 2007. The experiment comprises one cell of the Study II cooling channel [1], along with upstream and downstream detectors to identify individual muons and measure their initial and final 6D phase-space parameters to a precision of 0.1%. Magnetic design of the beam line and cooling channel are complete and portions are under construction. The experiment will be desc… more
Date: July 18, 2007
Creator: Zisman, Michael S.
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The physical science behind climate change

Description: For a scientist studying climate change, 'eureka' moments are unusually rare. Instead progress is generally made by a painstaking piecing together of evidence from every new temperature measurement, satellite sounding or climate-model experiment. Data get checked and rechecked, ideas tested over and over again. Do the observations fit the predicted changes? Could there be some alternative explanation? Good climate scientists, like all good scientists, want to ensure that the highest standards o… more
Date: July 1, 2007
Creator: Collins, William; Collins, William; Colman, Robert; Haywood, James; Manning, Martin R. & Mote, Philip
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The wetting behavior of NiAl and NiPtAl on polycrystalline alumina

Description: In order to understand the beneficial effect of Pt on the adherence of thermally grown alumina scales, sessile drop experiments were performed to study the wetting of poly-crystalline alumina by nickel-aluminum alloys with or without platinum addition where the amount of Pt ranged from 2.4 to 10 at.%. Subsequent interfacial structure was evaluated using atomic force microscopy. Platinum addition enhances the wettability of NiAl alloys on alumina, reduces the oxide/alloy interface energy and inc… more
Date: July 1, 2007
Creator: Saiz, Eduardo; Gauffier, Antoine; Saiz, Eduardo; Tomsia, Antoni P. & Hou, Peggy Y.
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Algorithm refinement for fluctuating hydrodynamics

Description: This paper introduces an adaptive mesh and algorithmrefinement method for fluctuating hydrodynamics. This particle-continuumhybrid simulates the dynamics of a compressible fluid with thermalfluctuations. The particle algorithm is direct simulation Monte Carlo(DSMC), a molecular-level scheme based on the Boltzmann equation. Thecontinuum algorithm is based on the Landau-Lifshitz Navier-Stokes (LLNS)equations, which incorporate thermal fluctuations into macroscopichydrodynamics by using stochastic… more
Date: July 3, 2007
Creator: Williams, Sarah A.; Bell, John B. & Garcia, Alejandro L.
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Flat-Field Calibration of CCD Detector for Long TraceProfilers

Description: The next generation of synchrotrons and free electron lasersrequires x-ray optical systems with extremely high-performance,generally, of diffraction limited quality. Fabrication and use of suchoptics requires highly accurate metrology. In the present paper, wediscuss a way to improve the performance of the Long Trace Profiler(LTP), a slope measuring instrument widely used at synchrotron facilitiesto characterize x-ray optics at high-spatial-wavelengths fromapproximately 2 mm to 1 m. One of the … more
Date: July 31, 2007
Creator: Kirschman, Jonathan L.; Domning, Edward E.; Franck, Keith D.; Irick, Steve C.; MacDowell, Alastair A.; McKinney, Wayne R. et al.
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A Plasma Channel Beam Conditioner for a Free Electron Laser

Description: By "conditioning" an electron beam, through establishing acorrelation between transverse action and energy within the beam, theperformance of free electron lasers (FELs) can be dramatically improved.Under certain conditions, the FEL can perform as if the transverseemittances of the beam were substantially lower than the actual values.After a brief review of the benefits of beam conditioning, we present amethod to generate this correlation through the use of a plasma channel.The strong transvers… more
Date: July 1, 2007
Creator: Penn, G.; Sessler, A. M. & Wurtele, J. S.
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