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Submissions from 2016
Nanomechanical Characterization of Bacillus anthracis Spores by Atomic Force Microscopy, Alex G. Li, Larry W. Burggraf, and Yun Xing
Activity Pattern Discovery from Network Captures, Alan C. Lin and Gilbert L. Peterson
Optimizing Decoy State Enabled Quantum Key Distribution Systems to Maximize Quantum Throughput and Detect Photon Number Splitting Attacks with High Confidence, Logan O. Mailloux, Michael R. Grimaila, Douglas D. Hodson, Ryan D. Engle, Colin V. Mclaughlin, and Gerald B. Baumgartner
Using Modeling and Simulation to Study Photon Number Splitting Attacks, Logan O. Mailloux, Douglas D. Hodson, Michael R. Grimaila, Ryan D. Engle, Colin V. Mclaughlin, and Gerald B. Baumgartner
Quantum Key Distribution: Boon or Bust, Logan O. Mailloux, Douglas D. Hodson, Michael R. Grimaila, Colin V. Mclaughlin, and Gerald B. Baumgartner
Estimating Index of Refraction from Polarimetric Hyperspectral Imaging Measurements, Jacob A. Martin and Kevin C. Gross
Improved Aircraft Recognition for Aerial Refueling through Data Augmentation in Convolutional Neural Networks, Robert Mash, Brett J. Borghetti, and John M. Pecarina
Investigation of 186Re via radiative thermal-neutron capture on 185Re, David A. Matters, Andrew G. Lerch, A. M. Hurst, L. Szentmiklosi, J. J. Carroll, B. Detwiler, Zs. Revay, John W. McClory, Stephen R. McHale, R. B. Firestone, B. W. Sleaford, M. Krticka, and T. Belgya
Nitrogen Rate and Landscape Impacts on Life Cycle Energy Use and Emissions from Switchgrass-derived Ethanol, Eric G. Mbonimpa, Sandeep Kumar, Vance N. Owens, Rajesh Chintala, Heidi L. Sieverding, and James J. Stone
Application of Satellite and NWP Derived Wind Profiles to Military Airdrop Operations, David C. Meier and Steven T. Fiorino
Economic Optimization of Cargo Airships, Trent Metlen, Anthony N. Palazotto, and Brian C. Cranston [*]
Data Quality Challenges in Distributed Live-Virtual-Constructive Test Environments, Jeremy R. Millar, Douglas D. Hodson, Gilbert L. Peterson, and Darryl K. Ahner
High Pressure Line Shapes of the Rb D1 and D2 lines for 4He and 3He Collisions, Wooddy S. Miller, Christopher A. Rice, Gordon D. Hager, Matthew D. Rotondaro, Hamid Berriche, and Glen P. Perram
Thermal Transport Properties of Dry Spun Carbon Nanotube Sheets, Heath E. Misak, James L. Rutledge, Eric D. Swenson, and Shankar Mall
New Methods for Local Solvability of Quasilinear Symmetric Hyperbolic Systems, Manil T. Mohan and Sivaguru S. Sritharan
Visual-Aided INS Using Converted Measurements, Turner J. Montgomery and Meir Pachter
Regular Oscillations and Random Motion of Glass Microspheres Levitated by a Single Optical Beam in Air, Jeremy Moore, Leopoldo L. Martin, Shai Maayani, Kyu Hyun Kim, Hengky Chandrahalim, Matt Eichenfield, Inocencio R. Martin, and Tal Carmon
Keeping Pace with Drug-use Trends: Medical Marijuana, Legal Positives, and Other Challenges for Drug-free Workplace Programs, Eric Nelson and Jeremy M. Slagley [*]
Real-time Automated Aerial Refueling Using Stereo Vision, Christopher A. Parsons and Scott L. Nykl
Efficacy of Physical Layer Preamble Manipulation for IEEE 802.11a/ac, Benjamin W. Ramsey, Jonathan D. Fuller, and Christopher W. Badenhop
Forging Tomorrow's Air, Space, and Cyber War Fighters: Recommendations for Integration and Development, Mark Reith
Organic or Contract Support? Investigating Cost and Performance in Aircraft Sustainment, Jonathan D. Ritschel and Tamiko L. Ritschel
Parallelized Iterative Closest Point for Autonomous Aerial Refueling, Jace Robinson, Matt Piekenbrock, Lee R. Burchett, Scott L. Nykl, Brian G. Wooley, and Anthony J. Terzuoli Jr.
Confidence Investigation of Discovering Organizational Network Structures Using Transfer Entropy, Joshua V. Rodewald, John M. Colombi, Kyle F. Oyama, and Alan W. Johnson
Methodology for Simulation and Analysis of Complex Adaptive Supply Network Structure and Dynamics Using Information Theory, Joshua V. Rodewald, John M. Colombi, Kyle F. Oyama, and Alan W. Johnson