Submissions from 2018
Protective Coatings for Aluminum Alloys, Thomas P. Schuman
Deep Learning Nuclei Detection in Digitized Histology Images by Superpixels, Sudhir Sornapudi, R. Joe Stanley, William V. Stoecker, Haidar Almubarak, Rodney Long, Sameer Antani, George Thoma, Rosemary Zuna, and Shelliane R. Frazier
Application of a Hygroscopicity Tandem Differential Mobility Analyzer for Characterizing PM Emissions in Exhaust Plumes from an Aircraft Engine Burning Conventional and Alternative Fuels, Max B. Trueblood, Prem Lobo, Donald E. Hagen, Steven C. Achterberg, Wenyan Liu, and Philip D. Whitefield
Fine and Hyperfine Collisional Excitation of C₆H by He, Kyle M. Walker, Francois Lique, and Richard Dawes
Multi-Scale Progressive Failure Mechanism and Mechanical Properties of Nanofibrous Polyurea Aerogels, Chenglin Wu, Tahereh Taghvaee, Congjie Wei, Arman Ghasemi, Genda Chen, Nicholas Leventis, and Wei Gao
Simultaneous Removal of Ammonia and N-Nitrosamine Precursors from High Ammonia Water by Zeolite and Powdered Activated Carbon, Runmiao Xue, Ariel Donovan, Haiting Zhang, Yinfa Ma, Craig D. Adams, John Yang, Bin Hua, Enos Inniss, Todd Eichholz, and Honglan Shi
Challenges of Globalization and Successful Adaptation Strategies in Implementing a "Scientific Writing and Authoring" Course in China, Kaidi Yang, Cun-Yue Guo, and Rainer Glaser
Metal-Ion Responsive Reversible Assembly of DNA Origami Dimers: G-Quadruplex Induced Intermolecular Interaction, Shuo Yang, Wenyan Liu, Rachel Nixon, and Risheng Wang
Measurements and Simulations of the Acidity Dependence of the Kinetics of the Iron-Catalyzed Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction: Proton-Catalysis in the Electron Transfer Reaction Involving the [Fe(phen)₃]³⁺ Species, Ethan Zars, Rainer Glaser, Marco Downing, and Carmen Chicone
Time-Lapse Live Cell Imaging to Monitor Doxorubicin Release from DNA Origami Nanostructures, Yun Zeng, Jiajun Liu, Shuo Yang, Wenyan Liu, Liang Xu, and Risheng Wang
Bio-Inspired Polydopamine Surface Modification of Nanodiamonds and its Reduction of Silver Nanoparticles, Yun Zeng, Wenyan Liu, and Risheng Wang
Multifunctional Surface Modification of Nanodiamonds based on Dopamine Polymerization, Yun Zeng, Wenyan Liu, Zheyu Wang, Srikanth Singamaneni, and Risheng Wang
Rapid Adsorption of Proinflammatory Cytokines by Graphene Nanoplatelets and their Composites for Extracorporeal Detoxification, Yishan Zheng, Nicholas Pescatore, Yury Gogotsi, Boris Dyatkin, Ganesh Ingavle, Vadym Mochalin, Tochukwu Ozulumba, Sergey Mikhalovsky, and Susan Sandeman
Submissions from 2017
Search for Electron Delocalization from [Fe(CN)₆]³ˉ to the Dication of Viologen in (DNP)₃[Fe(CN)₆]₂·10H₂O, Ahmed S. Abouelwafa, Andreas Hauser, Valeriu Mereacre, Yanhua Lan, Gary J. Long, Fernande Grandjean, Gernot Buth, Christopher E. Anson, and Annie K. Powell
Fuzzy Color Clustering for Melanoma Diagnosis in Dermoscopy Images, Haidar A. Almubarak, R. Joe Stanley, William V. Stoecker, and Randy Hays Moss
CoNi₂Se₄ as an Efficient Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Overall Water Splitting, Bahareh Golrokh Amin, Abdurazag T. Swesi, Jahangir Masud, and Manashi Nath
Liposomal-Delivery of Phosphodiesterase 5 Inhibitors Augments UT-15C-Stimulated ATP Release from Human Erythrocytes, Elizabeth A. Bowles, Dimitri Feys, Nuran Ercal, and Randy S. Sprague
In Vitro Stimulation of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor by Borate-Based Glass Fibers under Dynamic Flow Conditions, Sisi Chen, Qingbo Yang, Richard K. Brow, Kun Liu, Katherine A. Brow, Yinfa Ma, and Honglan Shi
Local pH Monitoring of Small Cluster of Cells using a Fiber-Optic Dual-Core Micro-Probe, Sisi Chen, Qingbo Yang, Hai Xiao, Honglan Shi, and Yinfa Ma
Water-Free Synthesis of Temperature-Sensitive Polyacrylamide Microgels and Pore Modeled Oil Recovery Performance, Zun Chen, Thomas P. Schuman, Jiaming Geng, and Baojun Bai
New Insights into the Structure, Chemistry, and Properties of Cu₄SnS₄, Amitava Choudhury, Sudip Mohapatra, Hooman Yaghoobnejad Asl, Senghuat Lee, Yew San Hor, Julia E. Medvedeva, Devon L. McClane, Greg Hilmas, Michael A. McGuire, Andrew May, Hsin Wang, Shreeram Dash, Aaron Welton, Punit Boolchand, Kasey P. Devlin, Jennifer A. Aitken, Regine Herbst-Irmer, and Vaclav Petricek
Development and Characterization of Polyurethane Foams with Substitution of Polyether Polyol with Soy-Based Polyol, Gurjot S. Dhaliwal, Sudharshan Anandan, K. Chandrashekhara, and Paul Ki-souk Nam
Shape Memory Superelastic Poly(isocyanurate-Urethane) Aerogels (PIR-PUR) for Deployable Panels and Biomimetic Applications, Suraj Donthula, Chandana Mandal, Theodora Leventis, James Schisler, Adnan Malik Saeed, Chariklia Sotiriou-Leventis, and Nicholas Leventis
Nuclei Segmentation using a Level Set Active Contour Method and Spatial Fuzzy C-Means Clustering, Ravali Edulapuram, R. Joe Stanley, Rodney Long, Sameer Antani, George Thoma, Rosemary Zuna, William V. Stoecker, and Jason Hagerty
Air-Oxidation of Phenolic Resin Aerogels: Backbone Reorganization, Formation of Ring-Fused Pyrylium Cations, and the Effect on Microporous Carbons with Enhanced Surface Areas, Hojat Majedi Far, Suraj Donthula, Tahereh Taghvaee, Adnan Malik Saeed, Zachary Garr, Chariklia Sotiriou-Leventis, and Nicholas Leventis
Alkylammonium Cation Intercalation into Ti₃C₂ (MXene): Effects on Properties and Ion-Exchange Capacity Estimation, Michael Ghidiu, Sankalp Kota, Joseph Halim, Alexander W. Sherwood, Nils Nedfors, Johanna Rosen, Vadym Mochalin, and Michel W. Barsoum
Effect of Defect Site Preorganization on Fe(III) Grafting and Stability: A Comparative Study of Delaminated Zeolite vs. Amorphous Silica Supports, Nicolas A. Grosso-Giordano, Alexander J. Yeh, Alexander Okrut, Diane J. Xiao, Fernande Grandjean, Gary J. Long, Stacey I. Zones, and Alexander Katz
The Carbon Mainframe Structure of cis-trans-1,3-difluoroacetone, Garry S. Grubbs
Color Feature-Based Pillbox Image Color Recognition, Peng Guo, R. Joe Stanley, Justin G. Cole, Jason Hagerty, and William V. Stoecker
Medical Image Processing in the Age of Deep Learning -- Is There Still Room for Conventional Medical Image Processing Techniques?, Jason Hagerty, R. Joe Stanley, and William V. Stoecker
Engineering Porous Polymer Hollow Fiber Microfluidic Reactors for Sustainable C-H Functionalization, Yingxin He, Fateme Rezaei, Shubhender Kapila, and Ali A. Rownaghi
Studies Via Near-Infrared Cavity Ringdown Spectroscopy and Electronic Structure Calculations of the Products of the Photolysis of Dihalomethane/N₂/O₂ Mixtures, Meng Huang, Neal Kline, Terry A. Miller, and Richard Dawes
Thresholding Methods for Lesion Segmentation of Basal Cell Carcinoma in Dermoscopy Images, Ravneet Kaur, R. LeAnder, N. K. Mishra, J. R. Hagerty, R. Kasmi, R. Joe Stanley, M. E. Celebi, and William V. Stoecker
HCl-Catalyzed Polymerization of Benzoxazine and Chemical Transformations along Pyrolysis to Microporous Carbons, Nicholas Leventis and Suraj Donthula
Multifunctional Porous Aramids (Aerogels), Fabrication Thereof, and Catalytic Compositions Derived Therefrom, Nicholas Leventis, Chariklia Sotiriou-Leventis, and Malik Adnan Saeed
Correction to: Investigating the Structural, Spectroscopic, and Electrochemical Properties of [Fe{(EPiPr₂)₂N}₂] (E = S, Se) and the Formation of Iron Selenides by Chemical Vapor Deposition (European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, (2016), 2016, 34, (5332-5339), 10.1002/ejic.201600833), Nikolaos Levesanos, Wipula P. Liyanage, Eleftherios Ferentinos, Grigorios Raptopoulos, Patrina Paraskevopoulou, Yiannis Sanakis, Amitava Choudhury, Pericles Stavropoulos, Manashi Nath, and Panayotis Kyritsis
Practical Correction of a Phase-Aberrated Laser Beam using a Triphenyldiamine-Based Photorefractive Composite, Yichen Liang and Jeffrey G. Winiarz
Self-Assembly of Heterogeneously Shaped Nanoparticles into Plasmonic Metamolecules on DNA Origami, Wenyan Liu, Ling Li, Shuo Yang, Jie Gao, and Risheng Wang
Directionally Interacting Spheres and Rods Form Ordered Phases, Wenyan Liu, Nathan A. Mahynski, Oleg Gang, Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos, and Sanat K. Kumar
Impact of TiO₂ and ZnO Nanoparticles on an Aquatic Microbial Community: Effect At Environmentally Relevant Concentrations, Nathalia Londono, Ariel Donovan, Honglan Shi, Matthew Geisler, and Yanna Liang
Chiral Discrimination of α-hydroxy Acids and N-Ts-α-amino Acids Induced by Tetraaza Macrocyclic Chiral Solvating Agents by using ¹H NMR Spectroscopy, Caixia Lv, Lei Feng, Hongmei Zhao, Guo Wang, Pericles Stavropoulos, and Lin Ai
Adaptable Ring for Vision-Based Measurements and Shape Analysis, Kanakam Teja Maddala, Randy Hays Moss, William V. Stoecker, Jason R. Hagerty, Justin G. Cole, Nabin K. Mishra, and R. Joe Stanley
Prevention and Reversal of Selenite-Induced Cataracts by N-Acetylcysteine Amide in Wistar Rats, Yasaswi Maddirala, Shakila Tobwala, Humeyra Karacal, and Nuran Ercal
Epitaxial Lift-Off of Electrodeposited Single-Crystal Gold Foils for Flexible Electronics, Naveen K. Mahenderkar, Qingzhi Chen, Ying-Chau Liu, Alexander R. Duchild, Seth Hofheins, Eric Chason, and Jay A. Switzer
Sound Insulation Properties in Low-Density, Mechanically Strong and Ductile Nanoporous Polyurea Aerogels, Sadeq Malakooti, Habel Gitogo Churu, Alison Lee, Tingge Xu, Huiyang Luo, Ning Xiang, Chariklia Sotiriou-Leventis, Nicholas Leventis, and Hongbing Lu
Dispersions of Two-Dimensional Titanium Carbide MXene in Organic Solvents, Kathleen Maleski, Vadym Mochalin, and Yury Gogotsi
The Rotational Spectrum and Complete Heavy Atom Structure of the Chiral Molecule Verbenone, Frank E. Marshall, Galen Sedo, Channing West, Brooks H. Pate, Stephanie M. Allpress, Corey J. Evans, Peter D. Godfrey, Don McNaughton, and Garry S. Grubbs
Automatic Separation of Basal Cell Carcinoma from Benign Lesions in Dermoscopy Images with Border Thresholding Techniques, Nabin K. Mishra, Ravneet Kaur, Reda Kasmi, Serkan Kefel, Pelin Guvenc, Justin G. Cole, Jason R. Hagerty, Hemanth Y. Aradhyula, Robert LeAnder, R. Joe Stanley, Randy Hays Moss, and William V. Stoecker
Magnetically Frustrated Quaternary Chalcogenides with Interpenetrating Diamond Lattices, Sudip Mohapatra, Amit Adhikary, Kartik Ghosh, and Amitava Choudhury
Characterization of a Novel Ionic Liquid Monopropellant for Multi-Mode Propulsion, Alex J. Mundahl, Steven P. Berg, Joshua L. Rovey, Ming Huang, Klaus Woelk, Durgesh V. Wagle, and Gary Baker
Detection, Occurrence, and Removal of Selected Pharmaceuticals in Missouri Source and Finished Drinking Waters, Ruipu Mu, Honglan Shi, Craig D. Adams, Todd Eichholz, and Yinfa Ma
Atom-Triatom Rigid Rotor Inelastic Scattering with the MultiConfiguration Time Dependent Hartree Approach, Steve Ndengué, Richard Dawes, Fabien Gatti, and Hans-Dieter Meyer
The Covalent Interaction between Dihydrogen and Gold: a Rotational Spectroscopic Study of H₂-AuCl, Daniel A. Obenchain, Derek S. Frank, Garry S. Grubbs, Herbert M. Pickett, and Stewart E. Novick
Predicting the Effect of Relaxation during Frequency-Selective Adiabatic Pulses, Annalise R. Pfaff, Cailyn E. McKee, and Klaus Woelk
Investigation of the Ozone Formation Reaction Pathway: Comparisons of Full Configuration Interaction Quantum Monte Carlo and Fixed-Node Diffusion Monte Carlo with Contracted and Uncontracted MRCI, Andrew D. Powell, Nikesh S. Dattani, Rene F. K. Spada, Francisco B. C. Machado, Hans Lischka, and Richard Dawes
Theoretical Study of HCN-Water Interaction: Five Dimensional Potential Energy Surfaces, Ernesto Quintas-Sánchez and Marie-Lise Dubernet
Synthetic Methods for High-Energy Organofluorine Compounds, Prakash Reddy
Ab Initio Structural Studies of Cyclobutylmethyl Cations: Effect of Fluoroalkyl Groups on the Relative Stability of the Carbocations, Prakash Reddy, Golam Rasul, and G. K. Surya Prakash
Effect of Surface Chemistry on the Fluorescence of Detonation Nanodiamonds, Philipp Reineck, Desmond W. M. Lau, Emma R. Wilson, Kate Fox, Matthew R. Field, Cholaphan Deeleepojananan, Vadym Mochalin, and Brant C. Gibson
Selective CO₂ Sequestration with Monolithic Bimodal Micro/Macroporous Carbon Aerogels Derived from Stepwise Pyrolytic Decomposition of Polyamide-Polyimide-Polyurea Random Copolymers, Adnan Malik Saeed, Parwani M. Rewatkar, Hojat Majedi Majedi Far, Tehereh Taghvaee, Suraj Donthula, Chandana Mandal, Chariklia Sotiriou-Leventis, and Nicholas Leventis
Structural Study of Chemically Durable BaO-FeOₓ-P₂O₅ Glasses by Mössbauer Spectroscopy and High Performance Liquid Chromatography, Akira Saitoh, Naoto Kitamura, Lina Ma, Parker Freudenberger, Amitava Choudhury, Hiromichi Takebe, and Richard K. Brow
Designed 3D DNA Crystals, Nadrian C. Seeman, Ruojie Sha, Jens Birktoft, Jianping Zheng, Wenyan Liu, Tony Wang, and Chengde Mao
Real-World Pill Segmentation Based on Superpixel Merge using Region Adjacency Graph, Sudhir Sornapudi, R. Joe Stanley, Jason Hagerty, and William V. Stoecker
Metal-Catalyzed and Metal-Free Intermolecular Amination of Light Alkanes and Benzenes, Pericles Stavropoulos
Textured NiSe₂ Film: Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Full Water Splitting at Remarkably Low Overpotential with High Energy Efficiency, Abdurazag T. Swesi, Jahangir Masud, Wipula P. R. Liyanage, Siddesh Umapathi, Eric W. Bohannan, Julia E. Medvedeva, and Manashi Nath
Biomedical Applications of Nanodiamond (Review), K. Turcheniuk and Vadym Mochalin
Inelastic Rate Coefficients for Collisions of C₆Hˉ with H₂ and He, Kyle M. Walker, François Lique, Fabien Dumouchel, and Richard Dawes
The Role of N-Acetylcysteine Amide in Defending Primary Human Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells against Tert-Butyl Hydroperoxide-Induced Oxidative Stress, Hsiu-Jen Wang, Yue-Wern Huang, Shakila B. Tobwala, Annelise Pfaff, Robert Aronstam, and Nuran Ercal
Cost Effective Surface Functionalization of Gold Nanoparticles with a Mixed DNA and PEG Monolayer for Nanotechnology Applications, Risheng Wang, Isabella Bowling, and Wenyan Liu
Evaluation of Thirteen Haloacetic Acids and Ten Trihalomethanes Formation by Peracetic Acid and Chlorine Drinking Water Disinfection, Runmiao Xue, Honglan Shi, Yinfa Ma, John Yang, Bin Hua, Enos Inniss, Craig D. Adams, and Todd Eichholz
A Highly Fluorinated Lithium Iron Phosphate with Interpenetrating Lattices: Electrochemistry and Ionic Conductivity, Hooman Yaghoobnejad Asl, Kartik Ghosh, and Amitava Choudhury
The Carriers of the Unidentified Infrared Emission Features: Clues from Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons with Aliphatic Sidegroups, Xuejuan Yang, Rainer Glaser, Aigen Li, and Jianxin Zhong
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons with Aliphatic Sidegroups: Intensity Scaling for the C-H Stretching Modes and Astrophysical Implications, Xuejuan Yang, Aigen Li, Rainer Glaser, and Jianxin Zhong
Dynamical Approach to Multi-Equilibria Problems Considering the Debye-Hückel Theory of Electrolyte Solutions: Concentration Quotients as a Function of Ionic Strength, Ethan Zars, Joseph Schell, Marco A. Delarosa, Carmen C. Chicone, and Rainer Glaser
Effect of Oxidant Demand on the Release and Degradation of Microcystin-LR from Microcystis Aeruginosa during Oxidation, Haiting Zhang, Yongbo Dan, Craig D. Adams, Honglan Shi, Yinfa Ma, and Todd Eichholz
Elucidating the Mechanisms for Plant Uptake and In-Planta Speciation of Cerium in Radish (Raphanus Sativus L.) Treated with Cerium Oxide Nanoparticles, Weilan Zhang, Yongbo Dan, Honglan Shi, and Xingmao Ma
Submissions from 2016
Metallic Ternary Telluride with Sphalerite Superstructure, Amit Adhikary, Sudip Mohapatra, Seng Huat Lee, Yew San Hor, Puja Adhikari, Wai Yim Ching, and Amitava Choudhury
Cellular Oxidative Damage is More Sensitive to Biosynthetic Rate than to Metabolic Rate: A Test of the Theoretical Model on Hornworms (Manduca Sexta Larvae), Kaushalya Amunugama, Lihong Jiao, Gayla R. Olbricht, Chance Walker, Yue-Wern Huang, Paul Ki-souk Nam, and Chen Hou
Combined Theoretical and Experimental Approach to the Discovery of Electrochemically Active Mixed Polyanionic Phosphatonitrates, AFePO₄NO₃ (A = NH₄/Li, K), Hooman Yaghoobnejad Asl and Amitava Choudhury
Piloting Blended Strategies to Resolve Laboratory Capacity Issues in a First-Semester General Chemistry Course, Shayna Burchett, Jack Hayes, Annalise R. Pfaff, Emmalou T. Satterfield, Amy Skyles, and Klaus Woelk
Exploding Misconceptions: Developing a Culture of Safety through Learner Driven Activities, Shayna Burchett, Annalise R. Pfaff, Jack Hayes, and Klaus Woelk
Urinary Metallomics As a Novel Biomarker Discovery Platform: Breast Cancer as a Case Study, Casey Burton, Yongbo Dan, Ariel R. Donovan, Kun Liu, Honglan Shi, Yinfa Ma, and Cynthia Priest Bosnak
Daily Variation and Effect of Dietary Folate on Urinary Pteridines, Casey Burton, Honglan Shi, and Yinfa Ma
Development of a High-Performance Liquid Chromatography -- Tandem Mass Spectrometry Urinary Pterinomics Workflow, Casey Burton, Honglan Shi, and Yinfa Ma
Neurodegeneration, Oxidative Stress, Metabolic Syndrome, Drug Design and Development: Clinical Implications, Ramón Cacabelos, Prakash Reddy, and Gjumrakch M. Aliev
Neutron and Magnetic Studies of La₀.₇Sr₀.₃Mn₁₋ₓCrₓO₃(x ≤ 0.7): A Homogeneous Charge-Ordered System, Thomas F. Creel, Jinbo Yang, Satish K. Malik, Sylvio Quezado, Oran Allan Pringle, William B. Yelon, and William Joseph James
Single- and Multireference Electronic Structure Calculations for Constructing Potential Energy Surfaces, Richard Dawes and Steve Alexandre Ndengué
Fabrication and Testing of Soy-Based Polyurethane Foam, Gurjot S. Dhaliwal, Sudharshan Anandan, K. Chandrashekhara, N. Dudenhoeffer, and Paul Ki-souk Nam
Computational Study of the Rovibrational Spectra of CO₂-C₂H₂ and CO₂-C₂D₂, Geoff Donoghue, Xiao-Gang Wang, Richard Dawes, and Tucker Carrington Jr.
Detection of Zinc Oxide and Cerium Dioxide Nanoparticles during Drinking Water Treatment by Rapid Single Particle ICP-MS Methods, Ariel R. Donovan, Craig D. Adams, Yinfa Ma, Chady Stephan, Todd Eichholz, and Honglan Shi
Single Particle ICP-MS Characterization of Titanium Dioxide, Silver, and Gold Nanoparticles during Drinking Water Treatment, Ariel R. Donovan, Craig D. Adams, Yinfa Ma, Chady Stephan, Todd Eichholz, and Honglan Shi
The Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre (VAMDC) Consortium, Marie-Lise Dubernet; B. K. Antony; Ernesto Quintas-Sánchez; and For full list of authors, see publisher's website.
Response of Real-Time Black Carbon Mass Instruments to Mini-Cast Soot, Lukas Durdina, Prem Lobo, Max B. Trueblood, Elizabeth A. Black, Steven Achterberg, Donald E. Hagen, Benjamin T. Brem, and Jing Wang
Effects of Different Carbohydrates on the Simulation of Human Intestinal Bacterial Flora with in Vitro Culture, B. Fan; Y. S. Yin; G. Sun; L. Y. Zhu; Wenyan Liu; and For full list of authors, see publisher's website.
Discrimination of Enantiomers of Dipeptide Derivatives with Two Chiral Centers by Tetraaza Macrocyclic Chiral Solvating Agents using ¹H NMR Spectroscopy, Lixia Fang, Caixia Lv, Guo Wang, Lei Feng, Pericles Stavropoulos, Guangpeng Gao, Lin Ai, and Jiaxin Zhang
Evaluating the Solid Electrolyte Interphase Formed on Silicon Electrodes: A Comparison of: Ex Situ X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy and in Situ Neutron Reflectometry, T. M. Fears, M. Doucet, J. F. Browning, J. K. S. Baldwin, Jeffrey G. Winiarz, H. Kaiser, H. Taub, R. L. Sacci, and G. M. Veith
The Adsorption of Tetracycline and Vancomycin Onto Nanodiamond with Controlled Release, James M. Giammarco, Vadym Mochalin, James Haeckel, and Yury G. Gogotsi
Comment on "Calibration of ⁵⁷Fe Mössbauer constants by first principles" Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016, 18, 10201–10206, Fernande Grandjean and Gary J. Long
Characterization and Utilization of Prussian Blue and Its Pigments, Fernande Grandjean, Louise Samain, and Gary J. Long
The Pure Rotational Spectrum of a Claisen Rearrangement Precursor Allyl Phenyl Ether using CP-FTMW Spectroscopy, Gary S. Grubbs, Derek S. Frank, Daniel A. Obenchain, S. A. Cooke, and Stewart E. Novick