The Bureau of Customs and Border Protection has the task of interdicting illicit radioactive
material at ports of entry. Items of concern include radiation dispersal devices (RDD), nuclear …

Experiments were conducted in N orth and S outh A merica during 2012–2013 to evaluate
the use of lure combinations of sex pheromones ( PH ), host plant volatiles ( HPVs ) and food …

Engineers have long viewed drilling as nearly equal parts art and science. Today, as
autonomous computer-controlled drilling operations—drilling automation—approach reality, the …

Radiation portal monitors are commonly used at international border crossings to detect
illicit transport of radioactive material. Most monitors use plastic scintillators to detect gamma …

Male and female moth catches of Grapholita molesta (Busck) in traps were evaluated in stone
and pome fruit orchards untreated or treated with sex pheromones for mating disruption in …

Basic logging-while-drilling (LWD) measurements have remained the same since their
introduction in the late 1980s. But capabilities have expanded from ultrasonic and density …

The detection of high-energy γ-ray sources is vitally important to national security for numerous
reasons, particularly nuclear materials smuggling interdiction and threat detection. This …

Letter to the Editor Regarding Incident Command System (ICS) Page 1 Volume 3, Issue 4 2006
Article 6 Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management Letter to the Editor …

A silicon mixed-signal integrated circuit is needed to extract and process x-ray induced
signals from a coated flat panel thin film transistor array (TFT) in order to generate a digital x-ray …

The ISC0903 is a 320×256, standard format, two-color CMOS readout integrated circuit (ROIC)
designed for strained-layer superlattice (SLS) detectors. The detector interface is …