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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new statistical tool that they have used to predict protein function.
DESCRIPTION: With the recent signing of the Mutual Recognition Arrangement (MRA), National Metrology Institutes (NMI's) and Regional Metrology Organizations (RMO's) around the world have committed themselves to establishing the equivalence of their measurement standards. Currently, however, there is
The Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA) requires the calculation of Degrees of Equivalence and of their uncertainty. The unilateral Degrees of Equivalence (DoA) are defined as the difference between the Key Comparison Reference Value and the result of a particular laboratory. For many experiments
PML staff have completed the construction and testing of a variable-temperature and variable-strain, or unified, apparatus for measuring critical current. The apparatus combines world class capabilities in variable-temperature and variable-strain measurements and is expected to be the highest
Introduction
Friction ridge analysis in crime scene investigation is one of the crucial forensic methods to find the suspects and victims of crime and solve cases. Latent fingerprints—the friction ridge patterns from fingertips left at crime scenes and photographed or lifted from the surfaces—are
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
The intriguing law of anomalous numbers, also named Benford's law, states that the significant digits of data follow a logarithmic distribution favoring the
Zongxia Li, Andrew Mao, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Daniel Stephens, Emily Walpole, Alden A. Dima, Juan Fung
Topic models are a popular tool for understanding text collections, but their evaluation has been a point of contention. Automated evaluation metrics such as
Omar Aboul-Enein, Henry Medeiros, Mili Shah, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud, Roger Bostelman, Ann Virts
Mobile manipulators, which are robotic systems integrating an automatic or autonomous mobile base with a manipulator, can potentially enhance automation in many
This tool calculates metrics for investment analysis documented in NIST Advanced manufacturing Series 200-5. It calculates net present value, internal rate of
This tool uses techniques from ASTM E3200 for evaluating manufacturing investments from the perspective of environmentally sustainable manufacturing by pairing
The Engineering Laboratory has an established long-term collaboration with the NIST Statistical Engineering Division in the analysis of extreme wind speeds and