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NIST Issues Criteria for Baldrige Quality Award Pilot Programs in Education and Health Care

February 3, 1995

Criteria designed to help education and health care organizations improve their services were announced today by the Commerce Department s National Institute of...

Windows^TM Version of Popular NIST/EPA/NIH Mass Spectral Database Now Available

March 5, 1995

A new version of a popular computer database for analytical chemists and environmental scientists is now available for use with Microsoft® Windows TM software...

IBM and NIST Launch Cooperative Effort to Develop Applications for Advanced Physics Research

March 15, 1995

SOMERS, N.Y.—IBM and the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Physics Laboratory today announced a three-year cooperative research and development...

Consortium to Evaluate Performance of Tape-Bonded Seams for Sealing EPDM Roofing Membranes

April 11, 1995

Five companies and two trade associations have joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology in a cooperative research consortium to evaluate the...

Fire Safety in Health Care Facilities Is Now Cause for 'Alarm'

April 13, 1995

Helping fire safety officers and building managers at health care facilities achieve cost-effective compliance with a widely accepted fire safety code is the...

Metrology for the Americas: OAS Nations Seek to Improve Quality, Standards and Trade Through Collaboration

April 20, 1995

The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced that all 34 nations of the Organization of American States have...

Neutron Lifetime Measurements Give Clues on Origin of the Universe

April 20, 1995

Precise measurements of the neutron lifetime are yielding clues about how subatomic particles coalesced into the elements that formed our universe after the so...

New Home Page Tells All About National Information Infrastructure

May 18, 1995

In an effort to help Americans better understand benefits of the emerging National Information Infrastructure (NII), the Clinton Administration's Information...

Sixty-Five U.S. Health Care, Education Groups Send in Applications for Baldrige Quality Award Pilots

May 30, 1995

Forty-six health care and 19 education organizations have submitted applications as part of pilot programs to determine whether the Malcolm Baldrige National...

Statement by Commerce Secretary Brown: Manufacturing Extension Partnership Highlights the Success of Public-Private Partnerships

June 8, 1995

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today's announcement of the competition for new centers in the Manufacturing Extension Partnership network is the beginning of a process that...

NIST Seeks Proposals For New Manufacturing Extension Centers

June 8, 1995

The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology is inviting not-for-profit organizations to submit proposals for new manufacturing...

New DNA Quality Assurance Standard Helps Ensure Accuracy Of DNA Profiling

June 14, 1995

A new federal DNA quality assurance standard will help forensic and medical laboratories ensure that DNA profiles made by the fastest and most popular profiling...

Commerce's NIST Celebrates 40 Years of Semiconductor Research in Partnership with Industry

June 21, 1995

The Commerce Department and the U.S. semiconductor industry next month will celebrate the 40th anniversary of a partnership in a field that has enabled such...

Twenty-Nine Concrete Testing Labs Mark 66 Years Of Quality

June 28, 1995

Being the best over many consecutive years doesn't come easily. The Boston Celtics and Chicago Bulls are the only professional basketball teams to win more than...

Smaller Massachusetts Manufacturers to Get Help in Becoming 'Environmentally Competitive'

July 17, 1995

The Commerce Department s National Institute of Standards and Technology today announced that small and medium-sized Massachusetts manufacturers will get help...

Quality Experts Needed for 1996 Baldrige Award Board of Examiners

August 7, 1995

The Commerce Department s National Institute of Standards and Technology is seeking quality experts from all sectors of American business, as well as from non...

Commerce's NIST Announces Process for Dialogue on Key Escrow Issues

August 17, 1995

Furthering the Administration's commitment to defining a workable key escrow encryption strategy that would satisfy government and be acceptable to business and...

Thirteen Applicants for Baldrige Quality Award Selected for Site Visits

August 21, 1995

Teams of quality experts will visit 13 companies starting Sept. 4 as part of the application process for the 1995 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, a...

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NIST Standard Story: Matters of the Heart

September 20, 2017

NIST scientists have thoroughly measured and characterized more than 1,300 physical products, NIST Standard Reference Materials ®, to help people in industry...

LAMMPS MD: Equation of State (pressure vs. density) - TraPPE Carbon Dioxide

The main purpose of the following data set is to present equation of state (density-pressure-temperature) data for a version of the TraPPE...

Atomic-Scale Movies Reveal That Catalyst Nanoparticles Undergo Internal Changes to Forge Carbon Nanotubes

September 20, 2017

Lights, camera, catalysis! Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made some of the first movies of the structural...

The Physicist Who is Working to Accelerate Change in Forensic Science

September 26, 2017

Sylvester James Gates, Jr. is a world-recognized researcher in theoretical physics. Formerly of the University of Maryland and now a professor at Brown...

New NIST Tool Aims to Improve Accuracy of Test to Determine Cardiovascular Disease Risk

September 19, 2017

Cardiovascular disease caused one out of three deaths in the United States in 2016, and for decades it has been the leading killer for both men and women...

NICE 2017 Fall eNewsletter

LAMMPS MD: Equation of State (pressure vs. density) - TraPPE Nitrogen

The main purpose of the following data set is to present equation of state (density-pressure-temperature) data for a version of the TraPPE...

Industry Forum: Monitoring, Diagnostics, and Prognostics for Manufacturing Operations

Tue, May 8 - Fri, May 11 2018

DOWNLOAD THE FINAL INDUSTRY FORUM CONFERENCE PROGRAM HERE and PRESENTATIONS ARE AVaiLABLE FOR DOWNLOAD IN THE TABLE

Tooth Remineralization Method Licensed To international Healthcare Manufacturer

September 12, 1995

A major breakthrough in oral health care has been brought closer to the marketplace by the licensing of several tooth remineralization and desensitization...

Commerce's NIST Announces Closing of MEP Affiliate in Washington State

September 13, 1995

The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology and its state partner in Washington have agreed to close the Washington Alliance for...

First Database for Atomic Spectroscopy Available from NIST

October 6, 1995

A computerized database for atomic spectroscopy will give physicists, chemists, astronomers, geologists and industry researchers easy access to the most...

Two Manufacturers Win 1995 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award

October 16, 1995

President Clinton and Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown announced today Armstrong World Industries' Building Products Operation (Lancaster, Pa.) and Corning...

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