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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) established the Clinical Measurements Quality Assurance Program (ClinQAP) to support the measurement
An important part of the NIST (National Institute of Science and Technology) MGI (Materials Genome Initiative) effort is to investigate infrastructure and tools
The ability to predict signal strength has many applications in the telecommunications industry. The difference(in dB) between the transmitted and received
The project develops next-generation procedures for achieving designs that are safe, sustainable, and economical under coastal inundation, consistent with
Every four years, the Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) issues recommended values of the fundamental physical constants. The values are
We are building a cold-atom based sensor program that represents a new approach to metrology—to establish a set of chip-scale tools that enable real-world use
NIST is building a cold-atom vacuum sensor (CAVS) that will be able to measure pressures in the ultra-high vacuum (UHV) regime corresponding to pressures less
The recent availability of smart home appliances supported by communicant networking has been the main force behind the growing interest in developing advanced
For more than 50 years, Statistical Engineering Division (SED) staff have played a critical role in the success of a broad spectrum of interdisciplinary
NIST recently completed a multi-year study of three structural steel framing systems to evaluate the correlation between ASCE/SEI 7 (ASCE 2010) and ASCE/SEI 41
This project studies the collapse performance of concrete columns that do not meet the stringent reinforcement requirements for special columns defined by ACI
This project studies the collapse performance of concrete columns that do not meet the stringent reinforcement requirements for special columns defined by ACI
We are developing instrumentation, standards artifacts, and measurement protocols to characterize appearance attributes including color, texture, and gloss
A Paradigm Shift in Addressing Antimicrobial Resistance: Measuring the Transition Between Antibiotic Susceptibility and Resistance With the exception of our own
Our goal is to develop combinatorial library approaches for measuring and optimizing the effect of substrate chemical functionalization on the structure and
Combinatorial methods can reduce costs for software testing, and have significant applications in software engineering: Combinatorial or t -way testing is a
The main objective in this project is to implement a flexible and programmable research testbed that can support deployment of a wide ranging sensory device
Building systems commissioning processes applied at the design phase and throughout the building life cycle have been shown to effectively improve performance
The Performance-based Engineering Research for Multi-hazards (PERFORM) Structural Testbed will enable large-scale research on the performance of structures
Community resilience has emerged as a way to reduce the direct and indirect costs due to natural, technological, and human-caused hazard events. There continues
Our research focuses on the development of novel sensing platforms using cold atomic gases and atomic beams. Laboratory-scale cold atom apparatuses provide some
We are developing a scalable infrastructure for strontium optical-lattice clocks based on integrated photonics. This research results in new technologies to
NIST is developing a portal to enable researchers to mine high-quality proteomic data from phylogenetically diverse species, to identify advantageous biological