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MBDA Contact: Velicia D. Woods, 202-482-0491 The U.S. Department of Commerce has established a new partnership between the Minority Business Development Agency...
A new reference material that will help laboratories accurately measure radioactive contamination in seawater is now available from the National Institute of...
Depicting how an innovative government organization might use the Baldrige Excellence Framework: A Systems Approach to Improving Your Organization's Performance...
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Since quantum theory has been known to borrow from the arts—Murray Gell-Mann famously named "quarks" after a line from James Joyce—it's only fitting that...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is hosting " Safeguarding Health Information: Building Assurance through HIPAA Security-2015,"...
Researchers looking for information on the properties of methane at high temperatures or the isotopic composition of an element know they can rely on standard...
A newly released study comparing 34 U.S. health care organizations that received the Baldrige National Quality Award with their 153 geographically closest...
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has put firm numbers on the high costs of installing pipelines to transport hydrogen fuel—and also...
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