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Blockchains are tamper evident and tamper resistant digital ledgers implemented in a distributed fashion (i.e., without a central repository) and usually...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published the Community Resilience Planning Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems (NIST SP...
Chuck Barber, Melissa M. Phillips, Kate Rimmer, Laura J. Wood, Steven J. Christopher
The NIST Dietary Supplement Laboratory Quality Assurance Program (DSQAP) was established in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of...
We describe models for the viscosity, thermal conductivity, and surface tension for selected fluids implemented in version 10.0 of the NIST computer program...
Yee-Yin Choong, Shanee T. Dawkins, Susanne M. Furman, Kristen Greene, Sandra S. Prettyman, Mary F. Theofanos
The public safety community is in the process of transitioning from the use of land mobile radios to a technology ecosystem including a variety of broadband...
Jeanice M. Brown Thomas, David L. Duewer, Margaret C. Kline, Neal Craft, Fillmer Ruegg, Emil Schonberger, Robert Schaffer, Robert Paule
From 1984 to 2017, the National Institute of Standards and Technology coordinated the Micronutrients Measurement Quality Assurance Program (MMQAP) for...
This document presents a performance evaluation of Long Term Evolution (LTE) Device-to-device (D2D) communication when enabling frequency hopping resource...
Jin Chu Wu, Alvin F. Martin, Gregory A. Sanders, Raghu N. Kacker
The nonparametric two-sample bootstrap is employed to estimate uncertainties of statistics of interest in receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis on...
As shape analysis of the form presented in Srivastava and Klassen's textbook "Functional and Shape Data Analysis" is intricately related to Lebesgue integration...
Li-Anne Liew, David T. Read, Ryan M. White, Nicholas Barbosa
The LIGA process (Lithographie, Galvanoformung, Abformung, or lithography, electrodeposition, shaping) offers the possibility of mass producing strong mesoscale...
Jeanice M. Brown Thomas, David L. Duewer, Margaret C. Kline, Willie May, Emil Schonberger
From 1984 to 2017, the National Institute of Standards and Technology coordinated the Micronutrients Measurement Quality Assurance Program (MMQAP) for...
Gregory Fiumara, Elham Tabassi, Patricia A. Flanagan, John D. Grantham, Kenneth Ko, Karen Marshall, Matthew Schwarz, Bryan Woodgate, Christopher Boehnen
In September 2017, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity held a fingerprint data collection as part of the Nail to Nail Fingerprint Challenge...
New software, in the form of Microsoft Excel 2016 spreadsheets, has been created for the analysis and qualification of Charpy Verification Lots, to be used by...
Melanie Cook, Dragos Prisaca, Stephen D. Quinn, David A. Waltermire
This report defines the requirements and associated test procedures necessary for products or modules to achieve one or more Security Content Automation...
George W. Quinn, James R. Matey, Patrick J. Grother
Iris Exchange (IREX) IX is an evaluation of automated iris recognition algorithms. The first part of the evaluation is a performance test of both verification...
The new NIST database comes from the FBI which contains live-scan and rescanned ink images from deceased subjects. The database offers the user American...
Celia Paulsen, Jon M. Boyens, Nadya Bartol, Kris Winkler
In the modern world, where complex systems and systems-of-systems are integral to the functioning of society and businesses, it is increasingly important to be...
This report summarizes recent technical work of the Applied and Computational Sciences Division of the Information Technology Laboratory at the National...
Geraldine S. Cheok, Marek Franaszek, Karl Van Wyk, Jeremy A. Marvel
Accurate knowledge of an object's location is essential in automated robotic applications such as machine tending, pick-and-place operations, and part assembly...
Mouth-to-ear (M2E) latency describes the time it takes speech input in a voice communication transmit device to be output from a receiving device, and has been...
The Time and Frequency Bulletin provides information on performance of time scales and a variety of broadcasts (and related information) to users of the NIST...
This publication provides the policies and plans for the PT Program of the NIST Office of Weights and Measures. This Office of Weights and Measures (OWM)...
Melissa M. Phillips, Catherine A. Rimmer, Laura J. Wood, Maria R. Ale, Charles A. Barber, Hannah Stindt, Lee L. Yu
The NIST Dietary Supplement Laboratory Quality Assurance Program (DSQAP) was established in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of...
This publication contains good laboratory practices, good measurement practices, and standard operating procedures to support the Basic Mass CD-ROM (SP 1001, SP...
This publication provides guidelines for evaluating data from advanced mass calibrations and for establishing measurement assurance programs in precision mass...