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The compliance of a Charpy impact machine, CM, can be measured by means of a low-blow elastic test on an unnotched Charpy-type specimen, provided an...
Svetlana Z. Lowry, Mala Ramaiah, Emily S. Patterson, Latkany A. Paul, David Brick, Michael C. Gibbons
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This document captures the input received from the half-day workshop titled "Public Safety Mobile Application Security Requirements" organized by the...
Craig I. Watson, Gregory Fiumara, Elham Tabassi, Su L. Cheng, Patricia A. Flanagan, Wayne J. Salamon
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Jeanice M. Brown Thomas, David L. Duewer, Kline Margaret, Sam A. Margolis, Willie E. May, Katherine E. Sharpless
The National Institute of Standards and Technology coordinates the Micronutrients Measurement Quality Assurance Program (MMQAP) for laboratories that measure...
Jeanice M. Brown Thomas, Neal E. Craft, David L. Duewer, Kline Margaret, Sam A. Margolis, Willie E. May, Katherine E. Sharpless
The National Institute of Standards and Technology coordinates the Micronutrients Measurement Quality Assurance Program (MMQAP) for laboratories that measure...
Binyam G. Abeye, Edward J. Barkmeyer Jr., Peter O. Denno
Data exchange transactions for the engineering, procurement, and operation of process equipment depend heavily on product data sheets. Product data sheets are...
Alexander Maranghides, Mike Hennig, Gene Robinson, Karen Jackson
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has invested in the development of instrument packages and measurement science to enable the...
Eswaran Subrahmanian, Ryan Wisnesky, David Spivak, Patrick Schultz
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This is the 2014 edition of energy price indices and discount factors for performing life-cycle cost analyses of energy and water conservation and renewable...
Jeanice M. Brown Thomas, Margaret C. Kline, Katherine Sharpless, S A. Margolis
The National Institute of Standards and Technology coordinates the Micronutrients Measurement Quality Assurance Program (MMQAP) for laboratories that measure...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology coordinates the Micronutrients Measurement Quality Assurance Program (MMQAP) for laboratories that measure...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology coordinates the Micronutrients Measurement Quality Assurance Program (MMQAP) for laboratories that measure...
Forensic science laboratories and law enforcement agencies have increasingly used automated identification technology (AIT), such as barcoding and radio...
This publication contains good measurement practices and standard operating procedures for length calibrations as performed in state weights and measures...
Kristen Greene, Melissa A. Gallagher, Franklin Tamborello
Given the high propensity of users' motoric errors with smaller touchscreen buttons, knowing the endpoint distributions for finger- based pointing and tapping...
The World Wide Web (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative has developed comprehensive guidance on evaluating web accessibility. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines...
Vincent Lee, Christopher J. Blackburn, Balasubramanian Muralikrishnan, Daniel Sawyer, Mark Meuret, Aaron Hudlemeyer
This paper describes a proposed interim check for field testing a laser tracker's 3-D length measurement capability using a calibrated scale bar as a reference...
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 mass calibrations and for establishing measurement assurance programs in precision mass calibration...
Jin Chu Wu, Alvin F. Martin, Craig Greenberg, Raghu Kacker
The National Institute of Standards and Technology conducts an ongoing series of Speaker Recognition Evaluations (SRE). Recently a new paradigm was adopted to...
Kirk D. Rice, Amanda L. Forster, Michael A. Riley, Nicholas Paulter
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Based on the Section 2543 of the Trade Agreements Act of 1979 , the Department of Commerce (DOC) has been responsible for monitoring the representation of...
Karen Marshall, Ross J. Micheals, Kevin C. Mangold, Kayee K. Hanaoka
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Kristen Greene, Ross J. Micheals, Kayee K. Hanaoka, Gregory P. Fiumara
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