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A key objective for the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) is access to digital materials data. Access may be for an individual, a team, company, or an entire...
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 P. Fiumara, Elham Tabassi, Su L. Cheng, Patricia A. Flanagan, Wayne J. Salamon
FpVTE was conducted primarily to assess the current capabilities of fingerprint matching algorithms using operational datasets containing several million...
Melissa M. Phillips, Catherine A. Rimmer, Laura J. Wood
The NIST Dietary Supplement Laboratory Quality Assurance Program (DSQAP) was established in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of...
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
In this paper we describe a functorial data migration [6] scenario about the manufacturing service capability of a distributed supply chain. The scenario is a...
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 E. 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...
Shannan R. Williams, Melissa Taylor, Anuj Mehta, Irland Jeffrey
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 usa-buttons, knowing the endpoint distributions for finger- based pointing and...
The World Wide Web (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative has developed comprehensive guidance on evaluating web accessibility. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines...
Vincent D. Lee, Christopher J. Blackburn, Balasubramanian Muralikrishnan, Daniel S. Sawyer, Mark Meuret, Aaron Hudlemeyer
This paper describes a proposed interim check for field testing a laser trackers 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 S. Greenberg, Raghu N. 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
In 2005 and 2006, two law enforcement officer-involved shootings resulted in injuries to the officers when bullets were not stopped in the officers' body armor...
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...
Kristen Greene, Ross J. Micheals, Kayee K. Hanaoka, Gregory P. Fiumara
In this report, we describe in detail the design and usability testing of a touchscreen interface for multimodal biometric capture, an application called WSABI...
Karen Marshall, Ross J. Micheals, Kevin C. Mangold, Kayee K. Hanaoka
Biometric devices have emerged as pervasive and indispensable tools in facilitating security in many industries and governments worldwide�. The use of these...
Haiying Guan, Andrew Dienstfrey, Mary Frances Theofanos, Brian Stanton
Although fingerprint mark-up and identification are well-studied fields, forensic fingerprint image preprocessing is still a relatively new domain in need of...
Afzal A. Godil, Roger Bostelman, William P. Shackleford, Tsai H. Hong, Michael O. Shneier
In this report, we provide an overview of various performance evaluation metrics for object detection and tracking for robot safety applications in smart...
Sudarsan Rachuri, Katherine C. Morris, Utpal Roy, David Dornfeld, Soundar Kumara
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)s Sustainable Manufacturing Program held a workshop on November 13-14, 2012, in Gaithersburg, MD. Dr...
This NIST Internal Report (NISTIR) is the third in a series of reports from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Engineering Laboratory's...