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In evacuation models, the time between the first alarm or other initial cue until the population starts evacuating, often referred to as the pre-evacuation time...
Mahesh Mani, Jatinder Madan, Jae H. Lee, Kevin W. Lyons, Satyandra K. Gupta
Manufacturing industries lack the measurement science and the needed information base to measure and effectively compare environmental performances of...
Today�s supply chains are more and more complex. They depend on a network of independent, yet interconnected moving parts. They rely on critical infrastructures...
Shahram Orandi, John M. Libert, John D. Grantham, Lepley Margaret, Bruce Bandini, Kenneth Ko, Lindsay M. Petersen, Stephen S. Wood, Stephen G. Harvey
Currently the bulk of fingerprint data in operational is captured, processed and stored at 500 ppi using the WSQ compressed digital format. With the transition...
NIST, in particular the Standards Services Group (SSG) of the Standards Coordination Office (SCO), provides standards-related expertise and services to...
The Time and Frequency Bulletin provides information on performance of time scales and a varieth of broadcasts (and related information) to users of the NIST...
Digital enhancements of latent fingerprints using Photoshop processing is the preferred methodology among law enforcement forensic experts. This report explores...
P J. Phillips, Vishal M. Patel, Yi-Chen Chen, Rama Chellappa
In video-based face recognition, a key challenge is in exploiting the extra information available in a video. In addition, different video sequences of the same...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently established a Vitamin D Metabolites Quality Assurance Program (VitDQAP) in collaboration with...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently established a Vitamin D Metabolites Quality Assurance Program (VitDQAP) in collaboration with...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology coordinates the Micronutrients Measurement Quality Assurance Program (MMQAP) for laboratories that measure...
Melissa M. Phillips, Catherine A. Rimmer, Laura J. Wood, Anthony F. Marlow, Michele M. Schantz, John R. Sieber
The NIST Dietary Supplement Laboratory Quality Assurance Program (DSQAP) was established in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of...
This guide describes how to use the STEP File Analyzer that generates a spreadsheet from a STEP file. The spreadsheet simplifies inspecting information in the...
A large number of Identity Management Systems (IDMSs) are being deployed worldwide that use different technologies for the population of their users. With the...
Amy S. Rushing, Joshua D. Kneifel, Barbara C. Lippiatt
This is the 2012 edition of energy price indices and discount factors for performing life-cycle cost analyses of energy and water conservation and renewable...
Historically, mechanical assembly was predicted to be the dominant application domain of industrial robots; yet assembly tasks are still primarily addressed by...
Each year, billions of dollars of vaccines are stored in refrigerators at the facilities of a variety of medical providers. Many vaccines must be maintained in...
John Lu, Charles D. Fenimore, Nicholas Petrick, Rongping Zeng, Marios A. Gavrielides, David Clunie, Kristin Borradaile, Robert Ford, Hyun J. Kim, Michael McNitt-Gray, Binsheng Zhao, Andrew Buckler
RSNA has conducted a phantom quantitative imaging biomarker (QIBA) study to assess reader measurement variability of both spherical and non-spherical nodules...
Complete and accurate records of vaccine temperature history are vital to preserving drug potency and patient safety, yet many vaccine providers do not use...
The Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) is a multi-agency, multi-stakeholder effort to develop the infrastructure needed to enable the materials science community...
Shu-jen H. Chang, Ray A. Perlner, William E. Burr, Meltem Sonmez Turan, John M. Kelsey, Souradyuti Paul, Lawrence E. Bassham
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) opened a public competition on November 2, 2007 to develop a new cryptographic hash algorithm - SHA-3...
A feasibility study was performed to evaluate a novel method of accurately fatigue cracking steel plates to generate fatigue proposed fatigue crack reference...
This report documents the development of finite-element models (FEM) of the National Fire Research Laboratory (NFRL) and its modular support structure. The...
Combinatorial testing applies factor covering arrays to test all t-way combinations of input or configuration state space. In some testing situations, it is not...
Computer-interpretable representations of system structure and behavior are at the center of designing todays complex systems. Engineers create and review such...