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NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)

A Sensor Ontology Literature Review

April 18, 2013

Author(s)

Roger D. Eastman, Craig I. Schlenoff, Stephen B. Balakirsky, Tsai H. Hong

The purpose of this paper is to review existing sensor and sensor network ontologies to understand whether they can be reused as a basis for a manufacturing...

Assessment of Real-Time Factory Performance through the Application of Multi-Relationship Evaluation Design

April 17, 2013

Author(s)

Brian A. Weiss, John A. Horst, Frederick M. Proctor

Successful operations within manufacturing environments require both accurate and precise information flow from one operation to the next. Incorrect, too little...

Ground Truth Systems for Object Recognition and Tracking

March 29, 2013

Author(s)

Afzal A. Godil, Roger D. Eastman, Tsai H. Hong

In this report we discuss different types of ground-truth systems used for evaluation of object recognition and tracking systems in industrial manufacturing...

Explosive Standards Forum Recommendations

March 28, 2013

Author(s)

William G. Billotte, Sharon B. Nakich

From September 2011 to September 2012, the NIST Law Enforcement Standards Office (OLES), sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and...

Camera Recognition

March 26, 2013

Author(s)

Michelle P. Steves, Brian C. Stanton, Mary F. Theofanos, Dana E. Chisnell, Hannah Wald

The Department of Homeland Securitys (DHS) United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) program is a biometrically-enhanced...

NIST/NIH Vitamin D Metabolites Quality Assurance Program Report of Participant Results: Summer 2012 Comparability Study (Exercise 6)

March 18, 2013

Author(s)

Katrice A. Lippa, Mary Bedner

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently established a Vitamin D Metabolites Quality Assurance Program (VitDQAP) in collaboration with...

NIST/NIH Vitamin D Metabolites Quality Assurance Program Report of Participant Results: Winter 2012 Comparability Study (Exercise 5)

March 18, 2013

Author(s)

Mary Bedner, Katrice A. Lippa, Susan Tai

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has established a Vitamin D Metabolites Quality Assurance Program (VitDQAP) in collaboration with the...

NIST Micronutrients Measurement Quality Assurance Program Summer 2012 Comparability Studies

March 15, 2013

Author(s)

David Duewer, Jeanice M. Brown Thomas

The National Institute of Standards and Technology coordinates the Micronutrients Measurement Quality Assurance Program (MMQAP) for laboratories that measure...

Alkali-Silica Reaction Degradation of Nuclear Power Plant Concrete Structures: A Scoping Study

March 11, 2013

Author(s)

Kenneth A. Snyder, Hai S. Lew

Alkali-silica reaction (ASR) is a concrete degradation phenomenon in which the alkalis that are typically found in concrete react with certain amorphous or...

Modeling and Conformance Testing for the Engineering Information Integration Standard ISO 15926

March 5, 2013

Author(s)

Peter O. Denno, Mark E. Palmer

The process and power industries and their suppliers have invested in multiple initiatives to develop and deploy a new information exchange and integration...

Proceedings of the Cybersecurity in Cyber-Physical Workshop, April 23 24, 2012

February 15, 2013

Author(s)

Tanya L. Brewer

Proceedings of the Cybersecurity in Cyber-Physical Workshop,April 23 24, 2012, complete with abstracts and slides from presenters. Some of the cyber-physical...

Evacuation Decision Model

February 15, 2013

Author(s)

Paul A. Reneke

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...

Review on Sustainability Characterization for Manufacturing Processes

February 15, 2013

Author(s)

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...

Flow Control in Time-Varying, Random Supply Chains

January 22, 2013

Author(s)

Ion Matei

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...

Examination of Downsampling Strategies for Converting 1000 ppi Fingerprint Imagery to 500 ppi

January 22, 2013

Author(s)

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...

A Primer on Koreas Standards System: Standardization, Conformity Assessment, and Metrology

January 18, 2013

Author(s)

Dong G. Choi

NIST, in particular the Standards Services Group (SSG) of the Standards Coordination Office (SCO), provides standards-related expertise and services to...

NIST Time and Frequency Bulletin

January 18, 2013

Author(s)

Petrina C. Potts

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...

Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) Version 1.2 Validation Program Test Requirements

January 16, 2013

Author(s)

John F. Banghart, Melanie R. Cook, Stephen Quinn, David A. Waltermire, Andrew Bove

[Superseded by NISTIR 7511 Rev. 4 (January 2016): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=919713] This report defines the requirements and...

Alternative methods of latent fingerprint enhancement and metrics for comparing them

January 14, 2013

Author(s)

Alfred S. Carasso

Digital enhancements of latent fingerprints using Photoshop processing is the preferred methodology among law enforcement forensic experts. This report explores...

Video-based Face Recognition via Joint Sparse Representation

January 2, 2013

Author(s)

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...

NIST/NIH Vitamin D Metabolites Quality Assurance Program Report of Participant Results: Winter 2011 Exercise (Exercise 3)

December 21, 2012

Author(s)

Mary Bedner, Katrice A. Lippa

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently established a Vitamin D Metabolites Quality Assurance Program (VitDQAP) in collaboration with...

NIST Micronutrients Measurement Quality Assurance Program Winter 2012 Comparability Studies Results for Round Robin LXXI Fat-Soluble Vitamins and Carotenoids in Human Serum and Round Robin 36 Ascorbic Acid in Human Serum

December 21, 2012

Author(s)

David L. Duewer, Jeanice M. Brown Thomas

The National Institute of Standards and Technology coordinates the Micronutrients Measurement Quality Assurance Program (MMQAP) for laboratories that measure...

NIST/NIH Vitamin D Metabolites Quality Assurance Program Report of Participant Results: Winter 2010 Compatibility Study (Exercise 1)

December 21, 2012

Author(s)

Mary Bedner, Katrice A. Lippa

NIST/NIH Vitamin D Metabolites Quality Assurance Program Report of Participant Results:Summer 2010 (Exercise 2)

December 21, 2012

Author(s)

Katrice A. Lippa, Mary Bedner, Susan Tai

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently established a Vitamin D Metabolites Quality Assurance Program (VitDQAP) in collaboration with...

NIST/NIH Vitamin D Metabolites Quality Assurance Program Report of Participant Results: Summer 2011 Exercise (Exercise 4)

December 21, 2012

Author(s)

Katrice A. Lippa, Mary Bedner, Susan Tai

STEP File Analyzer User's Guide

December 13, 2012

Author(s)

Robert R. Lipman

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...

Dietary Supplement Laboratory Quality Assurance Program: Exercise H Final Report

December 13, 2012

Author(s)

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...

A Credential Reliability and Revocation Model for Federated Identities

November 29, 2012

Author(s)

Hildegard Ferraiolo

A large number of Identity Management Systems (IDMSs) are being deployed worldwide that use different technologies for the population of their users. With the...

Energy Price Indices and Discount Factors for Life-Cycle Cost Analysis - 2012

November 26, 2012

Author(s)

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...

Statistical Analysis of Reader Measurement Variability in Nodule Sizing with CT Phantom Imaging Data

November 23, 2012

Author(s)

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...

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