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NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)

SEABIRD TISSUE ARCHIVAL AND MONITORING PROJECT: Project Overview, and Updated Protocols for Collecting and Banking Seabird Eggs

July 29, 2010

Author(s)

Lauren B. Rust, Rebecca S. Pugh, Amanda J. Moors, Stacy S. Schuur, David G. Roseneau, Paul R. Becker

The Seabird Tissue and Archival Monitoring Project (STAMP) is a collaborative effort by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), the Alaska Maritime National...

Thermodynamic, Transport, and Chemical Properties of Reference JP-8

July 14, 2010

Author(s)

Thomas J. Bruno, Marcia L. Huber, Arno R. Laesecke, Eric W. Lemmon, Mark O. McLinden, Stephanie L. Outcalt, Richard A. Perkins, Beverly L. Smith, Jason A. Widegren

This report contains a summary of research conducted to develop a standard or accepted set of thermophysical properties for the aviation kerosene, JP-8. This...

Semiconductor Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics Programs

July 1, 2010

Author(s)

Joaquin (. Martinez, Yaw S. Obeng, Michele L. Buckley

The microelectronics industry supplies vital components to the electronics industry and to the U.S. economy, enabling repaid improvements in productivity and in...

Forensics Web Services

June 30, 2010

Author(s)

Anoop Singhal, Murat Gunestas, Duminda Wijesekera

Web services are currently a preferred way to architect and provide complex services. This complexity arises due to the composition of new services and...

APPROACHES AND BEST PRACTICES: Data Collection of Audio Dialogues to Support the Training of Speech-to-Speech Translation Systems

June 25, 2010

Author(s)

Brian A. Weiss, Craig I. Schlenoff, Ann M. Virts

The purpose of this document is to describe the best practices that personnel from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed and...

Maintaining and Using Key History on Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Cards

June 18, 2010

Author(s)

David Cooper

NIST Special Publication 800-73-3 introduces the ability to store retired Key Management Keys within the Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Card Application...

Report on the Evaluation of 2D Still-Image Face Recognition Algorithms

June 17, 2010

Author(s)

Patrick J. Grother, George W. Quinn, P J. Phillips

The paper evaluates state-of-the-art face identification and verification algorithms, by applying them to corpora of face images the population of which extends...

Complex Systems Program Activities Summary, Fiscal Year 2009

May 18, 2010

Author(s)

Sanford P. Ressler

This report summarizes the work of the Complex Systems Program within NIST s Information Technology Laboratory. The Overview presents some background material...

Energy Price Indices and Discount Factors for Life-Cycle Cost Analysis - April 2010: Annual Supplement to NIST Handbook 135 and NBS Special Publication 709

May 15, 2010

Author(s)

Amy S. Rushing, Joshua D. Kneifel, Barbara C. Lippiatt

This is the April 2010 edition of energy price indices and discount factors for performing life-cycle cost analyses of energy and water conservation and...

An Other-Race Effect for Face Recognition Algorithms

May 13, 2010

Author(s)

P J. Phillips, Alice J. O'Toole, Abhijit Narvekar, Fang Jiang, Julianne Ayadd

Psychology research has shown that human face recognition is more accurate for faces of one�s own race than for faces of other races. In recent years, interest...

Introduction of Wave Set-up Effects and Mass Flux to the Sea, Lake, and Overland Surges from Hurricanes (SLOSH) Model

May 12, 2010

Author(s)

Long T. Phan, Donald Slinn, Shaun Kline

Hurricanes wreak havoc on the lives and infrastructure of coastal communities. Storm surge, a local rise in sea level elevations, is perhaps the most...

Test Suite for Building Energy Analysis of Conceptual Spatial Layout

May 11, 2010

Author(s)

Kenway K. Chen, Robert R. Lipman, Mark E. Palmer

This report documents a test suite for validation and conformance testing in support of the interoperability among building design and energy analysis...

Multiple Encounter Dataset I (MEDS-I)

May 9, 2010

Author(s)

Craig I. Watson

In December, 2008, the FBI provided MITRE with an extract of submissions of deceased persons. The submissions contain face images of subjects with multiple...

Modeling and Simulation for Emergency Management and Health Care Systems: Workshop Summary

April 21, 2010

Author(s)

Yung-Tsun T. Lee, Susan O'Hara, Charles McLean

The workshop on Modeling and Simulation for Emergency Management and Health Care Systems was held from July 24 to July 25, 2008 in Boston, MA. The workshop...

Sustainable Manufacturing: Metrics, Standards, and Infrastructure - NIST Workshop Report

April 21, 2010

Author(s)

Sudarsan Rachuri, Jae H. Lee, Anantha Narayanan Narayanan, Prabir Sarkar, Kevin W. Lyons, Ram D. Sriram, Sharon J. Kemmerer

This report summarizes the presentations, discussions and recommendations of NIST Workshop on Sustainable Manufacturing: Metrics, Standards, and Infrastructure...

A Semantic Product Modeling Framework and Language for Behavior Evaluation

April 8, 2010

Author(s)

Jae H. Lee, Hyo Won Suh, Steven J. Fenves, Sudarsan Rachuri, Xenia Fiorentini, Ram D. Sriram, Conrad E. Bock

Supporting different stakeholder viewpoints across the product's entire lifecycle requires semantic richness for representing product related information. This...

Assessing Technology Gaps for the Federal Highway Administration Digital Highway Measurement Program (NISTIR 7685)

April 1, 2010

Author(s)

Geraldine S. Cheok, Marek Franaszek, Itai Katz, Alan M. Lytle, Kamel S. Saidi, Nicholas A. Scott

The ability to automatically collect more and better measurements of roadway assets (e.g., existence, condition, location, type) and to accurately map both...

A Report on the Privilege (Access) Management Workshop

March 30, 2010

Author(s)

Annie W. Sokol

This document is based on the discussions and conclusions of the Privilege (Access) Management Workshop held on 1-3 September, 2009 at the Gaithersburg...

AP210 Edition 2 Concept of Operations

March 26, 2010

Author(s)

Kevin G. Brady, Jamie Stori, Thomas Thurman

One of the most prevalent requirements of manufacturing industries today is the need to exchange and share product information within and between enterprises...

A RESTful Web Service for Virtual Supply Chain Time Management

March 25, 2010

Author(s)

Guillaume Radde

A common issue when building distributed simulations is the issue of time management. Each discrete event simulation has its own notion of time, and a mechanism...

Computer Security Division 2009 Annual Report

March 23, 2010

Author(s)

Patrick O'Reilly

This annual report covers the work conducted within the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Computer Security Division during Fiscal Year 2009. It...

A Cost Benefit Analysis of an Automotive Industry Solution to Intercontinental Supply Chain Operations

March 17, 2010

Author(s)

Susanne Muller

This paper describes a cost benefit analysis of the Materials Off-shore Sourcing (MOSS) project. The project focused on improving the operation of US inbound...

Static and Dynamic Stability Performance Measurements of the Home Lift, Position and Rehabilitation (HLPR) Chair/Forklift

March 3, 2010

Author(s)

Joshua Johnson, Roger V. Bostelman

The Home Lift, Position and Rehabilitation (HLPR) Chair, developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has unique capabilities and a...

Description & Results of the 2007 NIST/NOAA Interlaboratory Comparison Exercise Program for Organic Contaminants in Marine Mammal Tissues

March 1, 2010

Author(s)

John Kucklick, Rebecca Pugh, Aurore Guichard, Michele M. Schantz, Stephen Wise, Teresa Rowles

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in support of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administrations Marine Mammal Health and Stranding...

Linking Canny Edge Pixels with Pseudo-watershed Lines

March 1, 2010

Author(s)

Javier Bernal

A method is presented for computing pseudo-watershed lines that can be used for linking pixels that have been identified as edge pixels with the Canny edge...

A Collection of 2D Elliptic Problems for Testing Adaptive Algorithms

February 26, 2010

Author(s)

William F. Mitchell

Adaptive grid refinement is a critical component of the improvements that have recently been made in algorithms for the numerical solution of partial...

Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division Summary of Activities for Fiscal Year 2009

February 25, 2010

Author(s)

Ronald F. Boisvert

This report summarizes the technical work of the Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division (MCSD) of NIST s Information Technology Laboratory. Part I...

Guide to SIMfill Use and Development

February 24, 2010

Author(s)

Wayne Jansen, Aurelien M. Delaitre

SIMfill is a proof-of-concept, open source, application developed by NIST to populate identity modules with test data, as a way to assess the recovery...

A Model of Joint Congestion Control and Routing Through Random Assignment of Paths

February 16, 2010

Author(s)

Fern Y. Hunt, Vladimir V. Marbukh

We investigate the trade-off between utility and path diversity in a model of congestion control where there can be multiple routes between two locations in a...

Quantifying How Lighting and Focus Affect Face Recognition Performance

February 16, 2010

Author(s)

P J. Phillips, J. R. Beveridge, Bruce A. Draper, David Bolme, Geof H. Givens, Yui M. Lui

Recent studies show that face recognition in uncontrolled images remains a challenging problem, although the reasons why are less clear. Changes in illumination...

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