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Amanda L. Forster, Guillaume Messin, Kirk D. Rice, Michael A. Riley, Stephanie S. Watson
In a communication to the ballistic vest community released in January 2006, there was an allegation by a competing fiber manufacturer that copolymer fibers...
A model is presented that describes the heat transfer through a gypsum wallboard partition assembly incorporating the mass transport effects of water in liquid...
In any manufacturing enterprise, there are two types of tools used to create and share product related data across its extended network. The engineering...
Alex Weissman, Satyandra K. Gupta, Xenia Fiorentini, Sudarsan Rachuri, Ram D. Sriram
Large scale distributed design projects increasingly result in designs that do not fully conform to the stated design goals or specifications. Hence, there is a...
This report is an introduction to standardization and the U.S. standards system for readers that are not familiar with this topic. It highlights some of the...
Three dimensional shape retrieval is a fairly new concept being studied all over the world. It is notable and essential because it can be applied to multiple...
The NIST DMIS Test Suite, version 2.1.5, is described. The test suite is intended to serve two purposes, 1) to help users and vendors use version 5.1 of DMIS...
This is a system builders manual for the NIST DMIS Test Suite, version 2.1.5. The purpose of the manual is to help system builders use software provided in the...
Image validation and verification are important functions in the acquisition of fingerprint images from live-scan devices and for assessing and maintaining the...
Mary F. Theofanos, Brian C. Stanton, Charles L. Sheppard, Ross J. Micheals, Yee-Yin Choong, John W. Wydler II, Kevin C. Mangold, Michelle P. Steves, Emile L. Morse
The United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology's (US-VISIT) has embarked on an effort to improve the quality of facial images captured at...
Hildegard Ferraiolo, Teresa T. Schwarzhoff, William I. MacGregor, Hung Dang, Ketan Mehta
This document describes the use of ISO/IEC 24727 in enabling client-applications to access identity credentials issued by different credential issuers.
Dilip K. Banerjee, William J. Hess, Thomas M. Olano, Judith E. Terrill, John L. Gross
An integrated environment was created to study the interaction among fire, heat transfer, and structural deformation from a typical room fire. The fire, thermal...
During the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) M1 task group meetings in 2008, it was recognized that there is a need for a...
P J. Phillips, Patrick J. Flynn, J. R. Beveridge, Kevin W. Bowyer, W T. Scruggs, Alice O'Toole, David Bolme, Bruce A. Draper, Geof H. Givens, Yui M. Lui, Hassan A. Sahibzada, Joseph A. Scallan, Samuel Weimer
The goal of the Multiple Biometrics Grand Challenge (MBGC) is to improve the performance of face and iris recognition technology from biometric samples acquired...
The importance of the structural integrity of the exit stairway enclosures was clearly shown by the collapse of the World Trade Center Towers. The investigation...
David E. Gilsinn, Bruce R. Borchardt, Amelia Tebbe
Lung cancer is a disease of uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. Computed tomography (CT) shows promise in detecting lung cancers at earlier, more...
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...
Katherine C. Morris, Joshua Lubell, Salifou Sidi Malick
Manufacturing industry is facing an enormous challenge today in trying to integrate a wide range of systems. The systems span the functional areas of...
Experimental data have been gathered by applying 3D imaging systems, such as LIDAR/LADAR instruments, to spherical objects. This report provides a compilation...
Of all the aspects of destruction kinetics measurement, the one taken most for granted is temperature measurement. The ubiquity of digital thermometers and...
To evaluate the performance of fingerprint-image matching algorithms on large datasets, a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve is applied. From the...
Voters are exercising an important right as American citizens. If they cannot understand how to use their voting materials, they may not be successful in voting...
The MINEX II trial was conducted to evaluate the accuracy and speed of Match-on-Card verification algorithms. These run on ISO/IEC 7816 smart cards. They...
This is the 2009 edition of energy price indices and discount factors for performing life-cycle cost analyses of energy and water conservation and renewable...
Tsai H. Hong, Roger D. Eastman, Roger V. Bostelman, Hui-Min Huang, B. McMorris
The Dynamic Measurement workshop was held on October 10 - 11, 2007 at the Columbia Graduate Center of Loyola College in Maryland. Forty-eight people attended...
Janice G. Redish, Dana Chisnell, Ethan Newby, Sharon J. Laskowski, Svetlana Z. Lowry
In this study, we compared two ballots that differed only in wording and presentation of the language on the ballots. For Ballot A, we used conventional wording...
The Standard for the Exchange of Product model data (STEP) [1] contains product information mainly related to geometry. The modeling language used to develop...
Thomas R. Rhodes, Frederick E. Boland Jr., Elizabeth N. Fong, Michael J. Kass
Software assurance is an important part of the software development process to reduce risks and ensure that the software is dependable and trustworthy. Software...
More than 100 years ago, Lord Kelvin insightfully observed that measurement is vital to deep knowledge and understanding in physical science. During the last...
Flash LADAR systems are becoming increasingly popular for robotics applications. However, they generally provide a low-resolution range image because of the...