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This report is part III in an ongoing series concerning the characterization and modeling of the thermal performance of fire resistive materials (FRMs). In part...
Lorna T. Sniegoski, Jocelyn L. Prendergast, Michael J. Welch, Alim A. Fatah, M Gackstetter, R. Q. Thompson
Several point-of-collection (POC) devices for detection of drugs of abuse in oral fluid were studied. The ability of the devices to meet the manufacturers'...
This document describes the technical work of the Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory. In this report, you will find that EEEL researchers are...
This annual report covers the work conducted within the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Computer Security Division during Fiscal Year 2008. It...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Building Assessment Survey and Evaluation (BASE) study included a range of measurements in 100 randomly selected...
We introduce a solver and preconditioning technique based on Domain Decomposition and the Fast Diagonalization Method that can be applied to tensor product...
Started in 2005, the Manufacturing Interoperability Program has seen an investment of roughly 25-30 full-time staff who have researched, developed, and deployed...
Stacy S. Schuur, Paul R. Becker, Russell D. Day, Michael B. Ellisor, Aurore Guichard, Amanda J. Moors, David Point, Rebecca S. Pugh, David G. Roseneau
The Seabird Tissue Archival and Monitoring Project (STAMP) has continued to collect and bank murre and gull eggs to obtain new information on chlorinated...
** DRAFT FOR PUBLIC COMMENT (for Final Version see NIST TN 1681) ** This document is intended to provide practicing engineers and building code officials with a...
Antonio Cardone, Ram D. Sriram, Wayne Albers, Harish C. Pant
A high-affinity inhibitor protein called CIP, which can be produced by small truncations of p35, was earlier identified by Amin, Albers, and Pant. P35 is one of...
This report reflects the results of a survey that canvassed the National Institute of Standards and Technology s (NIST) Operating Units (OUs) for instances...
In 2004, NIST conducted a fingerprint slap segmentation study [1] to assess the state-of-the-art in fingerprint segmentation technology. Given the development...
An investigation has been conducted on the influence of impact machine variables and specimen positioning on characteristic forces and absorbed energies from...
The Time and Frequency Bulleting provides information on performance of time scales and a variety of broadcasts (and related information) to users of the NIST...
NIST Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) are used by industry, government, and academia to ensure the highest quality measurements. This catalog lists over 1100...
Edward F. Kelley, Karl Lang, Louis D. Silverstein, Michael H. Brill
A standard methodology exists for estimating the flux from front projection displays by sampling the projected illuminance of a white source signal. With the...
This paper describes architectures for securely injecting secret keys onto smart cards. Specifically, this paper details key injection architectures based on...
This report contains the results of NIST s research into technologies to improve the voting process for United States citizens living overseas. It splits the...
The SRM Spotlight is a newsletter published by the Measurement Services Division for users of NIST standard reference materials. The Spotlight announces new...
Joshua Lubell, Betty Harvey, Puja Goyal, Katherine C. Morris
The NDRProfile schema provides a common syntax for exchanging, managing, and reusing XML Schema naming and design rules (NDRs). NDRProfile, used by NIST's...
Comparison calibrations of microphones based on the reciprocity method are performed with both the microphone under test and a reference standard microphone...
Katherine C. Morris, Simon P. Frechette, Puja Goyal, Joshua Lubell, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Salifou Sidi Malick, Nicolas Brayard, Severin Tixier
This document describes the operation and usage of the Quality of Design and the Content Checker Testing Tools. These tools were developed at the National...
Andrew K. Persily, Cynthia H. Reed, Stephanie S. Watson, Nicos Martys, Edward J. Garboczi, Heather Davis
Concerns about building security have resulted in increasing interest in gas phase air cleaning (GPAC) and the need for standard methods to determine the...
[Replaces Version (NISTIR 7145) Published in December 2004] The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Building Assessment Survey and Evaluation (BASE)...
A previous X-ray absorption study of tile adhesive mortars [1] identified a new phenomenon during drying, namely the movement of small cement particles from the...
This report examines whether the Web Ontology Language 2 (OWL 2) is expressive enough for some common manufacturing examples involving relations between parts...
Maureen Stone, Sharon J. Laskowski, Svetlana Z. Lowry
This document is a digital color design guide for the electronic displays of voting systems. It encodes best practice for usability in general, and specifically...
These specifications describe performance requirements and test methods for stationary, automated across-the-road radar speed measuring devices used by law...
This NISTIR is a Quality Manual Template designed to assist U.S. type evaluation laboratories document their laboratory quality system in accordance with the...