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NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)

Surface Applications of Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy

Author(s)
A C. Pipino, Curtis Meuse, J P. Hoefnagels, Vitalii I. Silin, John T. Woodward IV
We report preliminary results describing two new applications of cavity ring-down spectroscopy (CRDS): 1) detection of non-absorbing species by refractive-index...

Directional Antenna for Multipath Ad Hoc Routing

Author(s)
Hamid Gharavi, Bin Hu
Multipath routing can be effectively used to maximize the utilization of network resources for real-time traffic. In mobile ad-hoc network environments, this...

BiCCL: The Biometric Client Configuration Language

Author(s)
Matthew L. Aronoff, Ross J. Micheals
In this paper, we introduce the Biometric Client Configuration Language, or BiCCL. BiCCL is a platform-independent, domain-specific language (DSL) that formally...

Assessing Face Acquisition

Author(s)
Mary F. Theofanos, Brian C. Stanton, Charles L. Sheppard, Ross J. Micheals, John M. Libert, Shahram Orandi
The requirements necessary for taking a successful face picture are arguably the least constrained of any biometric. The camera must be operational, and the...

Forensic Filtering of Cell Phone Protocols

Author(s)
Aurelien M. Delaitre, Wayne Jansen
Phone managers are non-forensic software tools designed to carry out a range of tasks for the user, such as reading and updating the contents of a phone, using...

Style Guide for Voting System Documentation

Author(s)
Dana E. Chisnell, Susan C. Becker, Sharon J. Laskowski, Svetlana Z. Lowry
The goal of this style guide is to provide specific guidance to improve the usability of documentation used by poll workers and election support staff. The...

A Collection of Homes to Represent the U.S. Housing Stock

Author(s)
Andrew K. Persily, Amy Musser, Dennis D. Leber
In order to allow nationwide analysis of ventilation and indoor air quality issues in residential buildings, a set of homes has been defined to represent the...

Semiconductor Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics Programs

Author(s)
Stephen Knight, 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 rapid improvements in productivity and in...

HVACSIM+ User's Guide Update

Author(s)
Cheol D. Park
The first version of HVACSIM+, which stands for “HVAC SIMulation PLUS other systems”, as introduced by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in...

An Ontological Modeling Platform

Author(s)
V.C. Liang, Conrad E. Bock, XuanFang Zha
The Ontological Modeling Platform described in this paper is a class library for extended ontological operations, to support extension of ontology languages...

Usability Testing of Height and Angles of Ten-Print Fingerprint Capture

Author(s)
Mary F. Theofanos, Brian C. Stanton, Charles L. Sheppard, Ross J. Micheals, John W. Wydler II, Nien F. Zhang, Lawrence Nadel, William Rubin
As the deployment of biometric technologies such as fingerprints has become more widespread in government applications there is an increased awareness of the...
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