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The rise in the popularity of the Internet in the past few years is contributing to a paradigm shift in the way healthcare services will be provided in the U.S...
This paper addresses two questions: (1) how attributes of a firm's R&D strategy relate to the goals of the Advanced Technology Program and affect the chances of...
This report presents a statistical picture of ATP progress through early 1998 as reported by 539 organizations funded by the ATP during the period 1993 through...
This report originated from the authors participation in a multi-country study of National Innovation Systems and their impact on new technology development...
A trust and assurance perspective applies readily to the distribution of digital products over the Internet: It identifies when digital rights remain viable...
This paper introduces four new algorithms, the M-algorithm, the L-algorithm, the S-algorithm and the T-algorithm, which enable recognition of distributional...
U.S. microelectronics and related industries are in fierce international competition to design and produce smaller, lighter, faster, more functional, and more...
Francis W. Wang, Joseph M. Antonucci, J W. Stansbury
In Part A of this report, the interfacial bonding between resin and filler in dental composites is probed by use of the microdrop bead test in a single fiber...
Lyle E. Levine, R E. Thomson, Gabrielle G. Long, David R. Black, Richard J. Fields
Finite element modeling of metal forming operations has great potential for decreasing the time and cost of these operations as well as allowing increased...
This publication is a compilation of 104 documents that were published by staff of the NIST Polymers Division during Calendar year 1999. The documents are in a...
The Materials Reliability Division mission is to develop and disseminate measurement methods and standards enhancing the quality and reliability of materials...
This report is a summary and compilation of the test results obtained during the development of the Flawed-Cylinder Burst Test. The Flawed-Cylinder Burst Test...
Probe microscopy is a class of techniques used worldwide to characterize properties and structures of materials. The techniques are especially good for...
Today's U.S. microelectronics and supporting infrastructure industries are in fierce international competition to design and produce new smaller, lighter...
The meeting showcased combinatorial research and methods development at NIST as applied to materials science problems. The Combinatorial Methodology is a set of...
The technical activities of the Materials Reliability Division during Fiscal year 1998 are summarized. The Division has eighteen research projects in five...
This report describes major programs and accomplishments of the Metallurgy Divison of the NIST Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory (MSEL) in FY2003...
Two gross count radiation detection backpacks were used to validate a subset of the radiological test requirements listed in the ANSI/IEEE N42.43 standard [1]...
The two-photon radiative effects are significant quantum electrodynamic correction to the energy levels of hydrogen and deuterium atoms. Calculations of high...
This NIST Low Background Infrared (LBIR) Calibration facility has become a national center for the development and dissemination of absolute standards and their...
The performance of the three commercial laboratories that provide flow meter calibrations to the natural gas industry in North America was evaluated. A tandem...
John Kucklick, Rebecca Pugh, Paul R. Becker, Michele M. Schantz, Stephen Wise, T K. Rowles
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in support of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration s Marine Mammal Health and...
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...
Michele M. Schantz, John Kucklick, Reenie M. Parris, Dianne L. Poster, Stephen Wise
In support of marine monitoring measurement programs, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) conducts yearly interlaboratory comparison...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology[s Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory (MEL) works with the U.S. manufacturing industry to develop and apply...
Multipath routing can be effectively used to maximize the utilization of network resources for real-time traffic. In mobile ad-hoc network environments, this...
In this paper, we introduce the Biometric Client Configuration Language, or BiCCL. BiCCL is a platform-independent, domain-specific language (DSL) that formally...
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...