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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...
At any point on a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve in combination with two distributions of genuine scores and impostor scores, there are three...
A retrofit study is being conducted to investigate the airtightness, ventilation and energy impacts of tightening the exterior envelope and the heating and air...
Although the number of Christmas tree fires is low, the fires carry a higher level of hazard than other fires that occur in a residential structure. This study...
This is the April 2008 edition of energy price indices and discount factors for performing life-cycle cost analyses of energy and water conservation and...
CFAST is a two-zone fire model used to calculate the evolving distribution of smoke, fire gases and temperature throughout compartments of a constructed...
Xenia Fiorentini, Sudarsan Rachuri, Mahesh Mani, Steven J. Fenves, Ram D. Sriram
The languages and logical formalisms developed by information scientists and logicians concentrate on the theory of languages and logical theorem proving. These...
Mary F. Theofanos, Brian C. Stanton, Charles L. Sheppard
The Department of Homeland Security¿s (DHS) United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) program is a biometrically-enhanced...
There are three digital forensic science projects: National Software Reference Library (NSRL), Computer Forensic Tool Testing (CFTT), Computer Forensic...
The Manufacturing Metrology and Standards for the Health Care Enterprise program was initiated in FY2005 as part of the overall reorganization of the...
A simple thermal model to predict the failure of electrical power, instrument, and control cables is described. The model is intended as a subroutine for...
This report documents a preliminary investigation of the measurement of droplet sizes in the spray from four commercial fogger type pepper spray products...
Title III of the E-Government Act of 2002, entitled the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) of 2002, requires NIST to prepare an annual public...
This report describes a thermally-induced electrical failure (THIEF) model's ability to predict the behavior of power, instrument, and control cables during a...
This report summarizes the presentations, discussions and recommendations of a workshop held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on...
Patrick J. Grother, Wayne J. Salamon, Michael D. Indovina, Craig I. Watson
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...
1. Table 23-2-1-(1.15010)-db - Page db-5842.0 New table for 2-propenyl methanoate containing the density for the real fluid at selected temperatures and...
The Time and Frequency Bulletin provides information on performance of time scales and a variety of broadcasts (and related information) to users of the NIST...
This guide is intended to aid in the calibration, qualification and performance verification of fluorescence-based instrumentation as part of complying with...
The maximum forces measured by the machines in this round robin are in good agreement. This general result shows that the static force calibration of...
This report specifies the data model and Extensible Markup Language (XML) representation for the Extensible Configuration Checklist Description Format (XCCDF)...
Qiming Wang, Bonita V. Saunders, Sanford P. Ressler
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is developing a digital library to replace the widely used National Bureau of Standards Handbook of...
William L. Grosshandler, Samuel L. Manzello, Alexander Maranghides, T Mizukami
This report summarizes the results of a test program conducted in 2006 and 2007 by the North American Fire Testing Laboratories (NAFTL) consortium. Gypsum/steel...
David A. Cooper, Trung-Hung Dang, Philip Lee, William I. MacGregor, Ketan Mehta
FIPS 201, "Personal Identity Verification (PIV) of Federal Employees and Contractors," and its associated special publications define a method to perform...
Kathleen M. Flynn, S Wetzel, William R. Blair, J R. Maurey
The melt flow rate of Standard Reference Material (SRM) 1476a Branched Polyethylene Resin was determined to be 1.23g/10 min at 190 C under a load of 2.16 kg...
The goal of the Building Information Services and Control System (BISACS) is to create a computer supported system that will allow external users to be...
This paper is a HLPR Chair (Home Lift, Position, and Rehabilitation Chair) design document that includes a brief introduction of the need for this technology...
The Thermal Protective Performance (TPP) test was developed to quantify the performance of fire fighter protective clothing ensembles under an intense thermal...