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NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)

Evaluating Positive Pressure Ventilation In Large Structures: High-Rise Fire Experiments

November 1, 2007

Author(s)

Stephen Kerber, Daniel M. Madrzykowski

A series of six experiments was conducted in a high-rise apartment building in Chicago, Illinois. One experiment on each of the fire floors utilized portable...

Full Ensemble and Bench Scale Testing of Fire Fighter Protective Clothing (NISTIR 7467)

November 1, 2007

Author(s)

D W. Stroup, Roy A. McLane, W H. Twilley

The Thermal Protective Perfonnance (TPP) test was developed to quantify the performance of fire fighter protective clothing ensembles under an intense thermal...

Building Information Services And Control System (BISACS): Technical Documentation, Revision 1.0.

November 1, 2007

Author(s)

A Vinh

The goal of the Building Infonnation Services and Control System (BISACS) is to create a computer based system that will allow external users to be verified and...

Rendering UML Activity Diagrams as Human-Readable Text

November 1, 2007

Author(s)

David Flater, Philippe A. Martin, Michelle L. Crane

We describe a modification of the Petri Net Linear Form notation to support the rendering of Unified Modeling Language (UML) Activity Diagrams as human-readable...

Mathematical Foundations of Measurement Science for Information Systems - Report of a Planning Workshop

October 24, 2007

Author(s)

Ronald Boisvert, Isabel M. Beichl

The report summarized the discussions from a one-day planning workshop held at NIST to consider the basis for a new program on the mathematical foundations of...

ICT for Supply Chains and Product Lifecycle Management: A Research Agenda for French-US Collaboration

October 24, 2007

Author(s)

A Bouras, Sudarsan Rachuri, Eswaran Subrahmanian, Jean-Philippe Legrange

Innovation is becoming more and more dependent on global networks of resources and skills. Research plays a critical role in the innovation process, providing a...

The State of Container Security Standards

October 17, 2007

Author(s)

Shaw C. Feng, Simon P. Frechette

As cargo container security is a critical component in the U.S. homeland security, the communication among people in a chain of custody of a container needs to...

Effect of CuO Nanolubricant on R134a Pool Boiling Heat Transfer with Extensive Measurement and Analysis Details

October 1, 2007

Author(s)

Mark A. Kedzierski

This paper quantifies the influence of CuO nanoparticles on the boiling performance of R134a/polyolester mixtures on a roughened, horizontal, flat surface...

The Decontamination for Building Plumbing Systems - Analysis and Procedures

September 30, 2007

Author(s)

Stephen J. Treado

This report describes the results of measurements and analysis of methods to decontaminate building plumbing systems in the event of the accidental or...

Maze Hypothesis Development in Assessing Robot Performance During Teleoperation

September 28, 2007

Author(s)

Salvatore P. Schipani, Elena R. Messina

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) personnel had the opportunity to assess 14 prospective Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) robots, for the...

Effect of Lubricant on R410A Horizontal Flow Boiling

September 27, 2007

Author(s)

N N. Sawant, Mark A. Kedzierski, J S. Brown

The paper experimentally quantified the effect of lubricant on horizontal flow boiling of R410A. This was accomplished by first establishing a baseline by...

Effect of CuO Nanoparticle Concentration on R134a/Lubricant Pool Boiling Heat Transfer With Extensive Analysis

September 20, 2007

Author(s)

Mark A. Kedzierski

This paper quantifies the influence of CuO nanoparticle concentration on the boiling performance of R134a/polyolester mixtures on a roughened, horizontal flat...

Feasibility of Using a Concrete Mixing Truck as a Rheometer(Orlando, Florida)

September 19, 2007

Author(s)

Chiara F. Ferraris, Roy Cooley, Joe Grein, Max A. Peltz, Michael Topputo, Steve Verdino

The goal of the tests reported here was to further determine the feasibility of using a concrete mixing truck as a rotational rheometer. This work is the...

Proceedings of the NIST/USCAR Workshop on Friction Issues Related to Metal Forming

September 17, 2007

Author(s)

Mark R. Stoudt

The NIST Metallurgy Division has initiated a research project to study the friction behavior of automotive alloys during sheet metal forming. The principal...

6th Annual PKI R&D Workshop "Applications-Driven PKI" Proceedings

September 13, 2007

Author(s)

William T. Polk, Kent Seamons

NIST hosted the sixth Annual Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Research Workshop on April 17-19, 2007. The two and a half day event brought together PKI experts...

Studies of Operational Measurement of ROC Curve on Large Fingerprint Data Sets Using Two-Sample Bootstrap

September 4, 2007

Author(s)

Jin Chu Wu

From the operational perspective, for large-size fingerprint data, a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve is usually measured by the true accept rate...

Benefit-Cost Analysis of Residential Fire Sprinkler Systems

September 2, 2007

Author(s)

David T. Butry, M H. Brown, S Fuller

This report documents a benefit-cost analysis performed to measure the expected present value of net benefits resulting from the installation of a multipurpose...

Simulation Modeling of Emergency Response Facility Based on Software Product Line Technology

September 1, 2007

Author(s)

Guodong Shao, Yung-Tsun T. Lee

The development of a simulation model has always been a challenging task; it is time-consuming and requires expertise. Furthermore, most customized simulation...

Users Manual for Version 3.0 of the Cost-Effectiveness Tool for Capital Asset Protection

September 1, 2007

Author(s)

Robert E. Chapman, Amy S. Rushing

Economic tools are needed to help the owners and managers of buildings, industrial facilities, and other critical infrastructure to select cost-effective...

Structure and Extinction of Low Strain Rate Non-Premixed Flames by an Agent in Microgravity (NISTIR 7445)

September 1, 2007

Author(s)

Anthony P. Hamins, Matthew F. Bundy, C B. Oh, Stephen P. Fuss, J. Logue

This final report describes the study that has been supported through the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) microgravity grants program from...

NIST Workshop on Materials Test Procedures for Hydrogen Pipelines

September 1, 2007

Author(s)

Thomas A. Siewert, Joseph D. McColskey, Richard E. Ricker

The Materials Reliability and Metallurgy Divisions have expanded their efforts to advance the technology for the construction, repair, and inspection of...

The Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) and its Applicability to Federal Agency Systems

August 30, 2007

Author(s)

Peter M. Mell, Karen A. Scarfone, Sasha Romanosky

The Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) provides an open framework for communicating the characteristics and impacts of IT vulnerabilities. The National...

Building Electronic Function Into Nanoscale Molecular Architectures

August 30, 2007

Author(s)

H D. Abruna, M Ratner, Roger D. van Zee

The use of molecules in electronic circuit has been the subject of recent study. Experimentally, two-terminal, molecular rectifiers have been demonstrated...

Meta-Analysis of Third-Party Evaluations of Iris Recognition

August 24, 2007

Author(s)

Elaine M. Newton, P J. Phillips

Iris recognition has long been widely regarded as a highly accurate biometric, despite the lack of independent, large-scale testing of its performance. Recently...

MINEX II - Performance of Fingerprint Match-on-Card Algorithms - Evaluation Plan

August 15, 2007

Author(s)

Patrick J. Grother, Wayne J. Salamon

The MINEX II evaluation plan instantiates a complete mechanism for the measure of speed and the core algorithmic capabilities of fingerprint matching algorithms...

Facial Respirator Shape Analysis using 3D Anthropometric Head Data

August 15, 2007

Author(s)

Riley Fenlon

For firefighters and first response crews, the facial respirator is the first and last defense against hazardous and potentially harmful airborne agents. That...

Collaborative Augmented Reality for Better Standards

August 15, 2007

Author(s)

Matthew L. Aronoff, John V. Messina

Concurrent engineering depends on clear communication between all members of the development process. As that communication becomes more and more complex --...

BEES 4.0: Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability. Technical Manual and User Guide

August 1, 2007

Author(s)

Barbara C. Lippiatt

The BEES (Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability) version 4.0 software implements a rational, systematic technique for selecting environmentally...

Workshop on the Evaluation of a Tactical Decision Aid Display

August 1, 2007

Author(s)

William D. Davis, R Vettori, Paul A. Reneke, L D. Brassell, David G. Holmberg, Jodi Kostecki, Jessica Kratchman

On July 26, 2005, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) conducted a workshop consisting of fire service and fire safety personnel that had...

Demonstration of Real-Time Tactical Decision Aid Displays

August 1, 2007

Author(s)

William D. Davis, David G. Holmberg, Paul A. Reneke, L D. Brassell, R Vettori

On September 22, 2005 the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) conducted a demonstration of two prototype tactical decision aid computer...

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