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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...
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...
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...
This paper quantifies the influence of CuO nanoparticles on the boiling performance of R134a/polyolester mixtures on a roughened, horizontal, flat surface...
This report describes the results of measurements and analysis of methods to decontaminate building plumbing systems in the event of the accidental or...
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) personnel had the opportunity to assess 14 prospective Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) robots, for the...
The paper experimentally quantified the effect of lubricant on horizontal flow boiling of R410A. This was accomplished by first establishing a baseline by...
This paper quantifies the influence of CuO nanoparticle concentration on the boiling performance of R134a/polyolester mixtures on a roughened, horizontal flat...
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...
The NIST Metallurgy Division has initiated a research project to study the friction behavior of automotive alloys during sheet metal forming. The principal...
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...
From the operational perspective, for large-size fingerprint data, a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve is usually measured by the true accept rate...
This report documents a benefit-cost analysis performed to measure the expected present value of net benefits resulting from the installation of a multipurpose...
The development of a simulation model has always been a challenging task; it is time-consuming and requires expertise. Furthermore, most customized simulation...
Economic tools are needed to help the owners and managers of buildings, industrial facilities, and other critical infrastructure to select cost-effective...
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...
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) provides an open framework for communicating the characteristics and impacts of IT vulnerabilities. The National...
The use of molecules in electronic circuit has been the subject of recent study. Experimentally, two-terminal, molecular rectifiers have been demonstrated...
Iris recognition has long been widely regarded as a highly accurate biometric, despite the lack of independent, large-scale testing of its performance. Recently...
The MINEX II evaluation plan instantiates a complete mechanism for the measure of speed and the core algorithmic capabilities of fingerprint matching algorithms...
For firefighters and first response crews, the facial respirator is the first and last defense against hazardous and potentially harmful airborne agents. That...
Concurrent engineering depends on clear communication between all members of the development process. As that communication becomes more and more complex --...
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...
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...
The BEES (Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability) version 4.0 software implements a rational, systematic technique for selecting environmentally...
Marti Frank, Hannah Friedman, Kristin Heinemeier, Cory Toole, David Claridge, Natascha S. Milesi-Ferretti, Philip Haves
This report documents the findings of a review of the state of the art in the commissioning of low energy buildings. The purpose of this report is threefold: 1)...
The 2004 Construction Users Roundtable (CURT) report, Collaboration, Integrated Information, and the Project Life Cycle in Building Design, Construction and...
Most commonly occurring images f(x,y) are not smoothly differentiable functions of the variables x and y. Rather, these images display edges, localized sharp...
This report documents the export controlled distribution of biometric image software (NBIS-EC). The NBIS-EC software is organized into two major packages: 1...