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Richard Ayers, Wayne Jansen, Aurelien M. Delaitre, Ludovic Moenner
Cell phones and other handheld devices incorporating cell phone capabilities (e.g., Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) phones) are ubiquitous. Rather than just...
Thomas J. Bruno, Arno D. Laesecke, Stephanie L. Outcalt, Hans-Dieter Seelig, Beverly L. Smith
This report describes measurement efforts performed on the mixture of aviation fuels: Jet-A + S-8*. The primary mixture is a 50/50 (vol/vol) combination of the...
Mary Theofanos, Brian Stanton, Shahram Orandi, Ross J. Micheals, Nien F. Zhang
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) program are migrating from a two...
Steven J. Fenves, Eswaran Subrahmanian, Puja Goyal, Jean-Cyrus L. Angbo, Faouzi Daoud, Ram D. Sriram
This document serves as the summary report on the first year?s progress on the Architecture Development Facilitator (ADF) project covering the activities from...
Andrew K. Persily, Robert E. Chapman, Steven J. Emmerich, William S. Dols, Heather Davis, Priya D. Lavappa, Amy S. Rushing
Due to concerns about potential airborne chemical and biological (chembio) releases in or near buildings, building owners and managers and other decision makers...
Stephen Kerber, Daniel M. Madrzykowski, D W. Stroup
One hundred and sixty experiments were conducted in a thirty-story vacant office building in Toledo, Ohio to evaluate the ability of fire department positive...
Economic tools are needed to help the owners, managers, and designers of constructed facilities to select cost-effective combinations of mitigation strategies...
Robert A. Fletcher, Jiann C. Yang, George W. Mulholland, R L. King, Michael R. Winchester, D Klinedinst, Jennifer R. Verkouteren, Thomas G. Cleary, David Buckingham, James J. Filliben
As integrated circuits become smaller and faster, the measurement of line width must have less uncertainty and more versatility. The common requirement for...
Michael J. Fasolka, Carol E. Laumeier, Kathryn L. Beers, Christopher M. Stafford
Tremendous advances in the development and application of combinatorial and high-throughput methods for materials research have been accomplished over the past...
Commercial pepper sprays devices deliver a coherent liquid stream or an aerosol from a pressurized canister. It is likely that some of the droplets from the...
Bruce R. Ellingwood, Robert Smilowitz, D O. Dusenberry, Dat Duthinh, Hai S. Lew, Nicholas J. Carino
This document is intended to provide owners and practicing engineers with current best practices to reduce the likelihood of progressive collapse of buildings...
Joe W. Magee, Thomas J. Bruno, Daniel G. Friend, Marcia L. Huber, Arno D. Laesecke, Eric Lemmon, Mark O. McLinden, Richard A. Perkins, J¿rg Baranski, Jason A. Widegren
Accurate knowledge of thermophysical properties is a prerequisite to design efficient and cost-effective rocket engine systems that use the kerosene rocket...
A series of full-scale fire experiments was conducted at NIST in 2003 to provide data for an international benchmarking exercise to validate fire models over a...
Steven J. Christopher, Rebecca S. Pugh, Michael B. Ellisor, Elizabeth A. Mackey, Rabia Oflaz, Barbara J. Porter, Kathie J. Bealer, John R. Kucklick, Paul R. Becker, T K. Rowles
NIST helps benchmark and improve the quality of analytical data gathered on the marine environment by administering annual interlaboratory comparison exercises...
This document (User's Guide to NIST Biometric Image Software (NBIS)) is renamed from the User's Guide to NIST Fingerprint Image Software (NFIS). In other word...
This document represents the fiscal year 2006 production of the programs comprising the Semiconductor Electronics Division. Program goals, customer needs...
1. Table 23-2-1-(1.16110)-db - Pages db-5832.0 and db-5832.1 New table for dipropyl maleate containing the density for the real fluid at selected temperatures...
This paper presents a new pel recursive motion estimation algorithm for video coding applications. The derivation of the algorithm is based on Recursive Least...
The NIST Optoelectronics Division provides measurement technology, standards, and traceability for the optoelectronics industry. This document describes the...
Joshua Lubell, Eswaran Subrahmanian, William Regli, Sudarsan Rachuri
This report summarizes the presentations, discussions and recommendations of a workshop held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology on March 15...
Several sources of guidance, policies, standards and legislative acts provide many requirements for the federal agencies when protecting entrusted information...
The purpose of this report is to identify and illustrate an approach to simplify and strengthen capital planning for information system security in compliance...
Rebecca S. Pugh, Michael B. Ellisor, Amanda J. Moors, Barbara J. Porter, Paul R. Becker
The National Biomonitoring Specimen Bank (NBSB) was established in 1979 from the pilot Environmental Specimen Bank Program and is maintained at the National...
The popularity of lightweight, metal plate connected wood truss construction is increasing due to cost effectiveness, versatility, and ease of construction...
The Office of Law Enforcement Standards (OLES) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)helps law enforcement and criminal justice agencies...
The Electromagnetics Division is a critical national resource for a wide range of customers. U.S. industry is the primary customer both for the division's...