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Calibration Considerations for Mission Success

Author(s)
Raghu N. Kacker
As more and more data from different sensors, either on the same or from different platforms, are used together for studies of changes in the earth’s atmosphere

SRM November Spotlight 2014

Author(s)
Regina R. Montgomery
The SRM Spotlight is a newsletter published by the Office of Reference Materials for users of NIST standard reference materials. The Spotlight announces new

July is National Ice Cream Month

Author(s)
Elizabeth J. Benham
A short article about ice cream and frozen novelties to appear in the Office of Weights and Measures newsletter, "Weights and Measures Connection." This

Overview of the TREC-2012 Microblog Track

Author(s)
Ian M. Soboroff, Iadh Ounis, Jimmy Lin, Craig Macdonald
The Microblog track examines search tasks and evaluation meth- odologies for information seeking behaviours in microblogging en- vironments such as Twitter. It

Liquid Piston Prover Uncertainty Analysis Spreadsheet

Author(s)
John D. Wright, Aaron N. Johnson, Jodie G. Pope
This publication is a spreadsheet that calculates the mass and volume flow uncertainty for a piston prover liquid flow standard based on user inputs of

SRM Spotlight

Author(s)
Regina R. Montgomery
The SRM Spotlight is a newsletter published by the Office of Reference Materials for users of NIST standard reference materials. The Spotlight announces new

Overview of the TREC 2011 Microblog Track

Author(s)
Ian M. Soboroff, Iadh Ounis, Craig Macdonald, Jimmy Lin
The Microblog track examines search tasks and evaluation methodologies for information seeking behaviors in microblogging environments such as Twitter. It was

July 2013 SRM Spotlight

Author(s)
Regina R. Montgomery
The SRM Spotlight is a newsletter published by the Office of Reference Materials for users of NIST standard reference materials. The Spotlight announces new

A Generative Model for Fingerprint Minutiae

Author(s)
Melissa K. Taylor, Nicholas G. Paulter Jr., Qijun Zhao, Yi Zhang, Anil K. Jain
Fingerprint minutiae are the most important features used by latent fingerprint examiners, as well as in automated fingerprint recognition systems. Hence

Big Data Issues in Quantitative Imaging

Author(s)
Mary C. Brady, Alden A. Dima, Charles D. Fenimore, James J. Filliben, John Lu, Adele Peskin, Mala Ramaiah, Ganesh Saiprasad, Ram D. Sriram

Information Technology Laboratory Brochure

Author(s)
Elizabeth B. Lennon
This brochure describes the Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, its mission, highlights, and research

Overview of the TREC 2011 Web Track

Author(s)
Ian M. Soboroff, Nick Craswell, Charles L. Clarke, Gordon Cormack
The TREC Web Track explores and evaluates Web retrieval technology over large collections of Web data. In its current incarnation, the Web Track has been active

November 2011 SRM Spotlight

Author(s)
Regina R. Montgomery
The SRM Spotlight is a newsletter published by the Measurement Services Division for users of NIST standard reference materials. The Spotlight announces new

Tare Verification - Ensuring the Accuracy of Tare

Author(s)
David A. Sefcik
Article for Weights and Measures Division "Connections" newsletter. Article discusses a suggested procedure for weights and measures officials to verify the

The Proper Use of Substitute Test Fluids

Author(s)
Marc A. Buttler
Liquid-measuring devices are used in many different commercial applications. The vast array of liquid products that are measured includes some products that may

MSEL Sustainability Seminar Series (2009)

Author(s)
Winnie K. Wong-Ng, Kathryn L. Beers, Richard E. Ricker, Martin L. Green
An MSEL Sustainability Seminar Series took place in 2009, aimed at the following goals: (1) to introduce this important subject matter to our staff and (2) to

Information Leakage Through the Domain Name System

Author(s)
Scott W. Rose, Anastase Nakassis, Ramaswamy Chandramouli
The Domain Name System (DNS) is the global lookup service for network resources. It is often the first step in an Internet transaction as well as a network