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November 2010 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

Building Occupant Egress Data

Author(s)
Richard D. Peacock, Erica D. Kuligowski
Data on people movement on stairs were collected from 9 office and residential building evacuations in the United States. The buildings involved in this study

July 2010 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

Overview of the TREC-2009 Blog Track

Author(s)
Ian M. Soboroff, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
In TREC 2009, the Blog track has been markedly revamped with the use of a new and larger sample of the blogosphere, cal led Blogs08, which has a 13-month

March 2010 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

Overview of the TREC 2008 Blog Track

Author(s)
Ian M. Soboroff, Iadh Ounis, Craig Macdonald
The Blog track explores the information seeking behaviour in the blogosphere. The track was introduced in 2006 [1], with a main pilot search task, namely the

Overview of the TREC 2008 Enterprise Track

Author(s)
Ian M. Soboroff, Krisztian Balog, Nick Craswell, Arjen de Vries, Paul Thomas, Peter Bailey
The goal of the enterprise track is to conduct experiments with enterprise data that reflect the experiences of users in real organizations. This year, we

Outdoor-to-Indoor Channel Measurements and Models

Author(s)
Catherine A. Remley, Christopher L. Holloway, David W. Matolak
This document reports on wireless channel measurements and models for outdoor to indoor propagation environments. Although there have been a number of

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

Economic Analysis of Egress and Life Safety Costs

Author(s)
Robert E. Chapman, Allison L. Huang, David T. Butry
In 2007, the latest year for which construction data are available, the value of construction put in place was $1.1 trillion. Statistics on the total cost of

Information Technology Laboratory Brochure

Author(s)
Elizabeth B. Lennon
This brochure describes the Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) at NIST, including mission, core competencies, resources, products, and customers. It

Calibration of a Force Feedback Joystick

Author(s)
J H. Daruwalla, Nicholas Dagalakis
The objective of this project was to calibrate a commercially available force feedback joystick that could be used for the control of a laser beam optical

Information Technology Laboratory Brochure

Author(s)
Elizabeth B. Lennon
This brochure describes the programs of the Information Technology Laboratory (ITL). Following a letter from the ITL Director, ITL's nine programs are described