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November 2011 SRM Spotlight

October 24, 2011

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

September 26, 2011

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

July 18, 2011

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...

Measured CO Concentrations at NIST IAQ Test House from Operation of Portable Electric Generators in Attached Garage Interim Report

July 8, 2011

Author(s)

Steven J. Emmerich, Liangzhu Wang

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is concerned about the hazard of acute residential CO exposures from portable gasoline powered generators...

Information Technology Laboratory Brochure

June 21, 2011

Author(s)

Elizabeth B. Lennon

This brochure gives an overview of ITL and presents information on 12 current programs.

MSEL Sustainability Seminar Series (2009)

May 15, 2011

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

March 31, 2011

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...

Industry Needs Workshop: Metrics and Tools for Sustainable Buildings

February 16, 2011

Author(s)

Barbara C. Lippiatt

Through its Metrics and Tools for Sustainable Buildings project, NIST is taking a lead role in providing science-based guidance to the building community on the...

November 2010 SRM Spotlight

November 16, 2010

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...

Security Assurance Levels: A Vector Approach to Describing Security Requirements

October 20, 2010

Author(s)

James D. Gilsinn, Ragnar Schierholz

Safety systems have used the concept of safety integrity levels (SILs) for almost two decades. This allows the safety of a component or system to be represented...

Building Occupant Egress Data

August 27, 2010

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

June 30, 2010

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...

ThermoData Engine (TDE) Version 5.0 (Pure compounds, Equations of State, Binary mixtures, and Chemical Reactions)

June 7, 2010

Author(s)

Michael D. Frenkel, Robert D. Chirico, Vladimir Diky, Chris D. Muzny, Andrei F. Kazakov, Joe W. Magee, Ilmutdin M. Abdulagatov, Jeongwon Kang

ThermoData Engine (TDE) is the first and only full-scale software implementation of the dynamic data evaluation concept. The software provides critically...

Overview of the TREC-2009 Blog Track

May 3, 2010

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

February 24, 2010

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...

Precision Engineering Division 2009 Program Technical Accomplishments

February 19, 2010

Author(s)

Michael T. Postek

The Precision Engineering Division (PED) is one of five divisions of the Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory (MEL)at the National Institute of Standards and...

Dimensional Metrology Issues of Army Body Armor Testing

February 18, 2010

Author(s)

Kirk D. Rice, Michael A. Riley, Amanda L. Forster, Steven D. Phillips, Craig M. Shakarji, Daniel S. Sawyer, Christopher J. Blackburn, Bruce R. Borchardt, James J. Filliben

Office of Law Enforcement Standards 2-Year Road Map, FY2009-2011

January 29, 2010

Author(s)

Mark D. Stolorow

This document constitutes the 2-Year Road Map FY 2009 - 2011 for the Office of Law Enforcement Standards (OLES), Electronic and Electrical Engineering...

Office of Law Enforcement Standards Strategic Planning FY2009-2018.

January 29, 2010

Author(s)

Mark D. Stolorow

This document constitutes the ten-year Strategic Plan for FY2009-2018 for the Office of Law Enforcement Standards (OLES), Electronic and Electrical Engineering...

Overview of the TREC 2008 Blog Track

January 12, 2010

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...

Nanoscale Measurements With the TSOM Optical Method

January 4, 2010

Author(s)

Ravikiran Attota

A novel through-focus scanning optical microscope (TSOM - pronounced as 'tee-som') technique that produces nanometer dimensional measurement sensitivity using a...

Overview of the TREC 2008 Enterprise Track

January 1, 2010

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...

Marketplace Assessment - Metric Labeling on Packages in Retail Stores

December 14, 2009

Author(s)

Elizabeth J. Benham

Use of metric labeling on United States consumer products has a long history. Currently, the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act (FPLA) requires dual unit labeling...

ThermoData Engine (TDE) Version 4.0: Pure compound Properties, Equations of State, Binary mixtures, and Chemical Reactions

November 30, 2009

Author(s)

Robert D. Chirico, Michael D. Frenkel, Vladimir Diky, Chris D. Muzny, Andrei F. Kazakov

ThermoData Engine (TDE) is the first full-scale software implementation of the dynamic data evaluation concept. TDE version 3.0 implemented the first...

Outdoor-to-Indoor Channel Measurements and Models

September 1, 2009

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

July 9, 2009

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...

CYCLE_D: NIST Vapor Compression Cycle Design Program Version 4.0 Users' Guide

June 23, 2009

Author(s)

J S. Brown, Piotr A. Domanski, Eric Lemmon

The CYCLE_D package simulates vapor compression refrigeration cycles that use pure refrigerants or mixtures of refrigerants. The model can simulate a basic...

Measurement Challenges to Innovation in the Biosciences: Critical Roles for NIST

June 1, 2009

Author(s)

Willie E. May, Michael D. Amos, Joan Pellegrino

The Internal Fluid Mechanics of Explosive Trace Detectors using Computational Fluid Dynamics

May 1, 2009

Author(s)

Matthew Staymates, Wayne Smith, John Gillen

Efforts are underway in the Surface and Microanalysis Science Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology to study the vapor transport...

Economic Analysis of Egress and Life Safety Costs

April 27, 2009

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...

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