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Information Technology Laboratory Brochure

January 21, 2009

Author(s)

Elizabeth B. Lennon

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

Guidelines for Accepting 2D Building Plans

December 10, 2008

Author(s)

Geraldine S. Cheok

Research Announcement: Boundedness of Orbits for Trapezoidal Outer Billiards

November 13, 2008

Author(s)

Daniel I. Genin

We state and briefly sketch the proof of a result on boundedness of outer billiard orbits for trapezoidal outer billiards.

Building Air Change Rate Estimates for CBR Analysis

September 15, 2008

Author(s)

Andrew K. Persily

Building air change rates impact energy consumption for space conditioning and indoor contaminant levels in relation to general indoor air quality issues as...

Calibration of a Force Feedback Joystick

August 29, 2008

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...

Measuring and Improving the Productivity of the U.S. Construction Industry: Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities

July 17, 2008

Author(s)

Robert E. Chapman, David T. Butry

Although the construction industry is a major component of the U.S. economy, it has experienced a prolonged period of decline in productivity. Due to the...

Planning Report 07-2: Economic Impact of Measurement in the Semiconductor Industry

December 31, 2007

Author(s)

Gregory C. Tassey

The semiconductor industry has long been a driving force behind major advances in computing and electronics. Advances in the speed of processing power have...

Information Technology Laboratory Brochure

October 24, 2007

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...

Material Standards for Environmental Health and Safety for Engineered Nanoscale Materials

September 13, 2007

Author(s)

Dianne L. Poster, John A. Small, Michael T. Postek

The National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) in its 2006 document, Environmental, Health, and Safety Research Needs for Engineered Nanoscale Materials...

NIST/TRC Web Thermo Tables - Lite Edition NIST Standard Reference Subscription Database 2

July 9, 2007

Author(s)

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

WTT - Lite Edition, a Web version of the TRC Thermodynamic Tables, represents a collection of critically evaluated thermodynamic property data for 150 commonly...

Verification and Validation of Selected Fire Models for Nuclear Power Plant Applications. Volume 5. Consolidated Fire Growth and Smoke Transport Model (CFAST) (NUREG-1824)

May 1, 2007

Author(s)

Richard D. Peacock, Paul A. Reneke

As the use of fire modeling tools increases in support of day-to-day nuclear power plant (NPP) applications including fire risk studies, the importance of...

Verification and Validation of Selected Fire Models for Nuclear Power Plant Applications. Volume 2. Experimental Uncertainty (NUREG 1824)

May 1, 2007

Author(s)

Anthony P. Hamins, Kevin B. McGrattan

The purpose of this volume is to provide a means for quantitative comparison of model simulations and measurements. The methodology employed follows the...

NIST Thermophysical Properties of Hydrocarbon Mixtures Database (Supertrapp), version 3.2

January 1, 2007

Author(s)

Marcia L. Huber

This program is a minor revision of the NIST Database "NIST Thermophysical Properties of Hydrocarbon Mixtures Database (Supertrapp)" that corrects some known...

Program: 2006 Boulder Laboratories Postdoctoral Poster Symposium

June 14, 2006

Author(s)

Joe W. Magee

The Boulder Laboratories Diversity Council has announced a networking opportunity - the 2006 Boulder Laboratories Postdoctoral Poster Symposium, for...

Technical and Economic Assessment of Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)

January 31, 2006

Author(s)

Gregory C. Tassey, Douglas C. Montgomery, Alfred Lee, Tim Sloan

The Presidents National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace (National Strategy) directed the Secretary of Commerce to form a task force to examine the most recent...

NGP RESEARCH ON FIRE SUPPRESSION CHEMISTRY

January 1, 2006

Author(s)

Gregory T. Linteris

Several NGP projects studied the mechanisms of chemical suppressants, including those containing halogens, phosphorus, and metals. From the work, several...

Planning Report 05-2: IPv6 Economic Impact Assessment

October 31, 2005

Author(s)

Gregory C. Tassey

This report presents estimates of the costs and benefits associated with transitioning from Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) to Internet Protocol Version 6...

Indoor Navigation for First Responders

October 1, 2005

Author(s)

L T. Klein-berndt, Leonard E. Miller

We have implemented a quantum key distribution (QKD) system with polarization encoding at 850 nm over 1 km of optical fiber. The high-speed management of the...

Risk Analysis for Extreme Events: Economic Incentives for Reducing Future Losses.

December 1, 2004

Author(s)

H Kunreuther, R Meyer, C Vandenbulte

This report discusses the need for linking risk assessment, risk perception, and risk management in order to develop meaningful strategies for dealing with...

Overview of the TREC 2003 Novelty Track

May 1, 2004

Author(s)

Ian M. Soboroff, Donna K. Harman

The Rich Transcription 2004 Spring Meeting Recognition Evaluation

April 1, 2004

Author(s)

John S. Garofolo, Christophe Laprun, Jonathan G. Fiscus

This paper presents the design and results of the Rich Transcription 2004 Spring Meeting Recognition Evaluation. The evaluation included both Speaker...

Overview of the TREC 2003 Robust Retrieval Track

March 1, 2004

Author(s)

Ellen M. Voorhees

The robust retrieval track is a new track in TREC 2003. The goal of the track is to improve the consistency of retrieval technology by focusing on poorly...

Overview of the TREC 2003 Question Answering Track

March 1, 2004

Author(s)

Ellen M. Voorhees

The TREC 2003 question answering track contained two tasks, the passages task and the main task. In the passages task, systems returned a single text snippet in...

Parametric Investigation of Droplet Atomization and Dispersion of Liquid Fire Suppressants

December 30, 2003

Author(s)

Cary Presser

The objective of this project was to develop a startup data set to guide the modeling efforts under the project "Fire Suppressant Dynamics in Cluttered DoD...

Validation of 802.11a/UWB Coexistence Simulation

October 17, 2003

Author(s)

Len E. Miller

NIST Wireless Communication Technologies Group (WCTG) White Paper. This publication is available free of charge from: https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.WCTG.10-17...

Overview of the TREC 2002 Novelty Track

April 1, 2003

Author(s)

Donna K. Harman

The novelty track was a new track in TREC-11. The basic task was as follows: given a TREC topic and an ordered list of relevant documents (ordered by relevance...

Overview of the TREC 2002 Question Answering Track

April 1, 2003

Author(s)

Ellen M. Voorhees

The TREC question answering track is an effort to bring the benefits of large-scale evaluation to bear on the question answering problem. The track contained...

The TREC-2002 Filtering Track Report

April 1, 2003

Author(s)

S E. Robertson, Ian Soboroff

The TREC¿11 filtering track measures the ability of systems to build persistent user profiles which successfully separate relevant and non-relevant documents in...

Refrigerant Flow Through Flexible Short-Tube Orifices

April 1, 2002

Author(s)

William V. Payne, Y C. Kim, Dennis L. O'Neal, Mohsen Farzad

Flexible short-tube orifices were designed to decrease their diameter as the pressure differential across them increases under high outdoor temperatures. A...

TREC-2001 Interactive Track Report

April 1, 2002

Author(s)

William Hersh, Paul D. Over

In the TREC 2001 Interactive Track six research teams carried out observational studies which increased the realism of the searching by allowing the use of data...

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