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Special Publication (NIST SP)

Measurement Challenges and Metrology for Monitoring CO2 Emissions from Smokestacks - Workshop Summary

January 20, 2016

Author(s)

Aaron Johnson, Rodney Bryant, Tamae Wong, James Whetstone, Eric Harman, Woong Kang, Keith Gillis, Hsin-Hung Lee, Iosif Shinder, Liang Zhang

On April 20-21, 2015, NIST hosted a workshop that, through measurement science, enabled the owners of stationary sources (primarily the electric power industry)...

Characterization of nanoparticle suspensions using single particle inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

January 8, 2016

Author(s)

Karen E. Murphy, Jingyu Liu, Antonio R. Montoro Bustos, Monique E. Johnson, Michael R. Winchester

This NIST special publication (SP) is one in a series of NIST SPs that address research needs articulated in the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI)...

An Assessment of Typical Weather Year Data Impacts vs. Multi-year Weather Data on Net-Zero Energy Building Simulations

January 8, 2016

Author(s)

Joshua D. Kneifel, Eric G. O'Rear

Energy and Economic Implications of Solar Photovoltaic Performance Degradation

January 6, 2016

Author(s)

Joshua D. Kneifel, David H. Webb, Eric G. O'Rear

Comparing the Energy and Economic Performance of the NIST NZERTF Design across the Mixed-Humid Climate Zone

December 31, 2015

Author(s)

Joshua D. Kneifel, Eric G. O'Rear

Community Resilience Economic Decision Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems

December 30, 2015

Author(s)

Stanley W. Gilbert, David Butry, Jennifer Helgeson, Robert E. Chapman

This Economic Guide provides a standard economic methodology for evaluating investment decisions aimed to improve the ability of communities to adapt to...

Framework for Cloud Usability

December 22, 2015

Author(s)

Brian C. Stanton, Mary F. Theofanos, Karun P. Joshi

Thermodynamic Properties of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons

December 16, 2015

Author(s)

Thomas C. Allison, Donald R. Burgess Jr.

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are molecules that exist on earth due to natural and man-made causes. They are a significant health concern as many PAH...

Tracking Industry Operations Activity: A Case Study of US Automotive Manufacturing

December 14, 2015

Author(s)

Douglas Thomas, Anand M. Kandaswamy

Private firms, driven by competition, frequently achieve advances in efficiency on their own accord; however, there are often barriers to advancement that...

National Checklist Program for IT Products: Guidelines for Checklist Users and Developers

December 10, 2015

Author(s)

Stephen D. Quinn, Murugiah P. Souppaya, Melanie Cook, Karen Scarfone

[Superseded by SP 800-70 Rev. 3 (December 2015, updated 12/8/2016): https://www.nist.gov/node/1125056?pubid=922414 ] A security configuration checklist is a...

Mobile ID Device Best Practice Recommendation Version 2.0

December 10, 2015

Author(s)

Bradford J. Wing

LC-MS/MS Measurement of Nanomaterial Induced Genotoxicity in Isolated DNA

November 24, 2015

Author(s)

Bryant C. Nelson, Elijah J. Petersen, Pawel Jaruga, M Miral Dizdar

Making accurate measurements of the environmental fate and environmental and biological effects of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) is critical for reliable risk...

GC-MS/MS Measurement of Nanomaterial Induced Genotoxicity in Isolated DNA

November 24, 2015

Author(s)

Bryant C. Nelson, Elijah J. Petersen, Pawel Jaruga, M Miral Dizdar

Making accurate measurements of the environmental fate and environmental and biological effects of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) is critical for reliable risk...

GC/MS Measurement of Nanomaterial Induced Genotoxicity in Isolated DNA

November 24, 2015

Author(s)

Bryant C. Nelson, Elijah J. Petersen, Pawel Jaruga, M Miral Dizdar

Making accurate measurements of the environmental fate and environmental and biological effects of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) is critical for reliable risk...

Maps of Non-hurricane Non-tornadic Wind Speeds With Specified Mean Recurrence Intervals for the Contiguous United States Using a Two-Dimensional Poisson Process Extreme Value Model and Local Regression

November 12, 2015

Author(s)

Adam L. Pintar, Emil Simiu, Franklin T. Lombardo, Marc L. Levitan

This report describes a procedure for creating maps of non-hurricane, non-tornadic wind speeds for a set of recurrence intervals of interest between \num{10}...

Transitions: Recommendation for Transitioning the Use of Cryptographic Algorithms and Key Lengths

November 6, 2015

Author(s)

Elaine B. Barker, Allen L. Roginsky

At the start of the 21st century, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) began the task of providing cryptographic key management guidance...

Community Resilience Planning Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems, Volume I

October 29, 2015

Author(s)

Therese P. McAllister

The CRPG provides a methodology for local government to bring together all of the relevant stakeholders to establish performance goals to maintain the social...

Community Resilience Planning Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems, Volume II

October 29, 2015

Author(s)

Therese P. McAllister

The CRPG provides a methodology for local government to bring together all of the relevant stakeholders to establish performance goals to maintain the social...

A Profile for U. S. Federal Cryptographic Key Management Systems

October 28, 2015

Author(s)

Elaine B. Barker, Miles Smid, Dennis Branstad

This Profile for U. S. Federal Cryptographic Key Management Systems (FCKMSs) contains requirements for their design, implementation, procurement, installation...

Guide to Application Whitelisting

October 28, 2015

Author(s)

Adam Sedgewick, Murugiah Souppaya, Karen Scarfone

An application whitelist is a list of applications and application components that are authorized for use in an organization. Application whitelisting...

NIST Big Data Interoperability Framework: Volume 1, Big Data Definitions

October 22, 2015

Author(s)

Wo L. Chang, Nancy Grady, NBD-PWG NIST Big Data Public Working Group

Big Data is a term used to describe the large amount of data in the networked, digitized, sensor- laden, information-driven world. While opportunities exist...

NIST Big Data Interoperability Framework: Volume 2, Big Data Taxonomies

October 22, 2015

Author(s)

Wo L. Chang, Nancy Grady, Community Resilience Program NIST

Big Data is a term used to describe the large amount of data in the networked, digitized, sensor- laden, information-driven world. While opportunities exist...