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A workshop entitled Structure Ignition in Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fires was held on June 18-19, 2015 in Anaheim, CA. The workshop was sponsored by ASTM...
Katherine E. Sharpless, David L. Duewer, Katrice A. Lippa, Andrew L. Rukhin
Although "nutraceuticals" and "functional foods" seem to be ill-defined terms, both are often used to indicate a food that contains compounds providing benefits...
Chiara C. Ferraris, Alex Olivas, William Guthrie, Blaza Toman
Rheological measurements are often performed using a rotational rheometer. In this type of rheometer, the tested fluid is sheared between two surfaces, one of...
Title III of the E-Government Act of 2002, entitled the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) of 2002, requires NIST to prepare an annual public...
Calibrations of cryogenic resistance thermometers at NIST are performed by comparison to standard thermometers on the International Temperature Scale of 1990...
Polymer nanocomposites containing multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) are increasingly or potentially will be used in many large-volume industries. These...
Hildegard Ferraiolo, Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Nabil Ghadiali, Jason Mohler, Scott Shorter
The purpose of this Special Publication is to provide appropriate and useful guidelines for assessing the reliability of issuers of Personal Identity...
This Recommendation specifies mechanisms for the generation of random bits using deterministic methods. The methods provided are based on either hash functions...
Christofer J. McGinnis, Dylan J. Yaga, Fernando L. Podio
Conformance testing measures whether an implementation faithfully implements the technical requirements defined in a standard. Conformance testing provides...
Chelsea S. Davis, Robert J. Moon, Sean Ireland, Linda Johnston, Jo Anne Shatkin, Kim Nelson, E. J. Foster, Aaron M. Forster, Michael T. Postek, Andras Vladar, Jeffrey W. Gilman
A one-day workshop focused on the Measurement Needs for Cellulosic Nanomaterials was organized by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and held in...
Jiann C. Yang, Matthew F. Bundy, John L. Gross, Anthony P. Hamins, Fahim Sadek, Anand Raghunathan
This report summarizes the results of the global meeting to develop the International R&D Roadmap for Fire Resistance of Structures (the Roadmap) held May 2122...
Anthony P. Hamins, casey grant, Nelson P. Bryner, Albert W. Jones, Galen H. Koepke
In 2013, fire departments in the United States responded to more than 480,000 structure fires. These fires resulted in approximately 2850 civilian fatalities...
Shahram Orandi, John M. Libert, Michael Garris, John Grantham, Frederick R. Byers
The document describes the procedure by which applications of JPEG 2000 CODECs will be evaluated with respect to conformance to the NIST guidance for...
Keith A. Stouffer, Victoria Y. Pillitteri, Suzanne Lightman, Marshall Abrams, Adam Hahn
This document provides guidance on how to secure Industrial Control Systems (ICS), including Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems...
NIST recently has released a SiNP reference material RM8027 that consists of five hermetically sealed pre-scored glass ampoules, each containing nominally 1 ml...
Justin Zook, Robert MacCuspie, Stephen E. Long, Elijah Petersen
This special publication is one in a series stemming from the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) Nano-EHS Research Strategy which identified Nanomaterial...
Justin Zook, Robert MacCuspie, John T. Elliott, Elijah Petersen
This special publication is one in a series stemming from the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) Nano-EHS Research Strategy which identified Nanomaterial...
Nathanael D. Olson, Nancy J. Lin, Scott A. Jackson
Advances in DNA sequencing over the last decade have lowered the barrier to whole genome sequencing. However, additional challenges must be overcome before...
This special publication is one in a series stemming from the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) Nano-EHS Research Strategy which identified Nanomaterial...
NIST's Engineering Laboratory (EL-NIST) hosted "Operation Tomodachi - Fire Research" on March 16-18, 2015 in Gaithersburg, MD USA. Tomodachi means friendship in...
Jon Boyens, Celia Paulsen, Rama Moorthy, Nadya Bartol
Federal agencies are concerned about the risks associated with information and communications technology (ICT) products and services that may contain...
Joshua D. Kneifel, William V. Payne, Tania Ullah, Lisa C. Ng
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) received funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to construct a Net Zero...
Chelsea S. Davis, Jeremiah Woodcock, Jeffrey W. Gilman
Carbon nanotubes (CNT) are a widely studied nanomaterial due to their unique electrical, thermal, and mechanical properties which can be transferred to...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) received funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to construct a Net-Zero...