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Kuldeep R. Prasad, Anthony Bova, James R. Whetstone, Elena Novakovskaia
Inverse atmospheric dispersion models are used to provide measurement-based, or topdown, estimates of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for comparison with input...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Measurement Science Roadmap for Net-Zero Energy Buildings Workshop Report (NIST TN 1660 March 2010)...
Richard D. Peacock, Walter W. Jones, Paul A. Reneke
Abstract This supplement to the CFAST Technical Reference Guide provides details of the software development process for CFAST and accompanying validation for...
Richard D. Peacock, Paul A. Reneke, Glenn P. Forney
CFAST is a two-zone fire model capable of predicting the environment in a multi-compartment structure subjected to a fire. It calculates the time evolving...
Joseph J. Biernacki, Jeffrey W. Bullard, Constantiner Constantiner, Richard Meininger, Maria Juenger, Josephine H. Cheung, William Hansen, R. D. Hooton, Andreas Luttge, Jeffrey J. Thomas
Hydration of portland cement is the cornerstone of the process responsible for microstructure development in concrete and ultimately controls the kinetics of...
Richard D. Peacock, Glenn P. Forney, Paul A. Reneke
CFAST is a two-zone fire model capable of predicting the environment in a multi-compartment structure subjected to a fire. It calculates the time evolving...
The SRM Spotlight is a newsletter published by the Measurement Services Division for users of NIST standard reference materials. The Spotlight announces new...
Janet M. Cassard, Jon C. Geist, Theodore V. Vorburger, David T. Read, Michael Gaitan, David G. Seiler
The Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) 5-in-1 is a reference device sold as a NIST Reference Material (RM) that contains MEMS test structures on a test chip...
Melissa Taylor, Will Chapman, Austin Hicklin, George Kiebuzinski, Peter Komarinski, John Mayer-Splain, Rachel Wallner
The Latent Interoperability Transmission Specification (LITS) is an application profile of the American National Standards Institute/National Institute of...
Melissa Taylor, Will Chapman, Austin Hicklin, George Kiebuzinski, Peter Komarinski, John Mayer-Splain, Rachel Wallner
This document provides instructions for latent print examiners in marking friction ridge features to maximize consistency among examiners. This document builds...
The NIST SAMATE project conducted the fourth Static Analysis Tool Exposition (SATE IV) to advance research in static analysis tools that find security defects...
On September 23rd and 24th, 2010, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) hosted the fourth in a series of workshops addressing measurement...
Melissa Taylor, Will Chapman, Austin Hicklin, George Kiebuzinski, John Mayer-Splain, Rachel Wallner, Peter Komarinski
This specification defines Extended Feature Set (EFS) Profiles - sets of features to be used in latent friction ridge (fingerprint, palmprint or plantar)...
Thermal conductivity measurements at and near room temperature are presented as the basis for certified values of thermal conductivity of SRM 1453, Expanded...
This study characterizes the construction labor pool, and carries out preliminary work toward an estimation of the supply and demand for construction labor...
Cryptography is often used in an information technology security environment to protect data that is sensitive, has a high value, or is vulnerable to...
This report brings together multiple sources of aggregate manufacturing industry data and industry subsector data to develop a quantitative depiction of the U.S...
Rajmohan (. Madhavan, Elena R. Messina, Brian Weiss
The 2012 Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems workshop is the eleventh in a series dedicated to defining measures and methodologies of evaluating...
Erica D. Kuligowski, Franklin T. Lombardo, Long Phan, Marc L. Levitan, David P. Jorgensen
On June 29, 2011, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced that it would conduct a technical investigation of the tornado that struck...
Samuel L. Manzello, Sayaka S. Suzuki, Tokiyoshi Yamada
Dr. Samuel L. Manzello of NISTs Engineering Laboratory (EL) served as the USA side organizer of the 2nd Japan-USA workshop held in Tokyo, Japan from July 1 to...
The purpose of Special Publication 800-30 is to provide guidance for conducting risk assessments of federal information systems and organizations, amplifying...
Fernando L. Podio, Dylan J. Yaga, Christofer J. McGinnis
Conformance testing measures whether an implementation faithfully implements the technical requirements defined in a standard. Conformance testing provides...
Hash functions that compute a fixed-length message digest from arbitrary length messages are widely used for many purposes in information security. This...