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The TREC Medical Records track fosters research that allows electronic health records to be retrieved based on the semantic content of free-text fields. The...
Mobile devices, such as smart phones and tablets, typically need to support multiple security objectives: confidentiality, integrity, and availability. To...
Elaine B. Barker, Lidong Chen, Allen L. Roginsky, Miles Smid
This Recommendation specifies key-establishment schemes based on the discrete logarithm problem over finite fields and elliptic curves, including several...
Julian S. Taurozzi, Vincent A. Hackley, Mark R. Wiesner
Toxicity and fate assessment are key elements in the evaluation of the environmental, health and safety risks of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs). While...
In response to the increasing losses due to WUI fires and to ensure that measurement science keeps pace with needed improvements in materials, fire-resistant...
Susan M. Ballou, Michael Garris, Anthony Clay, Joi Dickerson, Peter T. Higgins, Lisa Jackson, Joe Morrissey, Beth Owens, Joe Polski, Janet Hoin, Leo Norton, Melissa Taylor
This is one of a series of documents prepared by the Latent Print Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) Interoperability Working Group. The purpose...
Kuldeep Prasad, Kevin Li, Elizabeth F. Moore, Rodney Bryant, Aaron Johnson, James Whetstone
The burning of fossil fuels remains a major source of greenhouse gases responsible for global warming and climate change. In order to reduce greenhouse gas...
Susan M. Ballou, Michael Garris, Anthony Clay, Joi Dickerson, Peter T. Higgins, Janet Hoin, Lisa Jackson, Mike Lesko, Joe Morrissey, Leo Norton, Beth Owens, Joe Polski, Melissa Taylor
This is one of a series of documents prepared by the Latent Print Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) Interoperability Working Group. The purpose...
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...