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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) developed this document in furtherance of its statutory responsibilities under the Federal Information...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) developed this document in furtherance of its statutory responsibilities under the Federal Information...
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This document describes the Water Flow Calibration Facility (WFCF) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). This facility has three...
Richard G. Gann, Star R. Burgess, Kathleen C. Whisner, Paul A. Reneke
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Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Ketan Mehta, Pius A. Uzamere, Davie Simon, Nabil Ghadiali, Andrew P. Founds
In order to build the necessary PIV infrastructure to support common unified processes and government-wide use of identity credentials, NIST developed this test...
Paul E. Black, Helen Gill, W. E. Martin, Elizabeth N. Fong
This is the proceeding of a summit held in June 2006 at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). This Static Analysis Summit is one of a...
Chiara F. Ferraris, Max A. Peltz, William F. Guthrie, A Aviles, Robin K. Haupt, Bruce S. MacDonald
The standard reference material (SRM) for fineness of cement, SRM 114, is an integral part of the calibration material routinely used in the cement industry to...
Chiara F. Ferraris, William F. Guthrie, A Aviles, Robin K. Haupt, Bruce S. MacDonald
The standard reference material (SRM) for fineness of cement, SRM 114, is an integral part of the calibration material routinely used in the cement industry to...
The fourteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2005, was held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) November 15--18, 2005. The conference...
This document describes the instrumentation, standards, and measurement techniques used at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to measure...
[Withdrawn (February 12, 2018)] Guide is intended to provide manufacturers, packers, distributors, and retailers of packaged products with information about the...
This report summarizes the activities of the Workshop on Measurement Methods for Evaluation of the Reliability of Active Implantable Medical Devices, held...
Kristine A. Bertness, Todd E. Harvey, C. M. Wang, Albert J. Paul, Larry Robins
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Vincent M. Stanford, C. Rochet, Martial Michel, John S. Garofolo
Properly designed reference data and performance metrics can offer crucial aid to developers of advanced statistical recognition technologies. We focus here on...
The Building and Fire Research Laboratory (BFRL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is the nation's primary resource for measurements...
This is the biennial report for 2004-2005 for the Building and Fire Research Laboratory (BFRL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an...