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Special Publication (NIST SP)

2002 CODATA recommended values of the fundamental physical constants, page size table

January 1, 2005

Author(s)

Peter J. Mohr

Recommended Practices for Manufacturers and Consumers of WWVB Radio Controlled Clocks

January 1, 2005

Author(s)

Michael A. Lombardi, Andrew N. Novick, John P. Lowe, Matthew J. Deutch, Gerald Nelson, Douglas D. Sutton, William C. Yates, D. W. Hanson

This document serves as a recommended practice guide intended to benefit WWVB radio controlled clock (RCC) manufacturers and consumers. It recommends key...

NIST time and frequency radio stations: WWV, WWVH, and WWVB

January 1, 2005

Author(s)

Glenn Nelson, Michael A. Lombardi, Windell Oskay

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides standard time and frequency information through three radio broadcast stations that are...

Measuring the Performance and Intelligence of Systems: Proceedings of the 2003 PerMIS Workshop

December 29, 2004

Author(s)

Elena R. Messina, Alex Meystel

Report of the 89th National Conference on Weights and Measures

December 9, 2004

Author(s)

Kenneth S. Butcher, Steven E. Cook, Linda D. Crown, K M. Dresser, H V. Oppermann, R C. Suiter, Juana S. Williams

The 89th Annual Meeting of the National Conference on Weights and Measures (NCWM) was held July 11 through July 15, 2004, at the Pittsburgh Hilton and Towers in...

CFAST: Consolidated Model of Fire Growth and Smoke Transport (Version 5). User's Guide.

December 1, 2004

Author(s)

Richard D. Peacock, Walter W. Jones, 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...

An Approach to the Metrologically Sound Traceable Assessment of the Chemical Purity of Organic Reference Materials

December 1, 2004

Author(s)

David L. Duewer, Reenie M. Parris, Edward White, Willie E. May, H. Elbaum

CFAST Consolidated Model of Fire Growth and Smoke Transport (Version 5): User s Guide

December 1, 2004

Author(s)

Richard D. Peacock, Walter W. Jones, 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...

Standards Electronic Automatic Computer (SEAC)

November 1, 2004

Author(s)

Russell A. Kirsch

The Standards Electronic Automatic Computer (SEAC) was the first programmable computer in the United States. The development of SEAC was a cooperative project...

Guidelines on PDA Forensics, Recommendations of the National Institute of Standards and Technology

November 1, 2004

Author(s)

Wayne Jansen, Richard Ayers

Forensic specialists periodically encounter unusual devices and new technologies normally not envisaged as having immediate relevance from a digital forensics...

CFAST: Consolidated Model of Fire Growth and Smoke Transport (Version 5). Technical Reference Guide.

October 1, 2004

Author(s)

Walter W. Jones, Richard D. Peacock, Glenn P. Forney, Paul A. Reneke

THIS REPORT (NIST SP 1030) SUPERCEEDS REPORT (NISTIR 7080) CFAST ia a two-zone fire model capable of predicting the environment in a multi-compartment structure...

Round Robin Study of Total Heat Flux Gauge Calibration at Fire Laboratories

October 1, 2004

Author(s)

William M. Pitts, A V. Murthy, J L. de Ris, J R. Filtz, K Nyard, D Smith, I Wetterlund

Total heat flux gauges are widely employed in fire research and fire testing laboratories. Several fire laboratories have developed systems for calibrating...

CFAST--Consolidated Model of Fire Growth and Smoke Transport, Technical Reference Guide (Version 5)

October 1, 2004

Author(s)

Walter W. Jones, Richard D. Peacock, Glenn P. Forney, Paul A. Reneke

CFAST is a zone model capable of predicting the environment in a multi-compartment structure subjected to a fire. It calculates the time evolving distribution...

Autonomy Levels for Unmanned Systems (ALFUS) Framework Volume I: Terminology Version 2.0

September 30, 2004

Author(s)

Hui-Min Huang

This document identifies and defines terms to support the system (UMS) community, particularly from the perspectives of characterizing the autonomy and...

Electronic Authentication Guideline

September 27, 2004

Author(s)

William E. Burr, Donna F. Dodson, William T. Polk

[Superseded by SP 800-63 Ver. 1.0.2 (April 2006): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=918434] This recommendation provides technical...

Drive Compatibility Test (Phase 2) for DVD-R(General) and DVD+R Discs, including DVD Creation Plan

September 15, 2004

Author(s)

Oliver T. Slattery

Phase 2 test procedure is designed to test the compatibility of DVD drives with DVD writable media including DVD-R (for general) and DVD+R. The test plan...

Drive Compatibility Test (Phase 2) for DVD-R (General) and DVD+R Discs, Including DVD Creation Plan

September 1, 2004

Author(s)

Oliver T. Slattery

Phase 2 test procedure is designed to test the compatibility of DVD drives with DVD writable media including DVD-R (for general) and DVD+R. The test plan...

Technical Digest, Symposium on Optical Fiber Measurements 2004

September 1, 2004

Author(s)

Paul A. Williams, Gordon W. Day

This digest is made up of technical papers presented at the 13th biennial Symposium on Optical Fiber Measurements (SOFM 2004)in Boulder, Colorado, September 28...

User's Guide for Smokeview Version 4.0 - A Tool for Visualizing Fire Dynamics Simulation Data

August 1, 2004

Author(s)

Glenn P. Forney, Kevin B. McGrattan

Smokeview is a software tool designed to visualize numerical calculations generated by the NIST Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS), a computational fluid dynamics...

Calibration Service for Low-level Pulsed-Laser Radiometers at 1.06 υm: Pulse Energy and Peak Power

August 1, 2004

Author(s)

Rodney W. Leonhardt

This document describes the calibration service provided by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for peak-power or pulse-energy of low...

Cook County Administration Building Fire, 69 West Washington, Chicago, Illinois, October 17, 2003: Heat Release Rate Experiments and FDS Simulations

July 1, 2004

Author(s)

Daniel M. Madrzykowski, William D. Walton

On October 17, 2003, in the Cook County Administration Building, 69 West Washington, Chicago, Illinois, a fire resulted in six fatalities and several injuries...

Fire Dynamics Simulator (Version 4) - User's Guide

July 1, 2004

Author(s)

Kevin B. McGrattan

Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) is a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelof fire-driven fluid flow. The software described in this document solves numerically...

Electronic Authentication Guideline

June 30, 2004

Author(s)

William E. Burr, Donna F. Dodson, William T. Polk

[Superseded by NIST SP 800-63 Ver. 1.0.1 (September 2004): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=151295] This recommendation provides...

June 2004 Progress Report on the Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster (NIST SP 1000-5)

June 30, 2004

Author(s)

Sivaraj Shyam-Sunder, C Sawyer

Provides details of the technical progress made since the May 2003 progress report on the World Trade Center (WTC) Investigation. The report includes a...

Gas Flowmeter Calibrations with the 34 L and 677 L PVTt Standards

June 23, 2004

Author(s)

John Wright, Aaron Johnson, Michael Moldover, Gina Kline

This document provides a description of the 34 L and 677 L pressure, volume, temperature, and time (PVTt) primary gas flow standards operated by the National...

Environmentally Acceptable Flame Extinguishants

June 23, 2004

Author(s)

J D. Mather, R E. Tapscott

Engineering Principles for IT Security (A Baseline for Achieving Security), Revision A

June 21, 2004

Author(s)

G Stoneburner, Clark Hayden, Alexis Feringa

The Engineering Principles for Information Technology (IT) Security (EP-ITS) presents a list of system-level security principles to be considered in the design...

Security Considerations in the Information System Development Life Cycle

June 16, 2004

Author(s)

Timothy Grance, Joan Hash, Marc Stevens

[Superseded by SP 800-64 Rev. 2 (October 2008): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=890097] The need to provide protection for federal...

Guide for Mapping Types of Information and Information Systems to Security Categories (2 vols.)

June 10, 2004

Author(s)

William C. Barker, Annabelle Lee

[Superseded by SP 800-60 Rev. 1 (August 2008): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=152106] Title III of the E-Government Act, titled...

Pore Characterization in Low-k Dielectric Films Using X-Ray Reflectivity: X-Ray Porosimetry

June 1, 2004

Author(s)

Christopher L. Soles, V. J. Lee, Eric K. Lin, Wen-Li Wu

X-ray porosimetry is developed as a technique for characterizing the pore structure in thin, low dielectric constant films supported on a silicon wafer. X-ray...

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