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Technical Note (NIST TN)

Response Time Impact of Smoke Alarms

Author(s)
Stanley W. Gilbert, Thomas Cleary, Paul A. Reneke, Richard Peacock, David Butry
It can be assumed that smoke alarms reduce reported fires and casualties by reducing on average the amount of time it takes to detect a fire. This paper sets

The Thermal Character of a 1 m Methanol Pool Fire

Author(s)
Kunhyuk Sung, Jian Chen, Matthew Bundy, Marco G. Fernandez, Anthony Hamins
This is the second edition of this study, which presents a series of measurements conducted to characterize the structure of a 1 m diameter methanol pool fire

Structure Separation Experiments Phase 1 Preliminary Test Plan

Author(s)
Alexander Maranghides, Shonali Nazare, Eric Link, Kuldeep Prasad, Matthew Hoehler, Matthew Bundy, Steven Hawks, Frank Bigelow, William (Ruddy) Mell, Anthony Bova, Derek McNamara, Tom Milac, Daniel Gorham, Faraz Hedayati, Bob Raymer, Frank Frievalt, William Walton
The primary objective of this project is to assess structure-to-structure fire spread for structures located in the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI). Full-scale

Laboratory Method for Recording AWS-3 LTE Waveforms

Author(s)
Aric Sanders, Keith Forsyth, Rob Horansky, Azizollah Kord, Duncan McGillivray
The focus of this work provides a library of actual long-term evolution (LTE) user equipment (UE) emissions with sufficient time resolution and dynamic range

CONTAM RESULTS EXPORT TOOL

Author(s)
Brian Polidoro, Lisa Ng, William Stuart Dols
CONTAM is a multizone indoor air quality and ventilation analysis program developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Since CONTAM

Iris Recognition on Noah Kalina's Everyday

Author(s)
James Matey
In January 2000, Noah Kalina began taking a photograph of himself every day – and has continued for more than 20 years. A time-lapse video of his images can be

Neural Networks for Classifying Probability Distributions

Author(s)
Siham Khoussi, N. Alan Heckert, Abdella Battou, Saddek Bensalem
Probability distribution fitting of an unknown stochastic process is an important preliminary step for any further analysis in science or engineering. However

UE-to-Network Relay Model B Discovery in ProSe-Enabled LTE Networks

Author(s)
Alexandre C. Moreaux, Samantha Gamboa Quintiliani, David W. Griffith, Richard A. Rouil
In this paper, we expand previous analytical models to offer a more complete representation of Model B ProSe direct discovery. Using these models, we can obtain

Characterizing LTE User Equipment Emissions Under Closed-Loop Power Control

Author(s)
Jason Coder, Aric Sanders, Michael R. Frey, Adam Wunderlich, Azizollah Kord, Jolene Splett, Lucas N. Koepke, Daniel Kuester, Duncan McGillivray, John M. Ladbury
This report presents a laboratory-based characterization of Long Term Evolution (LTE) User Equipment (UE) emissions under closed-loop power control, building on