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Jun H. Shin, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Yunsu Lee, Nenad Ivezic
When an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), which makes a final product for the consumer marketplace by purchasing components from its suppliers, faces...
Mehdi Dadfarnia, Yung-Tsun T. Lee, Allison Barnard Feeney, Deogratias Kibira
Providing emergency care services in the confined space of the patient compartment of a moving ambulance is a hazardous activity. A National Institute of...
Mehra N. Borazjany, Laleh Ghandehari, Yu Lei, Raghu N. Kacker, D. Richard Kuhn
The input space of a system must be modeled before combinatorial testing can be applied to this system. The effectiveness of combinatorial testing to a large...
Laleh Ghandehari, Mehra N. Borazjany, Yu Lei, Raghu N. Kacker, D. Richard Kuhn
Combinatorial testing has attracted a lot of attention from both industry and academia. A number of reports suggest that combinatorial testing can be effective...
Combinatorial testing has been shown to be a very effective testing strategy. An important problem in combinatorial testing is dealing with constraints, i.e...
Dean C. Ripple, Michael J. Carrier, Richard E. Cavicchi, Christopher B. Montgomery, Zhishang Hu
A common degradation pathway for protein-based drugs is the growth of protein aggregates or particles. Counting and characterization of these particles is...
Gregory T. Linteris, Valeri I. Babushok, Fumiaki Takahashi, Viswanath R. Katta, Oliver Meier
Several fire suppressants are under consideration to replace CF3Br for use in suppressing fires in aircraft cargo bays. In Federal Aviation Administration...
Maritoni A. Litorja, Mira Fein, Eleanor Wehner, Karel Zuzak, Edward Livingston
The classification of anatomical features using hyperspectral imaging has been a common goal in biomedical hyperspectral imaging. Identification and location of...
Kenneth A. Snyder, Paul E. Stutzman, Jacob Philip, David W. Esh
The mineral phases and pore solution composition of hydrated cement-solidified saltstone waste forms are quantified using thermogravimetric analysis...
Rebecca Ploeger, Aaron Forster, Donald Hunston, Etienne de la Rie, Christopher McGlinchey
Consolidating adhesives have been used throughout the centuries for the conservation of painted cultural objects- such as paintings and polychrome sculpture-...
Walid Keyrouz, Timothy J. Blattner, Bertrand C. Stivalet, Joe Chalfoun, Mary C. Brady, Shujia Zhou
We present a hybrid CPU-GPU approach for the Fourier-based stitching of optical microscopy images. This system achieves sub-minute stitching rates with large...
Kuldeep R. Prasad, Elena Novakovskaia, Adam Nottrott, Ralph Keeling, Chris Sloop
Natural gas a hydrocarbon gas mixture that consists primarily of CH4 is perceived as transition fuel due to its high energy density and lower greenhouse...
Kuldeep R. Prasad, Elena Novakovskaia, Marc Fischer, Chris Sloop
Methane (CH4) is one of the major greenhouse gases with a CO2relative global warming potential above 20 over a 100-year period (IPCC TAR). Global average...
YaShian Li-Baboud, Julien M. Amelot, Dhananjay Anand, Gerard N. Stenbakken, Thomas L. Nelson, James Moyne
One of the key lessons learned from the 2003 Northeast Blackout in the United States was the need for improved timing. The problem began as an isolated issue...
Virtualized hosts provide abstraction of the hardware resources (i.e., CPU, Memory etc) enabling multiple computing stacks to be run on a single physical...
This paper presents a dynamically updating key distribution strategy to enhance mesh network security against cyber attacks. The scheme has been applied to two...
Dong H. Rim, Andrew K. Persily, Lance L. Wallace, William S. Dols, Steven J. Emmerich
As building design and operation changes to meet the goals of sustainability, it is critical to address indoor air quality issues such that indoor environmental...
The CFTT project at the National Institute of Standards and Technology develops methodologies for testing computer forensic tools. This presentation reports on...
Lawrence M Anovitz, David R. Cole, David D. Faulder, Julie Sheets, Gernot Rother, Matthew John Wasbrough, Rex P. Hjelm, Monika Hartl, Vitaliy Pipich, Zhensdong Fu
The multiscale pore structure of the rocks making up a geothermal reservoir and the mineralogy associated with those pores are critical factors for estimating a...
Jacek Jankowski, Johannes Behr, Yvonne Jung, Kristian Sons, Philipp Slusallek, Sanford P. Ressler
With the advent of WebGL, plugin-free hardware-accelerated interactive 3D graphics has finally arrived in all major Web browsers. WebGL is an imperative...
Cynthia H. Reed, Zhe Liu, Steve Cox, Andrew K. Persily, John Little
The business of measuring volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from building products and materials has grown to include more than 100 laboratories, many...
Airborne ultrafine particles (UFP) have been associated with human mortality and morbidity. Human exposure to ambient UFP occurs indoors due to entry of UFP...
Wenjuan Wei, Cynthia H. Reed, Andrew K. Persily, Yinping Zhang
Formaldehyde is recognized as a harmful indoor air pollutant for human health (IARC. 2004) and is emitted from building materials, including urea-formaldehyde...
To improve the reliability and accuracy of chamber tests for measuring emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from interior building products, the...
Workshop presentation summarizing several key bibliometric analyses conducted by librarians at NIST. Presentation includes brief summary of bibliometric...
Jason Ryan, Richard G. Southwick, Jason Campbell, Kin Cheung, John S. Suehle
We investigate the validity of using frequency-dependent charge pumping (FD-CP) to determine bulk defect depth distributions. Using simple physical arguments we...
Jason Campbell, Serghei Drozdov, Kin Cheung, Richard G. Southwick, Jason Ryan, John S. Suehle, Anthony Oates
In this work, we examine a series resistance extraction technique which yields accurate values from single nano-scale devices. The series resistance values...