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In recent years, substantial research has been devoted to monitoring and predicting performance degradations in real-world complex systems within large entities
Kenneth G. Kroenlein, Chris D. Muzny, Vladimir Diky, Robert D. Chirico, Michael D. Frenkel, E. D. Sloan
To facilitate advances in application of technologies pertaining to gas hydrates, a freely available data resource containing experimentally derived information
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George P. Eppeldauer, Jinan Zeng, Leonard M. Hanssen
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Haruki Kobayashi, Walter G. McDonough, Hae-Jeong Lee, Jae H. Kim, Amanda L. Forster, Kirk D. Rice, Gale A. Holmes
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Dilip K. Banerjee, Emil Simiu, John L. Gross, Raghu N. Kacker
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Rodney A. Bryant, Olatunde B. Sanni, Elizabeth F. Moore, Robert P. Borthwick, Marco G. Fernandez, Iosif I. Shinder, Jiann C. Yang, Aaron N. Johnson
Two series of independent flow measurements were conducted for cross validation of flow velocity in the exhaust duct of the NIST Large Fire Laboratory. In the
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has efforts underway to accelerate the international development of interoperability standards to
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In 2005 the International Standards Organization published ISO/IEC 25062 Common Industry Format (CIF) for Usability Test Reports. This standard focused on
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Nanoparticles are increasingly used in consumer and structural polymeric products to enhance a variety of properties. Under the influences of environmental
AbstractConventional approach to cross-layer network optimization assumes elastic users adjusting their bandwidth requirements in response to the resource
Engineered nanoparticles, such as carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and nanofibers (CNFs) are increasingly being used as fire retardants and performance additives in
As information systems continue to become more complex, the data standards to support them grow in complexity as well. To meet the needs of todays systems, not
We describe Koala, an infrastructure Cloud simulator inspired by the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). We conduct a sensitivity analysis of Koala, revealing
Richard D. Peacock, Bryan L. Hoskins, Erica D. Kuligowski
The time that it takes an occupant population to reach safety when descending a stairwell during building evacuations is typically described by measureable
A Model-Based Enterprise (MBE) is an organization that applies modeling and simulation technologies to integrate and manage its technical and business processes
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There is a world-wide need to standardize terms, test methods, and the computation of performance parameters for devices that generate, measure, and analyze
The properties and performance of the ultra high purity Nb used to fabricate superconducting radio frequency (SRF) particle accelerator cavities have been found
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The paper summarizes the goals and planned activities to be undertaken by the participants in Annex 36. Some background information and status of Annex work
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