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Conferences

Terminology for High-Speed Sampling-Oscilloscope Calibration

Author(s)
Dylan Williams, Tracy S. Clement, Paul D. Hale, Andrew Dienstfrey
We discuss procedures for calibrating high-speed sampling oscilloscopes at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the terminology associated

Firebrand Production From Burning Vegetation

Author(s)
Samuel L. Manzello, Alexander Maranghides, William E. Mell, Thomas G. Cleary, Jiann C. Yang
A series of real scale fire experiments were performed to determine the size and mass distribution of firebrands generated from Douglas-Fir (pseudotsuga

Advancing Factory-Wide Data Quality for APC Applications

Author(s)
Harvey Wohlwend, Gino Crispieri, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud
Accurate clock synchronization and time stamping plays a significant role in ensuring data quality as the semiconductor industry faces an imminent data

Real-Time Speaker Verification with a Microphone Array

Author(s)
G. Mei, R. Xu, R. Lao, C. Kwan, Vincent M. Stanford
Real-time speaker verification, with speech acquired using the NIST Mk-III microphone array and an autodirective beamforming algorithm, is demonstrated. The

ECBCS Annex 47: Cost-Effective Commissioning Research

Author(s)
Natascha S. Milesi-Ferretti, Hannah Friedman, Marti Frank
In 2005, the Executive Committee of the International Energy Agency s (IEA) Energy Conservation in Buildings and Community Systems (ECBCS) program approved the

Development of a Motion Imagery Quality Metric

Author(s)
J Irvine, Charles D. Fenimore, D Cannon, Donna Haverkamp, John W. Roberts, S Israel, L Simon, J Miller, A Aviles, Michelle Brennan
The motion imagery community would benefit from the availability of standard measures for assessing image interpretability. The National Imagery

Photopatterned Polyelectrolyte Multilayers for Cell Culture

Author(s)
Darwin Reyes-Hernandez, J. Brian Hutchison, Laurie E. Locascio, Michael Gaitan
Patterned two-dimensional cell cultures are increasingly important for constructing bioanalytical tools for cell and molecular biology to address questions

Perspectives on the quantum Zeno paradox

Author(s)
Wayne M. Itano
As of October 2006, there were approximately 535 citations to the seminal 1977 paper of Misra and Sudarshan which pointed out the quantum Zeno paradox (more

A Versatile Gradient Substrate for Biofunctionalization

Author(s)
Nathan D. Gallant, Matthew Becker, Eric J. Amis
NIST has developed numerous platforms for characterizing the physical properties of sample libraries with orthogonal gradients using combinatorial methodologies