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Jan Obrzut, Caglar Dogu Emiroglu, Beatriz A. Pazmino, Jack F. Douglas, Jeffrey W. Gilman
Dielectric permittivity of cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) films was determined using a non-contact resonant cavity perturbation method at 7.3 GHz in quantitative...
Jonathan G. Fiscus, Jerome G. Ajot, John S. Garofolo, George Doddington
This paper presents the first evaluation of Spoken Term Detection technologies, held during the latter part of 2006. Spoken Term Detection systems rapidly...
Richard L. Steiner, David B. Newell, Edwin R. Williams, Ruimin Liu, Pierre Gournay
The project, the Electronic Realization of the Kilogram, has rebuilt the NIST Watt balance, which has been fully operational for nine months. Short-term noise...
Several reference materials and associated reference values have been recommended for the purposes of calibration and/or validation of differential scanning...
In this paper we introduce an approach to construct statistical metrology tools with a Microsoft Excel based interface that use the open source statistical...
Comments on the Draft of Supplement 0 to the Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement (GUM), to be discussed during the April 2007 meeting of...
Jonathan G. Fiscus, Jerome G. Ajot, John S. Garofolo
We present the design and results of the Spring 2007 (RT-07) Rich Transcription Meeting Recognition Evaluation; the fifth in a series of community-wide...
Rainer Stiefelhagen, Keni Bernardin, Rachel J. Bowers, John S. Garofolo, Djamel Mostefa, K Soundararajan
This paper is a summary of the first CLEAR evaluation on CLassification of Events, Activities and Relationships - which took place in early 2006 and concluded...
The wording and placement of instructions can help or hinder voters from successfully voting for their choices. No research has been done specifically on the...
Key comparisons are international inter-laboratory studies used to establish the degree of equivalence between national measurement standards. These studies...
Rachel J. Bowers, Dennis Moellman, John S. Garofolo
The most innovative technology can potentially meet any goals of research sponsors. However, this potential may never materialize if the program lacks...
The investigator is being presented with more data and more types of data to analyze. The investigator cannot work without tools. Tools are needed to acquire...
This work has two objectives. The first objective is to introduce structural engineers to the experiment design technique, whose future applications may include...
Jonathan G. Fiscus, Nicolas Radde, John S. Garofolo, A N. Le, Jerome G. Ajot, Christophe Laprun
This paper presents the design and results of the Rich Transcription Spring 2005 (RT-05S) Meeting Recognition Evaluation. This evaluation is the third in a...
Procedure libraries provide fresh insight into unit conformance testing. The library specification, as an ensemble, offers cost estimates for error discovery...
Aaron Steinfeld, Terrance Fong, David Kaber, Michael Lewis, Jean C. Scholtz, Alan Schultz, Michael Goodrich
This paper describes an effort to identify common metrics for task-oriented human-robot interaction (HRI). We begin by discussing the need for a toolkit of HRI...
Terrance Fong, Illah Nourbakhsh, Robert Ambrose, Reid Simmons, Alan Schultz, Jean C. Scholtz
The Peer-toPeer Human-Robot Interaction (PEP-HRI) project is developing techniques to improve task coordination and collaboration between human and robot...
There is a critical need in the law enforcement community to ensure the reliability of computer forensic tools. A capability is required to ensure that forensic...
Adriana Hornikova, Maritoni A. Litorja, Stefan D. Leigh, J B. Fowler
This paper overviews results from Consultative Committee on Photometry and Radiometry (CCPR) the Supplementary Comparison S2. It details measurement and...
Empirical studies have shown that most software interaction faults involve one or two variables interacting, with progressively fewer triggered by three or more...
Tania Ullah, Dustin Poppendieck, William M. Healy, Arthur H. Fanney, Kevin Y. Teichman
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) designed and built a residence that could generate, through the use of renewable energy systems, the...
Paul Witherell, Ibrahim Assouroko, Roh Byeong-Min, Timothy Simpson, Soundar Kumara
Additive manufacturing (AM) is creating renewed interest in manufacturing thanks to the freedom it provides to design and innovate. One of the biggest...
Krishnanand N. Kaipa, Akshaya S. Kankanhalli-Nagendra, Nithyananda B. Kumbla, Shaurya Shriyam, Srudeep Somnaath Thevendria-Karthic, Jeremy Marvel, Satyandra K. Gupta
We present an approach that enables a robot to initiate a call to a remote human operator and ask help in resolving automated perception system failures during...
Yan Lu, Paul Witherell, Felipe F. Lopez, Ibrahim Assouroko
Software tools, knowledge of materials and process models, and data provide three pillars on which Additive Manufacturing (AM) lifecycles and value chains can...
Mahesh Mani, Karl Haapala, Matteo Smullin, KC Morris
The bottom up demand from consumers for more sustainable products, and the top down need to comply with government regulations motivates manufacturers to adopt...
A simplified framework is introduced for automatically and quickly registering the Cartesian coordinate systems of industrial robots to any other arbitrary...
Moneer M. Helu, Don E. Libes, Joshua Lubell, Kevin W. Lyons, Katherine C. Morris
Smart manufacturing combines advanced manufacturing capabilities and digital technologies throughout the product lifecycle. These technologies can provide...
Zhuo Yang, Douglas Eddy, Sundar Krishnamurty, Ian Grosse, Peter O. Denno, Felipe F. Lopez
Additive manufacturing processes offer significant commercial advantages due to unique and advanced process capabilities. Production of metal parts can involve...
This paper presents an analytical evaluation of the performance of low-GWP refrigerants in a finned-tube evaporator used for residential cooling applications...