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Conferences

Comparison of Registration Methods for Mobile Manipulators

Author(s)
Roger V. Bostelman, Roger Eastman, Tsai H. Hong, Omar Aboul-Enein, Steven A. Legowik, Sebti Foufou
Mobile manipulators can be effective, efficient and flexible for automation on the factory floor but will need safety and performance standards for wide...

Results of The 2015 NIST Language Recognition Evaluation

Author(s)
Hui Zhao, Desire Banse, G R. Doddington, Craig Greenberg, Audrey N. Tong, John M. Howard, Alvin F. Martin, Jaime Hernandez-Cordero, Lisa Mason, Douglas A. Reynolds, Elliot Singer
In 2015, NIST conducted the most recent in an ongoing series of Language Recognition Evaluations (LRE) meant to foster research in language recognition. The...

Broadband Radiometric LED Measurements

Author(s)
George P. Eppeldauer, P. Yvonne Barnes, Howard W. Yoon, Leonard Hanssen, Vyacheslav B. Podobedov, Robert E. Vest, Uwe Arp, C Cameron Miller
At present, broadband radiometric measurements of LEDs with uniform and low-uncertainty results are not available. Currently, either spectral radiometric...

INVESTIGATION OF URBAN ROCK VARNISH ON THE SANDSTONE OF THE SMITHSONIAN CASTLE

Author(s)
Richard A Livingston, Carol A. Grissom, Edward Vicenzi, Zoe Weldon-Yochim, Nicole Little, Janet Douglas, Alexandre Fowler, Cara Santelli, Dorothea Macholdt, Diana Ortiz-Montalvo, Stephanie S. Watson
Bluish black, highly adherent patches have been observed growing on the Seneca sandstone of the Smithsonian Castle in Washington, DC. They are significantly...

Inhibition of DNA glycosylases in development of cancer therapeutics

Author(s)
M Miral Dizdar, Pawel Jaruga, Erdem Coskun, Marcus J. Calkins, Nathan Donley, Dorjbal Dorjsuren, Anton Simeonov, Amanda K. McCullough, R S. Lloyd, Ajit Jadhav
In cancer therapy, the efficacy of therapeutic agents may be influenced by increased DNA repair capacity. This may be due to overexpression of DNA repair...

Results of the 2006 Spoken Term Detection Evaluation

Author(s)
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...

The NIST Project for the Electronic Realization of the Kilogram

Author(s)
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...

Open-Source Excel Tools For Statistical Metrology

Author(s)
Hung-Kung Liu, William F. Guthrie, Juan Soto
In this paper we introduce an approach to construct statistical metrology tools with a Microsoft Excel based interface that use the open source statistical...

JCGM-WG1-SCO-N13 -- Comments

Author(s)
Antonio M. Possolo
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...

The CLEAR 2006 Evaluation

Author(s)
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...

Making Ballot Language Understandable to Voters

Author(s)
Sharon J. Laskowski, Janice G. Redish
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...
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