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Roger V. Bostelman, Tsai H. Hong, Elena R. Messina
U.S. and European safety standards have evolved to protect workers near Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV's). However, only recently performance standards have...
PRES, the Patent Retrieval Evaluation Score, is a family of retrieval system evaluation measures that combines recall and user effort to better reflect the...
Michael R. Souryal, Mudumbai Ranganathan, John Mink, Naceur A. El Ouni
This paper describes the implementation and evaluation of a real-time, centralized spectrum monitoring and alert system. Such a system can be used to support...
The human behavior in fire field is founded by and has deep roots within the field of fire protection engineering. Extensive research and efforts have been...
Kathryn Butler, Susanne M. Furman, Erica D. Kuligowski
The Final Report on the collapse of the World Trade Center (WTC) Towers recommended that tall buildings be designed for timely full-building evacuations from...
The purpose of this article is to introduce a conceptual model of human behaviour in fire. This model is constructed based upon a theoretical framework of...
Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) are three-dimensional coordination polymers that are well known for large pore surface area and their ability to adsorb...
Chiao-Chi Lin, Yadong Lyu, Donald L. Hunston, Jae Hyun Kim, Kai-Tak Wan, Deborah S. Jacobs, Xiaohong Gu
The channel crack and delamination phenomena that occurred during tensile tests were utilized to study surface cracking and delamination properties of a...
The Net Zero Energy Residential Test Facility (NZERTF) was constructed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to support the development...
Superconducting electronics is an established technological field for sensors, quantum computation and quantum-based standards and is emerging as an important...
The distance over which the resolution of a microscope image changes appreciably, related to the depth of field, is an important parameter. This value...
Indoor carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations have played a role in discussions of ventilation & indoor air quality (IAQ) since the 18th century. Those discussions...
Here we employ an analytical electron scattering model to show that the decrease in ADF t-SEM contrast of gold nanoparticles on carbon films is consistent with...
Steven W. Brown, Mark A. Schwarz, Craig J. Kent, Robert Bousquet
This work describes the development of an improved vacuum compatible flat plate radiometric source used for characterizing and calibrating remote optical...
Robust geometry and tolerance representations are needed in additive manufacturing for precise part specification and interoperability with downstream...
Erdem Coskun, Pawel Jaruga, Leona D. Scanlan, Alessandro Tona, Mark S. Lowenthal, Prasad T. Reddy, M Miral Dizdar, Ann-Sofie Jemth, Olga Loseva, Thomas Helleday
Accurate measurement of DNA repair proteins in cancer tissues is becoming more important due to the individual and origin based expression differences in cancer...
Random numbers are essential for cryptography. In most real-world systems, these values come from a cryptographic pseudorandom number generator (PRNG), which in...
Design rules in additive manufacturing (AM) can help ensure manufacturability, which can be viewed as compatibility between designs and the fabrication...
Alvin F. Martin, Craig S. Greenberg, John M. Howard, Desire Banse, G R. Doddington, Jaime Hernandez-Cordero, Lisa Mason
We discuss two NIST coordinated evaluations of automatic language recognition technology planned for calendar year 2015 along with possible additional plans for...
Desire Banse, G R. Doddington, Craig Greenberg, John M. Howard, Alvin F. Martin, Daniel Garcia-Romero, John J. Godfrey, Jaime Hernandez-Cordero, Lisa Mason, Alan McCree, Douglas A. Reynolds
In late 2013 and 2014, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) coordinated an i-vector challenge utilizing data from previous NIST Speaker...
For many shape analysis problems in computer vision and scientific imaging (e.g., computational anatomy, morphological cytometry), the ability to align two...
Martin Sohn, Bryan Barnes, Hui Zhou, Richard Silver
Optical microscope tool characterization has been investigated for the quantitative measurements of deep sub-wavelength features using a Fourier plane...
There is a growing interest in the science and user community in the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Day/Night Band (DNB) low light detection...
Traditionally used source spectral-distribution or detector spectral-response based standards cannot be applied for accurate UV LED measurements. Since the CIE...
George P. Eppeldauer, Thomas Larason, Robert Vest, Uwe Arp, Howard Yoon
Since the CIE standardized rectangular-shape spectral response function for the 320 nm to 400 nm wavelength range can be realized only with large spectral...
Service-oriented manufacturing systems need to be supported by formal reference models for effective service description, discovery, and composition. A...
Aric W. Sanders, Jaevyn Faulk, Devin T. Edwards, Thomas T. Perkins
In addition to providing the ability to image on the nanoscale, atomic force microscopy (AFM) has the ability to measure small (pN) forces at a single point...
Dynamic calibration of force transducers using sinusoidal acceleration of load mass objects requires the accurate determination of the displacement field in...