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NIST is a designating authority under two government-to-government agreements on the mutual recognition of conformity assessment results in regulated sectors
The NDRL/NIST Solution Kinetics Database includes chemical kinetic data for free radical processes involving primary radicals from water, inorganic radicals
The database of materials properties provides evaluated property data for high temperature superconductors.The range of materials covers the many series of
Promotes uniformity for over 750 state and local jurisdictions in weights and measures standards, laws, and practices to facilitate trade and protect U.S
The NIST Technicalendar is a weekly listing of Meetings at NIST, Meetings Elsewhere, Talks by NIST Personnel, and Announcements of interest to NIST Technical
This brief presentation discusses the topics of Traceability and measurement uncertainty and how these concepts are implemented in the laboratory accreditation
This publication is an address and telephone directory of Weights and Measures Officials in the United States and all members of the National Conference on
The NIST database of supplemental fingerprint card data provides a larger sample of fingerprint patterns that have a low natural frequency of occurrence and
Special Database 19 contains NIST's entire corpus of training materials for handprinted document and character recognition. It publishes Handprinted Sample
The article explains the legal foundation and current relevance of the clause in the U.S. Constitution authorizing Congress to fix the standards of weights and
The process for making a NIST Standard Reference Material involves a program of ongoing research followed by specific development and production steps. The
COR SUR for Windows is a complete revision of the COR SUR and COR SUR2 (DOS) programs and their companion volumes, Corrosion Data Survey, Metals and Nonmetals
The Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data (JPCRD), a joint venture of the AmericanInstitute of Physics and the National Institute of Standards and
NIST Special Database 24 contains MPEG-2 (Moving Picture Experts Group) compressed digital video oflive-scan fingerprint data. The database is being distributed
Makes reliable scientific and technical data available to researchers, engineers and many other users. The program generates sets of critically evaluated data
The scientific information revolution comes from the conjunction of changes in science itself with the rapid increase of computer and telecommunications power
This database is a valuable tool for measurement and comparison of system performance on machine-print pages.The NIST machine-printed database contains gray
H Rodriguez, T R. O'Connor, H H. Chen, S M. Dai, S D. Flanagan, G P. Holmquist, S A. Akman, A D. Riggs
Analytical techniques including mass spectrometry have proven invaluable for the detection of DNA adducts, but these methods do not map the squence context
Voluntary standards, developed through a private-sector led consensus process, create substantial value for Federal agencies in the conduct of regulatory
The descendants of Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler have loaned a collection of the first Coast Survey Superintendent's personal instruments to the National Institute
The OSS' Technical Standards Activities Program (TSAP) manages responsibilities assigned to NIST under the Fastener Quality Act (FQA) of 1990. Fasteners are a
Different approaches to the philosophy and description of measurement have evolved over time, and are still evolving. There is not always a clear demarcation
This database is a valuable tool for evaluating fingerprint systems on a statistical sample of fingerprints which is evenly distributed over the five major
Version 2.1 of this PC Windows(TM)-based CD-ROM package provides improved access to the well-known and widely distributed Phase Equilibria Diagrams Database
A NIST-Developed pryoelectric radiometer was characterized and calibrated to extend the NIST high accuracy spectral responsively scale from the visible range to
This set of 12 audio disks and one CD-ROM produced by the National Telecommunications and InformationAdministration's Institute for Telecommunication Sciences
NIST Special Database 18 is being distributed for use in development and testing of automated mugshot identification systems. The database consists of three CD