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Journals

Innovation in Telehealth and a Role for the Government

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

R N. Spivack

America's healthcare system is regarded as among the world's best. The application of new technologies to medical care has enabled significant progress. However...

The Advanced Technology Program's Evaluation Plan & Progress

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

F A. Moris

The Advanced Technology Program [ATP] partners with U.S. businesses to share the costs of high-risk scientific research aimed at developing enabling...

Robust Estimation of Effect Sizes Using Influence Functions

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

James H. Yen

The estimation of effect sizes is crucial part of meta-analysis. This papers uses influence functions as a fundamental tool in the analysis of estimates of...

Parameter Design for Measurement Protocols by Latent Variable Methods

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

Walter S. Liggett Jr

We present an approach to measurement system parameter design that does not require the values of the experimental units be known. The approach does require...

An Estimate of Effect Size Based on the Mann-Whitney Statistic

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

James H. Yen

Meta analysis, the statistical synthesis of results from several different studies, often involves combining estimates of effect sizefrom several experiments...

Effects of Using Generalized Moving Averages of Stationary Process Data and Their Applications

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

Nien-Fan Zhang

Due to the high frequency sampling of on-line data acquisition systems, most of the on-line data are auto correlated. The autocorrelation of the process data...

A Standard Reporting Format for Summative Usability Evalutations

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

Jean C. Scholtz, Emile L. Morse

Poor usability is an uncontrolled source of overhead, caused by the need for users to correct errors and continually re-learn complex user interfaces. Software...

Assessment of Error Sources in Rockwell Hardness Measurements

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

Walter S. Liggett Jr, Samuel Low, David J. Pitchure, Jun-Feng Song

In the use of hardness test blocks, the uncertainty due to block non-uniformity can be reduced if one is willing to make measurements at specified locations on...

Review of Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

D L. Banks, M Levenson

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Measurement Reliability in the Early States of Biomarker Development

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

Walter S. Liggett Jr, Peter E. Barker, J Semmes

Analytical instruments with functional responses such as SELDI-TOF mass spectra offer a basis for biomarker development. This paper describes an approach to...

A Biometric Application Programming Interface Industry Standard - Benefits for the Users and The Enterprise

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

Fernando L. Podio, J S. Dunn

This paper defines biometrics technologies and states that these technologies are ideally suited to provide highly secure identification and personal...

Finite Element Modeling of Hybrid Polymer Composite Beams

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

Hai C. Tang, Tze J. Chuang, Tinh Nguyen, Joannie W. Chin, Hanchang F. Wu

Fiber-reinforced polymeric composites provide lightweight, high strength, and corrosive resistance to severe environmental exposures. These composites have been...

On the Asymplotic Distribution of Sums of Independent Nonidentically Distributed Pareto Variates

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

Robert Hagwood

The sum of independent Pareto random variables with varying parameters are shown to converge to a stable distribution. This extends a result of Blum for i.i.d...

On-Line Process Control

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

Raghu N. Kacker, Nien-Fan Zhang

The natural state of manufacturing and measurement processes is usually nonstationary. The methods of statistical process control (SPC) are therefore...

Kinetic Simulations of Crystal Growth With (Nearly) Realistic Physics

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

J L. Blue

Many kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of expitaxial crystal growth have been done using a simple cubic crystal structure and over-simplified physics. We discuss...

Trimmed Weighted Means

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

James H. Yen

In many situations, weighted means can achieve much lower variances than unweighted means by placing more weight on those observations that are more precise...

Measurement and Evaluation: HCI Research in the Information Technology Lab at NIST

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

Sharon J. Laskowski

In this overview, we describe human computer interaction (HCI) research taking place in the Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of...

A Bayesian Approach to Gas Chromatography Calibration and Prediction for Multiple Laboratory Experiments With Co-Extracted Material

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

D Malec, Blaza Toman

Dynamics of DNA Through a Nanopore

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

Robert Hagwood

Single stranded DNA is modeled as a flexible polymer. The motion of such DNA in a vessel partitioned by a membrane containing a cylindrical nanopore is modeled...

Automatic Generation of Two Classes of Semantic Hypertext Link

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

John M. Tebbutt

Two approaches to the automatic generation of hypertext undertaken at the National Institute of Standards and Technology are reviewed. The first uses...

A Method to Quantify Uncertainty Due to Bias in Chemical Analyses

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

Raghu N. Kacker

A widely accepted approach to assure that the certified property of a chemical reference material is independent of the method of analysis is to analyze by two...

Why and When Should One Calibrate a Measurement System

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

Raghu N. Kacker

A measurement without its uncertainty is not adequate. The stated uncertainty ceases to be valid when the measurement system goes out of calibration. A...

Data Mining Electron Microscope Images to Estimate a Particle Size Distribution

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

Walter S. Liggett Jr, Robert A. Fletcher

The application considered involves density estimation, spatial prediction, and sizing error. The goal is estimation of a particle size distribution; the data...

MCMC in StRD

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

Hung-Kung Liu, William F. Guthrie, D Malec, Grace L. Yang

The numerical inaccuracies caused by floating point arithmetic, although often not important, can change the conclusions of an analysis. Computational accuracy...

Self-Synchronizing Ergodic Maps and Chaotic Modulation

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

D G. Sterling

Self-synchronizing chaotic systems can be used as synchronous pseudo-random sequence generators, though physical applications have been limited by the...

Estimating the Variance of the Graybill-Deal Estimator of a Common Mean

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

Nien-Fan Zhang

An Element of Physical Reality on the Choice of Measurement Basis

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

David Song

It is shown that the choice of measurement basis where entangled systems are measured in cannot be local elements of reality. Two distant parties share...

Improving Weighting Schemes: Experiences Using Pivoted Document Length Normalization

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

Darrin L. Dimmick, M P. Smith

Today's state of the art information retrieval document ranking functions contain several tuning parameters. The proper settings for these parameters for a...

Evidence for Electrical Spin Injection Into Silicon

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

Cindi L. Dennis, J F. Gregg, G J. Ensell, S M. Thompson

Electrical spin injection into silicon was studied in a ferromagnet/insulator/silicon/insulator/ferromagnet structure, where the insulator is Si3N4. Si3N4...

New Method for Modeling Connective-Tissue Cell Migration: Improved Accuracy on Motility Parameters

October 16, 2008

Author(s)

Matt J. Kipper, Hynda K. Kleinman, Francis W. Wang

Mathematical models of cell migration based on persistent random walks have been successfully applied to describe the motility of many cell types. However, the...

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