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NIST Pubs

NIST Customer Demographics: Calibrations

Author(s)
Nicole K. Gingrich, Isaac S. Patterson
This economic analysis brief summarizes the efforts and results of the data collection and analysis of NIST's calibration customer information. Summary

NIST Customer Demographics: Patent Licenses

Author(s)
Nicole K. Gingrich, Isaac S. Patterson
This economic analysis brief summarizes the efforts and results of the data collection and analysis of NIST's patent licensee information. Summary statistics

Manufacturing USA Annual Report, FY 2017

Author(s)
Michael F. Molnar
As required by the Revitalize American Manufacturing and Innovation Act of 2014, this report describes the major accomplishments of Manufacturing USA in FY17.

Guidance for Evaluating Contactless Fingerprint Acquisition Devices

Author(s)
John M. Libert, John D. Grantham, Bruce Bandini, Stephen S. Wood, Michael D. Garris, Kenneth Ko, Frederick R. Byers, Craig I. Watson
This document details efforts undertaken by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop measurements and a protocol for the evaluation

NIST Micronutrients Measurement Quality Assurance Program: Spring and Fall 1986 Comparability Studies Results for Round Robins VII and VIII Fat Soluble Vitamins and Carotenoids in Human Serum

Author(s)
Jeanice M. Brown Thomas, David L. Duewer, Margaret C. Kline, Neal Craft, Fillmer Ruegg, Emil Schonberger, Robert Schaffer, Robert Paule
From 1984 to 2017, the National Institute of Standards and Technology coordinated the Micronutrients Measurement Quality Assurance Program (MMQAP) for

Securing Electronic Health Records on Mobile Devices

Author(s)
Gavin W. O'Brien, Nate V. Lesser, Brett Pleasant, Sue Wang, Kangmin Zheng, Colin Bowers, Kyle Kamke
Health care providers increasingly use mobile devices to receive, store, process, and transmit patient clinical information. According to our own risk analysis,

NIST Special Database 301: Nail to Nail Fingerprint Challenge Dry Run

Author(s)
Gregory P. Fiumara, Patricia A. Flanagan, Matthew Schwarz, Elham Tabassi, Christopher Boehnen
In April 2017, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) held a dry run for the data collection portion of its Nail to Nail (N2N) Fingerprint