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Re-Certification of SRM 2492: Bingham Paste Mixture for Rheological Measurements

August 25, 2015

Author(s)

Chiara F. Ferraris, Alex Olivas, William F. Guthrie, Blaza Toman

Rheological measurements are often performed using a rotational rheometer. In this type of rheometer, the tested fluid is sheared between two surfaces, one of...

Investigation of PMU Response to Leap Second: 2015

August 24, 2015

Author(s)

Allen R. Goldstein, Dhananjay Anand, YaShian Li-Baboud

Between 22:30:00 June 30, 2015, and 00:30:00 July 2, 2015, UTC, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) tested eight Phasor Measurement Units...

gtklogger: A Tool For Systematically Testing Graphical User Interfaces

August 20, 2015

Author(s)

Stephen A. Langer, Faical Y. Congo, Andrew C. Reid, Rhonald Lua, Valerie R. Coffman

We describe a scheme for systematically testing the operation of a graphical user interface. The scheme provides a capability for generating event logs, which...

Computer Security Division 2014 Annual Report

August 20, 2015

Author(s)

Patrick D. O'Reilly, Gregory A. Witte, Larry Feldman

Title III of the E-Government Act of 2002, entitled the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) of 2002, requires NIST to prepare an annual public...

Technical Basis for User Interface Design of Health IT

August 17, 2015

Author(s)

Michael E. Wiklund, Jonathan Kendler, Limor Hochberg, Matthew B. Weinger

This document is intended to help EHR developers plan and implement a user-centered design for their EHR systems. It includes user interface design principles...

Long-Term Stability of One-Inch Condenser Microphones Calibrated at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

August 17, 2015

Author(s)

Randall P. Wagner, William F. Guthrie

The devices calibrated most frequently by the acoustical measurement services at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) over the 50-year...

Recommendation for Random Number Generation Using Deterministic Random Bit Generators

August 13, 2015

Author(s)

Elaine B. Barker, Larry Feldman, Gregory A. Witte

This bulletin summarizes the information presented in NIST SP 800-90A, Revision 1. The publication specifies mechanisms for the generation of random bits using...

Reference Correlations of the Thermal Conductivity of Cyclopentane, iso-Pentane, and n-Pentane

August 13, 2015

Author(s)

Cristina M. Vassiliou, Marc J. Assael, Marcia L. Huber, Richard A. Perkins

New, wide range reference equations for the thermal conductivity of cyclopentane, iso-pentane and n-pentane are presented. The equations are based in part upon...

Calibration of Cryogenic Resistance Thermometers between 0.65 K and 165 K on the International Temperature Scale of 1990

August 11, 2015

Author(s)

Weston L. Tew

Calibrations of cryogenic resistance thermometers at NIST are performed by comparison to standard thermometers on the International Temperature Scale of 1990...

Reference Correlation of the Viscosity of Toluene from the Triple Point to 675 K and up to 500 MPa

August 6, 2015

Author(s)

S. Avgeri, Marc J. Assael, Marcia L. Huber, Richard A. Perkins

This paper contains new, representative reference equations for the viscosity of toluene. The equations are based in part upon a body of experimental data that...

Results of barrier fabrics tested in an inverted configuration

August 5, 2015

Author(s)

Rick D. Davis, Shonali Nazare, Szabolcs Matko, William M. Pitts, Mauro Zammarano

The document will be used to facilitate discussions between California Bureau of Electronics and Appliance Repair, Home Furnishings, and Thermal Insulation...

SHA-3 Standard: Permutation-Based Hash and Extendable-Output Functions

August 4, 2015

Author(s)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Morris J. Dworkin

This Standard specifies the Secure Hash Algorithm-3 (SHA-3) family of functions on binary data. Each of the SHA-3 functions is based on an instance of the...

Secure Hash Standard

August 4, 2015

Author(s)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Quynh Dang

This standard specifies hash algorithms that can be used to generate digests of messages. The digests are used to detect whether messages have been changed...

Protocols for Accelerating Laboratory Weathering and Measurements of Degradation of Polymer-Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube Composites

August 3, 2015

Author(s)

Li Piin Sung, Tinh Nguyen

Polymer nanocomposites containing multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) are increasingly or potentially will be used in many large-volume industries. These...

Community Resilience Workshop February 18-19, 2015:

August 1, 2015

Author(s)

David R. Mizzen

Community Resilience Workshop: Release of Draft Community Resilience Planning Guide for Public Comment April 27, 2015:

August 1, 2015

Author(s)

David R. Mizzen

Re-Certification of SRM 2492: Bingham Paste Mixture for Rheological Measurements:

August 1, 2015

Author(s)

Alex Olivas, Chiara F Ferraris, William F Guthrie, Blaza Toman

Protocols for Accelerating Laboratory Weathering and Measurements of Degradation of Polymer-Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube Composites:

August 1, 2015

Author(s)

Li Piin Sung, Tinh Nguyen

Investigation of PMU Response to Leap Second: 2015:

August 1, 2015

Author(s)

Allen Goldstein, Dhananjay Anand, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud

Guidelines for the Authorization of Personal Identity Verification Card Issuers (PCI) and Derived PIV Credential Issuers (DPCI)

July 30, 2015

Author(s)

Hildegard Ferraiolo, Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Nabil Ghadiali, Jason Mohler, Scott Shorter

The purpose of this Special Publication is to provide appropriate and useful guidelines for assessing the reliability of issuers of Personal Identity...

Simulated Sinewave Testing of DataAcquisition Systems using SineFitting and Discrete Fourier Transform Methods Part 1: Frequency Offset, Random, Quantization, and Jitter Noise

July 30, 2015

Author(s)

Jon C. Geist, Muhammad Y. Afridi

This report studies the effect of frequency offset, quantization error, random additive noise, and random phase jitter on the results of sine fitting and...

Stable explicit time marching in well-posed or ill-posed nonlinear parabolic equations.

July 27, 2015

Author(s)

Alfred S. Carasso

This paper analyzes an effective technique for stabilizing pure explicit time differencing in the numerical computation of multidimensional nonlinear parabolic...

Systematic Measurement of Marginal Mark Types on Voting Ballots

July 24, 2015

Author(s)

Andrea V. Bajcsy, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud, Mary C. Brady

The presence of marginal marks on voting ballots is a ubiquitous problem in voting systems and it is a common source of dispute during federal and state-level...

Development of an Ultra-Pure, Carrier-Free 209Po Solution Standard

July 23, 2015

Author(s)

Ronald Colle, Ryan P. Fitzgerald, Lizbeth Laureano-Perez

Ultra-pure, carrier-free 209Po solution standards have been prepared and standardized for their massic alpha-particle emission rate. The standards, which will...

Improved Security and Mobility Through Updated Interfaces for PIV Cards

July 21, 2015

Author(s)

Hildegard Ferraiolo, Larry Feldman, Gregory A. Witte

This bulletin summarizes the information presented in NIST SP 800-73-4: Interfaces for Personal Identity Verification and NIST SP 800-78-4: Cryptographic...

Proceedings of the Workshop on the Determination of the Fundamental Constants

July 17, 2015

Author(s)

Donald R. Burgess Jr.

In this editorial, we will provide a brief synopsis of the proceedings of the 2015 Workshop on the Determination of the Fundamental Constants, a broad overview...

Indoor Environmental Resilience: White Paper

July 16, 2015

Author(s)

Andrew K. Persily, Steven J. Emmerich

NIST is developing a framework to define programs and strategies to increase community-based resilience in the face of a broad range of natural disasters and...

A simple and fast spline filtering algorithm for surface metrology

July 14, 2015

Author(s)

Hao H. Zhang, Daniel B. Ott, Jun-Feng Song, D Ott, Wei Chu

The spline filters and the corresponding robust filters are commonly used filters recommended in ISO standards for surface evaluation. Generally, these linear...

Interference and Coexistence of Wireless Systems in Critical Infrastructure

July 7, 2015

Author(s)

Galen H. Koepke, William F. Young, John M. Ladbury, Jason B. Coder

We examine interference and coexistence testing issues, test methods, and the need to update and develop new test methodologies related to the use of wireless...

Software Tools for XML to OWL Translation

July 7, 2015

Author(s)

Thomas Kramer, Benjamin H. Marks, Craig I. Schlenoff, Stephen B. Balakirsky, Zeid Kootbally, Anthony Pietromartire

This paper describes a set of closely related C++ software tools for manipulating XML (eXtensible Markup Language) schemas and XML instance files and...

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