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NIST Pubs

National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP) Common Criteria Testing:

March 1, 2015

Author(s)

Dana S. Leaman

Proceedings of the Measurement Science for Sustainable Construction and Manufacturing Workshop Volume II. Presentations:

March 1, 2015

Author(s)

Bilal Ayyub, Gerald Galloway, Richard Wright

Investigation of Surrogate Smoldering Ignition Sources for Testing Soft Furnishings

March 1, 2015

Author(s)

Richard G. Gann, Morgan Bruns, Amanda Robbins, Edward Hnetkovsky, Michael Ladas

The introduction of cigarette ignition propensity standards has led to a reduction in the availability of high ignition propensity commercial cigarettes. Since...

The NIST Traceable Reference Material Program for Gas Standards

February 26, 2015

Author(s)

William D. Dorko, Michael E. Kelley, Franklin R. Guenther

A program is described by which the concentration of commercially produced gas mixtures may be related to gaseous primary standards or measurement systems...

Infrared Optical Properties of Materials

February 24, 2015

Author(s)

Simon G. Kaplan, Leonard Hanssen, Raju V. Datla

This document describes the Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrophotometry (FTIS) Facility at the Sensor Science Division (SSD) of the National Institute of...

Risk Management for Replication Devices

February 23, 2015

Author(s)

Kelley L. Dempsey, Celia Paulsen

This publication provides guidance on protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information processed, stored, or transmitted on...

Time-Aware Applications, Computers, and Communication Systems (TAACCS)

February 21, 2015

Author(s)

Marc A. Weiss, John Eidson, Charles Barry, David Broman, Bob Iannucci, Edward A. Lee, Kevin Stanton, Sr, Leon Goldin

A new economy built on the massive growth of endpoints on the internet will require precise and verifiable timing in ways that current systems do not support...

Testing Packages of Animal Bedding and Peat Moss with Compressed and Expanded Volume Declarations

February 19, 2015

Author(s)

Kenneth S. Butcher

Proposal for a Test Procedure: Animal Bedding (Bedding), also called pet or stall bedding, litter, or simply bedding is generally sold by dry volume in...

Assessment of First Generation Performance-Based Seismic Design Methods for New Steel Buildings, Volume 1: Special Moment Frames

February 15, 2015

Author(s)

John L. Harris, Matthew S. Speicher

Assessment of First Generation Performance-Based Seismic Design Methods for New Steel Buildings, Volume 2: Special Concentrically Braced Frames

February 15, 2015

Author(s)

John Harris, Matthew Speicher

Assessment of First Generation Performance-Based Seismic Design Methods for New Steel Buildings, Volume 3: Eccentrically Braced Frames

February 15, 2015

Author(s)

John Harris, Matthew Speicher

NIST/NIH Vitamin D Metabolites Quality Assurance Program Report of Participant Results: Summer 2013 Comparability Study(Exercise 7)

February 15, 2015

Author(s)

Mary Bedner, Katrice Lippa, Susan Tai

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has established a Vitamin D Metabolites Quality Assurance Program (VitDQAP) in collaboration with the...

NEURBT: A Program for Computing Neural Networks for Classification using Batch Learning

February 15, 2015

Author(s)

Javier Bernal

NEURBT, a Fortran 77 program for computing neural networks for classification using batch learning, is discussed. NEURBT is based on Mφller's scaled conjugate...

Scaling of Testing Speed for Different Source-to-Detector Distances

February 13, 2015

Author(s)

Bruce R. Norman, Anne L. Sallaska, Leticia Pibida

Several American National Standard Institute/Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (ANSI/IEEE) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)...

(NISTIR 8042) Integrating Electronic Health Records into Clinical Workflow: An Application of Human Factors Modeling Methods to Specialty Care in ‘Obstetrics and Gynecology' and ‘Ophthalmology'

February 10, 2015

Author(s)

Svetlana Z. Lowry, Mala Ramaiah, Emily S. Patterson, Latkany A. Paul, David Brick, Michael C. Gibbons

In this report, a human factors workflow modeling tool, process mapping, was used to visualize and document insights and the end-user needs to improve EHR...

Determination of the compliance of NIST Charpy Impact Machines

February 10, 2015

Author(s)

Enrico Lucon

The compliance of a Charpy impact machine, CM, can be measured by means of a low-blow elastic test on an unnotched Charpy-type specimen, provided an...

Impact Characterization of Line Pipe Steels by Means of Standard, Sub-Size and Miniaturized Charpy Specimens

February 10, 2015

Author(s)

Enrico Lucon, Christopher N. McCowan, Raymond Santoyo

Modern line pipe steels are characterized by a continuously increasing ratio between ductility and mechanical strength, which makes it difficult to interpret...

Impact Characterization of 4340 and T200 Steels by Means of Standard, Sub Size and Miniaturized Charpy Specimens

February 10, 2015

Author(s)

Enrico Lucon, Christopher N. McCowan, Raymond Santoyo

In this investigation, we performed instrumented Charpy tests in order to characterize the impact properties of three steels, used by NIST for the production of...

A Review of Test Methods for Determining Protective Capabilities of Fire Fighter Protective Clothing from Steam

February 5, 2015

Author(s)

Shonali Nazare, Daniel M. Madrzykowski

Primary focus of this paper is to review existing test methods that quantify steam burn injuries and to compare bench-scale test methods that use pre-wetted...

NIST Special Publication 800-88, Revision 1: Guidelines for Media Sanitization

February 5, 2015

Author(s)

Andrew R. Regenscheid, Larry Feldman, Gregory A. Witte

NIST has published an updated version of Special Publication (SP) 800-88, Guidelines for Media Sanitization. SP 800-88 Revision 1 provides guidance to assist...

Report on Pairing-based Cryptography

February 3, 2015

Author(s)

Dustin Moody, Rene Peralta, Ray Perlner, Andrew Regenscheid, Allen Roginsky, Lidong Chen

This report summarizes study results on pairing-based cryptography. The main purpose of the study is to form NIST's position on standardizing and recommending...

NIST Time and Frequency Bulletin

February 2, 2015

Author(s)

Petrina C. Potts

The Time and Frequency Bulletin provides information on performance of time scales and a variety of broadcasts (and related information) to users of the NIST...