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Most types of refrigerating appliances are rated according to an established test procedure and their energy use is regulated by the US Department of energy
This handbook compiles uniform laws and regulations developed by the Committee on Laws and Regulations of the National Conference of Weights and Measures (NCWM)
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) received funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to construct a Net Zero
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Barbara C. Lippiatt, Joshua D. Kneifel, Priya Lavappa, Sangwon Suh, Anne Landfield Greig
Building stakeholders need practical metrics, data, and tools to support decisions related to sustainable building designs, technologies, standards, and codes
The AHU Performance Assessment Rules (APAR) were developed in 2001 and have been implemented as part of a limited number of Fault Detection and Diagnostics (FDD
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The Domain Name System (DNS) is a distributed computing system that enables access to Internet resources by user-friendly domain names rather than IP addresses
Michele M. Schantz, Carissa Powers, Rosemary Schleicher
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and NIHs Office of Dietary
Often, advances in measurement science will enable the development of new product innovations. When trying to estimate the value of the benefits of an advance
Dale P. Bentz, Chiara F. Ferraris, Kenneth A. Snyder
A best practices guide is developed from a synthesis of recent research on high-volume fly ash (HVFA) concrete mixtures. These best practices can be applied by
Michelle K. Donnelly, Daniel M. Madrzykowski, Anthony D. Putorti Jr.
This exploratory set of experiments investigated the impact of external exposure temperatures on Self Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) supply air, and the
To interact with various services in the cloud and to store the data generated/processed by those services, several security capabilities are required. Based on
Fernando L. Podio, Dylan J. Yaga, Christofer J. McGinnis
The latest version of the ANSI/NIST-ITL standard was published in November 2011 (AN-2011). In addition to specifying Record Types in traditional encoding, the
E.K. Michailidou, Marc J. Assael, Marcia L. Huber, Richard A. Perkins
This paper contains new, representative reference equations for the viscosity of n-hexane. The equations are based in part upon a body of experimental data that
Kuldeep R. Prasad, Thomas G. Cleary, Jiann C. Yang
The study of compressed hydrogen release from high-pressure storage systems has practical application for hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. Such releases may