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William E. Burr, Donna F. Dodson, Elaine M. Newton, Ray A. Perlner, William T. Polk, Sarbari Gupta, Emad A. Nabbus
This recommendation provides technical guidelines for Federal agencies implementing electronic authentication and is not intended to constrain the development
This interim report summarizes research results to date under the FY2012 interagency agreement between CPSC and NIST to develop testing and measurement
Smokeview is a software tool designed to visualize numerical calculations generated by the Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS), a computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
Smokeview is a software tool designed to visualize numerical calculations generated by fire models such as the Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS), a computational
John M. Libert, Shahram Orandi, Michael D. Garris, John D. Grantham
As part of NISTs investigative efforts to support development of the FBI Next Generation Identification (NGI) systems, this investigation evaluates effects on
Eric D. Simmon, Kyoung-sook Kim, Eswaran Subrahmanian, Ryong Lee, Frederic J. de Vaulx, Yohei Murakami, Koji Zettsu, Ram D. Sriram
A key aspect of the next generation Smart Networked System (SNS) is the bridge between the physical and virtual world. These systems that tightly interlink the
The SI unit of mass, the kilogram, is the only remaining artifact definition in the seven fundamental quantities of the SI system. It will be redefined in terms
Smokeview is a software tool designed to visualize numerical calculations generated by fire models such as the Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS), a computational
This ITL Bulletin summarizes a new ITL publication, NIST Special Publication 800- 83 Revision 1,Guide to Malware Incident Prevention and Handling for Desktops
As sustainability becomes an important issue nowadays, disassembly becomes one of the key processes to turn out-of-service products into new or rebuilt products
The Department of Defense and the National Institute of Standards and Technology held a Model Based Enterprise Summit and Technical Data Package (TDP) Workshop
Michael D. Frenkel, Sergey P. Verevkin, V N. Emel'yanenko, Robert D. Chirico, Vladimir Diky, Chris D. Muzny
A new group-contribution approach involving systematic corrections for 1,4-non-bonded carbon-carbon and carbon-oxygen interactions has been proposed. Limits of
This report provides results and recommendations from the validation testing for the different source configurations and radiation fields produced by special
This publication contains Good Measurement Procedures (GMP), Good Laboratory Procedures (GLP), and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for use in calibration
Loren F. Goodrich, Najib Cheggour, Theodore C. Stauffer, James Filla, Xifeng Lu
We review variable-temperature, transport critical-current (Ic) measurements made on commercial superconductors over a range of critical currents from less than
Elaine B. Barker, Miles Smid, Dennis Branstad, Santosh Chokhani
This Framework for Designing Cryptographic Key Management Systems (CKMS) contains topics that should be considered by a CKMS designer when developing a CKMS
We propose a method to extend the range of polarization entanglement in periodically poled rubidium- doped potassium titanyl phosphate (Rb:KTP) and titanium in
Brian E. Zimmerman, Leticia S. Pibida, Lynne E. King, Denis E. Bergeron, Jeffrey T. Cessna, Matthew M. Mille
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has organized an international comparison to assess Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) image
Ian M. Soboroff, Iadh Ounis, Craig Macdonald, Jimmy Lin
The Microblog track examines search tasks and evaluation methodologies for information seeking behaviors in microblogging environments such as Twitter. It was
This report presents local convective boiling measurements in a micro-fin tube for R134a and two low global warming potential (GWP ) refrigerants: R1234yf/
For structures sensitive to wind directionality, methods for the estimation of wind effects require the use of time series of directional wind speeds covering
This standard practice is intended to aid in the calibration and qualification of fluorescence spectrometers as part of complying with regulatory and other QA
There is a general concern that the US manufacturing industry has lost competitiveness with other nations. Additive manufacturing may provide an important
Jin Chu Wu, Michael W. Halter, Raghu N. Kacker, John T. Elliott, Anne L. Plant
Cell image segmentation is a part of quantitative studies regarding cell movement and cell behavior, and it plays a critical role in molecular biology and
Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) are a kind of ecolabel that discloses the environmental impacts of a product over its life cycle, using the science of
This ITL Bulletin summarizes a new ITL publication, NIST Special Publication 800-40 Revision 3, Guide to Enterprise Patch Management Technologies, which gives
Svetlana Z. Lowry, Mala Ramaiah, Ant Ozok, Ayse P. Gurses, Michael C. Gibbons, David Brick, Emily S. Patterson, Debora Simmons
On April 19, 2013, 47 participants met at the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Baltimore, MD, for a NIST-sponsored full-day EHR