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NIST Pubs

Persistent Organic Pollutants and Vitamins in Northern Fur Seals (Callorhinus ursinus) Collected from St. Paul Island, Alaska as Part of the Alaska Marine Mammal Tissue Archival Project

Author(s)
John Kucklick, Jessica Reiner, Michele M. Schantz, Jennifer Lynch, Jennifer Hoguet, Kate Rimmer, Rebecca Pugh, Jody Rhoderick, Jennifer Ness, Paul R. Becker, Danielle Peterson
Liver and blubber samples from 50 juvenile male northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus) were collected on St. Paul Island from four different seal rookeries

NIST Ontological Visualization Interface for Standards: User’s Guide

Author(s)
David J. Lechevalier, Anantha Narayanan Narayanan, Katherine C. Morris, Sean Reidy, Sudarsan Rachuri
The NIST Ontological Visualization Interface for Standards (NOVIS) was developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to provide an

Guide to Enterprise Patch Management Technologies

Author(s)
Murugiah P. Souppaya, Karen Scarfone
Patch management is the process for identifying, acquiring, installing, and verifying patches for products and systems. Patches correct security and

Computer Security Division 2012 Annual Report

Author(s)
Patrick D. O'Reilly
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

NIST Cloud Computing Standards Roadmap

Author(s)
Annie W. Sokol, Michael D. Hogan
NIST has been designated by the Federal Chief Information Officer (CIO) to accelerate the federal government’s secure adoption of cloud computing by leading

Digital Signature Standard (DSS)

Author(s)
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Elaine Barker
This Standard specifies a suite of algorithms that can be used to generate a digital signature. Digital signatures are used to detect unauthorized modifications

Biometric Specifications for Personal Identity Verification

Author(s)
Patrick J. Grother, Wayne J. Salamon, Ramaswamy Chandramouli
Homeland Security Presidential Directive HSPD-12, Policy for a Common Identification Standard for Federal Employees and Contractors [HSPD-12], called for new

IREX VI - Temporal Stability of Iris Recognition Accuracy

Author(s)
Patrick J. Grother, James R. Matey, Elham Tabassi, George W. Quinn, Michael Chumakov
Background: Stability is a required definitional property for a biometric to be useful. Quantitative statements of stability are operationally important as they

IREX IV: Part 1, Evaluation of Iris Identification Algorithms

Author(s)
George W. Quinn, Patrick J. Grother, Mei L. Ngan, James R. Matey
IREX IV aims to provide a fair and balanced scientific evaluation of the performance of automated iris recognition algorithms. IREX IV evaluated the performance
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