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NIST Pubs

Personal Identity Verification (PIV) of Federal Employees and Contractors

September 4, 2013

Author(s)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Hildegard Ferraiolo, David Cooper, Salvatore Francomacaro, Ketan Mehta, Annie W. Sokol

[Superseded by FIPS 201-3 (January 2022) https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=934136] This Standard specifies the architecture and technical...

High Pressure Release and Dispersion of Hydrogen in a Partially Enclosed Compartment : Effect of Natural and Forced Ventilation

September 2, 2013

Author(s)

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...

NIST Time and Frequency Bulletin:

September 1, 2013

Author(s)

Petrina C. Potts

Secure Domain Name System (DNS) Deployment Guide:

September 1, 2013

Author(s)

Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Scott Rose

Energy Performance of the NIST Net Zero Energy Residential Test Facility relative to a Maryland Code-Compliant Design:

September 1, 2013

Author(s)

Joshua Kneifel

Benefits and Costs of Energy Standard Adoption in New Commercial Buildings : State-by-State Summaries:

September 1, 2013

Author(s)

Joshua Kneifel

Evaluation of Energy Consumption Rating Methods for Thermoelectric Wine Chillers and Compact Refrigerators:

September 1, 2013

Author(s)

David A. Yashar, Young-Jin Baik

Recommendations for Specifying Idealized Bust Surrogates for the Testing of Female Stab Resistant Armor:

September 1, 2013

Author(s)

Amanda L. Forster, Kirk D. Rice, Michael A. Riley, Aaron M. Forster

Cryptographic Key Management Issues and Challenges in Cloud Services:

September 1, 2013

Author(s)

Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Michaela Iorga, Santosh Chokhani

Interlaboratory Analytical Comparison Study of Total Fatty Acid Concentrations in Human Serum: Results for Exercise 01: QA12FASER01:

September 1, 2013

Author(s)

Michele M. Schantz, Carissa D. Powers, Rosemary L. Schleicher

Fingerprint Scanner Affordances:

September 1, 2013

Author(s)

Michelle Steves, Brian Stanton, Mary Theofanos, Dana Chisnell, Hannah Wald

Electronic Authentication Guideline

August 29, 2013

Author(s)

William E. Burr, Donna F. Dodson, Elaine M. Newton, Ray Perlner, William 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...

Characterization of Airborne Nanoparticle Released from Consumer Products

August 29, 2013

Author(s)

Li Piin Sung, Joannie W. Chin, Andrew K. Persily

This interim report summarizes research results to date under the FY2012 interagency agreement between CPSC and NIST to develop testing and measurement...

Smokeview (Version 6) - A Tool for Visualizing Fire Dynamics Simulation Data Volume II: Technical Reference Guide

August 28, 2013

Author(s)

Glenn P. Forney

Smokeview is a software tool designed to visualize numerical calculations generated by the Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS), a computational fluid dynamics (CFD)...

Smokeview (Version 6) - A Tool for Visualizing Fire Dynamics Simuliation Data - Volume I: User's Guide

August 28, 2013

Author(s)

Glenn P. Forney

Smokeview is a software tool designed to visualize numerical calculations generated by fire models such as the Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS), a computational...

Effects of Decomposition Levels and Quality Layers with JPEG 2000 Compression of 1000 ppi Fingerprint Images

August 27, 2013

Author(s)

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...

A Vision of Cyber-Physical Cloud Computing for Smart Networked Systems

August 26, 2013

Author(s)

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 new kilogram definition and its implications for high-precision mass tolerance classes

August 26, 2013

Author(s)

Zeina J. Kubarych

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 (Version 6) - A Tool for Visualizing Fire Dynamics Simulation Data Volume III: Verification Guide

August 26, 2013

Author(s)

Glenn P. Forney

Smokeview is a software tool designed to visualize numerical calculations generated by fire models such as the Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS), a computational...

Results from the NIST/NIH Vitamin D Metabolites Quality Assurance Program: Five Years of Comparability Studies

August 24, 2013

Author(s)

Mary Bedner, Katrice Lippa, Susan Tai

Abstract too long to be posted. Attached as a pdf.

ITL Publishes Guidance on Preventing and Handling Malware Incidents

August 22, 2013

Author(s)

Elizabeth B. Lennon

This ITL Bulletin summarizes a new ITL publication, NIST Special Publication 800- 83 Revision 1,Guide to Malware Incident Prevention and Handling for Desktops...

Feature Information Model for Disassembly

August 20, 2013

Author(s)

Shaw C. Feng

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...

Model Based Enterprise Technical Data Package Requirements

August 20, 2013

Author(s)

Simon P. Frechette, Paul J. Huang

The Department of Defense and the National Institute of Standards and Technology held a Model Based Enterprise Summit and Technical Data Package (TDP) Workshop...

Kiloampere, variable-temperature, critical-current measurements of high-field superconductors

August 19, 2013

Author(s)

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...

Report of Special Nuclear Material Validation Measurements for Backpack Type Radiation Detectors

August 19, 2013

Author(s)

Leticia S. Pibida, Christina Ward

This report provides results and recommendations from the validation testing for the different source configurations and radiation fields produced by special...

Selected Procedures for Volumetric Calibrations (2013 Ed)

August 19, 2013

Author(s)

Georgia L. Harris

This publication contains Good Measurement Procedures (GMP), Good Laboratory Procedures (GLP), and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for use in calibration...

New Group-Contribution Approach to Thermochemical Properties of Organic Compounds: Hydrocarbons and Oxygen-Containing Compounds

August 19, 2013

Author(s)

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...

A Framework for Designing Cryptographic Key Management Systems

August 15, 2013

Author(s)

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...

Polarization-Entangled Photon Pairs From Periodically-Poled Crystalline Waveguides Over a Range of Frequencies

August 15, 2013

Author(s)

Zachary Levine, Dylan A. Heberle

We propose a method to extend the range of polarization entanglement in periodically poled rubidium- doped potassium titanyl phosphate (Rb:KTP) and titanium in...

Calibration of traceable solid mock I-131 phantoms used in an international SPECT image quantification comparison

August 15, 2013

Author(s)

Brian Zimmerman, Leticia Pibida, Lynne King, Denis Bergeron, Jeffrey Cessna, Matthew M. Mille

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has organized an international comparison to assess Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) image...

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