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NIST Pubs

Examination of Downsampling Strategies for Converting 1000 ppi Fingerprint Imagery to 500 ppi

January 22, 2013

Author(s)

Shahram Orandi, John M. Libert, John D. Grantham, Lepley Margaret, Bruce Bandini, Kenneth Ko, Lindsay M. Petersen, Stephen S. Wood, Stephen G. Harvey

Currently the bulk of fingerprint data in operational is captured, processed and stored at 500 ppi using the WSQ compressed digital format. With the transition

Survey Report for Ambulance Patient Compartment Design

January 22, 2013

Author(s)

Allison Barnard Feeney, Deogratias Kibira, Yung-Tsun T. Lee, Jennifer L. Marshall

NIST conducted a survey (Office of Management and Budget, Control No. 1090-0007) of the emergency medical services (EMS) professionals in December 2011. The

Flow Control in Time-Varying, Random Supply Chains

January 22, 2013

Author(s)

Ion Matei

Today�s supply chains are more and more complex. They depend on a network of independent, yet interconnected moving parts. They rely on critical infrastructures

SRM Catalog

January 18, 2013

Author(s)

Regina R. Montgomery

SRM Catalog

NIST Time and Frequency Bulletin

January 18, 2013

Author(s)

Petrina C. Potts

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

A Primer on Koreas Standards System: Standardization, Conformity Assessment, and Metrology

January 18, 2013

Author(s)

Dong G. Choi

NIST, in particular the Standards Services Group (SSG) of the Standards Coordination Office (SCO), provides standards-related expertise and services to

Weathering Patterns of Ignitable Liquids with the Advanced Distillation Curve Method

January 17, 2013

Author(s)

Samuel Allen, Thomas J. Bruno

One can take advantage of the striking similarity of ignitable liquid vaporization (or weathering) patterns and the separation observed during distillation to

Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) Version 1.2 Validation Program Test Requirements

January 16, 2013

Author(s)

John F. Banghart, Melanie R. Cook, Stephen Quinn, David A. Waltermire, Andrew Bove

[Superseded by NISTIR 7511 Rev. 4 (January 2016): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=919713] This report defines the requirements and

Development of NIST Measurement Science R&D Roadmap: Earthquake Risk Reduction in Buildings

January 15, 2013

Author(s)

John Hooper, William Holmes, Jack Moehle, C.B. Crouse, Robert Pekelnicky, James Harris

This report has been prepared by the Building Seismic Safety Council (BSSC) of the National Institute of Building Sciences to assist the National Institute of

Alternative methods of latent fingerprint enhancement and metrics for comparing them

January 14, 2013

Author(s)

Alfred S. Carasso

Digital enhancements of latent fingerprints using Photoshop processing is the preferred methodology among law enforcement forensic experts. This report explores

Measurement of Scattering and Absorption Cross Sections of Dyed Microspheres

January 14, 2013

Author(s)

Adolfas Gaigalas, Steven J. Choquette

Measurements of absorbance and fluorescence emission were carried out on aqueous suspensions of polystyrene (PS) microspheres with a diameter of 2.5 µm

Critically Evaluated Energy Levels and Spectral Lines of Singly Ionized Indium (In II)

January 14, 2013

Author(s)

Alexander Kramida

A comprehensive list of the best measured wavelengths in the In II spectrum has been compiled. Uncertainties of the wavelength measurements have been analyzed

Framework for Addressing the National Wildland Urban Interface Fire Problem--Determining Fire and Ember Exposure Zones Using a WUI Hazard Scale (NISTTN 1748)

January 14, 2013

Author(s)

Alexander Maranghides, William Mell

WUI fires offer a unique challenge to the fire fighting and fire protection engineering communities. The scale of the events can be vast, spanning in many cases

Extended Feature Set Profile Specification

January 14, 2013

Author(s)

Melissa Taylor, Will Chapman, Austin Hicklin, George Kiebuzinski, John Mayer-Splain, Rachel Wallner, Peter Komarinski

This specification defines Extended Feature Set (EFS) Profiles - sets of features to be used in latent friction ridge (fingerprint, palmprint or plantar)

Measurement of Scattering and Absorption Cross Sections of Microspheres for Wavelengths between 240 nm and 800 nm

January 10, 2013

Author(s)

Lili Wang, Steven J. Choquette, Adolfas Gaigalas

A commercial spectrometer with a 150 mm integrating sphere (IS) detector was used to measure the scattering and absorption cross sections of polystyrene

Video-based Face Recognition via Joint Sparse Representation

January 2, 2013

Author(s)

P J. Phillips, Vishal M. Patel, Yi-Chen Chen, Rama Chellappa

In video-based face recognition, a key challenge is in exploiting the extra information available in a video. In addition, different video sequences of the same

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:

January 1, 2013

Author(s)

John Kucklick, Jessica Reiner, Michele Schantz, Jennifer Keller, Jennifer Hoguet, Catherine Rimmer, Tamika Ragland, Rebecca Pugh, Amanda Moors, Jody Rhoderick, Jennifer Ness, Danielle Peterson, Paul Becker