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Characterization of Airborne Nanoparticle Releases from Consumer Products

February 6, 2013

Author(s)

Andrew K. Persily, Michael Magee, Dong H. Rim

This letter report provides a project update reflecting the activities to date under the FY2012 interagency agreement between CPSC and NIST to develop testing...

Markup Instructions for Extended Friction Ridge Features

February 5, 2013

Author(s)

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

This document provides instructions for latent print examiners in marking friction ridge features to maximize consistency among examiners. This document builds...

Latent Interoperability Transmission Specification

February 5, 2013

Author(s)

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

The Latent Interoperability Transmission Specification (LITS) is an application profile of the American National Standards Institute/National Institute of...

Report on the Static Analysis Tool Exposition (SATE) IV

February 4, 2013

Author(s)

Vadim Okun, Aurelien M. Delaitre, Paul E. Black

The NIST SAMATE project conducted the fourth Static Analysis Tool Exposition (SATE IV) to advance research in static analysis tools that find security defects...

NIST Time and Frequency Bulletin:

February 1, 2013

Author(s)

Petrina C. Potts

Standard Reference Materials(R) User's Guide for RM 8096 and 8097: The MEMS 5-in-1, 2013 Edition:

February 1, 2013

Author(s)

Janet M. Cassard, Jon Geist, Theodore V. Vorburger, David T. Read, Michael Gaitan, David G. Seiler

Benefits and Costs of Energy Standard Adoption in New Commercial Buildings: West Census Region:

February 1, 2013

Author(s)

Joshua Kneifel

Benefits and Costs of Energy Standard Adoption in New Commercial Buildings: South Census Region:

February 1, 2013

Author(s)

Joshua Kneifel

Benefits and Costs of Energy Standard Adoption in New Commercial Buildings: Midwest Census Region:

February 1, 2013

Author(s)

Joshua Kneifel

Benefits and Costs of Energy Standard Adoption in New Commercial Buildings: Northeast Census Region:

February 1, 2013

Author(s)

Joshua Kneifel

Benefits and Costs of Energy Standard Adoption in New Commercial Buildings:

February 1, 2013

Author(s)

Joshua Kneifel

Modeling and Conformance Testing for the Engineering Information Integration Standard ISO 15926:

February 1, 2013

Author(s)

Peter Denno, Mark Palmer

Proceedings of the Cybersecurity in Cyber-Physical Systems Workshop, April 23-24, 2012:

February 1, 2013

Author(s)

Tanya Brewer

Evacuation Decision Model:

February 1, 2013

Author(s)

Paul Reneke

Review on Sustainability Characterization for Manufacturing Processes:

February 1, 2013

Author(s)

Mahesh Mani, Jatinder Madan, Jae Hyun Lee, Kevin W. Lyons, Satyandra K. Gupta

Fourth NIST Workshop on Carbon Nanotubes: Chirality Measurements

January 30, 2013

Author(s)

Jeffrey A. Fagan

On September 23rd and 24th, 2010, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) hosted the fourth in a series of workshops addressing measurement...

Managing Identity Requirements for Remote Users of Information Systems to Protect System Security and Information Privacy

January 29, 2013

Author(s)

Shirley M. Radack

This bulletin summarizes the information presented in NISTIR 7817, A Credential Reliability and Revocation Model for Federated Identities, written by Hildegard...

NIST System for Measuring the Directivity Index of Hearing Aids under Simulated Real-Ear Conditions

January 24, 2013

Author(s)

Randall P. Wagner

The directivity index is a parameter that is commonly used to characterize the performance of directional hearing aids, and is determined from the measured...

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...

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