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Jonathan Stewart, C.B. Crouse, Tara C. Hutchinson, Bret Lizundia, Farzad Naeim, Farhang Ostadan
The purpose of this project was to develop consensus guidance for implementing soil-structure interaction in response history analyses, and to identify areas of
Lili Wang, Steven J. Choquette, Yu-Zhong Zhang, Victoria Karpiak, Adolfas Gaigalas
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Fernando L. Podio, Dylan J. Yaga, Christofer J. McGinnis
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Marcia L. Huber, Richard A. Perkins, Daniel G. Friend, Jan V. Sengers, Marc J. Assael, Ifigenia N. Metaxa, Kiyoshi Miyagawa, Robert Hellmann, Eckhard Vogel
The International Association for the Properties of Water and Steam (IAPWS) encouraged an extensive research effort to update the IAPS Formulation 1985 for the
In this study, environmentally stressed OS fabrics containing melamine fiber blends were evaluated for thermal and mechanical properties that are critical to
Joshua Lubell, Kenway K. Chen, John A. Horst, Simon P. Frechette, Paul J. Huang
This report summarizes the presentations, discussions and recommendations of a workshop held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in December
This bulletin summarizes the information that is included in NIST Special Publication (SP) 121, Revision 1, Guide to Bluetooth Security: Recommendations of the
Paul R. Cichonski, Thomas Millar, Timothy Grance, Karen Scarfone
Computer security incident response has become an important component of information technology (IT) programs. Security-related threats have become not only
Shahram Orandi, John M. Libert, John D. Grantham, Kenneth Ko, Stephen S. Wood, Jin Chu Wu, Lindsay M. Petersen, Bruce Bandini
This paper presents the findings of a study initially conducted to measure the operational impact of JPEG 2000 lossy compression on 1000 ppi fingerprint imagery
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Stacy S. Schuur, Paul R. Becker, Sylvain Berail, Russell D. Day, Olivier F. Donard, Keith A. Hobson, Amanda J. Moors, Rebecca S. Pugh, Lauren B. Rust, David G. Roseneau
Since 1999, the Seabird Tissue Archival and Monitoring Project (STAMP) has collected, banked, and analyzed seabird eggs using established protocols to monitor
Stacy S. Vander Pol, Paul R. Becker, Sylvain Berail, Rusty D. Day, Olivier F.X. Donard, Keith A. Hobson, Amanda J. Moors, Rebecca S. Pugh, Lauren B. Rust, David G. Roseneau
William R. Kelly, Bruce S. MacDonald, John L. Molloy, Stefan D. Leigh, Andrew L. Rukhin
A procedure is presented whereby the fossil fuel community may design and mix SRMs in different proportions and thereby produce in their laboratory fossil fuel
Small specimen test techniques are becoming more and more popular as the need increases to characterize mechanical properties using the smallest possible amount