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XML Validation Website: A User's Guide

November 16, 2011

Author(s)

Julien C. Cuvillier, Katherine C. Morris

This report describes the XML Validation website which hosts a number of XML parsing tools that can be used to remotely validate XML schema files against the...

Selecting and Scaling Earthquake Ground Motions for Performing Response-History Analyses

November 15, 2011

Author(s)

Andrew Whittaker, Gail Atkinson, Jack Baker, Jonathan Bray, Damian Grant, Ronald Hamburger, Curt Haselton, Paul Somerville

The primary objective of this task was to develop guidance for selecting, generating, and scaling earthquake ground motions for effective use in performing...

Overview of the TREC 2011 Web Track

November 15, 2011

Author(s)

Ian M. Soboroff, Nick Craswell, Charles L. Clarke, Gordon Cormack

The TREC Web Track explores and evaluates Web retrieval technology over large collections of Web data. In its current incarnation, the Web Track has been active...

Representation of functional networks in STEP AP210 with application to SPICE circuit simulation

November 11, 2011

Author(s)

Jamie Stori

STEP AP210 (ISO 10303-210) supports a comprehensive functional network model representation. SPICE (Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis) is a...

Ocular and Iris Recognition Baseline Algorithm

November 7, 2011

Author(s)

Yooyoung Lee, Ross J. Micheals, James J. Filliben, P J. Phillips, Hassan A. Sahibzada

Due to its distinctiveness, the human eye is a popular biometricv feature used to identity a person with high accuracy. The Grand Challenge in biometrics is to...

Data Dependency on Measurement Uncertainties in Speaker Recognition Evaluation

November 3, 2011

Author(s)

Jin Chu Wu, Alvin F. Martin, Craig S. Greenberg, Raghu N. Kacker

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been conducting an ongoing series of Speaker Recognition Evaluations (SRE). Speaker detection...

Interlaboratory Analytical Comparison Study to Support Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Damage Assessment: Description and Results for Marine Sediment QA10SED01

November 2, 2011

Author(s)

Michele M. Schantz, John Kucklick

To support natural resource damage assessment (NRDA) in response to the Deep Water Horizon (DWH) oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a large number of coastal...

Interlaboratory Analytical Comparison Study to Support Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Damage Assessment: Description and Results for Mussel Tissue QA10TIS01

November 2, 2011

Author(s)

Michele M. Schantz, John R. Kucklick

To support natural resource damage assessment (NRDA) in response to the Deep Water Horizon (DWH) oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a large number of coastal...

Interlaboratory Analytical Comparison Study to Support Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Damage Assessment: Description and Results for Crude Oil QA10OIL01

November 2, 2011

Author(s)

Michele M. Schantz, John R. Kucklick

To support natural resource damage assessment (NRDA) in response to the Deep Water Horizon (DWH) oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a large number of coastal...

Findings and Recommendations from the Joint NIST AGA Workshop on Odor Masking

November 1, 2011

Author(s)

Thomas J. Bruno, Nancy Rawson, Ali Quaraishi

Since the days of the alchemist, the observation that some substances have a smell while other substances do not has been a source of fascination. The sense of...

Guidelines for Predicting the Capacity and Demand of Steel Beam-Columns Under Fire: Part 1, Perimeter Columns.

November 1, 2011

Author(s)

Maria E. Garlock, Spencer E. Quiel, Ignacio Paya-Zaforteza

Reports by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Gann 2005), the UKbased Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) (Roberts 2002), and a...

Home Cooking Fire Mitigation: Technology Assessment. Final Report.

November 1, 2011

Author(s)

Joshua Dinaburg, Daniel T. Guttuk

Cooking related fires are a leading cause of U.S. fire loss. Beginning in the mid 1980's, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Consumer Product...

Moments of the Truncated Complex Gaussian Distribution

November 1, 2011

Author(s)

Ryan J. Pirkl

We present arbitrary moments of the univariate and bivariate truncated complex Gaussian distribution. Using these moment expressions, we investigate the...

Integrating jQuery with the 3D Descriptive Markup of X3DOM

October 31, 2011

Author(s)

Sanford P. Ressler

This paper describes a number of techniques using jQuery to take advantage of the 3D descriptive markup implemented by X3DOM. X3DOM is a project of the Web3D...

Report on the Third Static Analysis Tool Exposition (SATE 2010)

October 27, 2011

Author(s)

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

The NIST Software Assurance Metrics And Tool Evaluation (SAMATE) project conducted the third Static Analysis Tool Exposition (SATE) in 2010 to advance research...

On-Chip Security Using Electromagnetic Analysis

October 27, 2011

Author(s)

James Schaffner, Dylan Williams

In this report we describe a test bed designed to assess the vulnerabilities of security microcontrollers to electromagnetic monitoring, and use the test bed to...

An Experimental and Computational Study of Reinforced Concrete Assemblies under a Column Removal Scenario

October 26, 2011

Author(s)

Hai S. Lew, Yihai Bao, Fahim Sadek, Joseph A. Main, Santiago Pujol, Mete Sozen

This report presents an experimental and computational study of two reinforced concrete beam-column assemblies, each comprising three columns and two beams. The...

PFTII Report Plain and Rolled Fingerprint Matching with Vendor Proprietary Template

October 26, 2011

Author(s)

Su L. Cheng, Gregory P. Fiumara, Craig I. Watson

This report is an extension of the Two Finger Matching with Vendor SDK Matches [1] which evaluated the accuracy of matching two plain fingers (right index and...

NIST Handbook 44: Specifications, Tolerances, and Other Technical Requirements for Weighing and Measuring Devices (2012 Ed.)

October 25, 2011

Author(s)

Linda D. Crown, Tina Butcher, Steven E. Cook, Richard A. Harshman

Handbook 44 was first printed in 1949, having been preceded by similar handbooks of various designations and in several forms. This 2012 edition was developed...

Continuous Monitoring of Information Security: An Essential Component of Risk Management

October 25, 2011

Author(s)

Shirley M. Radack

This bulletin summarizes the information presented in NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-137, Information Security Continuous Monitoring (ISCM) for Federal...

November 2011 SRM Spotlight

October 24, 2011

Author(s)

Regina R. Montgomery

The SRM Spotlight is a newsletter published by the Measurement Services Division for users of NIST standard reference materials. The Spotlight announces new...

Using the BACnet Data Source v1.7

October 20, 2011

Author(s)

Michael A. Galler

The BACnet Data Source (BDS) was developed to be used as a component of the Virtual Cybernetic Building Testbed (VCBT) (1), in conjunction with work on various...

NIST Handbook 130: Uniform Laws and Regulations in the Areas of Legal Metrology and Engine Fuel Quality (2012 Ed.)

October 9, 2011

Author(s)

Linda D. Crown, Lisa Warfield, David Sefcik

This handbook compiles uniform laws and regulations developed by the Committee on Laws and Regulations of the National Conference on Weights and Measures (NCWM)...

A Comparison of hp-adaptive Strategies for Elliptic Partial Differential Equations (long version)

October 5, 2011

Author(s)

William F. Mitchell, Marjorie A. McClain

The hp version of the finite element method (hp-FEM) combined with adaptive mesh refinement is a particularly efficient method for solving partial differential...

COMPARISON OF TWO DIMENSION-REDUCTION METHODS FOR NETWORK SIMULATION MODELS

October 5, 2011

Author(s)

Kevin L. Mills, James J. Filliben

Experimenters characterize the behavior of simulation models for data communications networks by measuring multiple responses under selected parameter...

Model Development and Validation for Particle Release Experiments in a Two-story Office Building

October 5, 2011

Author(s)

William S. Dols, Andrew K. Persily, Jayne B. Morrow

Source Code Security Analysis Tool Test Plan

October 4, 2011

Author(s)

Hsiao-Ming M. Koo, Romain Gaucher, Charline Cleraux, Jenise Reyes Rodriguez

This document provides a set of metrics, including test suites and methods, to determine how well a particular source code security analysis tool conforms to...

SteelVis User's Guide

October 3, 2011

Author(s)

Robert R. Lipman

This guide describes how to use SteelVis and its associated programs. SteelVis has two main functions: (1) to translate a CIS/2 (CIMsteel Integration Standards)...

Optimization of Building HVAC Systems Using Intelligent Agents - A Proof of Concept Study

October 3, 2011

Author(s)

George E. Kelly, Steven T. Bushby

This paper describes the development and implementation of a simulation testbed used to study the concept of employing intelligent agents to optimize the...

Alternate Smoldering Ignition Sources: A Literature Review with Analysis

October 1, 2011

Author(s)

Richard G. Gann, Amanda P. Robbins

Current existing and proposed U.S. flammability standards for soft furnishings such as mattresses and upholstered furniture specify a standard cigarette as...

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