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Continuity of Care (CCD) Standards Action Plan

September 15, 2011

Author(s)

Liora Alschuler

This document is the action plan to improve the suitability of Health Level Seven (HL7) Continuity of Care Document (CCD) to support the Department of Health...

Continuity of Care Document (CCD) Suitability Analysis

September 15, 2011

Author(s)

Liora Alschuler

This document analyzes the suitability of the Health Level Seven (HL7) Continuity of Care Document (CCD) specification to support the US Department of Health...

CCR Suitability Analysis

September 15, 2011

Author(s)

Liora Alschuler

This document analyzes the suitability of the ASTM Continuity of Care Record (CCR) specification to support the US Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS...

Continuity of Care Record (CCR) Action Plan

September 15, 2011

Author(s)

Liora Aschuler

This document is the action plan to improve the suitability of ASTM Continuity of Care Record (CCR) to support the Department of Health and Human Services'...

Report on VAMAS Round Robin of ISO 13067: Microbeam AnalysisElectron Backscatter DiffractionMeasurement of Average Grain Size

September 14, 2011

Author(s)

Adam A. Creuziger, Mark D. Vaudin

The authors recently participated in a round robin evaluation of a new ISO document draft, ISO 13067: Microbeam analysis Electron backscatter diffraction ...

Mathematical Modeling of Wildland-Urban Interface Fires.

September 14, 2011

Author(s)

Randall J. McDermott, Ronald Rehm

This paper presents a simple model to demonstrate the effect on grass-fire propagation of the winds induced by structural fires in a Wildland-Urban Interface...

Summary of Workshop on Research Needs for Full Scale Testing to Determine Vulnerabilities of Decking Assemblies to Ignition by Firebrand Showers

September 14, 2011

Author(s)

Samuel L. Manzello, Sayaka S. Suzuki

An international workshop was held within the Fire Research Division at NISTs Engineering Laboratory on June 27th, 2011. The workshop was entitled Urban and...

Energy Price Indices and Discount Factors for Life-Cycle Cost Analysis - 2011

September 8, 2011

Author(s)

Amy S. Rushing, Joshua D. Kneifel, Barbara C. Lippiatt

This is the 2011 edition of energy price indices and discount factors for performing life-cycle cost analyses of energy and water conservation and renewable...

NIST Cloud Computing Reference Architecture

September 8, 2011

Author(s)

Fang Liu, Jin Tong, Jian Mao, Robert B. Bohn, John V. Messina, Mark L. Badger, Dawn M. Leaf

The adoption of cloud computing into the Federal Government and its implementation depend upon a variety of technical and non-technical factors. A fundamental...

Defining AFIS Latent Print "Lights-Out"

September 8, 2011

Author(s)

Stephen Meagher, Vladimir N. Dvornychenko

The term "lights-out" for AFIS ten-print fingerprint operations has been around for many years and is generally understood to mean "no human intervention is...

User's Guide for SRM 2494 and 2495: The MEMS 5-in-1, 2011 Edition

September 6, 2011

Author(s)

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

The Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) 5-in-1 is a standard reference device sold as a NIST Standard Reference Material (SRM) that contains MEMS test...

Structural and Electromagnetic Scenarios for Firefighter Locator Tracking Systems

September 1, 2011

Author(s)

Anthony D. Putorti Jr., Francine K. Amon, Kathryn M. Butler, Catherine A. Remley, William F. Young, Christina Spoons

One of the most important aspects of effective firefighter response to an emergency event is awareness of the location of the firefighters involved, especially...

Prototype Buildings for Energy and Sustainability in Residential Buildings

September 1, 2011

Author(s)

Joshua D. Kneifel

Modeling and Simulation of Hazardous Material Releases for Homeland Security Applications

September 1, 2011

Author(s)

Charles R. McLean, Yung-Tsun Lee, Sanjay Jain, Charles W. Hutchings

The purpose of this document is to provide: 1) a compendium of information pertaining to the modeling and simulation of hazardous material releases, and 2) a...

Modeling and Simulation of Incident Management for Homeland Security Applications

September 1, 2011

Author(s)

Charles R. McLean, Yung-Tsun Lee, Sanjay Jain, Charles W. Hutchings

The purpose of this document is to provide: 1) a compendium of information pertaining to incident management modeling and simulation, and 2) a foundation for...

Modeling and Simulation of Critical Infrastructure Systems for Homeland Security Applications

September 1, 2011

Author(s)

Charles R. McLean, Yung-Tsun Lee, Sanjay Jain, Charles W. Hutchings

The purpose of this document is to provide a foundation for establishing a modeling and simulation technical interest group whose focus is information exchange...

Modeling and Simulation of Healthcare Systems for Homeland Security Applications

September 1, 2011

Author(s)

Charles R. McLean, Yung-Tsun Lee, Sanjay Jain, Charles W. Hutchings

The purpose of this document is to provide a foundation for establishing a modeling and simulation technical interest group whose focus is information exchange...

Performance of New and Aged Residential Fire Sprinklers

August 31, 2011

Author(s)

Anthony D. Putorti Jr., William F. Guthrie, Jason D. Averill, Richard G. Gann

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) initiated a program to determine the effects of emissions from problem drywall on residential electrical, gas...

Testability Report for SCRIPT

August 31, 2011

Author(s)

Ioana Singureanu

This document summarizes the major testability issues raised by the NCPDP SCRIPT Implementation Guide Version 10.6. The ELR Implementation Guide is intended as...

NIST NCPDP Analysis - Suitability Assessment

August 31, 2011

Author(s)

Frank McKinney

This document completes the review of the NCPDP SCRIPT standard by reporting on several aspects related to its suitability as a standard to support Meaningful...

The New Steel? Enabling the Carbon Nanomaterials Revolution: Markets, Metrology, Safety, and Scale-up

August 31, 2011

Author(s)

James A. Liddle

Improved First-Principles Calculation of the Third Virial Coefficient of Helium

August 31, 2011

Author(s)

Giovanni Garberoglio, Michael R. Moldover, Allan H. Harvey

We employ state-of-the-art pair and three-body potentials for helium to calculate its third density virial coefficient C(T) with uncertainties much smaller than...

Summary of Workshop for Urban and Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI Fires: A Workshop to Explore Future Japan/USA Research Collaborations

August 26, 2011

Author(s)

Samuel L. Manzello, Sayaka S. Suzuki, Keisuke Himoto

An international workshop was held within the Fire Research Division at NISTs Engineering Laboratory on June 27th, 2011. The workshop was entitled Urban and...

Protecting Industrial Control Systems - Key Components of our Nation's Critical Infrastructures

August 24, 2011

Author(s)

Shirley M. Radack

This bulletin summarizes the information presented in NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-82, Guide to Industrial Control Systems Security: Recommendations of the...

Trust-Based Multi-Agent Filtering for Increased Smart Grid Security

August 22, 2011

Author(s)

Ion Matei, John S. Baras, Vijay Srinivasan

We address the problem of state estimation of the power system for the Smart Grid.We assume that the monitoring of the electrical grid is done by a network of...

Common Platform Enumeration: Naming Specification Version 2.3

August 19, 2011

Author(s)

Brant Cheikes, David A. Waltermire, Karen Scarfone

This report defines the Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) Naming version 2.3 specification. The CPE Naming specification is a part of a stack of CPE...

Common Platform Enumeration: Name Matching Specification Version 2.3

August 19, 2011

Author(s)

Mary Parmelee, Harold Booth, David A. Waltermire, Karen Scarfone

This report defines the Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) Name Matching version 2.3 specification. The CPE Name Matching specification is part of a stack of CPE...

Common Platform Enumeration: Dictionary Specification Version 2.3

August 19, 2011

Author(s)

Paul R. Cichonski, David A. Waltermire, Karen Scarfone

This report defines the Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) Dictionary version 2.3 specification. The CPE Dictionary Specification is a part of a stack of CPE...

Common Platform Enumeration: Applicability Language Specification Version 2.3

August 19, 2011

Author(s)

David A. Waltermire, Paul R. Cichonski, Karen Scarfone

This report defines the Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) Applicability Language version 2.3 specification. The CPE Applicability Language specification is part...

Metallurgical Investigations Into Corrosion Damage in Homes Constructed with Problem Drywall

August 17, 2011

Author(s)

Richard E. Ricker, David J. Pitchure, Maureen E. Williams, Sandra W. Claggett

The U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission, Sandia National Laboratory (SNL), and NIST collaborated in an investigation into the effects of "problem drywall"...

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