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NIST Pubs

Electronic Authentication Guideline

December 12, 2011

Author(s)

William E. Burr, Donna F. Dodson, Elaine M. Newton, Ray Perlner, William Polk, Sarbari Gupta, Emad A. Nabbus

[Superseded by SP 800-63-2 (August 2013): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=914476] This recommendation provides technical guidelines...

Guidelines on Security and Privacy in Public Cloud Computing

December 9, 2011

Author(s)

Timothy Grance, Wayne Jansen

Cloud computing can and does mean different things to different people. The common characteristics most interpretations share are on-demand scalability of...

Energy Consumption of Automatic Ice Makers Installed in Domestic Refrigerators, Revision 1

December 7, 2011

Author(s)

David A. Yashar, Ki-Jung Park

This study examines the energy consumption of automatic ice makers installed in domestic refrigerators. The purpose of this research is to determine a method of...

NIST TXR Calibration of the GOES_R External Calibration Target (ECT) for the GOES_R Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) Program

December 1, 2011

Author(s)

Raju V. Datla, Joseph Rice

The GOES_R/ ECT located at the ABI sensor test facility of ITT/Rochester was tested for its emissivity and radiance properties by deploying the NIST Thermal...

Combining Results from Multiple Evaluations of the Same Measurand

December 1, 2011

Author(s)

Raghu N. Kacker, Klaus-Dieter Sommer

According to the Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement (GUM), a result of measurement consists of a measured value together with its associated...

Multi-Parameter, Multiple Fuel Mixture Fraction Combustion Model for Fire Dynamics Simulator.

December 1, 2011

Author(s)

Jason E. Floyd

This report summarizes FDS development and support activities performed during the three year grant period of 70NANB8H8161. A brief overview of the major and...

Performance of Face Recognition Algorithms on Compressed Images

December 1, 2011

Author(s)

George W. Quinn, Patrick J. Grother

This report provides a comprehensive assessment of the ability of face recognition algorithms to compare compressed standard face images. Six well performing...

Annex 47 Report 1: Commissioning Overview

December 1, 2011

Author(s)

Chlo? Legris, Daniel Choiniere, Natascha S. Milesi-Ferretti

This report summarizes part of the work of IEA-ECBCS Annex 47 Cost-Effective Commissioning of Existing and Low Energy Buildings. It is based on the research...

High-temperature tensile constitutive data and models for structural steels in fire

November 30, 2011

Author(s)

William Luecke, Stephen W. Banovic, Joseph D. McColskey

This report documents the stress-strain behavior of a collection of structural steels recovered from the collapse of the World Trade Center. These steels...

Fire Exposures of Fire Fighter Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus Facepiece Lenses

November 29, 2011

Author(s)

Amy E. Mensch, George G. Cajaty Barbosa Braga, Nelson P. Bryner

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), conducted experiments which demonstrated a range of realistic thermal exposures and environmental...

Recommendation for Key Derivation through Extraction-then-Expansion

November 28, 2011

Author(s)

Lidong Chen

This Recommendation specifies techniques for the derivation of keying material from a shared secret established during a key establishment scheme defined in...

Certified Transmittance Density Uncertainties for Standard Reference Materials using a Transfer Spectrophotometer

November 28, 2011

Author(s)

John C. Travis, Melody V. Smith, Steven J. Choquette, Hung-Kung Liu

Overall uncertainties are evaluated for the certification of transmittance density (absorbance referred to air) and regular spectral transmittance for solid...

NIST Handbook 150-31, NVLAP Healthcare Information Technology Testing

November 28, 2011

Author(s)

Dana S. Leaman, Lawrence I. Knab

NIST Handbook 150-31 presents the technical requirements and guidance for the accreditation of laboratories under the National Voluntary Laboratory...

Test Results Prepared for Honeywell:Flammability of Refrigerants in the Japanese High Pressure Gas Law Test

November 22, 2011

Author(s)

Gregory T. Linteris, John L. Pagliaro, Peter B. Sunderland

The goal of the work was to determine the flammability of R1234ze(E) (C3H2F4) per the Japanese High Pressure Gas Law (see Appendix I). Tests were also performed...

Prototype Commercial Buildings for Energy and Sustainability Assessment: Whole Building Energy Simulation Design

November 22, 2011

Author(s)

Joshua D. Kneifel

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

November 22, 2011

Author(s)

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

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

Wildfire Modeling.

November 22, 2011

Author(s)

Steven K. Krueger

This report documents the development and testing of the LES (Large Eddy Simulator) version of the WRF (Weather Research and Forecasting) model coupled with...

Ignition Propensity of Hydrogen in the Presence of Metal Surfaces.

November 22, 2011

Author(s)

Chih-Jen Sung, James S. T'ien, Kyle Brady

Hydrogen as an energy carrier has received much attention in recent years as a result of a confluence of economic, environmental, and political pressures on the...

Guidelines for Fire Design of Steel Beam-Columns: Part II, Beams.

November 22, 2011

Author(s)

M. M. Dwaikat, V. K. Kodur

Steel structures when exposed to fire develop significant fire induced forces and deformations, and these effects are to be properly accounted for in evaluating...

Determining the Optimal Spatial Location of Shade Trees for Energy Savings: A Case Study Approach

November 22, 2011

Author(s)

Joshua D. Kneifel, David T. Butry

Tracking the National Fire Problem: The Data behind the Statistics

November 21, 2011

Author(s)

Douglas S. Thomas, David T. Butry

The objective of this report is to support the development of descriptive statistics and associated measures of uncertainty for characterizing, tracking, and...

US Government Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap Volume I Release 1.0 (Draft) High - Priority Requirements to Further USG Agency Cloud Computing Adoption

November 20, 2011

Author(s)

Mark L. Badger, David Bernstein, Robert B. Bohn, Frederic J. de Vaulx, Michael D. Hogan, Jin Mao, John V. Messina, Kevin L. Mills, Annie W. Sokol, Dawn M. Leaf, Fred Whiteside, Jin Tong

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...

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