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NIST Handbook 133: Checking the Net Contents of Packaged Goods (2011 Ed.)

April 27, 2011

Author(s)

Kenneth S. Butcher, Linda D. Crown, David Sefcik, Lisa Warfield

This handbook has been prepared as a procedural guide for the compliance testing of net contents statements on packaged goods. Compliance testing of packaged...

Full Virtualization Technologies: Guidelines for Secure Implementation and Management

April 25, 2011

Author(s)

Shirley M. Radack

This bulletin summarizes the information presented in NIST SP 800-125, Guide To Security for Full Virtualization Technologies: Recommendations of the National...

Experiments in Parallel Fingerprint Matching - Architectural Implications for Large Scale Fingerprint Matching Evaluation Systems

April 18, 2011

Author(s)

Antoine Fillinger, Lukas Diduch, Imad Hamchi, Vincent M. Stanford

The need for very large fingerprint benchmarks to test the efficacy of emerging commercial technologies for fingerprint minutia detection, matching, compression...

Providing NIST Supervisors with a Continuous Learning Program

April 14, 2011

Author(s)

David W. Griffith, Susan F. Heller-Zeisler, Joy A. Herman, Andrew Jackson, Janine Kerns, Donna J. Sirk, William E. Wallace, Brian Weiss

Reconstructing the Past From Imprecise Knowledge of the Present: Some Examples of Non Uniqueness in Solving Parabolic Equations Backward in Time

April 13, 2011

Author(s)

Alfred S. Carasso

Information Model for Disassembly for Reuse, Recycling, and Remanufacturing

April 13, 2011

Author(s)

Shaw C. Feng

Disassembly process is an essential activity in the mid and end of a products service life cycle. Maintenance is a mid product life activity, which involves...

Specification for the Open Checklist Interactive Language (OCIL) Version 2.0

April 7, 2011

Author(s)

David A. Waltermire, Karen Scarfone, Maria Casipe

This report defines version 2.0 of the Open Checklist Interactive Language (OCIL). The intent of OCIL is to provide a standardized basis for expressing...

(NISTIR 7769) Human Factors Guidance to Prevent Healthcare Disparities with the Adoption of EHRs

April 7, 2011

Author(s)

Michael C. Gibbons, Svetlana Z. Lowry, Matthew T. Quinn

HITECH Act's provisions to drive adoption and meaningful use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) holds great promise in supporting improvements in the quality...

NIST Evaluation of Latent Fingerprint Technologies: Extended Feature Sets [Evaluation #1]

April 5, 2011

Author(s)

Michael D. Indovina, R. A. Hicklin, G I. Kiebuzinski

ELFT-EFS Evaluation 1 is an evaluation of the accuracy of latent matching using features marked by experienced human latent fingerprint examiners. The purpose...

NIST IR 7477, Revision II, MINEX II Performance of Fingerprint Match-on-Card Algorithms - Phase IV Report

April 5, 2011

Author(s)

Patrick J. Grother, Wayne J. Salamon, Craig I. Watson, Michael D. Indovina, Patricia A. Flanagan

The MINEX II trials have been conducted to evaluate the accuracy and speed of MATCH-ON-CARD verification algorithms. These run on ISO/IEC 7816 smartcards. They...

Providing NIST Supervisors with a Continuous Learning Program:

April 1, 2011

Author(s)

David Griffith, Susan Heller-Zeisler, Joy Herman, Andrew Jackson, Janine Kerns, Donna Kimball, William E. Wallace, Brian A. Weiss

Performance of New and Aged Residential Fire Smoke Detectors

April 1, 2011

Author(s)

Jason D. Averill, Richard G. Gann, William F. Guthrie, Daniel Murphy

As part of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) technical staff program to determine the effects of emissions from imported drywall on residential...

NIST Workshop on Ontology Evaluation (NISTIR 7774)

April 1, 2011

Author(s)

Ram D. Sriram, Conrad E. Bock, Fabian M. Neuhaus, Evan K. Wallace, Mary C. Brady, Mark Musen, Joanne Luciano

The National Institute for Standards and Technology sponsored a workshop in October, 2007, on the subject of ontology evaluation. An international group of...

Energy Consumption of Automatic Ice Makers Installed in Domestic Refrigerators (NIST TN 1697)

April 1, 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...

Information Leakage Through the Domain Name System

March 31, 2011

Author(s)

Scott W. Rose, Anastase Nakassis, Ramaswamy Chandramouli

The Domain Name System (DNS) is the global lookup service for network resources. It is often the first step in an Internet transaction as well as a network...

Experimental Characterization of Helium Dispersion in a -Scale Two-Car Residential Garage (NIST TN 1694)

March 28, 2011

Author(s)

William M. Pitts, Jiann Yang, Marco Fernandez

A series of experiments are described in which helium was released at constant rates into a 1.5 m 1.5 m 0.75 m enclosure designed as a -scale model of a two car...

Managing Information Security Risk: Organization, Mission, and Information System View

March 22, 2011

Author(s)

Shirley M. Radack

This bulletin summarizes the information presented in NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-39, Integrated Enterprise-Wide Risk Management: Organization, Mission...

Consumer Use of Dishwashers, Clothes Washers, and Dryers: Data Needs and Availability

March 21, 2011

Author(s)

Christopher Iglehart, Natascha S. Milesi-Ferretti, Michael Galler

NIST provides technical support to the DOE in developing test procedures for a variety of residential appliances. As part of this process, DOE seeks...

Technical Study of the Sofa Super Store Fire, South Carolina, June 18, 2007, Volume I

March 14, 2011

Author(s)

Nelson P. Bryner, Stephen P. Fuss, Bryan W. Klein, Anthony D. Putorti Jr.

A fire occurred on the evening of June 18, 2007, in the Sofa Super Store in Charleston, SC. NIST analyzed the fire ground, consulted with other experts, and...

Technical Study of the Sofa Super Store Fire, South Carolina, June 18, 2007, Volume II (Appendices)

March 14, 2011

Author(s)

Nelson P. Bryner, Stephen P. Fuss, Bryan W. Klein, Anthony D. Putorti Jr.

A fire occurred on the evening of June 18, 2007, in the Sofa Super Store in Charleston, SC. NIST analyzed the fire ground, consulted with other experts, and...

When High-Quality Face Images Match Poorly

March 13, 2011

Author(s)

J. R. Beveridge, P. Jonathon Phillips, Geof H. Givens, Bruce A. Draper, Mohammad N. Teli, David Bolme

In face recognition, quality is typically thought of as a property of individual images, not image pairs. The implicit assumption is that high-quality images...

Demographic Effects on Estimates of Automatic Face Recognition Performance

March 11, 2011

Author(s)

Alice J. O'Toole, P. Jonathon Phillips, Xiaobo An, Joseph Dunlop

The intended applications of automatic face recognition systems include venues that vary widely in demographic diversity. Formal evaluations of algorithms do...

NIST Measurement Services: Regular Spectral Transmittance

March 10, 2011

Author(s)

David W. Allen, Edward A. Early, Benjamin K. Tsai, Catherine C. Cooksey

This document describes measurement services, instrumentation, and measurement techniques for regular spectral transmittance over the spectral range from 250 nm...

Weights and Measures Program Requirements: A Handbook for the Weights and Measures Administrator (Handbook 155-2011)

March 10, 2011

Author(s)

Carol T. Hockert, Henry Oppermann

When a weights and measures administrator makes decisions within a specific jurisdiction, it is beneficial to understand the scope of the entire system and to...

An Introduction to the Good, the Bad, & the Ugly Face Recognition Challenge Problem

March 10, 2011

Author(s)

P J. Phillips, J. R. Beveridge, Bruce A. Draper, Geof H. Givens, Alice J. O'Toole, David Bolme, Joseph Dunlop, Yui M. Lui, Hassan A. Sahibzada, Samuel Weimer

The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly Face Challenge Problem was created to encourage the development of algorithms that are robust to recognition across changes in...

Empirical Evidence for Increased False Reject Rate with Time Lapse in ICE 2006

March 10, 2011

Author(s)

Sarah E. Baker, Patrick J. Flynn, Kevin W. Bowyer, P. Jonathon Phillips

We present results of the first systematic study to investigate the degree to which template aging occurs for iris biometrics. Our experiments use an image data...

Best Practices for Modeling, Simulation and Analysis (MS&A) for Homeland Security Applications

March 2, 2011

Author(s)

Sanjay Jain, Charles McLean

This report recommends best practices for development and deployment of modeling, simulation and analysis (MS&A) tools for homeland security applications. The...

Technical Study of the Sofa Super Store Fire - South Carolina, June 18, 2007:

March 1, 2011

Author(s)

Nelson P. Bryner, Stephen P. Fuss, Bryan W. Klein, Anthony D. Putorti

Managing Information Security Risk: Organization, Mission, and Information System View

March 1, 2011

Author(s)

Ronald S. Ross

The purpose of Special Publication 800-39 is to provide guidance for an integrated, organization-wide program for managing information security risk to...

Geometric effects when measuring small holes with micro contact probes.

March 1, 2011

Author(s)

Jack A. Stone Jr., Balasubramanian Muralikrishnan, Chittaranjan Sahay

A coordinate measuring machine with a suitably small probe can be used to measure micro-features such as the diameter and form of small holes (often about 100...

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