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NIST Pubs

Workshop on Bridging Satellite Climate Data Gaps

February 16, 2011

Author(s)

Catherine C. Cooksey, Raju V. Datla

Detecting the small signals of climate change for the most essential climate variables requires that satellite sensors make highly accurate and consistent...

Analysis of Three Different Regression Models to Estimate the Ballistic Performance of New and Environmentally Conditioned Body Armor

February 14, 2011

Author(s)

Diane Mauchant, Michael A. Riley, Kirk D. Rice, Amanda L. Forster, Dennis D. Leber, Daniel V. Samarov

The performance standard for ballistic-resistant body armor published by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), NIJ Standard 0101.06, recommends estimating...

NIST Priority Action Plan 2, Guidelines for Assessing Wireless Standards for Smart Grid Applications

February 9, 2011

Author(s)

David E. Cypher, Nada T. Golmie

Output of the NIST Smart Grid Interoperability Panel's Priority Action Plan 2: Wireless Communication for smart Grid, working group. It contains a methodology...

Internal Curing: A 2010 State-of-the-Art Review

February 9, 2011

Author(s)

Dale P. Bentz, Jason Weiss

The American Concrete Institute in 2010 defined internal curing as supplying water throughout a freshly placed cementitious mixture using reservoirs, via pre...

2010 Proceedings of the Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS'10) Workshop

February 8, 2011

Author(s)

Rajmohan (. Madhavan, Elena R. Messina, Brian A. Weiss

The 2010 Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems workshop is the tenth in a series dedicated to defining measures and methodologies of evaluating...

Verification of the performance of the 100 kN table-top model test frame used for tensile testing

February 7, 2011

Author(s)

Enrico Lucon

The so-called 20 kips frame (MTS table-top machine), equipped with a 100 kN load cell with serial No. 850, was used in the period April-December 2010 to perform...

Applied and Computational Mathematics Division Summary of Activities for Fiscal Year 2010

February 2, 2011

Author(s)

Ronald F. Boisvert

This report summarizes the technical work of the Applied and Computational Sciences Division (ACMD) of NIST s Information Technology Laboratory. Part I...

Optimization of Particle Sizes in High Volume Fly Ash Blended Cements

February 2, 2011

Author(s)

Dale P. Bentz, Chiara F. Ferraris, James J. Filliben

One major objective of the sustainable construction movement is to decrease the energy and carbon dioxide footprints of concrete. Since the production of...

Analysis of three different regression models to estimate the ballistic performance of new and environmentally conditioned body armor:

February 1, 2011

Author(s)

Diane Mauchant, Kirk D. Rice, Michael A. Riley, Dennis Lebber, Daniel Samarov, Amanda L. Forster

Spent Fuel Cask Seal Performance Testing: Interim Report (NIST TN 1687)

January 31, 2011

Author(s)

Jiann C. Yang, Edward J. Hnetkovsky

High-temperature metallic seal performance tests were performed. All the tests were conducted at either 800 °C or 427 °C for 9 hours in a electrical furnace. In...

Measures, Uncertainties, and Significance Test in Operational ROC Analysis

January 31, 2011

Author(s)

Jin Chu Wu, Alvin F. Martin, Raghu N. Kacker

In operational ROC (receiver operating characteristic) analysis of fingerprint-image matching algorithms on large datasets, the measures and their accuracies...

Maximum Likelihood and Restricted Likelihood Solutions in Multiple-Method Studies

January 31, 2011

Author(s)

Andrew L. Rukhin

A formulation of the problem of combining data from several sources is discussed in terms of random effects models. The unknown measurement precision is not...

Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6): NIST Guidelines Help Organizations Manage the Secure Deployment of the New Network Protocol

January 31, 2011

Author(s)

Shirley M. Radack

This bulletin summarizes the information presented in NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-119, Guidelines for the Secure Deployment of IPv6. Written by Sheila...

Guide to Security for Full Virtualization Technologies

January 28, 2011

Author(s)

Murugiah P. Souppaya, Karen Scarfone, Paul Hoffman

The purpose of SP 800-125 is to discuss the security concerns associated with full virtualization technologies for server and desktop virtualization, and to...

Measurements and Models for the Wireless Channel in a Ground-Based Urban Setting in Two Public Safety Frequency Bands

January 20, 2011

Author(s)

William F. Young, Catherine A. Remley, David W. Matolak, Qian Zhang, Christopher L. Holloway, Chriss A. Grosvenor, Camillo A. Gentile, Galen H. Koepke, Qiong Wu

We report on measured peer-to-peer (ground-based) wireless channel characteristics for an urban environment in two public safety frequency bands. Results are...

Automated Extraction of Cellular Features for a Potentially Robust Classification Scheme

January 19, 2011

Author(s)

Afzal A. Godil, Shwetadwip Chowdhury

The advent of new imaging technologies has allowed faster and higher-resolution cellular image acquisition by light microscopy. This has directly aided clinical...

Transitions: Recommendation for Transitioning the Use of Cryptographic Algorithms and Key Lengths

January 13, 2011

Author(s)

Elaine B. Barker, Allen L. Roginsky

[Superseded by SP 800-131A Revision 1 (November 2015): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=919563] At the start of the 21st century...

Evaluation of a Two-Dimensional Simulation of Low Strain Rate Nonpremixed Counterflow Flames

January 5, 2011

Author(s)

W Park, Anthony P. Hamins, Kevin B. McGrattan

A mixture fraction formulation is used to numerically simulate the two-dimensional structure of diluted axisymmetric methane-air nonpremixed counterflow flames...

NIST Handbook 150-1, NVLAP Energy Efficient Lighting Products

January 5, 2011

Author(s)

C Cameron Miller, Jon M. Crickenberger

NIST Time and Frequency Bulletin

January 5, 2011

Author(s)

Petrina C. Potts

The Time and Frequency Bulletin provides information on performance of time scales and a variety of broadcasts (and related information) to users of the NIST...

Discriminating Between Smoldering and Flaming Fires Using Alarm Signals

January 3, 2011

Author(s)

William D. Davis

Strategies are developed that make use of signals from smoke and heat alarms to deduce conditions in a room for both flaming and smoldering fires. The issue...