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Workflow and Electronic Health Records in Small Medical Practices

November 4, 2010

Author(s)

Mala Ramaiah, Eswaran Subrahmanian, Ram D. Sriram, Bettijoyce B. Lide

The NIST 66 m Ball Range A One Dimensional Artifact to test Three Dimensional Imaging Systems

November 3, 2010

Author(s)

Bruce R. Borchardt, Craig M. Shakarji

NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology) has instituted a 66 m long range for testing of distance-measuring systems. The range consists of...

Open Monte Carlo Engine User Manual

November 3, 2010

Author(s)

Ruediger Kessel

An Optical Frequency Comb Tied to GPS for Laser Frequency/Wavelength Calibration

November 1, 2010

Author(s)

Jack A. Stone Jr., Patrick F. Egan

Optical frequency combs can be employed over a broad spectral range to calibrate laser frequency or vacuum wavelength. This article describes procedures and...

Optical fiber power meter comparison between NIST and NIM

November 1, 2010

Author(s)

Igor Vayshenker, Jian Li, L. M. Xiong, Z. X. Zhang, David J. Livigni, Xiaoyu X. Li, John H. Lehman

We describe the results of a comparison of reference standards between the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST-USA) and National Institute of...

A Review of Building Evacuation Models, 2nd Edition

November 1, 2010

Author(s)

Erica D. Kuligowski, Richard D. Peacock, Bryan L. Hoskins

Evacuation calculations are increasingly becoming a part of performance-based analyses to assess the level of life safety provided in buildings. In some cases...

Measuring Scale Errors in a Laser Tracker s Horizontal Angle Encoder through Simple Length Measurement and Two-face System Tests

November 1, 2010

Author(s)

Balasubramanian Muralikrishnan, Christopher J. Blackburn, Daniel S. Sawyer, Steven D. Phillips, Robert Bridges, Quan Ma

We describe a method to estimate the scale errors in the horizontal angle encoder of a laser tracker in this paper. The method does not require expensive...

An Application of Combinatorial Methods to Conformance Testing for Document Object Model Events

November 1, 2010

Author(s)

Carmelo Montanez-Rivera, D. Richard Kuhn, Mary C. Brady, Richard M. Rivello, Jenise Reyes Rodriguez, Michael K. Powers

This report describes the use of combinatorial test methods to reduce the cost of testing for the Document Object Model Events standard while maintaining an...

Evaluation of the Propensity of Niobium to Absorb Hydrogen During Fabrication of Superconducting Radio Frequency Cavities for Particle Accelerators

October 31, 2010

Author(s)

Richard E. Ricker, Ganapati R. Myneni

During the fabrication of niobium superconducting radio frequency (SRF) particle accelerator cavities procedures are used that chemically or mechanically remove...

The use of filtered photodetectors for radiance measurement

October 31, 2010

Author(s)

Albert C. Parr, B. Carol Johnson

A methodology for using a calibrated filter radiometer to measure and monitor the spectral radiance of calibration sources is described. An example using a...

Analysis of Pipeline Steel Corrosion Data From NBS (NIST) Studies Conducted Between 1922-1940 and Relevance to Pipeline Management

October 29, 2010

Author(s)

Richard E. Ricker

Between 1922 and 1940, the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) conducted a study into the corrosion of bare steel and wrought iron pipes buried underground at 47...

A Machining and Measurement Process Planning Activity Model for Manufacturing System Interoperability Analysis

October 29, 2010

Author(s)

Fiona Zhao, Frederick M. Proctor, John A. Horst

Manufacturing systems consist of many activities. Each of these activities may include one or more software and hardware. In order to make these software and...

Technical Study of the Sofa Super Store Fire- South Carolina, June 18, 2007 Volume I DRAFT FOR PUBLIC COMMENT (for final version, see NIST SP 1118, March 2011)

October 28, 2010

Author(s)

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

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 DRAFT FOR PUBLIC COMMENT (for final version, see NIST SP 1119, March 2011)

October 28, 2010

Author(s)

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

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...

Cyber Security Strategies for the Smart Grid: Protecting the Advanced, Digital Infrastructure for Electric Power

October 27, 2010

Author(s)

Shirley M. Radack

This bulletin summarizes the information presented in NISTIR 7628, Guidelines for Smart Grid Cyber Security. The guidelines were developed as a consensus...

Graphical User Interface (GUI) for Project 25: Inter-RF Subsystem Interface (ISSI) GUI Version 0.9.6

October 25, 2010

Author(s)

Alan B. Vinh, Richard A. Rouil, Antonio Izquierdo Manzanares, Alexandre Delye

There are two parts to the Project 25: Inter-RF Subsystem Interface (ISSI) model: 1) The server program that models the behavior of the ISSI protocol(s), along...

System Builders Manual for Version 2.2.1 of the NIST DMIS Test Suite

October 25, 2010

Author(s)

Thomas R. Kramer, John A. Horst

This manual is a system builders manual for the NIST DMIS Test Suite, version 2.2.1. DMIS (Dimensional Measuring Interface Standard) is a language for writing...

Maintainers Manual for Version 2.2.1 of the NIST DMIS Test Suite

October 25, 2010

Author(s)

Thomas R. Kramer, John A. Horst

This manual is a maintainers manual for the NIST DMIS Test Suite, version 2.2.1. DMIS (Dimensional Measuring Interface Standard) is a language for writing...

Users Manual for Version 2.2.1 of the NIST DMIS Test Suite

October 25, 2010

Author(s)

Thomas R. Kramer, John A. Horst

This manual is a users manual for the NIST DMIS Test Suite, version 2.2.1. DMIS (Dimensional Measuring Interface Standard) is a language for writing programs...

Safety Assessment of Parallel Wire Suspension Bridge Cables Under Thermal Effects

October 25, 2010

Author(s)

Joseph Main, William E. Luecke

This report summarizes a NIST study aimed at assessing the safety of parallel wire suspension bridge cables under thermal effects. Both low temperatures...

NIST Handbook 130: Uniform Laws and Regulations in the Areas of Legal Metrology and Engine Fuel Quality (2011 Ed.)

October 24, 2010

Author(s)

Linda D. Crown, Lisa Warfield

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

Recommendation for Block Cipher Modes of Operation: Three Variants of Ciphertext Stealing for CBC Mode

October 21, 2010

Author(s)

Morris J. Dworkin

A limitation to Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) mode, as specified in NIST Special Publication 800-38A, is that the plaintext input must consist of a sequence of...

Security Assurance Levels: A Vector Approach to Describing Security Requirements

October 20, 2010

Author(s)

James D. Gilsinn, Ragnar Schierholz

Safety systems have used the concept of safety integrity levels (SILs) for almost two decades. This allows the safety of a component or system to be represented...

Bicubic B-Spline Surface Approximation of Invariant Tori

October 20, 2010

Author(s)

Sita Ramamurti, David E. Gilsinn

The invariant torus of a coupled system of Van der Pol oscillators is approximated using bicubic B-splines. The paper considers the case of strong nonlinear...

NEHRP Seismic Design Technical Brief No. 4 - Nonlinear Structural Analysis for Seismic Design: A Guide for Practicing Engineers

October 15, 2010

Author(s)

Gregory Deierlein, Andrei Reinhorn, Michael Willford

Workshop on Quantitative Tools for Condition Assessment of Aging Infrastructure

October 14, 2010

Author(s)

Ward L. Johnson, Thomas A. Siewert, Jessica Terry, Dat Duthinh, Mark Iadicola, William E. Luecke, Joseph D. McColskey

The Quantitative Tools for Condition Assessment of Aging Infrastructure Workshop was held May 4-5, 2010, in Boulder, Colorado. It was organized by a team of...

Disaster Resilience: A Guide to the Literature

October 13, 2010

Author(s)

Stanley W. Gilbert

Although there is a great deal of high-quality information available on resilience-related topics hazard assessment, vulnerability assessment, risk assessment...

Further Studies of Bootstrap Variability for ROC Analysis on Large Datasets

October 11, 2010

Author(s)

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

The nonparametric two-sample bootstrap is successfully applied to computing the measurement uncertainties in receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis on...

Validation of Two-Sample Bootstrap in ROC Analysis on Large Datasets Using AURC

October 11, 2010

Author(s)

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

Sampling variability can result in uncertainties of measures. The nonparametric two-sample bootstrap method has been used to compute uncertainties of measures...

Practical Combinatorial Testing

October 7, 2010

Author(s)

David R. Kuhn, Raghu N. Kacker, Yu Lei

Combinatorial testing can help detect problems like this early in the testing life cycle. The key insight underlying t-way combinatorial testing is that not...

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