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NIST Pubs

Occupant Behavior in a High-rise Office Building Fire

Author(s)
Erica D. Kuligowski, Bryan L. Hoskins
Survey responses from occupants involved in a 32-story high-rise building evacuation during an actual fire were collected and analyzed to study the pre...

IUPAC-NIST Solubility Data Series

Author(s)
Allan H. Harvey, Mark Salomon
This is an editorial highlighting the IUPAC-NIST Solubility Data Series, which is published in JPCRD and produced by the IUPAC Subcommittee on Solubility and...

Certification of Three NIST Renewal Soil Standard Reference Materials® for Element Content: SRM 2709a San Joaquin Soil, SRM 2710a Montana Soil I, and SRM 2711a Montana Soil II

Author(s)
Elizabeth A. Mackey, Christopher S. Johnson, Richard M. Lindstrom, Stephen E. Long, Anthony F. Marlow, Karen E. Murphy, Rick L. Paul, Rachel S. Popelka-Filcoff, Savelas A. Rabb, John R. Sieber, Rabia Oflaz, Bryan E. Tomlin, Laura J. Wood, James H. Yen, Lee L. Yu, Rolf L. Zeisler, S. A. Wilson, M. G. Adams, Z. A. Brown, P. L. Lamothe, J. E. Taggart, C. Jones, J. Nebelsick
For the past 20 y, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has provided three soil Standard Reference Materials certified for element content: SRM...

Precision and Accuracy in Scientific Imaging

Author(s)
Russell A. Kirsch
Digital images are commonly used to represent scientific data. Typically, high resolution images with many square pixels are considered to be necessary under...

Study of Proposed Internet Congestion-Control Mechanisms

Author(s)
Kevin L. Mills, James J. Filliben, Dong Y. Cho, Edward J. Schwartz, Daniel I. Genin
This study describes a coherent set of modeling and analysis methods to investigate the behavior of large distributed systems. The methods are applied to...

An Other-Race Effect for Face Recognition Algorithms

Author(s)
P J. Phillips, Alice J. O'Toole, Abhijit Narvekar, Fang Jiang, Julianne Ayadd
Psychology research has shown that human face recognition is more accurate for faces of one�s own race than for faces of other races. In recent years, interest...

Multiple Encounter Dataset I (MEDS-I)

Author(s)
Craig I. Watson
In December, 2008, the FBI provided MITRE with an extract of submissions of deceased persons. The submissions contain face images of subjects with multiple...

Overview of the TREC-2009 Blog Track

Author(s)
Ian M. Soboroff, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
In TREC 2009, the Blog track has been markedly revamped with the use of a new and larger sample of the blogosphere, cal led Blogs08, which has a 13-month...

Estimating Volumes of Near-spherical Molded Artifacts

Author(s)
David E. Gilsinn, Bruce R. Borchardt, Amelia Tebbe
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is conducting research on developing reference lung cancer cancer lesions, called phantoms, to test computed tomography...

Report on Residential Fireground Field Experiments

Author(s)
Jason D. Averill, Lori Moore-Merrell, Adam M. Barowy, Robert Santos, Richard D. Peacock, Kathy Notarianni, Doug Wissoker
Over the past three decades, fire department response has expanded from fire prevention and fire suppression to include multiple other community services such...

NIST Calibration Services for Hydrometers.

Author(s)
John D. Wright, Vern E. Bean
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides calibration services for hydrometers used to measure liquid density. Hydrometers with scales...
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