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The Precision Engineering Division (PED) is one of five divisions of the Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory (MEL)at the National Institute of Standards and...
Kirk D. Rice, Michael A. Riley, Amanda L. Forster, Steven D. Phillips, Craig M. Shakarji, Daniel S. Sawyer, Christopher J. Blackburn, Bruce R. Borchardt, James J. Filliben
Anthony P. Hamins, Francine K. Amon, Jason D. Averill, Nelson P. Bryner, David T. Butry, Rick D. Davis, Richard G. Gann, Jeffrey W. Gilman, Samuel L. Manzello, Randall J. McDermott, William E. Mell, Nathan D. Marsh
The Innovative Fire Protection Workshop was held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on June 4 and 5, 2009. The 70 participants...
P J. Phillips, J. R. Beveridge, Bruce A. Draper, David Bolme, Geof H. Givens, Yui M. Lui
Recent studies show that face recognition in uncontrolled images remains a challenging problem, although the reasons why are less clear. Changes in illumination...
We investigate the trade-off between utility and path diversity in a model of congestion control where there can be multiple routes between two locations in a...
Joe Chalfoun, Antonio Cardone, Alden A. Dima, Michael Halter, Daniel P. Allen
In order to facilitate the extraction of quantitative data from live cell image sets, automated image analysis methods are needed. This paper presents an...
An assessment of uncertainties for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 1016 mm Guarded-Hot-Plate apparatus is presented. The uncertainties...
These specifications and tolerances are recommended as minimum requirements for standards used by state and local weights and measures officials and others in...
These specifications and tolerances are recommended as minimum requirements for standards used by state and local weights and measures officials and others in...
This document constitutes the 2-Year Road Map FY 2009 - 2011 for the Office of Law Enforcement Standards (OLES), Electronic and Electrical Engineering...
This document constitutes the ten-year Strategic Plan for FY2009-2018 for the Office of Law Enforcement Standards (OLES), Electronic and Electrical Engineering...
The production capacity of corn ethanol as a transportation fuel is experiencing rapid growth in the United States. The demand is driven by increased prices of...
This bulletin summarizes the information that was presented in NIST Interagency Report (NISTIR)7564, Directions in Security Metrics Research, by Wayne Jansen...
John L. Gross, Joseph Main, Long Phan, Fahim H. Sadek, Stephen A. Cauffman, David P. Jorgensen
This report summarizes the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) study of the collapse of the Dallas Cowboys indoor practice facility that...
Samuel L. Manzello, Seul-Hyun Park, John R. Shields, Yoshihiko Hayashi, Sayaka Suzuki
An ASTM task group on vents, organized within Subcommittee E05.14.06, External Fire Exposures, has developed a reduced scale test method (not presently a...
Kellie A. Beall, William L. Grosshandler, Sivaraj Shyam-Sunder
BFRL is involved in a wide range of scientific, engineering, and investigative work for the building and fire safety communities. We address technical...
This document approves the XTS-AES mode of the AES algorithm by reference to IEEE Std 1619-2007, subject to one additional requirement, as an option for...
Tsai Hong Hong, Elena R. Messina, Hui-Min Huang, Michael O. Shneier, Roger D. Eastman, Jane Shi, James Wells
The Dynamic Perception workshop was intended to further the development of standardized, reproducible, and portable test methods that can advance the technology...
The Blog track explores the information seeking behaviour in the blogosphere. The track was introduced in 2006 [1], with a main pilot search task, namely the...
This report summarizes the work of the Complex Systems Program within NIST s Information Technology Laboratory. The Overview presents some background material...
(1) Tbl 24-23-10-2-(1.35000)-d: Pg d-13500, New table for chloromethylsilanes for the condensed phases at one bar, or at equilibrium vapor pressure above the...
George W. Arnold, David A. Wollman, Gerald FitzPatrick, Dean Prochaska, David Holmberg, David H. Su, Allen R. Hefner Jr., Nada T. Golmie, Tanya L. Brewer, Mark Bello, Paul A. Boynton
Under the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is assigned "primary responsibility to...
Elaine B. Barker, Dennis K. Branstad, Santosh Chokhani, Miles E. Smid
On June 8 and 9, 2009, NIST held a Cryptographic Key Management (CKM) Workshop at its Gaithersburg, Maryland, campus that attracted approximately 80 people...
In packet-based video transmissions, packets loss due to channel errors may result in the loss of the whole video frame. Recently, many error concealment...
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...
A novel through-focus scanning optical microscope (TSOM - pronounced as 'tee-som') technique that produces nanometer dimensional measurement sensitivity using a...
NIST Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) are used by industry, government, and academia to ensure the highest quality measurements. This catalog lists over 1100...