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Tanya L. Brewer, Annie W. Sokol, Sheldon A. Durrant
Privilege management is large and complex, often the source of heated debate and opinion, and fraught with widely-understood, yet ill-defined terminology and
Under the auspices of contract SB134109SE0612, The NIST contracted with Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to perform a testing program designed to support
Ian M. Soboroff, Krisztian Balog, Nick Craswell, Arjen de Vries, Paul Thomas, Peter Bailey
The goal of the enterprise track is to conduct experiments with enterprise data that reflect the experiences of users in real organizations. This year, we
The objective of this study was to compare the levels of hazard created by room fires in a dormitory building with and without automatic fire sprinklers in the
A comparison has been made of the air-kerma standards for low-energy x-rays at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Physikalisch
In support of its mission to promote uniform standards of measurement throughout the country NIST received funds in 1965 to provide new standards of mass
Less fire-prone cigarettes are becoming prevalent in the marketplace, and the conventional cigarette used to test upholstered furniture and mattresses for
This report describes installation and use of the XML Schema Quality of Design Standalone testing system, or QOD Standalone. QOD Standalone is one of several
Gaurav Ameta, Mahesh Mani, Sudarsan Rachuri, Kevin W. Lyons, Shaw C. Feng, Ram D. Sriram
The objective of this research is to explore and develop a new methodology for computing carbon weight (CW) - often referred to as carbon footprint, in
Use of metric labeling on United States consumer products has a long history. Currently, the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act (FPLA) requires dual unit labeling
Contact X-ray microradiography is the current gold standard for measuring mineral densities of partially demineralized tooth specimens. The X-ray sensitive film
ASTM E 2187 has become the internationally referenced standard for designing and specifying less fire-prone cigarettes. In this test method, a lit cigarette is
Geraldine S. Cheok, Marek Franaszek, Kamel S. Saidi
The General Services Administration (GSA) has been involved in 3D imaging since the early 2000s. Since 3D imaging was a relatively new technology at that time
STEP AP210 (ISO-10303:210) is the first international standard capable of representing both ECAD and MCAD data of packaged components within a unified model. In
The purpose of this document is to extend the recommended practices for the representation of GD&T in STEP (ISO-10303) within the context of packaged electronic
Hydrogen presents several unusual fire hazards, including high leak propensity, ease of ignition, and invisible flames. This research concerns experiments
The science of understanding how biological systems operate and interact with one another (the biosciences) is increasingly important to global prosperity and
Calculations have been done to develop estimates of the fluence rate of unscattered x and gamma rays emerging from two model spheres of special nuclear material
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) developed new gamma-ray and neutron emitting sources for testing radiation detection systems. These
New technologies and research are redefining the state-of-the-art in building evacuation. The time is right to rethink the entire infrastructure of egress from
Since many household systems are fabricated out of metallic materials, changes to the household environment that accelerate corrosion rates will increase the
OMB Memorandum M-05-22 directed the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop the technical infrastructure (standards and testing)
The USG profile for IPv6 specifies requirements for host, router and network protection devices (NPD) and this document specifies the validation requirements