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NIST Pubs

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...

An Octacalcium Phosphate Forming Cement

Author(s)
Milenko Markovic, Laurence C. Chow
The osteoconductive and possibly osteoinductive characteristics of OCP increased the interest in preparation of bone graft materials that contain OCP in its...

Properties of Injectable Apatite-Forming Premixed Cements

Author(s)
Yasushi Shimada, Laurence Chow, Shozo Takagi, Junji Tagami
A previously reported, premixed calcium phosphate cements (CPC) forms hydroxyapatite (HA) as the only product, but had a setting time greater than 60 min. This...

NIST Gas Hydrate Research Database and Web Dissemination Channel

Author(s)
Kenneth G. Kroenlein, Vladimir Diky, Robert D. Chirico, Andrei F. Kazakov, Chris D. Muzny, Michael D. Frenkel
To facilitate advances in application of technologies pertaining to gas hydrates, a freely available data resource containing experimentally-derived information...
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