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The MINEX II evaluation plan instantiates a complete mechanism for the measure of speed and the core algorithmic capabilities of fingerprint matching algorithms...
Concurrent engineering depends on clear communication between all members of the development process. As that communication becomes more and more complex --...
Smokeview is a software tool designed to visualize numerical calculations generated by fire models such as the Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS), a computational...
Aircraft fire suppression applications inherently demanding performance requirements, made all the more challenging by low temperature conditions, physical...
William D. Davis, R Vettori, Paul A. Reneke, L D. Brassell, David G. Holmberg, Jodi Kostecki, Jessica Kratchman
On July 26, 2005, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) conducted a workshop consisting of fire service and fire safety personnel that had...
William D. Davis, David G. Holmberg, Paul A. Reneke, L D. Brassell, R Vettori
On September 22, 2005 the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) conducted a demonstration of two prototype tactical decision aid computer...
The BEES (Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability) version 4.0 software implements a rational, systematic technique for selecting environmentally...
The 2004 Construction Users Roundtable (CURT) report, Collaboration, Integrated Information, and the Project Life Cycle in Building Design, Construction and...
Marti Frank, Hannah Friedman, Kristin Heinemeier, Cory Toole, David Claridge, Natascha S. Milesi-Ferretti, Philip Haves
This report documents the findings of a review of the state of the art in the commissioning of low energy buildings. The purpose of this report is threefold: 1)...
Most commonly occurring images f(x,y) are not smoothly differentiable functions of the variables x and y. Rather, these images display edges, localized sharp...
Jon Geist, Jayna J. Shah, Mulpuri Rao, Michael Gaitan
Simple sets of equations have been derived to describe the absorption of microwave power in threeregion, lossy transmission lines in terms of S-parameter...
The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) plays a critical role in the effective operation of the Internet. BGP is used to update routing information between major...
D. Richard Kuhn, Kotikalapudi Sriram, Douglas Montgomery
This document introduces the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), explains its importance to the internet, and provides a set of best practices that can help in...
This report documents the export controlled distribution of biometric image software (NBIS-EC). The NBIS-EC software is organized into two major packages: 1...
1. Table 23-2-1-(1.10292)-db: Pages db-5172.0 and db-5172.1 New table for 2,5-dimethyl-5-hexen-3-yn-2-ol containing the density for the real fluid at selected...
Andrei F. Kazakov, Chris Muzny, Robert D. Chirico, Vladimir Diky, Becky A. Stevenson, Michael D. Frenkel
WTT - Lite Edition, a Web version of the TRC Thermodynamic Tables, represents a collection of critically evaluated thermodynamic property data for 150 commonly...
Stephen Knight, Joaquin (. Martinez, Michele L. Buckley
The microelectronics industry supplies vital components to the electronics industry and to the U.S. economy, enabling rapid improvements in productivity and in...
Raman measurements are proposed as a non-destructive method for wafer acceptance tests of carrier density. The interpretation of Raman spectra to determine the...
Mechanical assemblies are systems composed of modules that are either subassemblies or parts. Traditionally an assembly information model contains information...
Matthew F. Bundy, Anthony P. Hamins, Erik L. Johnsson, Sung C. Kim, Gwon Ko, David B. Lenhert
A series of new reduced-scale compartment fire experiments were conducted, which included local measurements of temperature and species composition. The...
Large engineering projects have become the norm with new additional requirements arising from the point of view of life cycle management of the product...
Joshua A. Hadler, Christopher L. Cromer, John H. Lehman
This document describes a calibration service for absolute laser power and energy measurements of laser power meters and detectors used with continuous wave...
Junhwan Kim, Mike Pratt, Raj G. Iyer, Ram D. Sriram
Modern CAD systems generate feature-based product shape models with parameterization and constraints. Until recently, standards for CAD data exchange among...
This paper presents a mathematical model of photodegradation of fluorophores passing through a laser beam. The beam is focused on the sample and thus the power...
The data that is captured on mobile phones can be a source of valuable information to organizations that are investigating crimes, policy violations and other...
Mary Theofanos, Shahram Orandi, Ross J. Micheals, Brian Stanton, Nien F. Zhang
Although there is widespread deployment of biometric technologies such as fingerprint systems, little attention is being paid to the human-computer interaction...
Alicia Clay Jones, Jaime Montemayor, William Blackert, David Carman, Anusha Saksena, Paul Schuster, David Silberberg
This report summarizes the results of interviews with a multi-disciplinary group of experts who share an interest in information security and assurance metrics...
.The Common Industry Specification for Usability - Requirements (CISU-R) helps usability professionals, product managers, and others working in product design...