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Anthony P. Hamins, Matthew F. Bundy, C B. Oh, Stephen P. Fuss, J. Logue
This final report describes the study that has been supported through the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) microgravity grants program from...
Economic tools are needed to help the owners and managers of buildings, industrial facilities, and other critical infrastructure to select cost-effective...
The development of a simulation model has always been a challenging task; it is time-consuming and requires expertise. Furthermore, most customized simulation...
John G. Hagedorn, Joy Dunkers, Steven G. Satterfield, Adele Peskin, John T. Kelso, Judith E. Terrill
This paper describes a set of tools for performing measurements of objects in a virtual reality based immersive visualization environment. These tools enable...
Jolene Splett, Christopher N. McCowan, Hariharan K. Iyer, Chih-Ming Wang
The purpose of this recommended practice guide is to demonstrate how to determine the uncertainty associated with mean absorbed energy of specimens tested on a...
The Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) provides an open framework for communicating the characteristics and impacts of IT vulnerabilities. The National...
The use of molecules in electronic circuit has been the subject of recent study. Experimentally, two-terminal, molecular rectifiers have been demonstrated...
Anoop Singhal, Theodore Winograd, Karen A. Scarfone
The advance of Web services technologies promises to have far-reaching effects on the Internet and enterprise networks. Web services based on the eXtensible...
Iris recognition has long been widely regarded as a highly accurate biometric, despite the lack of independent, large-scale testing of its performance. Recently...
This bulletin provides information on current and emerging standards that have been developed for Web services, and provides background information on the most...
For firefighters and first response crews, the facial respirator is the first and last defense against hazardous and potentially harmful airborne agents. That...
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...
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 2004 Construction Users Roundtable (CURT) report, Collaboration, Integrated Information, and the Project Life Cycle in Building Design, Construction and...
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...