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An Ontology for Assembly Representation

July 1, 2007

Author(s)

Xenia Fiorentini, Iacopo Gambino, V.C. Liang, Sebti Foufou, Sudarsan Rachuri, Mahesh Mani, Conrad E. Bock

Mechanical assemblies are systems composed of modules that are either subassemblies or parts. Traditionally an assembly information model contains information...

Measurements of Heat and Combustion Products in Reduced-Scale Ventilation-Limited Compartment Fires

July 1, 2007

Author(s)

Matthew Bundy, Anthony Hamins, Erik 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...

Advancing Problem Definition and Concept Generation for Improved Product Life Cycle Management

July 1, 2007

Author(s)

Eswaran Subrahmanian, Yoram Reich

Large engineering projects have become the norm with new additional requirements arising from the point of view of life cycle management of the product...

NIST Measurement Services: cw Laser Power and Energy Calibrations at NIST

July 1, 2007

Author(s)

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...

Data Exchange of Parametric CAD Models Using ISO 10303-108

July 1, 2007

Author(s)

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...

Modeling of Photochemical Reactions in a Focused Laser Beam

July 1, 2007

Author(s)

Fern Y. Hunt, Adolfas Gaigalas, Lili Wang

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...

A Scheme for PIV Visual Card Topography

June 29, 2007

Author(s)

William I. MacGregor, Teresa T. Schwarzhoff, Ketan Mehta

[Superseded. Incorporated into FIPS 201-2 (August 2013): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=914530] The purpose of this document is to...

Forensic Techniques for Cell Phones

June 27, 2007

Author(s)

Shirley M. Radack

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...

Effects of Scanner Height on Fingerprint Capture

June 27, 2007

Author(s)

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...

Information Security and Assurance Metrics (ISAM) A Framework for Defining Security, Assurance, and Associated Technical Metrics

June 25, 2007

Author(s)

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...

Common Industry Specification for Usability --Requirements

June 13, 2007

Author(s)

Mary F. Theofanos

.The Common Industry Specification for Usability - Requirements (CISU-R) helps usability professionals, product managers, and others working in product design...

Concepts of Operations (CONOPS) for the Evaluation of Latent Fingerprint Technologies (ELFT)

June 12, 2007

Author(s)

Vladimir N. Dvornychenko, Brian J. Cochran, Patrick J. Grother, Michael D. Indovina, Craig I. Watson

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is conducting a series of tests for evaluating the state of the art in Automated Latent Fingerprint...

Towards Development of an ISO Container to Spreader Bar Sensor System

June 12, 2007

Author(s)

Richard J. Norcross

This report describes a sensor system that determines the relative pose between a crane spreader and an ISO container. The sensor system supports efforts to...

3-D Segmentation and Motion Estimation of Range Data for Crash Prevention

June 6, 2007

Author(s)

Hamid Gharavi

In this paper we present a 3-D object segmentation and motion estimation scheme of range video data for crash prevention applications. The segmentation is based...

Comparison of Calibration Methods for Tristimulus Colorimeters

June 1, 2007

Author(s)

J L. Gardner

Uncertainties in source color measurements with a tristimulus colorimeter are estimated for calibration factors determined based on a known source spectral...

Acoustic Eigenvalues of a Quasispherical Resonator: Second Order Shape Perturbation Theory for Arbitrary Modes

June 1, 2007

Author(s)

J B. Mehl

The boundary-shape formalism of Morse and Ingard is applied to the acoustic modes of a deformed spherical resonator (quasisphere) with rigid boundaries. For...

Computational Model of Dissipation of Oxygen From an Outward Leak of a Closed-Circuit Breathing Device (NIST TN 1484)

June 1, 2007

Author(s)

Kathryn M. Butler

Closed-circuit breathing devices recycle exhaled air after scrubbing carbon dioxide and adding make-up oxygen from a tank of pure oxygen. Use of this equipment...

Dissemination of 3D Visualizations of Complex Function Data for the NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions

June 1, 2007

Author(s)

Bonita V. Saunders, Qiming Wang, Sanford P. Ressler

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is developing a digital library to replace the widely used National Bureau of Standards Handbook of...

From B-Spline Mesh Generation to Effective Visualizations for the NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions

June 1, 2007

Author(s)

Bonita V. Saunders, Qiming Wang

We discuss the use of tensor product B-splines to generate grids, or meshes, to facilitate the plotting of high level mathematical functions for the National...

Guidelines on Cell Phone Forensics

May 30, 2007

Author(s)

Wayne Jansen, Richard Ayers

[Superseded by SP 800-101 Rev. 1 (May 2014): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=915021] Forensic specialists periodically encounter...

Securing Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Systems

May 17, 2007

Author(s)

Karen A. Scarfone

Radio frequency identification (RFID) is a form of automatic identification and data capture technology that uses electric or magnetic fields at radio...

Tenth Annual Report on Federal Agency Use of Voluntary Consensus Standards and Conformity Assessment

May 11, 2007

Author(s)

Mary F. Donaldson, M B. Moore

The U.S. Department of Commerce s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) presents this summary report for the Office of Management and Budget...

Workshop Objectives (NIST SP 1051)

May 3, 2007

Author(s)

Rodney A. Bryant

There is a need for real-time identification of hazards to enable selection of appropriate respiratory protection for firefighters. The challenge is to transfer...

Quality Summarization, Recommendations on Biometric Quality Summarization across the Application Domain

May 3, 2007

Author(s)

Elham Tabassi, Patrick J. Grother

This document is a set of recommendations to users of biometric quality assessment algorithms. In particular it is concerned with aggregation of quality values...

Analysis of Pipeline Steel Corrosion Data

May 2, 2007

Author(s)

Richard E. Ricker

Currently, the U.S. has over 3.7 million kilometers (2.3 million miles) of pipelines crossing the country transporting natural gas and hazardous liquids from...

Verification and Validation of Selected Fire Models for Nuclear Power Plant Applications. Volume 5. Consolidated Fire Growth and Smoke Transport Model (CFAST) (NUREG-1824)

May 1, 2007

Author(s)

Richard D. Peacock, Paul A. Reneke

As the use of fire modeling tools increases in support of day-to-day nuclear power plant (NPP) applications including fire risk studies, the importance of...

Verification and Validation of Selected Fire Models for Nuclear Power Plant Applications. Volume 2. Experimental Uncertainty (NUREG 1824)

May 1, 2007

Author(s)

Anthony P. Hamins, Kevin B. McGrattan

The purpose of this volume is to provide a means for quantitative comparison of model simulations and measurements. The methodology employed follows the...

Data Format for the Interchange of Fingerprint, Facial, & Other Biometric Information (ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2007)

May 1, 2007

Author(s)

R. McCabe, Elaine M. Newton

Defines the content, format, and units of measurement for the exchange of fingerprint, palmprint, facial/mugshot, scar, mark, & tattoo (SMT), iris, and other...

Visualization and Modeling of Smoke Transport Over Landscape Scales

May 1, 2007

Author(s)

Glenn P. Forney, William E. Mell

Computational tools have been developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for modeling fire spread and smoke transport. These tools...

Energy Price Indices and Discount Factors for Life-Cycle Cost Analysis April 2007: Annual Supplement to NIST Handbook 135 and NBS Special Publication 709

May 1, 2007

Author(s)

Amy S. Rushing, Barbara C. Lippiatt

This is the April 2007 edition of energy price indices and discount factors for performing life-cycle cost analyses of energy and water conservation and...

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