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Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is a concept that takes into account that the development of a product is influenced by knowledge from various stakeholders
This report presents estimates of the costs and benefits associated with transitioning from Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) to Internet Protocol Version 6
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The Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002 has given NIST a key role in helping to realize nationwide improvements in voting systems by January 2006. NIST
The Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002 has given NIST a key role in helping to realize nationwide improvements in voting systems by January 2006. NIST
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The Terabyte Track explores how adhoc retrieval and evaluationtechniques can scale to terabyte-sized collections. For TREC 2004, ourfirst year, 50 new adhoc
Christopher L. Holloway, Galen H. Koepke, Dennis G. Camell, Catherine A. Remley, Dylan F. Williams, Susan A. Schima, Seturnino Canales
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Christopher E. Dabrowski, Kevin L. Mills, Stephen Quirolgico
Future commercial software systems will be based on distributed service-oriented architectures in which applications are composed dynamically from remote
Linda D. Crown, Kenneth S. Butcher, Juana S. Williams, L T. Sebring, R C. Suiter
Handbook 44 was first published in 1949, having been preceded by similar handbooks of various designations and in several forms. This 2006 edition was developed
We examine the performance of multimodal biometric authentication systems using state-of-the-art Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) fingerprint and face biometric
We have implemented a quantum key distribution (QKD) system with polarization encoding at 850 nm over 1 km of optical fiber. The high-speed management of the
This report provides experimental and computer modeling results for Portland Cement Proficiency Samples 151 and 152 issued by the Cement and Concrete Reference
Mehdi S. Zarghamee, Yasuo Kitane, Omer O. Erbay, Therese P. McAllister, John L. Gross
Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc. (SGH) developed global models of the World Trade Center (WTC) towers using finite elements to gain an understanding of the roles
This report documents maintenance and modifications that were made to the structural systems of World Trade Center (WTC) 1,2, and 7. Included are the Port
This report was prepared to support the analysis of building and fire codes and standards of the National Institute of Standards and Technology World Trade
Published stories of the survivor's of the World Trade Center (WTC) attacks were collected to document the event and as background material to guide the
Steven W. Kirkpatrick, Robert T. Bocchieri, Fahim Sadek, R A. MacNeill, S Holmes, B D. Peterson, R W. Cilke, C Navarro
The objective of this report was to analyze the aircraft impacts into each of the World Trade Center (WTC) towers to provide the following: (1) estimates of
This report was prepared to support the analysis of building and fire codes and standards of the National Institute of Standards and Technology World Trade