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Major U.S. Cities Using National Standard Fire Hydrants, One Century After the Great Baltimore Fire

August 1, 2004

Author(s)

Momar D. Seck, D D. Evans

Fire Equipment responding from different cities to the Great Baltimore Fire in 1904 were hampered or rendered useless by the incompatibility of hose and fire...

User's Guide for Smokeview Version 4.0 - A Tool for Visualizing Fire Dynamics Simulation Data

August 1, 2004

Author(s)

Glenn P. Forney, Kevin B. McGrattan

Smokeview is a software tool designed to visualize numerical calculations generated by the NIST Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS), a computational fluid dynamics...

Developing Frequency-Domain Models for Nonlinear Microwave Devices Based on Large-Signal Measurements

August 1, 2004

Author(s)

Jeffrey Jargon, Kuldip Gupta, Donald C. DeGroot

In this paper, we introduce nonlinear large-signal scattering parameters, a new type of frequency-domain mapping that related incident and reflected signals. A...

PDA Forensic Tools: an Overview and Analysis

August 1, 2004

Author(s)

Richard Ayers, Wayne Jansen

Adequate user authentication is a persistent problem, particularly with mobile devices such as Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), which tend to be highly...

Proceedings of the Biometric Consortium Conference 2003, Vol 1, No 2)

August 1, 2004

Author(s)

Fernando L. Podio, J S. Dunn

This document contains the proceedings from the 2003 Biometric Consortium Conference held September 22-24, 2003, in Arlington, Virginia. The conference provides...

Metric Mapping Concepts for TIA

August 1, 2004

Author(s)

Michelle P. Steves, Jean C. Scholtz

In this paper, we present a metrics framework and the underlying concepts that were used to help structure a series of evaluations of software tools to support...

Inputs and Outputs in PSL

August 1, 2004

Author(s)

Conrad Bock, Michael Gruninger

Inputs and outputs are ubiquitous in flow modeling, including popular programming languages. This paper examines how inputs and outputs can be formalized in the...

Integrated Supply Chain Simulation System - A Design Specification for a Generic Supply Chain Simulator

August 1, 2004

Author(s)

Shigeki Umeda, Yung-Tsun Lee

This paper describes a design specification for a generic, supply-chain-simulation system. The proposed simulation system is based on schedule-driven and stock...

PC Modeling and Simulation Guidelines: Volume 1 - Overview

August 1, 2004

Author(s)

Charles R. McLean, Frank H. Riddick

The Navy is preparing to make significant investments in personal computer (PC) simulation-based learning systems. Presenting learning material in various...

The NIST Road Network Database: Version 1.0

July 30, 2004

Author(s)

Craig I. Schlenoff, Stephen B. Balakirsky, Anthony J. Barbera, Christopher J. Scrapper Jr, Jerome G. Ajot, Eric Hui, M Paredes

For an autonomous vehicle to be able to navigate a road network, it must be aware of and must respond appropriately to any object it encounters. This includes...

The NIST Road Network Database: Version 1.0

July 30, 2004

Author(s)

Craig I. Schlenoff, Stephen B. Balakirsky, Tony Barbera, Christopher J. Scrapper Jr, Jerome G. Ajot, Eric Hui

For an autonomous vehicle to be able to navigate a road network, it must be aware of and must respond appropriately to any object it encounters. This includes...

Program: 2004 Boulder Laboratories Postdoctoral Poster Symposium

July 15, 2004

Author(s)

Joe W. Magee

In honor of both the Boulder Labs 50 Year Anniversary and 50 years of the NIST/National Research Council Postdoctoral Associateship Program, we will hold the...

Guide for Mapping Types of Information and Information Systems to Security Categories

July 1, 2004

Author(s)

William C. Barker

This bulletin summarizes NIST Special Publication 800-60, "Guide for Mapping Types of Information and Information Systems to Security Categories," which was...

Cook County Administration Building Fire, 69 West Washington, Chicago, Illinois, October 17, 2003: Heat Release Rate Experiments and FDS Simulations

July 1, 2004

Author(s)

Daniel M. Madrzykowski, William D. Walton

On October 17, 2003, in the Cook County Administration Building, 69 West Washington, Chicago, Illinois, a fire resulted in six fatalities and several injuries...

An Assessment of Passive Microwave and Millimeterwave Sensors for the Standoff Detection of Chemical Agents

July 1, 2004

Author(s)

Gerald T. Fraser, Angela R. Hight Walker

Fire Dynamics Simulator (Version 4) - User's Guide

July 1, 2004

Author(s)

Kevin B. McGrattan

Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) is a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelof fire-driven fluid flow. The software described in this document solves numerically...

Triangular Meshing and Volume Determination

July 1, 2004

Author(s)

Christoph J. Witzgall, Geraldine Cheok

Parametric studies are reported for investigating the feasibility and accuracy of calculating volumes from LADAR scans of artifacts. The TIN (=Triangulated...

Semiconductor Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics Programs

July 1, 2004

Author(s)

Stephen Knight, Joaquin (. Martinez, Michele L. Buckley

The microelectornics industry supplies vital components to the electronics industry and to the U.S. economy, enabling rapid improvements in productivity and in...

Electronic Authentication Guideline

June 30, 2004

Author(s)

William E. Burr, Donna F. Dodson, William T. Polk

[Superseded by NIST SP 800-63 Ver. 1.0.1 (September 2004): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=151295] This recommendation provides...

June 2004 Progress Report on the Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster (NIST SP 1000-5)

June 30, 2004

Author(s)

Sivaraj Shyam-Sunder, C Sawyer

Provides details of the technical progress made since the May 2003 progress report on the World Trade Center (WTC) Investigation. The report includes a...

Fingerprint Vendor Technology Evaluation 2003: Summary of Results and Analysis Report

June 30, 2004

Author(s)

Charles L. Wilson, Patrick J. Grother, Ross J. Micheals, S C. Otto, Craig I. Watson, R. A. Hicklin, H Korves, Brad Ulery, M Zoepfl

The Fingerprint Vendor Technology Evaluation (FpVTE) 2003 was conducted to evaluate the accuracy of fingerprint matching, identification, and verification...

International Data Series, Issue #3, 2004

June 28, 2004

Author(s)

Michael D. Frenkel

Liquid-vapor equilibria of cyclohelxanol + 1.2-dimethylbenzene and nonane Liquid-vapor equilibria and excess Gibbs energy of I-hexene + benzene, cyclohexane...

Studies of One-to-One Fingerprint Matching With Vendor SDK Matchers

June 24, 2004

Author(s)

Craig I. Watson, Charles L. Wilson, Karen Marshall, Michael D. Indovina, Robert D. Snelick

NIST has conducted testing of one-to-one SDK (Software Development Kit) based COTS fingerprint matching systems to evaluate the accuracy of one-to-one matching...

Gas Flowmeter Calibrations with the 34 L and 677 L PVTt Standards

June 23, 2004

Author(s)

John D. Wright, Aaron N. Johnson, Michael R. Moldover, Gina M. Kline

This document provides a description of the 34 L and 677 L pressure, volume, temperature, and time (PVTt) primary gas flow standards operated by the National...

Environmentally Acceptable Flame Extinguishants

June 23, 2004

Author(s)

J D. Mather, R E. Tapscott

Engineering Principles for IT Security (A Baseline for Achieving Security), Revision A

June 21, 2004

Author(s)

G Stoneburner, Clark Hayden, Alexis Feringa

The Engineering Principles for Information Technology (IT) Security (EP-ITS) presents a list of system-level security principles to be considered in the design...

Security Considerations in the Information System Development Life Cycle

June 16, 2004

Author(s)

Timothy Grance, Joan Hash, Marc Stevens

[Superseded by SP 800-64 Rev. 2 (October 2008): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=890097] The need to provide protection for federal...

TRC Thermodynamic Tables - Nonhydrocarbons, Supplement 91, 2004

June 14, 2004

Author(s)

Michael D. Frenkel

New table for octyl methanoate containing the density for the real fluid at selected temperatures and pressures; New table for propyl ethanoate containing the...

Guide for Mapping Types of Information and Information Systems to Security Categories (2 vols.)

June 10, 2004

Author(s)

William C. Barker, Annabelle Lee

[Superseded by SP 800-60 Rev. 1 (August 2008): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=152106] Title III of the E-Government Act, titled...

Pore Characterization in Low-k Dielectric Films Using X-Ray Reflectivity: X-Ray Porosimetry

June 1, 2004

Author(s)

Christopher L. Soles, V. J. Lee, Eric K. Lin, Wen-Li Wu

X-ray porosimetry is developed as a technique for characterizing the pore structure in thin, low dielectric constant films supported on a silicon wafer. X-ray...

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