NIST Pubs

Technology Adoption Indicators Applied to the ATP Flow Control Machining Project

May 1, 2003

Author(s)

M H. Brown, M A. Ehlen

This report introduces technology adoption indicators (TAIs) that can be used to assess whether particular industries are likely to adopt new technologies. The

Radiometric Measurement Comparison on the Integrating Sphere Source Used to Calibrate the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and the Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+)

May 1, 2003

Author(s)

James J. Butler, Steven W. Brown, Robert D. Saunders, B. Carol Johnson, S F. Biggar, E F. Zalewski, B L. Markham, P N. Gracey, J B. Young, R Barnes

As part of a continuing effort to validate the radiometric scales assigned to integrating spheresources used in the calibration of Earth Observing System (EOS)

Dependence of Electron Density on Fermi Energy in N-type Gallium Antimonide

May 1, 2003

Author(s)

Herbert S. Bennett, Howard Hung

The majority electron density as a function of the Fermi energy is calculated in zinc Blende, n-type GaSb for donor densities between 10 16 cm -3 and 10 19 cm

The NIST Human ID Evaluation Framework

April 1, 2003

Author(s)

Ross J. Micheals, Patrick J. Grother, P J. Phillips

In this paper, we investigate the utility of static anthropometric distances as a biometric for human identification. The 3D landmark data from the CAESAR

User's Guide for Smokeview Version 3.1 - A Tool for Visualizing Fire Dynamics Simulation Data

April 1, 2003

Author(s)

Glenn P. Forney, Kevin B. McGrattan

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

LoopDA-Natural Ventilation Design and Analysis Software

April 1, 2003

Author(s)

William S. Dols, Steven J. Emmerich

The Loop Equation Design Method has been proposed for sizing ventilation airflow components of natural and hybrid ventilation systems. While the approach has

Results from Field Testing of Air Handling Unit and Variable Air Volume Box Fault Detection Tools

April 1, 2003

Author(s)

J Schein, Steven T. Bushby, Natascha S. Milesi-Ferretti, J House

Building heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC) equipment routinely fails to satisfy performance expectations envisioned at design. Such failures often

Thermal Conductivity Measurement of an Electron-Beam Physical Vapor-Deposition-Coating

April 1, 2003

Author(s)

Andrew J. Slifka, Bernard J. Filla

An industrial thermal-barrier coating designated PWA 266, processed by electron-beam physical-vapor deposition, was measured using a steady-state thermal

The Eleventh Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2002)

April 1, 2003

Author(s)

Ellen M. Voorhees

TREC 2002 is the latest in a series of workshops designed to foster research in information retrieval and related tasks. This year's conference consisted of

Overview of the TREC 2002 Novelty Track

April 1, 2003

Author(s)

Donna K. Harman

The novelty track was a new track in TREC-11. The basic task was as follows: given a TREC topic and an ordered list of relevant documents (ordered by relevance

Overview of the TREC 2002 Question Answering Track

April 1, 2003

Author(s)

Ellen M. Voorhees

The TREC question answering track is an effort to bring the benefits of large-scale evaluation to bear on the question answering problem. The track contained

Application of CFD Modeling to Room Fire Growth on Walls.

April 1, 2003

Author(s)

K M. Liang, T Ma, J G. Quintiere, D Rouson

An evaluation of the NIST FDS model was conducted with particular attention for its use in predicting flame spread on surfaces. Over the course of this

Smoke Component Yields From Room-Scale Fire Tests (NIST TN 1453)

April 1, 2003

Author(s)

Richard G. Gann, Jason D. Averill, Erik L. Johnsson, Marc R. Nyden, Richard D. Peacock

This report presents the methodology for and results from a series of room-scale fire tests to produce data on the yields of toxic products in both pre

Energy Dissipation Devices for Bridges with Steel Superstructures

April 1, 2003

Author(s)

Michael A. Riley

Recent earthquakes have clearly demonstrated the seismic vulnerability of bridges constructed with steel superstructures. The relative flexibility of these

Policy Expression and Enforcement for Handheld Devices

April 1, 2003

Author(s)

Wayne Jansen, Tom T. Karygiannis, Vladimir Korolev, Serban I. Gavrila, Michaela Iorga

The use of mobile handheld devices, such as Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and tablet computers, within the workplace is expanding rapidly. These devices

COTS Security Protection Profile - Operating Systems (CSPP-OS) (Worked Example Applying Guidance of NISTIR-6462, CSPP) Version 1.0

April 1, 2003

Author(s)

G Stoneburner

CSPP-OS provides a worked example of the guidance in NISTIR-6462 for the development of Common Criteria Protection Profiles for commercial off the shelf (COTS)

A Technical Reference for CFAST: An Engineering Tool for Estimating Fire and Smoke Transport

April 1, 2003

Author(s)

Walter W. Jones, Glenn P. Forney, Richard D. Peacock, Paul A. Reneke

CFAST is a zone model capable of predicting the environment in a multi-compartment structure subjected to a fire. It calculates the time evolving distribution

Experimental Testing of Roof to Wall Connections in Wood Frame Houses

April 1, 2003

Author(s)

Michael A. Riley, Fahim H. Sadek

The majority of residential construction in the United States is wood-frame construction. These buildings perform well under gravity loads, but considerable

Ultrasonic Evaluation Methods Applicable to Polymer Concrete Composites

April 1, 2003

Author(s)

A Garbacz, Edward Garboczi

Polymer composites (PC) appear as useful materials for repair and protection of building structures, as well as for manufacturing pre-cast elements. In the case

Interlaboratory Comparison of Magnetic Thin Film Measurements

April 1, 2003

Author(s)

F C. Da silva, Chih-Ming Wang, D P. Pappas

A potential low magnetic moment standard reference material (SRM) was studied in an interlaboratory comparison. The mean and the standard deviation of the

Characterization of an Ellipsoidal Radiometer

April 1, 2003

Author(s)

A V. Murthy, I Wetterlund, D P. DeWitt

An ellipsoidal radiometer, under development by Nils-Erik Gunners in close cooperation with the SP Swedish National Testing and Research Institute, has been

A Primary Dead-Weight Tester for Pressures (0.05-1.0) MPa

April 1, 2003

Author(s)

K. Jain, Walter J. Bowers Jr., James W. Schmidt

Recent advances in technology on two fronts, 1) the fabrication of large diameter pistons and cylinders with good geometry, and 2) the ability to measure the

The TREC-2002 Video Track Report

April 1, 2003

Author(s)

Alan Smeaton, Paul D. Over

TREC-2002 saw the second running of the Video Track, the goal of which was to promote progress in content-based retrieval from digital video via open, metrics

The TREC-2002 Filtering Track Report

April 1, 2003

Author(s)

S E. Robertson, Ian Soboroff

The TREC¿11 filtering track measures the ability of systems to build persistent user profiles which successfully separate relevant and non-relevant documents in

Characterization of Luminance Probe for Accurate Contrast Measurements in Medical Displays

March 31, 2003

Author(s)

Edward F. Kelley, Aldo Badano

Quantifying the luminance range in a medical x-ray and the electronic displays for use in radiology is difficult because of the extremely high contrasts

Security for Wireless Networks and Devices

March 27, 2003

Author(s)

Shirley M. Radack

This ITL Bulletin summarizes NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-48, Wireless Network Security, 802.11, Bluetooth, and Handheld Devices. Written by Tom

Terrain Characterization from Ground-Based LADAR

March 17, 2003

Author(s)

Christoph J. Witzgall, Geraldine S. Cheok, David E. Gilsinn

Test runs of Army Research Laboratory s (ARL) autonomous vehicle (Experimental Unmanned Vehicle, XUV) were followed by the acquisition of high resolution scans

National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP) Directory of Accredited Laboratories (2003 Edition)

March 12, 2003

Author(s)

Vanda R. White

The NVLAP Directory of Accredited Laboratories is published annually and provides a listing of laboratories accredited by the National Voluntary Laboratory

NIST Special Publication 260 Standard Reference Materials Catalog Supplement, February 2003

March 10, 2003

Author(s)

J R. Rumble, M Cellarosi

The supplement provides a brief description for over 180 new and renewal NIST Standard Reference Materials that have been released since thepublication of the

Response of Portable Particulate Monitoring Instruments to Combustion Particulates, Road Dust, and Salt Aerosols. Volume 2 (NIST SP 995)

March 1, 2003

Author(s)

Nelson P. Bryner, William D. Walton, Laurean A. DeLauter, W H. Twilley, J. V. Mullin

This study examined the response of several particulate monitoring instruments to aerosols which might be encountered during monitoring of an in situ oil spill