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The roughly forty staff and guest scientists in the Electromagnetic Technology Division take great pride in bringing you this brief report on recent progress in
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The NIST Optoelectronics Division provides measurement technology, standards, and traceability for the optoelectronics industry. This document describes the
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This report addresses the thermal environment of the Howard StreetTunnel in Baltimore, Maryland, following the derailment in July 2001of a freight train and the
This ITL Bulletin summarizes NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-45, Guidelines on Electronic Mail Security, September 2002, which helps federal agencies improve
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Experimental results are presented for a well-characterized, droplet-laden homogenous turbulent flow field around a cylindrical obstacle. Liquid agent transport