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The 30/60 MHz Tuned Radiometer - The NIST System for Noise Temperature Measurements

May 1, 2002

Author(s)

Chriss A. Grosvenor, Robert L. Billinger

The NIST Noise Project has completed reconstruction of their 30/60 MHz tuned, coaxial (Type N) radiometer system. This system is used at low frequencies where...

An Investigation of Catalogued Product Development Information at a Major Consumer Products Company

May 1, 2002

Author(s)

T J. Hoffman, Steven Shooter, Simon Szykman, Steven J. Fenves

A study of product development practices at a major consumer product manufacturer, referred to as Company X, was undertaken to compare its methods to an earlier...

A Partnership for Advanced Measurement Standards: The Calibration Coordination Group (CCG) of the Department of Defense and The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

April 24, 2002

Author(s)

Gerome R. Reeve, Raju V. Datla

A short history of the relationship between the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Calibration Coordination Group (CCG) of the...

Techniques for System and Data Recovery

April 1, 2002

Author(s)

William E. Burr, Joan Hash

The key asset in Federal agencies today is the information and data used to implement, sustain and maintain critical government programs and operations. Current...

Refrigerant Flow Through Flexible Short-Tube Orifices

April 1, 2002

Author(s)

William V. Payne, Y C. Kim, Dennis L. O'Neal, Mohsen Farzad

Flexible short-tube orifices were designed to decrease their diameter as the pressure differential across them increases under high outdoor temperatures. A...

Manual for Seismic and Windstorm Evaluation of Existing Concrete Buildings for Dominican Republic (NIST IR 6867)

April 1, 2002

Author(s)

Hai S. Lew, Emil Simiu, John L. Gross

This manual is prepared for seismic and winds hazards evaluation of reinforced concrete buildings in the Dominican Republic. The evaluation procedures presented...

Handbook 112, Examination Procedure Outlines for Commercial Weighing and Measuring Devices: A Manual for Weights and Measures Officials

April 1, 2002

Author(s)

Gloria D. Lee

This handbook contains examination procedure outlines (EPOs) for the field evaluation of commercial weighing and measuring devices. It includes inspection and...

Energy Price Indices and Discount Factors for Life-Cycle Cost Analysis - April 2002

April 1, 2002

Author(s)

S Fuller, A Boyles

This is the April 2001 edition of energy price indices and discount factors for performing life-cycle cost analyses of energy and water conservation and...

The Tenth Text Retrieval Conference, TREC- 2001

April 1, 2002

Author(s)

Ellen M. Voorhees, Donna K. Harman

TREC 2001 is the latest in a series of workshops designed to foster research in information retrieval and related tasks. This year's conference consisted of six...

Exploring Collective Dynamics in Communication Networks

April 1, 2002

Author(s)

J Yuan, Kevin L. Mills

Argon I Lines Produced in a Hollow Cathode Source, 332 nm to 5865 nm

April 1, 2002

Author(s)

W Whaling, W H. Anderson, M T. Carle, J W. Brault, H A. Zarem

We report precision measurements by Fourier transform spectroscopy of the vacuum wavenumber, line width, and relative signal strength of 927 lines in the AR I...

A Knowledge-Navigation System for Dimensional Metrology

April 1, 2002

Author(s)

Howard T. Moncarz

Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) is a method, based on dimensional metrology, to specify a part so that it will meet its design intent. GD&T is...

Programs of the Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory 2002

April 1, 2002

Author(s)

Lisa J. Fronczek, Bessmarie A. Young

The National Institute of Standards and Technology's Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory (MEL) strengthens the U.S. economy and improves the quality of life by...

NIST Metric Pyramid

April 1, 2002

Author(s)

J B. McCracken

Paper cut-out pyramid, 10 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm, listing metric conversion information on each face covering units of length, mass or weight, area or surface...

TREC-2001 Interactive Track Report

April 1, 2002

Author(s)

William Hersh, Paul D. Over

In the TREC 2001 Interactive Track six research teams carried out observational studies which increased the realism of the searching by allowing the use of data...

The TREC-2001 Filtering Track Report

April 1, 2002

Author(s)

S E. Robertson, Ian Soboroff

The TREC-10 filtering track measures the ability of systems to build persistent user profiles which successfully separate relevant and non-relevant documents...

The NIST Design Repository Project: Project Overview and Implementation Design

April 1, 2002

Author(s)

Ram D. Sriram, Simon Szykman

The NIST Design Repository Project involves research toward providing a technical foundation for the creation of design repositories? repositories of...

BEES 2.0: Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability Peer Review Report

April 1, 2002

Author(s)

M A. Curran, J G. Overly, P Hofstetter, R Muller, Barbara C. Lippiatt

This report documents the results of a technical review of the BEES (Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability) 2.0b software and user manual. BEES...

Combinatorial Methods for Investigations in Polymer Materials Science

April 1, 2002

Author(s)

J C. Meredith, A P. Smith, A J. Crosby, Eric J. Amis, Alamgir Karim

Combinatorial methods of drug discovery in pharmaceuticals research are well known and more recent applications have led to the discovery and synthesis of new...

Intelligent Systems Annotated Bibliography and SurveyPart I. Systems with Intelligent Controllers

March 29, 2002

Author(s)

Alex Meystel

In Part I of this report, a place of Intelligent Control in the variety of systems is discussed. In many cases it amounts to transforming the system into an...

A Comparison of the CMM-driver Specification Release #1.9 with the I++ DME-Interface Release 0.9

March 29, 2002

Author(s)

Thomas Kramer, John A. Horst

This comparison focuses on the interface between high-level inspection instruction execution and low-level inspection instruction execution.This interface is...

The Keyed-Hash Message Authentication Code (HMAC)

March 6, 2002

Author(s)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Elaine Barker, Quynh Dang

[Superseded by FIPS 198-1(July 2008): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=901614] This standard describes a keyed-hash message...

FY2001 Annual Report--Next Generation Fire Suppression Technology Program (NGP)

March 1, 2002

Author(s)

Richard G. Gann

The Department of Defenses Next Generation Fire Suppression Technology Program (NGP) has completed its fifth year of research with a goal to develop and...

Correlation for the Vapor Pressure of Heavy Water From the Triple Point to the Critical Point

March 1, 2002

Author(s)

Allan H. Harvey, Eric W. Lemmon

A new formulation has been developed to represent the vapor pressure of heavy water (D 20) from its triple point to its critical point. This work takes...

Comparison of CFAST and FDS for Fire Simulation With the HDR T51 and T52 Tests

March 1, 2002

Author(s)

J E. Floyd

This work uses three methods: hand calculations, a zone model (CFAST), and a computational fluid dynamics code (FDS), to examine two fire tests from the HDR...

The Visible Cement Data Set

March 1, 2002

Author(s)

Dale P. Bentz, S Mizell, Steven G. Satterfield, J E. Devaney, William L. George, Peter M. Ketcham, James R. Graham, J E. Porterfield, Daniel A. Quenard, F A. Vallee, H Sallee, E Boller, J Baruchel

With advances in X-ray microtomography, it is now possible to obtain three-dimensional representations of a material's microstructure with a voxel size of less...

Evaluated Enthalpies of Formation of the Stable Closed Shell C1 and C2 Chlorinated Hydrocarbons

March 1, 2002

Author(s)

Jeffrey A. Manion

Experimental data on the enthalpies of formation of chloromethanes, chloroethynes, chloroethenes, and chloroethanes are critically reviewed. Enthalpy of...

Persistent Organochlorine Pollutants and Elements Determined in Tissues of Rough-Toothed Dolphins (Steno bredanensis) Banked from a Mass Stranding Event

March 1, 2002

Author(s)

John R. Kucklick, Paul R. Becker, W D. Struntz, Elizabeth A. Mackey, Barbara J. Porter, Michele M. Schantz, Rabia Oflaz, Michael Epstein, Stephen A. Wise, T K. Rowles, W E. McFee, M K. Stolen

Surge Protection in Low-Voltage AC Power Circuits - An Anthology Part 2: Development of Standards - Reality Checks

March 1, 2002

Author(s)

Francois D. Martzloff

Part 2 of a multi-part anthology. The previously published papers collected in this Part 2 were written primarily as contributions to the development of IEEE...

Evaluation of the Liquid-filled Camera for Measuring Shadow Detail Part I: Sensor Evaluation

March 1, 2002

Author(s)

Paul A. Boynton

The simulated-eye-design (SED) camera is an attempt to use the technology inherent in the human eye to enable light measurements of complicated objects and...

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