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Repeatability of Energy Consumption Test Results for Compact Refrigerators

September 1, 2000

Author(s)

David A. Yashar

Recently, the United States Department of Energy (DOE) has been interested in examining the current procedure that is used to measure the energy consumption of...

An Approach for Measuring Reductions in Construction Worker Illnesses and Injuries: Baseline Measures of Construction Industry Practices for the National Construction Goals

September 1, 2000

Author(s)

Robert E. Chapman

The Construction and Building Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council is developing baseline measures of current construction industry...

Metrology for Radio-Frequency Technology: A Bibliography of NIST Publications

September 1, 2000

Author(s)

Ruth-Marie Lyons

3rd Annual Electronic Book 2000 Conference and Show Changing the Fundamentals of Reading Proceedings

September 1, 2000

Author(s)

V R. McCrary

Think back to 1997, when there was hardly a mention of the concept of electronic books, or ebooks. Yes, the Internet and the Web had begun to take hold as a...

Information Technology: American National Standard for Information Systems: Data Format for the Interchange of Fingerprint, Facial, & Scar Mark & Tattoo (SMT) Information

September 1, 2000

Author(s)

R. McCabe

Defines the content, format, and units of measurement for the exchange of fingerprint, palmprint, facial/mugshot, and scar, mark, & tattoo (SMT) image...

Celebrating One Hundred Years of Chemistry at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

September 1, 2000

Author(s)

Hratch G. Semerjian, W Koch, Ellyn S. Beary, Michael S. Epstein, G B. Vasquez

Selected NIST Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory (CSTL) activities and highlights. Building on a hundred year history of technical excellence, today's...

Technical Digest, Symposium on Optical Fiber Measurements, 2000

September 1, 2000

Author(s)

Paul A. Williams, Gordon W. Day

Polarization mode dispersion (PMD), multimode fiber parameters, fiber geometry and chromatic dispersion mapping in fibers are some of the measurement issues in...

NIST Measurement Services: Measurement Assurance Program for the Spectral Density of Relative Intensity Noise of Optical Fiber Sources Near 1550 nm

September 1, 2000

Author(s)

Gregory E. Obarski, Jolene Splett

This paper provides the documentation to establish a measurement assurance program (MAP) for the spectral density of relative intensity noise (RIN) of optical...

Pulse Transition Duration Measurements and Standards at NIST -- 1975 to 1988

August 1, 2000

Author(s)

W L. Gans, N. S. Nahman, J R. Andrews, E E. Baldwin

The techniques employed by NBS from the mid 70s through 1988 for the calibration of the pulse transition duration (TD) of a fast, step-like, electrical pulse...

Security for Private Branch Exchange Systems

August 1, 2000

Author(s)

David R. Kuhn

This document provides an introduction to security for private branch exchange systems (PBXs). The primary audience is agency system administrators and others...

Guidelines to Federal Organizations on Security Assurance and Acquisition/Use of Tested/Evaluated Products

August 1, 2000

Author(s)

E Roback

Computer security assurance provides a basis for one to have confidence that security measures, both technical and operational, work as intended. Use of...

Next Generation Fire Suppression Technology Program (NGP) FY1999 Annual Report

August 1, 2000

Author(s)

Richard G. Gann

The Department of Defense's Next Generation Fire Suppression Technology Program (NGP) has completed its third year of research into fire suppressant...

Analysis of CCRL Proficiency Cements 135 and 136 Using CEMHYD3D

August 1, 2000

Author(s)

Dale P. Bentz, X Feng, C Haecker, Paul E. Stutzman

This NISTIR provides experimental and computer modeling results for cements 135 and 136 issued by the Cement and Concrete Reference Laboratory (CCRL) at NIST in...

Connections of Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Structural Members: A Review of the State of the Art

August 1, 2000

Author(s)

Dat Duthinh

This review of the state of the art of connections of Fiber-reinforced polymers (FRP) members covers primary structural connections (whose integrity is crucial...

A Computer Model to Predict the Surface Temperature and Time-of-Wetness of Concrete Pavements and Bridge Decks

August 1, 2000

Author(s)

Dale P. Bentz

This report provides documentation and example results for a computer model developed to predict the surface temperature and time-of-wetness (and time-of...

Strength Evaluation of Connectors for Intermodal Containers

August 1, 2000

Author(s)

Hai S. Lew, Fahim Sadek, E D. Anderson

Intermodal containers are used widely in marine cargo handling. In order to facilitate unloading of empty containers from ship to shore, two containers are...

One Degree Micro-Macro Manipulator Integration Test for the Automated Paint Application, Containment, and Treatment System (APACTS)

August 1, 2000

Author(s)

Richard J. Norcross

The Carderock Division of the Naval Surface Warfare Center is developing the Automated Paint Application, Containment, and Treatment System (APACTS) to apply...

The NIST RS274NGC Interpreter - Version 3

August 1, 2000

Author(s)

Thomas R. Kramer, Frederick M. Proctor, Elena R. Messina

This report describes an interpreter which reads numerical control code and produces calls to a set of canonical machining functions. The interpreteris a...

Thermal-Conductivity Apparatus for Steady-State, Comparative Measurement of Ceramic Coatings

August 1, 2000

Author(s)

Andrew J. Slifka

An apparatus has been developed to measure the thermal conductivity of ceramic coatings. Since the method uses an infrared microscope for temperature...

Assessment of Moisture Measurement Techniques for Ceramic Processing

August 1, 2000

Author(s)

P S. Wang

This report presents an assessment of moisture measurement tests by techniques currently available for ceramic processing applications. The techniques tested...

Possible Advantages of a Robust Evaluation of Comparisons

August 1, 2000

Author(s)

J W. Muller

Mean values, traditionally used as a location parameter in the analysis of intercomparisons, are known to lack stability against the effect of outliers. It is...

Computation of Fresnel Integrals. II

August 1, 2000

Author(s)

Klaus Mielenz

This paper describes an improved method for computing Fresnel integrals with an accuracy better than 1X10 -9, based on a known approximate formula for a...

Treasure of the Past: III. Gravitational Anisotropy in Crystals

August 1, 2000

Author(s)

P R. Heyl

An Approach to Combining Results from Multiple Methods Motivated by the ISO GUM

August 1, 2000

Author(s)

M Levenson, D L. Banks, K Eberhardt, L M. Gill, William F. Guthrie, Hung-Kung Liu, M Vangel, James H. Yen, Nien F. Zhang

The problem of determining a consensus value and its uncertainty from the results of multiple methods or laboratories is discussed. Desirable criteria of a...

Information Models for Design Tolerancing: From Conceptual to the Detailed Design

August 1, 2000

Author(s)

Sudarsan Rachuri, Utpal Roy

Tolerance design is the process of deriving a description of geometric tolerance specifications for a product from a given set of desired properties of the...

Optical Fiber Power Meter Nonlinearity Calibrations at NIST

August 1, 2000

Author(s)

Igor Vayshenker, Shao Yang, Xiaoyu X. Li, Thomas Scott, Christopher L. Cromer

We describe a system for measuring the response nonlinearity of optical fiber power meters and detectors over a wide power dynamic range at telecommunication...

Microwave Dielectric Characterization of Unpatterned Thin Films Using a TE_0γŅ Dielectric Resonator Technique Theory

August 1, 2000

Author(s)

Richard G. Geyer, Clifford Krowne

An axially-layered cylindrical dielectric resonator comprised of substrate and thin film is placed into a parallel plate waveguide and operated in axi-symmetric...

The IMS Mission Architecture for Distributed Manufacturing Simulation

August 1, 2000

Author(s)

Frank H. Riddick, Charles R. McLean

This paper presents an overview of a neutral reference architecture for integrating distributed manufacturing simulation systems with each other, with other...

The Evolution of Prototype Architectures Developed for the Scheduling Software Integration Project

August 1, 2000

Author(s)

Frank H. Riddick, C M. Lecapitaine

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is collaborating with vendors, users, and university researchers to develop a virtual manufacturing...

Identifying Critical Patches With ICAT

July 1, 2000

Author(s)

Peter M. Mell

[For the latest information on vulnerabilities, see the National Vulnerability Database, nvd.nist.gov]The NIST computer security division has created a...

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