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On November 16, 1990, the United States Congress enacted the Fastener Quality Act (FQA), P.L. 101-592 (the Act). The Act was amended in 1996 by Section 11 of P
This directory is the third edition of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) directory of federal government procurement and regulatory
On November 16, 1990, the United States Congress enacted the Fastener Quality Act (FQA), P.L. 101-592 (The Act). The Act was amended in 1996 by Section 11 of P
This report describes the World Trade organization (WTO) Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT Agreement) activities conducted by the National Institute
This manual has been prepared to show some of the theory behind, and the practical details for using, various finite element and finite difference computer
This Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) Bulletin provides an introduction and overview of the Common Criteria (CC) for Information Technology (IT) Security
A bolometer detector system is developed for the high accuracy infrared spectropho-meter at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to provide
The United States' building and fire communities have recently begun transitioning towards the implementation of performance-based building regulations and the
Performance-based fire safety design methods are being used or developed in many parts of the world. The bases of several of these methods are the many fire
An induced draft, gas-fired furnance orignally designed for outdoor installation without a flue pipe was tested by the tracer gas method to determine its off
In responding to ASHRAE SPC 155P's interest and to provide additional evidence on the envisioned linear relationship between output and input of a boiler under
Face recognition is a K class problem, where K is the number of known individuals; and support vector machines (SVMs) are a binary classification method. By
The NIST Metallurgy Division has initiated a research program to investigate coatings produced by thermal spray techniques. The focus of this research is the
Increasing shop floor efficiency has always been a major concern of manufacturing companies. Scheduling applications have been successfully employed to create
The 83rd Annual Meeting of the National Conference on Weights and Measures (NCWM) was held July 12 through July 16, 1998, at the Hilton Hotel in Portland
In transfer calibration of heat flux sensors, a correction for the irradiance distribution across the sensing area may be required when the sensing areas of
This is the fifty-ninth issue of a quarterly publication providing information on the technical work of the National Institute of Standards and Technology
Sarah L. Gilbert, William C. Swann, Chih-Ming Wang
This Standard Reference Material (SRM) is intended for use in calibrating the wavelength scale of wavelength measuring equipment in the spectral region from
On September 23, 1998, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) co-hosted a summit
In all experiments reported to date the measurement values of the ac quantized Hall resistances R H varied with the applied current frequency, and differed
Marvin E. Cage, Anne-Marie Jeffery, Randolph Elmquist, Kevin C. Lee
Many ac quantized Hall resistance experiments have measured significant values of ac longitudinal resistances under temperature and magnetic field conditions in
John S. Garofolo, Ellen M. Voorhees, C G. Auzanne, Vincent M. Stanford, B A. Lund
This paper describes the 1998 TREC-7 Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) Track which implemented an evaluation of retrieval of broadcast news excerpts using a