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Concepts of a Performance-Based Building Regulatory System for the United States. Report of the 1996 Activities of the SFPE Focus Group on Concepts of a Performance-Based System for the United States.

November 1, 1998

Author(s)

B J. Beacham

The United States' building and fire communities have recently begun transitioning towards the implementation of performance-based building regulations and the...

Assessment of the Technological Requirements for the Realization of Performance-Based Fire Safety Design in the United States. Final Report.

November 1, 1998

Author(s)

B J. Meacham

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...

A Method of Test for Tracer Gas Test of an Outdoor Furnace Designed for Installation Without a Flue Pipe

November 1, 1998

Author(s)

S T. Liu, George E. Kelly

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...

Performance of a Commerical Hot Water Boiler

November 1, 1998

Author(s)

Cheol D. Park, S T. Liu

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...

Support Vector Machines Applied to Face Recognition

November 1, 1998

Author(s)

P J. Phillips

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...

Thermal Spray Coatings Workshop: Sensors, Modeling, and Control Strategies. Summary of a Workshop Held at National Institute of Standards and Technology

November 1, 1998

Author(s)

Frank S. Biancaniello, Stephen D. Ridder

The NIST Metallurgy Division has initiated a research program to investigate coatings produced by thermal spray techniques. The focus of this research is the...

Using Simulation as a Proxy for a Real Shop Floor and Data Collection System

November 1, 1998

Author(s)

Frank H. Riddick

Increasing shop floor efficiency has always been a major concern of manufacturing companies. Scheduling applications have been successfully employed to create...

Report of the 83rd National Conference on Weights and Measures

November 1, 1998

Author(s)

G M. Ugiansky, J L. Land

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...

The OOF Manual: Version 1.0

November 1, 1998

Author(s)

W C. Carter, Stephen A. Langer, Lin-Sien H. Lum

OOF and PPM200F are programs developed at NIST to investigate the properties of microstructures. The user starts with an image of a real or simulated...

Aperture Proximity Effects in High Heat Flux Sensors Calibration

November 1, 1998

Author(s)

A V. Murthy, Benjamin K. Tsai, Robert D. Saunders

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...

Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory Technical Progress Bulletin 98-1, Covering Laboratory Programs, January to March 1998, with 1997-1998 EEEL Events Calendar

November 1, 1998

Author(s)

J M. Rohrbaugh

This is the fifty-ninth issue of a quarterly publication providing information on the technical work of the National Institute of Standards and Technology...

Hydrogen Cyanide H¹³C¹⁴N Absorption Reference for 1530 nm to 1560 nm Wavelength Calibration SRM 2519

November 1, 1998

Author(s)

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...

Toward a National Standards Strategy Conference Summary Report

November 1, 1998

Author(s)

K J. Leuteritz, W G. Leight

On September 23, 1998, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) co-hosted a summit...

Electrical Properties and Dielectric Relaxation of DNA in Solution

November 1, 1998

Author(s)

James R. Baker-Jarvis, Chriss A. Jones, Billy F. Riddle

In this report we overview and summarize the electrical properties and dielectric relaxation of solvenated DNA.

A Problem in AC Quantized Hall Resistance Measurements and a Proposed Solution

November 1, 1998

Author(s)

Marvin E. Cage, Anne-Marie Jeffery

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...

Calculating the Effects of Longitudinal Resistance in Multi-Series-Connected Quantum Hall Effect Devices

November 1, 1998

Author(s)

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...

The OOF Manual: Version 1.0

November 1, 1998

Author(s)

W C. Carter, Stephen A. Langer, Lin-Sien H. Lum

Using Model Checking to Generate Tests from Specifications

November 1, 1998

Author(s)

P E. Ammann, Paul E. Black, William J. Majurski

1998 TREC-7 Spoken Document Retrieval Track Overview and Results

October 26, 1998

Author(s)

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...

Federal Implementation Guideline for Electronic Data Interchange; ASC X12 003060 Transaction Set 888I; Item Maintenance (Storage Item Correction); Implementation Convention

October 22, 1998

Author(s)

J Favreau

The ASC X12 003060, Transaction Set 888I, Item Maintenance (Storage Item Correction), Implementation Convention, defines the Federal Government s interpretation...

Federal Implementation Guideline for Electronic Data Interchange; ASC X12 003060 Transaction Set 867I, Product Transfer and Resale Report (Issue); Implementation Convention

October 22, 1998

Author(s)

J Favreau

The ASC X12 003060, Transaction Set 867I, Product Transfer and Resale Report (Issue), Implementation Convention, defines the Federal Government s interpretation...

Federal Implementation Guideline for Electronic Data Interchange; ASC X12 003060 Transaction Set 945A; Warehouse Shipping Advice; Implementation Convention

October 22, 1998

Author(s)

J Favreau

The ASC X12 003060, Transaction Set 945A, Warehouse Shipping Advice (Material Release Advice), Implementation Convention, defines the Federal Government s...

Federal Implementation Guideline for Electronic Data Interchange; ASC X12 004010 Transaction Set 832; Price/Sales Catalog; Implementation Convention

October 22, 1998

Author(s)

J Favreau

The ASC X12 004010, Transaction Set 832, Price/Sales Catalog, Implementation Convention, defines the Federal Government s interpretation of the use of ASC X12...

Federal Implementation Guideline for Electronic Data Interchange; ASC X12 003060 Transaction Set 517M; Material Obligation Validation; Implementation Convention

October 22, 1998

Author(s)

J Favreau

The ASC X12 003060, Transaction Set 517M, Material Obligation Validation, Implementation Convention, defines the Federal Government s interpretation of the use...

Refrigerants for the 21st Century. ASHRAE/NIST. Refrigerants Conference. Gaithersburg MD, October 6-7, 1997. (Conference Report)

October 6, 1998

Author(s)

Piotr A. Domanski

The "Refrigerants for the 21st Century" conferece was the third refrigerants conference jointly organized by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and...

The NIST DMIS Interpreter: Version 2

October 1, 1998

Author(s)

Thomas R. Kramer, Frederick M. Proctor, William G. Rippey, Harry A. Scott

This report describes an interpreter which reads a file of numerical control code for a coordinate measuring machine (CMM), produces calls to a set of canonical...

The FERET Verification Testing Protocol for Face Recognition Algorithms

October 1, 1998

Author(s)

S A. Rizvi, J P. Phillips, H Moon

Thermodynamic Properties of Water: Tabulation From the IAPWS Formulation 1995 for the Thermodynamic Properties of Ordinary Water Substance for General and Scientific Use

October 1, 1998

Author(s)

Allan H. Harvey

Tables are provided for the density, enthalpy, entropy, and volume of water and steam calculated from the IAPWS Formulation 1 995 for the Thermodynamic...

NIST Workshop on Process Information Technology: From Research to Industry

October 1, 1998

Author(s)

Howard T. Moncarz, Craig I. Schlenoff, Michael Gruninger, M R. Duffey, Amy Knutilla

The primary objective of the workshop was to provide an open forum for researchers and industry representatives to discuss how current and future research...

Annual Progress Report for Streamlining the Nation's Building Regulatory Process Project. For Grant Period: December 1997 to October 1998.

October 1, 1998

Author(s)

on Building Codes and Standards, Inc National Conference of States

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