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Federal Implementation Guideline for Electronic Data Interchange ASC X12 003040 Trans. Set 838 Trading partner profile-Rev 1 (Confirmation of Vendor Registration) Implementation Convention

April 1, 1998

Author(s)

J Favreau

The ASC X12 003040 Transaction Set 838 Trading partner profile - Revision 1 (Confirmation of Vendor Registration) Implementation Convention defines the Federal...

Evaluation of Intumescent Body Panel Coatings in Simulated Post-Accident Vehicle Fires (NISTIR 6157)

April 1, 1998

Author(s)

Anthony P. Hamins

This report describes a portion of the work undertaken in Project B.4 (Evaluation of Potential Fire Intervention Materials and Technologies) of the Cooperative...

BEES 1.0: Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability Technical Manual and User Guide

April 1, 1998

Author(s)

Barbara C. Lippiatt

The BEES (Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability) version 1.0 software implements a rational, systematic technique for selecting environmentally...

Energy Price Indices and Discount Factors for Life-Cycle Cost Analysis - April 1998. Annual Supplement to NIST Handbook 135 and NBS Special Publication 709

April 1, 1998

Author(s)

S Fuller

This is the April 1998 edition of energy price indices and discount factors for performing life-cycle cost analyses of energy and water conservation and...

Preparation and Characterization of Polymer/Dendrimer Blends Progress Report 3/31/98

April 1, 1998

Author(s)

Eric J. Amis, Barry J. Bauer, A Topp, T J. Prosa, Da-Wei Liu, C L. Jackson, Alamgir Karim, B D. Ermi, K A. Barnes, A Nakatani, G Nisato, R Ivkov

Dendrimer and dendrigraft solutions, blends, and interpenetrating polymer networks are characterized by small angle neutron and x-ray scattering, reflectivity...

Experience Report: Comparing an Automated Conformance Test Development Approach with a Traditional Development Approach

April 1, 1998

Author(s)

Alan H. Goldfine, G E. Fisher, Lynne S. Rosenthal

Cargo Container Transfer Requirements for the Mobile Offshore Base

April 1, 1998

Author(s)

Roger V. Bostelman, Kenneth R. Goodwin

The purpose of this requirements statement is to serve as a guideline to Mobile Offshore Base (MOB) concept developers, so that cargo handling requirements are...

Federal Implementation Guideline for Electronic Data Interchange; ASC X12 003060 Transaction Set 861W Receiving Advice/Acceptance Certificate; (Hazardous Waste Material Receipt) Implementation Convention

April 1, 1998

Author(s)

J Favreau

The ASC X12 003060 Transaction Set 861 Receiving Advice/Acceptance Certificate (Hazardous Waste Material Receipt) defines the Federal Government's...

Evaluation of Applications on a Loosely Coupled Cluster

April 1, 1998

Author(s)

Wayne J. Salamon, Alan Mink, Michael D. Indovina, M M. Courson

The EFFective Manager Tool for Software Developers

April 1, 1998

Author(s)

D Wallace, M L. Zimmerman

The collection and analysis of software error, fault, and failure data from many high integrity systems may yield reference data for matching development and...

Experience Report: Comparing an Automated Conformance Test Development Approach With a Traditional Development Approach

April 1, 1998

Author(s)

Alan H. Goldfine, G E. Fisher, Lynne S. Rosenthal

This Interagency Report documents a recent project at NIST that investigated the effectiveness of using automated software test generation tools to help develop...

A Fortran 90 Interface for OpenGL: Revised January 1998

April 1, 1998

Author(s)

William F. Mitchell

It is important to provide a good fortran interface to OpenGL and related libraries for scientific visualization in mathematical software. OpenGL currently...

Fracture Toughness Data for Brittle Materials

April 1, 1998

Author(s)

R G. Munro, Stephen W. Freiman, T L. Baker

Fracture toughness data, as represented by the critical stress intensity factor, K Ic, and the fracture energy, γ, have been compiled from publicly accessible...

Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Tethered Chains

April 1, 1998

Author(s)

Raymond D. Mountain, Joseph B. Hubbard

A description is provided for a molecular dynamics code that simulates the dynamics of long chain molecules tethered to a smooth surface. The operation of the...

Summary Report of NIST/MSC Workshop on Traceability in Length

April 1, 1998

Author(s)

Dennis A. Swyt

The National Institute of Standards and Technology, in conjunction with the Measurement Science Conference, conducted an industry-needs workshop on February 4...

Optical Fiber Connectors: An Interlaboratory Comparison of Measurements of Endface Geometry

April 1, 1998

Author(s)

Timothy J. Drapela

An interlaboratory measurement comparison, dealing with geometrical parameters of convex spherically polished optical fiber connector ferrule endfaces, was...

Semiconductor Measurement Technology: Thin Film Reference Materials Development; Final Report for CRADA CN-1364

April 1, 1998

Author(s)

Barbara J. Belzer, K Eberhardt, Deane Chandler-Horowitz, James R. Ehrstein, P. Durgapal

Independent single-wavelength ellipsometric measurements of thermally grown silicon dioxide thin films on silicon substrates and data analyses were compared...

Semiconductor Measurement Techonology: CN-1364 NIST/ VLSI Thin Film Standards: Final Report

April 1, 1998

Author(s)

Barbara J. Belzer, K Eberhardt, Deane Chandler-Horowitz, James R. Ehrstein, P. Durgapal

NIST List of Publications 94: Electrical and Electronic Metrology: A Bibliography of NIST Electricity Division's Publications 1968-1998.

March 29, 1998

Author(s)

Ruth Ann Schmeit

This bibliography covers publications by the Electricity Division, Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory, National Institute and Technology, plus...

Management of Risks in Information Systems: Practices of Successful Organizations

March 19, 1998

Author(s)

Shirley M. Radack

This bulletin summarizes the findings of a U.S. General Accounting Office (GA)) study of the information security programs and management practices of eight non...

Federal Implementation Guideline for Electronic Data Interchange; ASC X12 003050 Transaction Set 861; Receiving Advice/Acceptance Certificate; Implementation Convention

March 5, 1998

Author(s)

J Favreau

The ASC X12 003050 Transaction Set 861 Receiving Advice/Acceptance Certificate defines the Federal Government's interpretation of the use of ASC X12 003050...

Building and Fire Research Laboratory Activities, Accomplishments, and Recognitions 1997.

March 1, 1998

Author(s)

A J. Fowell

We in the Building and Fire Research Laboratory (BFRL) are pleased to present to our clients and collaborators this 1997 report of our activities...

Personal Identification From Mugshot Ear Images

March 1, 1998

Author(s)

F E. McFadden

This work establishes the high value of ear images for personal identification from mugshot data, using the NIST database of police mugshots. It starts with a...

Uncertainties in NIST Noise-Temperature Measurements

March 1, 1998

Author(s)

James P. Randa

Uncertainty analyses are presented for NIST measurements of noise temperature. All systems currently used in NIST calibrations of thermal-noise sources are...

Building and Fire Research Laboratory - Activities, Accomplishments and Recognitions 1997

March 1, 1998

Author(s)

A J. Fowell

This report documents the 1997 activities, accomplishments, and staff awards for the Building and Fire Research Laboratory. The accomplishments are organized...

Fourth International Symposium on Roofing Technology

March 1, 1998

Author(s)

Walter J. Rossiter Jr

This report presents a summary of the Fourth International Symposium on Roofing Technology. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Building...

International Workshop on Ultrasonic and Dielectric Characterization Techniques for Suspended Particulates

March 1, 1998

Author(s)

Vincent A. Hackley, J Texter

Report on the International workshop on Ultrasonic and Dielectric Characterization Techniques for Suspended Particulates held August 4-6, 1997, at Gaithersburg...

Degradation of GaAs/AlGaAs Quantized Hall Resistors With Alloyed AuGe/Ni Contacts

March 1, 1998

Author(s)

Kevin C. Lee

Metering of Fluids at High Velocities with Vortex Shedding Flowmeters

March 1, 1998

Author(s)

James D. Siegwarth

Can a Pressure Standard be Based on Capacitance Measurements?

March 1, 1998

Author(s)

Michael R. Moldover

We consider the feasibility of basing a pressure standard on measurements of the dielectric constant [epsilon] and the thermodynamic temperature T of helium...

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