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NIST Pubs

Certification of Standard Reference Materials® 2969 and 2970: Vitamin D Metabolites in Frozen Human Serum (Total 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Low Level) and (25-Hydroxyvitamin D2 High Level)

September 2, 2021

Author(s)

Grace Hahm, Michael Nelson, Johanna Camara, Blaza Toman

Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) 2969 and 2970 are intended for 1) use in validating methods for determining concentrations of 25-hydroxyvitamin D2 (25(OH)D2...

Single-Zone Simulations Using FaTIMA for Reducing Aerosol Exposure in Educational Spaces

September 2, 2021

Author(s)

Lisa Ng, Dustin Poppendieck, Brian Polidoro, William Stuart Dols, Steven Emmerich, Andrew K. Persily

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak a global pandemic. Following this announcement, school...

Analysis of Seafood Reference Materials: RM 8256, RM 8257, RM 8258 and RM 8259

August 30, 2021

Author(s)

Debra Ellisor, Benjamin Place, Melissa M. Phillips, James H. Yen

NIST Reference Material (RM) 8256 Wild-caught Coho Salmon, RM 8257 Aquacultured Coho Salmon, RM 8258 Wild-caught Shrimp and RM 8259 Aquacultured Shrimp were...

Dynamic Plasticity Model for Rapidly Heated 1045 Steel Up to 1000 °C

August 27, 2021

Author(s)

Steven Mates, Shengyen Li

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) developed an experimental technique to measure the dynamic flow stress of metals under rapid heating...

Mobile Application Single Sign-On: Improving Authentication for Public Safety FirstResponders

August 25, 2021

Author(s)

Bill Fisher, Paul A. Grassi

On-demand access to public safety data is critical to ensuring that public safety and first responders (PSFRs) can protect life and property during an emergency...

IoT Non-Technical Supporting Capability Core Baseline

August 25, 2021

Author(s)

Michael Fagan, Katerina N. Megas, Jeffrey Marron, Kevin Gerard Brady, Barbara Bell Cuthill, Rebecca Herold

Non-technical supporting capabilities are actions a manufacturer or third-party organization performs in support of the cybersecurity of an IoT device. This...

Ultraviolet Radiation Technologies and Healthcare Associated Infections: Standards and Metrology Needs

August 20, 2021

Author(s)

Dianne L. Poster, C Cameron Miller, Richard Martinello, Norman Horn, Michael T. Postek, Troy Cowan, Yaw S. Obeng, John J. Kasianowicz

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) hosted an international workshop on ultraviolet-C (UV-C) disinfection technologies on January 14 – 15...

Approaches for Federal Agencies to Use the Cybersecurity Framework

August 17, 2021

Author(s)

Jeffrey Marron, Victoria Yan Pillitteri, Jon M. Boyens, Stephen Quinn, Gregory Witte

The document highlights examples for implementing the Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (known as the Cybersecurity Framework) in a...

Statistics of Visual Features in the Human Iris

August 16, 2021

Author(s)

George W. Quinn, James Matey, Patrick J. Grother, Edward Watters

In most current applications of iris recognition, matching is done by computer algorithms. The dominant algorithms are based on the work of John Daugman and are...

Development of the Advanced Encryption Standard

August 16, 2021

Author(s)

Miles E. Smid, James Foti

Strong cryptographic algorithms are essential for the protection of stored and transmitted data throughout the world. This publication discusses the development...

A Review of Community Resilience Frameworks and Assessment Tools: An Annotated Bibliography

August 12, 2021

Author(s)

Emily Walpole, Jarrod Loerzel, Maria Dillard

Community resilience is a topic of increasing interest in public policy and planning, although effective implementation will require an in-depth theoretical...

NIST-NOAA Survey Tool for Business Disruption and Recovery Associated With Extreme Events: General Instrument Applied to the Beaumont and Port Arthur, Texas Small- and Medium-Sized Business and Nonprofit Organizations Community Post-Hurricane Harvey

August 12, 2021

Author(s)

Michelle Meyer, Joy Semien, Jennifer Helgeson

To gather more in-depth information about how disasters affect businesses and nonprofits, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the...

Validation Capabilities of the NIST Campus Power System to Evaluate Distributed Control of Grid-Edge Distributed Energy Resources

August 11, 2021

Author(s)

Dhananjay Anand, Md Amimul Ehsan, Collin Freiheit, Thomas C. Linn, Tzong Hao Chen

This report outlines NIST's validation tools, developed to help address the smart grid'semergent needs and complement research and standards coordination...

Measurement Uncertainty of Surface Temperature Distributions for Laser Powder Bed Fusion Processes

August 10, 2021

Author(s)

David Deisenroth, Sergey Mekhontsev, Brandon Lane, Leonard M. Hanssen, Ivan Zhirnov, Vladimir Khromchenko, Steven Grantham, Daniel Cardenas-Garcia, Alkan Donmez

This paper describes advances in measuring the characteristic spatial distribution of surface temperature and emissivity during laser-metal interaction under...

Getting Started with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework: A Quick Start Guide

August 6, 2021

Author(s)

Amy Mahn, Daniel Topper, Stephen Quinn, Jeffrey Marron

This document intends to provide direction and guidance to those organizations – in any sector or community – seeking to improve cybersecurity risk management...

Attribute-based Access Control for Microservices-based Applications Using a Service Mesh

August 6, 2021

Author(s)

Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Zack Butcher, Aradhna Chetal

Deployment architecture in cloud-native applications now consists of loosely coupled components, called microservices, with all application services provided...

Method Assessment for Non-Targeted Analyses (MANTA) Program: Interlaboratory Study 1 Results

July 30, 2021

Author(s)

Benjamin Place, Kate Rimmer

Non-targeted analysis is the determination of the chemical composition of a complex mixture without a priori knowledge regarding the identities or quantities of...

Seismic Behavior and Design of Deep, Slender Wide-Flange Structural Steel Beam-Columns

July 28, 2021

Author(s)

Piyachai Chansuk, Gulen Ozkula, Chia-Ming Uang, John Harris

Twenty-one W24 hot-rolled columns of ASTM A992 steel with five different sections were tested in Phase 1 of this research program to investigate the effects of...

Cannabis Quality Assurance Program: Exercise 1 Final Report

July 27, 2021

Author(s)

MARYAM ABDUL-RAHMAN, Melissa Phillips, Walter Wilson

NIST launched a CannaQAP in 2020 to improve the comparability of the analytical measurements in forensic and Cannabis (hemp and marijuana) testing laboratories...

Review of the Advanced Encryption Standard

July 23, 2021

Author(s)

Nicky Mouha, Morris Dworkin

The field of cryptography continues to advance at a very rapid pace, leading to new insights that may impact the security properties of cryptographic algorithms...

NVLAP Federal Warfare System(s)

July 21, 2021

Author(s)

Bradley Moore, John Matyjas, Raymond Tierney, Jesse Angle, Jeannine Abiva, Jeff Hanes, David Dobosh, John Avera

NIST Handbook 150-872 presents the technical requirements and guidance for the accreditation of laboratories under the National Voluntary Laboratory...

Managing the Security of Information Exchanges

July 20, 2021

Author(s)

Kelley L. Dempsey, Victoria Yan Pillitteri, Andrew Regenscheid

An organization often has mission and business-based needs to exchange (share) information with one or more other internal or external organizations via various...

Status Report on the Second Round of the NIST Lightweight Cryptography Standardization Process

July 20, 2021

Author(s)

Meltem Sonmez Turan, Kerry McKay, Donghoon Chang, Cagdas Calik, Lawrence E. Bassham, Jinkeon Kang, John M. Kelsey

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is in the process of selecting one or more authenticated encryption and hashing schemes suitable for...

Standard Errors and Significance Testing in Data Analysis for Testing Classifiers

July 19, 2021

Author(s)

Jin Chu Wu, Raghu N. Kacker

The one-classifier and two-classifier significance testing for evaluation and comparison of classifiers are conducted to investigate the statistical...

Atomic Model Structure of the NIST Monoclonal Antibody (NISTmAb) Reference Material

July 15, 2021

Author(s)

Christina Bergonzo, David Travis Gallagher

As monoclonal antibodies have become a vital resource in medicine, knowledge of their complex molecular structures has increased in importance. Thousands of...

NIST-FEMA Post-Earthquake Functional Recovery Workshop Report

July 15, 2021

Author(s)

Leslie Abrahams, Lisa Van Pay, Siamak Sattar, Katherine Johnson, Steven McCabe

NIST Contribution to the ASTM E08.07.06 Round Robin on Determining the Master Curve Reference Temperature, T0,X, at Elevated Loading Rates (ILS #1547)

July 15, 2021

Author(s)

Enrico Lucon

The ASTM Interlaboratory Study (ILS) #1547 (Determining T0,X at Elevated Loading Rates) was launched in 2019 under the leadership of MPA Stuttgart (Germany)...

Aerial LTE Demonstration Report

July 14, 2021

Author(s)

Maxwell Maurice, Sam Ray

In this paper, we investigate a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network mounted on an airborne small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS) to provide broadband connectivity...

Manufacturing USA Institute Evaluation: Renewal Process and Performance Standards

July 13, 2021

Author(s)

Robert G. Rudnitsky, Kelley Rogers

The Manufacturing USA Program's 2019 reauthorization allows the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to renew Manufacturing USA institute...

Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) Part 7: Identification for Paperless Travel and Immigration

July 13, 2021

Author(s)

Patrick J. Grother, Austin Hom, Mei Lee Ngan, Kayee Hanaoka

One-to-many biometric search systems are discussed in their role of positive and negative identification - the former refers to the expectation that person in a...

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