NIST Pubs

SCAP Composer User Guide

February 28, 2020

Author(s)

Joshua Lubell

SCAP Composer is a software application for creating Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) source data stream collections from Extensible Markup Language

The Thermal Character of a 1 m Methanol Pool Fire

February 27, 2020

Author(s)

Kunhyuk Sung, Jian Chen, Matthew Bundy, Marco G. Fernandez, Anthony Hamins

A series of measurements were made to investigate the thermal character of a 1 m diameter methyl alcohol (methanol; CH3OH) pool fire steadily burning with a

The Statistics of Computer Clocks and the Design of Synchronization Algorithms

February 25, 2020

Author(s)

Judah Levine

In this study, I used standard statistical tools (such as the various forms of the two-sample Allan variance) to characterize the clocks in computers, and I

Smoldering Propensity in Upholstered Furniture: Using Computational and Experimental Methods to Aid the Selection of an Appropriate Smoldering Scenario

February 25, 2020

Author(s)

Jiuling Yang, Mauro Zammarano, Guillermo Rein, Haixiang Chen

Inspired by our experiments on the effects of mockup configuration, used to assess and regulate smoldering propensity in residential upholstered furniture (RUF)

Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal Systems and Organizations

February 21, 2020

Author(s)

Ronald S. Ross, Victoria Y. Pillitteri, Kelley L. Dempsey, Mark Riddle, Gary Guissanie

The protection of Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) resident in nonfederal systems and organizations is of paramount importance to federal agencies and

So, You Want to Have a Nanofab? SharedUse Nanofabrication and Characterization Facilities: Cost-of-Ownership, Toolset, Utilization, and Lessons Learned

February 21, 2020

Author(s)

James A. Liddle, Jerry L. Bowser, Bojan Ilic, Vincent K. Luciani

Nanofabrication/characterization facilities enable research and development activities across a host of science and engineering disciplines. The collection of

A Roadmap for Successful Regional Alliances and Multistakeholder Partnerships to Build the Cybersecurity Workforce

February 20, 2020

Author(s)

Danielle R. Santos, Sanjay Goel, John Costanzo, Debbie Sagen, Patty Buddelmeyer

In September 2016, the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education, led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the U.S. Department of

Certification of Standard Reference Material® 2925: Recombinant Human Serum Albumin Solution (Primary Reference Calibrator for Urine Albumin) (Frozen)

February 19, 2020

Author(s)

Ashley B. Green, David M. Bunk, Nien F. Zhang, Wendell Alejo

This Standard Reference Material (SRM) is intended primarily for use in the preparation of calibration solutions for a candidate reference measurement procedure

The Structure of Medium-Scale Pool Fires

February 19, 2020

Author(s)

Ryan L. Falkenstein-Smith, Kunhyuk Sung, Jian Chen, Kimberly J. Harris, Anthony P. Hamins

This report documents a series of time-averaged gas species measurements made along the centerline of methanol, ethanol, and acetone pool fires steadily burning

Forensic Handwriting Examination and Human Factors: Improving the Practice Through a Systems Approach

February 17, 2020

Author(s)

Melissa Taylor, Carolyne Bird, Brett Bishop, Ted Burkes, Michael P. Caligiuri, Bryan Found, Wesley P. Grose, Lauren R. Logan, Kenneth E. Melson, Mara L. Merlino, Larry S. Miller, Linton Mohammed, Jonathan Morris, John Paul Osborn, Nikola Osborne, Brent Ostrum, Christopher P. Saunders, Scott A. Shappell, H. David Sheets, Sargur N. Srihari, Reinoud D. Stoel, Thomas W. Vastrick, Heather E. Waltke, Emily J. Will

For some 6,000 years, humans have made an indelible mark on history through the loops, strokes, and other characters that constitute the written form of

Verifying executability of SysML behavior models using Satisfiability Modulo Theory solvers

February 14, 2020

Author(s)

Raphael Barbau, Conrad E. Bock

This report presents an approach to verifying executability of system behavior models by treating them as logical constraint problems solved using

The NIST Cloud Federation Reference Architecture

February 13, 2020

Author(s)

Robert B. Bohn, Craig A. Lee, Martial Michel

This document presents the NIST Federated Cloud Reference Architecture model. This actor/role- based model used the guiding principles of the NIST Cloud

CELL-FREE (Comparable Engineered Living Lysates for Research Education and Entrepreneurship) Workshop Report

February 13, 2020

Author(s)

Elizabeth A. Strychalski, Eugenia F. Romantseva

The CELL-FREE Workshop sought to identify and prioritize actionable steps towards more reproducible and comparable cell-free systems for practical applications

Health Assessment Measurements Quality Assurance Program: Exercise 3 Final Report

February 13, 2020

Author(s)

Charles A. Barber, Carolyn Q. Burdette, Melissa M. Phillips, Catherine A. Rimmer, Laura J. Wood, Lee L. Yu, Shaun P. Kotoski

HAMQAP was launched in collaboration with the NIH ODS in 2017. HAMQAP was established to enable laboratories to improve the accuracy of measurements in samples

Assessing the Predictive Capability for Real-Scale Residential Upholstered Furniture Mock-Up Fires using Cone Calorimeter Measurements. Part 1: Real-Scale Experiments

February 10, 2020

Author(s)

William M. Pitts, Martin Werrel, Marco G. Fernandez, Mary A. Long, Evan A. Eisenberg, James J. Filliben, Cory D. Runyon

This is the first of three reports describing a study designed to assess the feasibility of utilizing small-scale measurements in a cone calorimeter as inputs

Workshop on Applied Category Theory: Bridging Theory and Practice

February 7, 2020

Author(s)

Spencer J. Breiner, Blake S. Pollard, Eswaran Subrahmanian

This report presents the summary of a workshop held at NIST on March 15-16, 2018 on the topic of applied category theory (ACT). The meeting had two main goals:

Collapse Risk of Steel Special Moment Frames per FEMA P695

February 5, 2020

Author(s)

Matthew S. Speicher, Jazalyn D. Dukes, Kevin K. Wong

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) performance-based seismic design standard, ASCE 41, contains methodologies used by practicing engineers to assess

Performance of Test Supermartingale Confidence Intervals for the Success Probability of Bernoulli Trials

February 5, 2020

Author(s)

Peter Wills, Emanuel Knill, Kevin Coakley, Yanbao Zhang

Given a composite null hypothesis H0, test supermartingales are non-negative supermartingales with respect to H0 with an initial value of 1. Large values of

Hylleraas-configuration-interaction non-relativistic energies for the 3 singlet S, 4 singlet S, 5 singlet S, 6 singlet S, and 7 singlet S excited states of the beryllium atom

February 5, 2020

Author(s)

James S. Sims

In a previous work Sims and Hagstrom [J. Chem. Phys. 140,224312 (2014)] reported Hylleraas- configuration-interaction (Hy-CI) method variational calculations