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NIST Pubs

Repeatability of Contactless and Contact Fingerprint Capture

Author(s)
John M. Libert, Shahram Orandi, John Grantham, Kenneth Ko, Bruce Bandini
A new generation of contactless fingerprint capture devices has recently emerged. These devices provide the ability to capture a fingerprint without making

Ab initio Calculation of Fluid Properties for Precision Metrology

Author(s)
Giovanni Garberoglio, Christof Gaiser, Roberto Maria Gavioso, Allan H. Harvey, Robert Hellmann, Bogumil Jeziorski, Karsten Meier, Michael R. Moldover, Laurent Pitre, Krzysztof Szalewicz, Robin Underwood
Recent advances regarding the interplay between ab initio calculations and metrology are reviewed, with particular emphasis on gas-based techniques used for

Multi'omic Characterization of Human Whole Stool RGTMs

Author(s)
Amanda L. Bayless, Sandra M. Da Silva, Clay Davis, Abraham Kuri Cruz, Tracey Schock, Stephanie Servetas, Paulina Piotrowski
The gut microbiome plays a critical role in a vast and disparate set of health and disease states, including cancer and obesity. Human fecal is a complex

Single-photon Sources and Detectors Dictionary

Author(s)
Joshua Bienfang, Thomas Gerrits, Paulina Kuo, Alan Migdall, Sergey Polyakov, Oliver T. Slattery
The intention of this dictionary is to define relevant terms and metrics used in the characterization of single-photon detectors and sources with the goal to

Safeguarding International Science: Research Security Framework

Author(s)
Gregory F. Strouse, Claire M. Saundry, Timothy Wood, Philip Bennett, Mary Bedner
The U.S. science and research ecosystem retains its leadership by actively engaging with the global community through the conduct of mutually beneficial

Report from the 2022 NIST Rapid Microbial Testing Methods (RMTM) Workshop

Author(s)
Stephanie Servetas, Nancy Lin, Nadratun Chowdhury, Scott Jackson, Jason Kralj, Sheng Lin-Gibson, Melody Sanders, Tara Eskandari
Safety and quality of advanced therapies, including cellular, gene, and tissue-engineered medical products, is paramount for success of these products

American Competitiveness Of a More Productive Emerging Tech Economy Act (The American COMPETE Act)

Author(s)
Commerce Secretary, Kevin A. Kimball, Matthew Hoehler, Anne Lane, Elham Tabassi, Connie LaSalle, Mark VanLandingham, James A. Warren, Naomi Lefkovitz, Nada T. Golmie, Chris Greer, Matthew Scholl, Dylan Yaga, Andrew C. Wilson, Kevin Stine, Karen Reczek, Institute for Defense Analyses Science and Technology Policy Institute (IDA STPI), Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C), Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Under DIVISION FF, Title XV, §1501 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 (Public Law 116-260)—the "American Competitiveness Of a More Productive

An Equation of State for the Thermodynamic Properties of Helium

Author(s)
Diego Ortiz Vega, Kenneth Hall, James Holste, Allan H. Harvey, Eric W. Lemmon
This report documents the equation of state for fluid helium implemented in Version 10 of NIST's REFPROP Standard Reference Database. The equation of state is

An Infrastructure for Curating, Querying, and Augmenting Document Data: COVID-19 Case Study

Author(s)
Eswaran Subrahmanian, Guillaume Sousa Amaral, Talapady N. Bhat, Mary C. Brady, Kevin G. Brady, Jacob Collard, Sarra Chouder, Philippe Dessauw, Alden A. Dima, John T. Elliott, Walid Keyrouz, Nicolas Lelouche, Benjamin Long, Rachael Sexton, Ram D. Sriram
With the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was the hope that data science approaches could help discover means for understanding, mitigating, and treating

November 2022 NIST Premise Plumbing Research Workshop: Summary and Findings

Author(s)
Andrew K. Persily, Marylia Duarte Batista, William M. Healy, Mark A. Kedzierski, Lingnan Lin, Natascha S. Milesi-Ferretti, Tania Ullah, David A. Yashar, Stephen Zimmerman
Premise plumbing systems need to meet a range of performance goals including occupant health and comfort, energy and water efficiency, and reduced environmental

CMVP Approved Security Functions

Author(s)
Alexander Calis
The approved security functions listed in this publication replace the ones listed in International Organization for Standardization/International