NIST Pubs

Health Assessment Measurements Quality Assurance Program: Exercise 2 Final Report

May 21, 2019

Author(s)

Charles A. Barber, Jeanice M. Brown Thomas, Carolyn Q. Burdette, Johanna Camara, Stephen E. Long, Melissa M. Phillips, Benjamin J. Place, Catherine A. Rimmer, Laura J. Wood, Lee L. Yu

The NIST Health Assessment Measurements Quality Assurance Program (HAMQAP) was launched in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of

Cybersecurity Framework Manufacturing Profile

May 20, 2019

Author(s)

Keith A. Stouffer, Timothy A. Zimmerman, CheeYee Tang, Joshua Lubell, Jeffrey A. Cichonski, John McCarthy

This document provides the Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) implementation details developed for the manufacturing environment. The "Manufacturing Profile" of the

FIPS 140-3 Adopts ISO/IEC Standards

May 20, 2019

Author(s)

Kim B. Schaffer

This bulletin summarizes the information found in FIPS 140-3: Security Requirements for Cryptographic Modules which is applicable to all federal agencies that

Specifications and Tolerances for Reference Standards and Field Standard Weights and Measures, Specifications and Tolerances for Field Standard Weights (2019 Ed)

May 20, 2019

Author(s)

Val R. Miller

These specifications and tolerances establish the minimum requirements for Field Standards used by State and local weights and measures officials and others in

NIST Handbook 105-8, Specifications and Tolerances for Reference Standards and Field Standard Weights and Measures, Specifications and Tolerances for Field Standard Weight Carts (2019 Ed)

May 20, 2019

Author(s)

Val R. Miller

These specifications and tolerances are recommended as minimum requirements for standards used by state and local weights and measures officials and others in

Proposed Expansion of Quality Information Framework (QIF) Standard Schema with Potential Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) Information Model

May 16, 2019

Author(s)

Hui-Min Huang, Thomas D. Hedberg

Potential Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) contains a method and the associated information requirements for quality management and risk analysis. FMEA

Certification of Standard Reference Material® 2193b Calcium Carbonate [used as saturated Ca(OH)2 solution]

May 16, 2019

Author(s)

Regina A. Easley, Jason F. Waters, William F. Guthrie

Voices of First Responders Examining Public Safety Communication Problems and Requested Functionality: Findings from User-Centered Interviews, Phase 1, Volume 2.1

May 15, 2019

Author(s)

Shanee T. Dawkins, Yee-Yin Choong, Mary F. Theofanos, Kristen Greene, Susanne M. Furman, Michelle P. Steves, Sandra S. Prettyman

The public safety community has a unique opportunity to improve communication technology for incident response with the creation of the national public safety

NIST Special Publication 1200 27: Evaluation of Methods for Assessing the Proportion of Single Stranded Nuclear DNA in Human Blood Extracts

May 14, 2019

Author(s)

Margaret C. Kline, David L. Duewer

This report documents our evaluation of three digital PCR (dPCR) based methods for estimating the proportion, if any, of single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) in a sample

NISTIR 7383, Selected Procedures for Volumetric Calibrations (2019 Ed)

May 14, 2019

Author(s)

Georgia L. Harris, Val R. Miller

This publication contains Good Measurement Procedures (GMP), Good Laboratory Procedures (GLP), and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for use in calibration

Comparison of Models for Heat Transfer in High-Density Fibrous Insulation

May 13, 2019

Author(s)

Sergio A. Carvajal, Edward J. Garboczi, Robert R. Zarr

This paper evaluates different models for calculating the effective thermal conductivity of fibrous insulation by comparing predicted values with certified

A Retuned Horwitz Procedure for Upgrading Certificates of Older Standard Reference Materials

May 10, 2019

Author(s)

John R. Sieber, Antonio M. Possolo, Michael S. Epstein

Many older certified reference materials have certificates of analysis that do not fully comply with ISO Guide 31. This applies to many NIST Standard Reference

Certification of Standard Reference Material 3389 Ginsenoside Calibration Solution

May 10, 2019

Author(s)

Walter B. Wilson, Lane C. Sander, Benjamin J. Place, James H. Yen

Standard Reference Material (SRM) 3389 is intended as a calibration solution for use for the determination of ginsenosides in natural matrix samples. A unit of

NISTIR 6969, Selected Laboratory and Measurement Practices and Procedures to Support Basic Mass Calibrations (2019 Edition)

May 7, 2019

Author(s)

Georgia L. Harris

This publication contains good laboratory practices, good measurement practices, and standard operating procedures to support the Basic Mass CD-ROM (SP 1001, SP

A NIST Testbed for Examining the Accuracy of Smart Meters under High Harmonic Waveform Loads

May 7, 2019

Author(s)

Richard L. Steiner, Michael P. Farrell, Shannon Edwards, Thomas L. Nelson, Joni Ford, Sumaiyah Sarwat

Household and industrial electrical energy measurements are advancing into a Smart Grid stage, using solid-state watthour meters with communication capability,

Unreliable evidence in binary classification problems

May 7, 2019

Author(s)

David W. Flater

Binary classification problems include such things as classifying email messages as spam or non-spam and screening for the presence of disease (which can be

NISTIR 5672, Advanced Mass Calibration and Measurement Assurance Program for State Calibration Laboratories (2019 Ed)

May 7, 2019

Author(s)

Georgia L. Harris, Kenneth L. Fraley

This publication provides guidelines for evaluating data from advanced mass calibrations and for establishing measurement assurance programs in precision mass

A Reference Schema for the Unit Manufacturing Process Information Model

May 7, 2019

Author(s)

William Z. Bernstein, David Lechevalier

This document presents supporting documentation for a reference implementation of the Unit Manufacturing Process (UMP) information model presented in ASTM E3012

NIST HB 143 - State Weights and Measures Laboratories Program Handbook, 6th Edition

May 7, 2019

Author(s)

Elizabeth J. Benham

This handbook provides the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) performance standards and formalized

NIST Transactive Energy Modeling and Simulation Challenge Phase II Final Report

May 3, 2019

Author(s)

David G. Holmberg, Martin J. Burns, Steven T. Bushby, Avi M. Gopstein

The NIST Transactive Energy (TE) Modeling and Simulation Challenge for the Smart Grid (Challenge) spanned from 2015 to 2018. The TE Challenge was initiated to

Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry (HDX-MS) Centroid Data Measured between 3.6 °C and 25.4 °C for the Fab Fragment of NISTmAb

May 2, 2019

Author(s)

Jeffrey W. Hudgens, Elyssia S. Gallagher, Ioannis L. Karageorgos, Kyle W. Anderson, Richard Y. Huang, Guodong Chen, George M. Bou-Assaf, Alfonso Espada, Michael J. Chalmers, Edu Harguindey, Hui-Min Zhang, Benjamin T. Walters, Jennifer Zhang, John Venable, Caitlin Steckler, In Hee Park, Ansgar Brock, Xiaojun Lu, Ratnesh Pandey, Arun Chandramohan, Ganesh Srinivasan Anand, Sasidhar N. Nirudodhi, Justin Sperry, Jason C. Rouse, James A. Carroll, Kasper D. Rand, Ulrike Leurs, David D. Weis, Mohammed A. Al-Naqshabandi, Daniel Deredge, Patrick Wintrode, Malvina Papanastasiou, John D. Lambris, Sheng Li, Sarah Urata

The spreadsheet file reported herein provides centroid data, descriptive of deuterium uptake, for the Fab Fragment of NISTmAb (PDB: 5K8A) reference material, as

Reference Material 8634: Ethylene Tetrafluoroethylene for Particle Size Distribution and Morphology

May 1, 2019

Author(s)

Dean C. Ripple, Srivalli Telikepalli, Kristen L. Steffens, Michael J. Carrier, Christopher B. Montgomery, Nicholas W. Ritchie, John Lu

Reference Material (RM) 8634 is a NIST particle standard produced from abraded ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE), a chemically inert polymer, that will help

Towards a Process to Quantify the Hazard of Fire Protection Design Alternatives

May 1, 2019

Author(s)

Paul A. Reneke, Morgan Bruns, Stanley W. Gilbert, Chandler P. MacLaren, Richard D. Peacock, Thomas G. Cleary, David T. Butry

There are a variety of fire protection technologies that have the potential to improve life safety in residences including barrier fabrics for upholstered

Proceedings of the 9th Model-Based Enterprise Summit (MBE 2018)

May 1, 2019

Author(s)

Thomas D. Hedberg, Mark G. Carlisle

The ninth installment of the Model-Based Enterprise (MBE) Summit was hosted at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on April 2-5, 2018. The

Guidelines for Generating Public Safety Benchmark Scenario Set

May 1, 2019

Author(s)

Richard A. Rouil, Chunmei Liu, Antonio Izquierdo Manzanares

There is a need to establish well-defined, public safety scenarios for the evaluation of current and future communication technologies for first responders. The

Review of Smart Grid Standards for Testing and Certification Landscape Analysis

April 29, 2019

Author(s)

Yuyin Song, Cuong T. Nguyen, Avi M. Gopstein

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Smart Grid Program seeks to accelerate the development of conformity assessment or testing and

Assessing Fire-blocking Effectiveness of Barrier Fabrics in the Cone Calorimeter

April 29, 2019

Author(s)

Shonali Nazare, William M. Pitts, Mauro Zammarano, John R. Shields, Elizabeth Knowlton, Benito De Leon

Cone calorimetric experiments have been conducted on bare flexible polyurethane foam (FPUF) samples as well as FPUF covered with a variety of fire-blocking

Fatigue Testing of Pipeline Welds and Heat-Affected Zones in Pressurized Hydrogen Gas

April 26, 2019

Author(s)

Elizabeth S. Drexler, Andrew J. Slifka, Robert L. Amaro, Jeffrey W. Sowards, Matthew J. Connolly, May L. Martin, Damian S. Lauria

Several welds and associated heat-affected zones (HAZs) on two API X70 and two API X52 pipes were tested to determine the fatigue crack growth rate (FCGR) in

Cybersecurity Framework Online Informative References (OLIR) Submissions Specification for Completing the OLIR Template

April 26, 2019

Author(s)

Matthew P. Barrett, Nicole D. Keller, Stephen D. Quinn, Matthew C. Smith

[Superseded by NISTIR 8204 (May 2019): https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.IR.8204 ] This document provides instructions and definitions for completing the

Summary Report on the Industry Forum for Monitoring, Diagnostics, and Prognostics for Manufacturing Operations

April 24, 2019

Author(s)

Brian A. Weiss, Michael P. Brundage, Yannick Tamm, Tommi Makila, Joan Pellegrino

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) hosted the Industry Forum: Advanced Monitoring, Diagnostic, and Prognostic for Manufacturing