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NIST Pubs

Economic Decision Guide Software (EDGe$) Online Tutorial: University Pandemic Planning Analysis Use Case

September 28, 2020

Author(s)

Jennifer F. Helgeson, Alyssa Leibold

A NIST-Hosted Virtual Workshop on Measuring SARS-CoV-2 in Wastewater and Fecal Material: A Call for Standards

September 28, 2020

Author(s)

Sandra M. Da Silva, Paulina K. Piotrowski, Christina M. Jones, Stephanie L. Servetas, Nancy J. Lin, Katrice A. Lippa, Scott A. Jackson

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has leveraged its expertise in chemical and biological metrology and standards development as well as...

Economic Decision Guide Software (EDGe$) Online Tutorial: Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Case Study

September 28, 2020

Author(s)

Jennifer F. Helgeson, Peter Zhang

This report introduces features of the Economic Decision Guide Software (EDGe$) Online Tool V 1.0 and presents a case study of wildfire planning in the wildland...

Open Standards for Flexible Discrete Manufacturing in the Model-Based Enterprise

September 23, 2020

Author(s)

Mark White, Eric Holterman, Tim Bakker, Larry Maggiano

The Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing is currently constructing an open, standards-based flexible manufacturing cell. The manufacturing cell must...

On the nature of the non-equilibrium phase transition in the non-Markovian driven Dicke model

September 23, 2020

Author(s)

Rex Lundgren, Alexey Gorshkov, Mohammad Maghrebi

The Dicke model famously exhibits a phase transition to a superradiant phase with a macroscopic population of photons and is realized in multiple settings in...

On The Quotient of Centralized and Non-Centralized Complex Gaussian Random Variables

September 23, 2020

Author(s)

Dazhen Gu

A detailed investigation of the quotient of two independent complex random variables is presented. The numerator has a zero mean, and the denominator has a non...

Security and Privacy Controls for Information Systems and Organizations

September 23, 2020

Author(s)

Ronald S. Ross

This publication provides a catalog of security and privacy controls for information systems and organizations to protect organizational operations and assets...

Data Integrity Recovering from Ransomware and Other Destructive Events

September 22, 2020

Author(s)

Anne R. Townsend, Tim McBride, Lauren N. Lusty, Julian T. Sexton, Michael R. Ekstrom

Businesses face a near-constant threat of destructive malware, ransomware, malicious insider activities, and even honest mistakes that can alter or destroy...

Developing Cost Functions for Estimating Solar Photovoltaic System Installed and Life Cycle Costs Using Historical Quote Data

September 22, 2020

Author(s)

David H. Webb, Joshua D. Kneifel, Cheyney M. O'Fallon

Residential solar photovoltaic (PV) system installations have become more prevalent as the installed cost has decreased over the last 10 years while system...

Building Industry Reporting and Design for Sustainability (BIRDS) Low-Energy Residential Incremental Energy Efficiency Improvements Database Technical Manual: Update

September 22, 2020

Author(s)

Joshua D. Kneifel, Eric G. O'Rear, Priya D. Lavappa, Anne L. Greig, Sangwon Suh

Reliable, High-Performance Wireless Systems for Factory Automation

September 17, 2020

Author(s)

Kang B. Lee, Rick Candell, Hans-Peter Bernhard, Dave Cavalcanti, Zhibo Pang, Inaki Val

Wireless has emerged as an enabling technology to improve operational flexibility and efficiency for factory automation. The latest wireless technology...

Internet of Things (IoT) Component Capability Model for Research Testbed

September 17, 2020

Author(s)

Eric D. Simmon

Internet of Things (IoT) is the product of the worlds of information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT)converging. IoT combines the ability to...

DADS: The On-Line Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures

September 17, 2020

Author(s)

Paul E. Black

The Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures (DADS) is a publicly accessible dictionary of generally useful algorithms, data structures, algorithmic...

NIST/NIH Vitamin D Metabolites Quality Assurance Program (VitDQAP): Final Report

September 16, 2020

Author(s)

Katrice A. Lippa, Mary Bedner, Susan Tai, Carolyn Q. Burdette

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) established a Vitamin D Metabolites Quality Assurance Program (VitDQAP) in collaboration with the...

NIST Interactions: Fiscal Year 2015 through Fiscal Year 2018

September 16, 2020

Author(s)

Nicole K. Gingrich, Isaac Patterson, Jimmy Nazario-Negron, Michael J. Hall

This study analyzes data from fiscal years 2015 through 2018 of eighteen interaction types in which NIST participates annually. To describe the volume of direct...

Characterization of 3-Dimensional Printing and Casting Materials for use in Computed Tomography and X-ray Imaging Phantoms

September 15, 2020

Author(s)

Bryan E. Yunker, Andrew Holmgren, Karl Stupic, J. L. Wagner, S Huddle, R Shandas, R. F. Weir, Katy Keenan, Edward Garboczi, Stephen E. Russek

Imaging phantoms are used to calibrate and validate the performance of medical computed tomography (CT) systems. Many new materials developed for three...

Characterization of 3-Dimensional Printing and Casting Materials for use in Magnetic Resonance Imaging Phantoms at 3 T

September 15, 2020

Author(s)

Bryan E. Yunker, Karl Stupic, J. L. Wagner, S Huddle, R Shandas, R. F. Weir, Stephen E. Russek, Katy Keenan

Imaging phantoms are used to calibrate and validate the performance of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems. Many new materials have been developed for...

Mobile Device Security: Corporate-Owned Personally-Enabled (COPE)

September 15, 2020

Author(s)

Gema E. Howell, Kaitlin R. Boeckl, Naomi B. Lefkovitz, Ellen M. Nadeau, Joshua M. Franklin, Behnam Shariati, Jason Ajmo, Christopher J. Brown, Spike E. Dog, Frank Javar, Michael Peck, Kenneth F. Sandlin

Mobile devices provide access to vital workplace resources while giving employees the flexibility to perform their daily activities. Securing these devices is...

Evaluating the Operational Impact of Contactless Fingerprint Imagery on Matcher Performance

September 15, 2020

Author(s)

Shahram Orandi, John M. Libert, Bruce Bandini, Kenneth Ko, John D. Grantham, Craig I. Watson

This study set out to examine the operational impact of introducing contactless fingerprint imagery to a modern fingerprint matching system that was designed...

NIST Recommended Practice Guide: Fractography of Ceramics and Glasses, 3rd edition

September 14, 2020

Author(s)

George Quinn

Fractography is a powerful but underutilized tool for the analysis of fractured glasses and ceramics, for fractures in the laboratory and for component failures...

Process Monitoring Dataset from the Additive Manufacturing Metrology Testbed (AMMT): "Overhang Part X4"

September 3, 2020

Author(s)

Brandon M. Lane, Ho Yeung

Users Guide to the HVACSIM+ Configuration Tool

September 2, 2020

Author(s)

Michael A. Galler

HVACSIM+ (HVAC SIMulation PLUS other systems) was introduced by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 1985 as a computer simulation tool...