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Guide Brief 4 - Determining Anticipated Performance

September 30, 2016

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Community Resilience Program NIST

This Guide Brief provides guidance for determining the anticipated performance of building clusters and infrastructure systems when subjected to hazard events...

Guide Brief 2 - Identify Social Institutions

September 30, 2016

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Community Resilience Program NIST

This Guide Brief provides additional rationale and guidance regarding Step 2 in the GuideUnderstand the Situation for how to Identify Social Institutions...

Guide Brief 1 - Characterize the Population

September 30, 2016

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Community Resilience Program NIST

This Guide Brief provides additional rationale and guidance regarding the first part of Step 2 in the Guide, Characterize social functions and dependencies...

Cement Paste Reference Material (SRM2492) Shelf-Life Extension

September 30, 2016

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Alex Olivas, Chiara C. Ferraris, Brian Lang, Jennifer Richter, Raissa Ferron

Cement-based materials (e.g. cement paste, mortar and concrete) are complex rheological fluids that display time-dependent and shear-dependent rheological...

Novel Method and Apparatus Design for Testing Small Magnetocaloric Samples

September 29, 2016

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Mark A. Kedzierski, William V. Payne, Harrison M. Skye

Instrumented impact tests on miniaturized Charpy specimens of additively manufactured (AM) Ti6Al4V

September 29, 2016

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Enrico Lucon, Nikolas W. Hrabe

An investigation on the impact toughness properties of wrought and additively-manufactured (AM) Ti-6Al-4V was conducted at NIST Boulder, by means of...

Intelligent Building Agents Laboratory: Hydronic System Design

September 29, 2016

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Amanda J. Pertzborn

Achieving national goals of net zero energy buildings requires substantial reduction in the energy consumption of commercial building systems. In 2015...

Reference Architecture for Smart Manufacturing Part 1: Functional Models

September 29, 2016

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Edward J. Barkmeyer Jr., Evan K. Wallace

This document is a part of the definition of a reference architecture for the integration of manufacturing software applications in the areas of fabrication and...

NIST/NIH Vitamin D Metabolites Quality Assurance Program Report of Participant Results: Summer 2015 Comparability Study (Exercise 11)

September 28, 2016

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Mary Bedner

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

Government Data De-Identification Stakeholders Meeting June 29, 2016 Meeting Report

September 28, 2016

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Simson L. Garfinkel

Economic Analysis of Restricting Aggregate-Surfaced Roofing Systems in Tornado Prone Areas of the U.S.

September 27, 2016

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Joshua D. Kneifel, Marc L. Levitan, Long T. Phan, Thomas Smith, David T. Butry, Douglas S. Thomas

Interlaboratory Analytical Comparison Study of Fatty Acid Concentrations in Human Serum- Results for Exercise 03: QA16FASER03

September 27, 2016

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Michele M. Schantz

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), at the request of the National Institute of Healths (NIHs) Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) and...

Measurement Science Roadmap for Prognostics and Health Management for Smart Manufacturing Systems

September 27, 2016

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Joan Pellegrino, Mauricio Justiniano, Anand Raghunathan, Brian Weiss

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) hosted the Roadmapping Workshop: Measurement Science for Prognostics and Health Management of Smart...

Demystifying the Internet of Things

September 26, 2016

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Jeffrey M. Voas, Larry Feldman, Gregory A. Witte

This bulletin summarizes the information presented in NIST SP 800-183, Networks of 'Things'. This publication offers an underlying and foundational science to...

Simulation of Residential Carbon Monoxide Exposure Due to Generator Operation in Enclosed Spaces

September 23, 2016

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Steven J. Emmerich, Brian J. Polidoro, William S. Dols

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and others are concerned about the hazard of acute carbon monoxide (CO) exposures from portable gasoline...

Identifying Residential FIre Involving Upholstered Furniture within the National Fire Incident Reporting System

September 23, 2016

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Douglas S. Thomas, David T. Butry

This Technical Note develops a method for identifying residential fire incidents, reported to the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS), with missing...

Human Plasma Metabolites Measured with Different Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (LC/MS) Platforms

September 23, 2016

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Kelly H. Telu, Xinjian Yan, William E. Wallace, Stephen Stein, Yamil Simon

Non-targeted global metabolite profiles of Standard Reference Material 1950, "Metabolites in Human Plasma," were obtained on five different liquid...

Numerical Simulations of Thermoplastic Burning Rate: Effect of Property Variations and the Inferred Effective Heat of Gasification

September 21, 2016

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Gregory T. Linteris

The mass loss rate of Poly(methyl methacrylate) exposed to known radiant fluxes is simulated with two recently-developed numerical codes, the NIST Fire Dynamics...

An analysis of technologies and standards for designing smart manufacturing systems

September 20, 2016

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Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Katherine C. Morris, Sangsu Choi, Kiwook Jung

Smart manufacturing is defined by high degrees of automation. Automation, in turn, is defined by clearly defined processes. The use of standards in this...

NIST/NIH Vitamin D Metabolites Quality Assurance Program Report of Participant Results: Summer 2014 Comparability Study(Exercise 9)

September 19, 2016

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Mary Bedner, Susan Tai

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

NIST/NIH Vitamin D Metabolites Quality Assurance Program Report of Participant Results: Winter 2015 Comparability Study (Exercise 10)

September 19, 2016

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Mary Bedner

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

NIST/NIH Vitamin D Metabolites Quality Assurance Program Report of Participant Results: Winter 2014 Comparability Study (Exercise 8)

September 19, 2016

Author(s)

Mary Bedner, Susan Tai

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

Advanced Identity Workshop on Applying Measurement Science in the Identity Ecosystem: Summary and Next Steps

September 19, 2016

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Michael E. Garcia, Paul A. Grassi

On January 12-13, 2016 the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Applied Cybersecurity Division (ACD) hosted the "Applying Measurement Science...

NIST Electron Elastic-Scattering Cross-Section Database, Version 4.0

September 14, 2016

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Cedric J. Powell, Aleksander Jablonski, Francesc Salvat, Angela Y. Lee

Version 4.0 of this database (SRD 64) provides values of differential elastic-scattering cross sections, total elastic-scattering cross sections, phase shifts...

Microstructure Analysis for Additive Manufacturing: A Review of Existing Standards

September 14, 2016

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Christopher U. Brown

NISTIR 8078 - Tattoo Recognition Technology - Challenge (Tatt-C) - Outcomes and Recommendations

September 8, 2016

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Mei L. Ngan, George W. Quinn, Patrick J. Grother

Optical Sorting of Dielectric Spheres in a Standing Wave Calculated with Effective Velocities and Diffusion Constants

September 7, 2016

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Zachary H. Levine, John J. Curry

Recently, as part of a study of the ability of a Gaussian standing-wave interference field to sort small dielectric particles entrained in a moving fluid, we...

OptSortSph: Optical Sorting in a Standing Wave Field Calculated with Effective Velocities and Diffusion Constants

September 7, 2016

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Zachary H. Levine, John J. Curry

Recently, as part of a study of the ability of a Gaussian standing-wave interference field to sort small dielectric spheres entrained in a moving fluid, we...

Energy Price Indices and Discount Factors for Life-Cycle Cost Analysis - 2016 Annual Supplement to NIST Handbook 135

September 7, 2016

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Priya Lavappa, Joshua D. Kneifel

Trustworthy Email

September 6, 2016

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Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Simson L. Garfinkel, J. S. Nightingale, Scott W. Rose

This document gives recommendations and guidelines for enhancing trust in email. The primary audience includes enterprise email administrators, information...

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