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Buoyant Turbulent Jets and Flames. Part 3. Round Turbulent Nonbuoyant Starting Jets and Puffs and Buoyant Starting Plumes and Thermals. Annual Report.

October 1, 1999

Author(s)

R Sangras, Z Dai, G M. Faeth

A theoretical and experimental study of the temporal development of round turbulent nonbuoyant starting jets and puffs and buoyant starting plumes and thermals...

Buoyant Turbulent Jets and Flames. Part 1. Adiabatic Wall Plumes. Annual Report.

October 1, 1999

Author(s)

R Sangras, Z Dai, G M. Faeth

An investigation of the structure and mixing properties of buoyant turbulent plumes is described, motivated by the need to resolve effects of buoyancy...

The Fifth SeaWiFS Intercalibration Round-Robin Experiment (SIRREX-S), July 1996

October 1, 1999

Author(s)

Bettye C. Johnson, Howard W. Yoon, Sally S. Bruce, Ping-Shine Shaw, E A. Thompson, S B. Hooker, R Barnes, R Eplee, S Maritorena, J Mueller

This report documents the fifth Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) Intercalibration Round-Robin experiment (SIRREX-5), which was held at the...

Analytical and Diagnostic Techniques for Semiconductor Materials, Devices, and Processes

October 1, 1999

Author(s)

B O. Kolbensen, C Claeys, P Stallhofer, F Tardif, Kimberly Benton, Thomas J. Shaffner, D Schroder, S Kishino, P Rai-Choudhury

Guide for the Selection of Commercial Explosives Detection Systems for Law Enforcement Applications

September 1, 1999

Author(s)

Alim A. Fatah, Kathleen M. Higgins

This document includes a variety of information that is intended to be useful to the law enforcement community in the selection of explosives detection...

Evaluation of a Test Protocol for Explosives Trace Detectors Using a Representative Commercial Analyzer

September 1, 1999

Author(s)

G A. Eiceman, C Boyett, J E. Parmeter, Alim A. Fatah, Kathleen M. Higgins

A test protocol for evaluating trace detection has been developed and evaluated using a representative commercial analyzer. The test protocol was included as...

Bilateral Comparison of 10 V Standards Between the NIST, Gaithersburg, the NIST, Boulder, and the BIPM, October 1998 to January 1999

August 1, 1999

Author(s)

Thomas J. Witt, D. Reymann, Yi-hua D. Tang, Clark A. Hamilton

A three-way comparison of the 10 V voltage reference standards of the BIPM and the NIST sites in Gaithersburg and Boulder was carried out from October 1998 to...

TREC-7 Interactive Track Report

July 12, 1999

Author(s)

Paul D. Over

This report is an introduction to the work of the TREC-7 Interactive Track with its goal of investigating interactive information retrieval by examining the...

Dynamic Interrogation of a Basic Cutting Process

July 1, 1999

Author(s)

Matthew A. Davies, Michael Kennedy, Jon R. Pratt, Christopher J. Evans

A dynamic cutting fixture based on the test rig pioneered by Peters et al. has been developed to aid investigations of cutting process dynamics. This active...

The Fifth SeaWiFS Intercalibration Round-Robin Experiment (SIRREX-5), ed. by S.B. Hooker and E.R. Firestone

July 1, 1999

Author(s)

Bettye C. Johnson, Howard W. Yoon, S S. Bruce, Ping-Shine Shaw, Alan K. Thompson, S B. Hooker, R A. Barnes, E Eplee r, S Maritorena, J L. Mueller

The Future of Gate Dielectrics Considered

July 1, 1999

Author(s)

Curt A. Richter

Symposium R, Ultrathin SiO 2 and High-K Materials for ULSI Gate Dielectrics, provided a large (20 invited speakers and more than 100 total presentations) and...

Topic By Topic Performance of Information Retrieval Systems

June 4, 1999

Author(s)

Walter S. Liggett Jr

Formulation of topic properties is the goal of this paper. These properties are to be used in judging the difficulty of topics appropriate to the Text REtrieval...

NIST/NOAA NS&T/EPA EMAP Intercomparison Exercise Program for Organic Contaminants in the Marine Environment: Description and Results of 1998 Organic Intercomparison Exercises Mussel Tissue IX and Marine Sediment VIII

June 1, 1999

Author(s)

Michele M. Schantz, Reenie M. Parris, Stephen A. Wise

Internet-based Distributed Measurement and Control Applications

June 1, 1999

Author(s)

Kang B. Lee, Richard D. Schneeman

This paper describes research and development work conducted at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on an Internet-based Distributed...

Raising the Bar on Software Security Testing

June 1, 1999

Author(s)

Alden A. Dima, John P. Wack, S A. Wakid

This article describes an effort lead by NIST and NSA to define and promote an open and commercially driven set of testing methods for software security through...

Nanoscale Chemical Imaging With Scanning Near-Field Infrared Microscopy

June 1, 1999

Author(s)

Chris A. Michaels, Stephan J. Stranick, Lee J. Richter, Richard R. Cavanagh

The development of a near-field microscope that utilizes infrared absorption as the optical contrast mechanism will be described. This instrument couples the...

Test Protocol for Comparative Evaluation of Protective Gloves for Law Enforcement and Corrections Applications

June 1, 1999

Author(s)

Alim A. Fatah, Kathleen M. Higgins

The purpose of this test protocol is to compare the performance of protective gloves for use by law enforcement, corrections, and military personnel. The scope...

Volume 4, The 1997 Prelaunch Radiometric Calibration of Sea WiFS

April 1, 1999

Author(s)

Bettye C. Johnson, Howard W. Yoon, Sally S. Bruce, Ping-Shine Shaw, E A. Thompson, S B. Hooker, R Eplee, R Barnes, S Maritorena, J Mueller

The Sea-viewing Side Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) was originally calibrated by the instrument's manufacturer, Santa Barbara Research Center (SBRC), in...

Stable Quasicrystalline Sphere Packing

March 1, 1999

Author(s)

Eric J. Cockayne, M Mihalkovic

Wills (1990, J. Phys., Paris 51, 1061), found a method relating certain decagonal disk packings to decagonal sphere packings with high packing fractions...

The Knowledge Continuum - Organizing for Research and Scholarly Communication

March 1, 1999

Author(s)

P Vassallo

The Office of Information Services (OIS) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology is undergoing a major organizational transition to function as a...

Evaluation of Analytical Methodologies for Non-Intrusive Drug Testing--Supercritical Fluid Extraction of Cocaine from Hair

March 1, 1999

Author(s)

J F. Morrison, L T. Sniegoski, W J. Yoo, Alim A. Fatah

Supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) was investigated as an environmentally friendly alternative to currently used wet chemical procedures in hair drug testing...

Property-Performance Studies of SnO₂ Sensing Films Using Micromachined Arrays

February 22, 1999

Author(s)

R M. Walton, Richard E. Cavicchi, Stephen Semancik

The microstructure and composition of sensing materials profoundly affect the performance of solid state gas sensors. We report property/performance...

Addressing Indoor Air Quality Issues in Buildings Using Computational Fluid Dynamics

February 1, 1999

Author(s)

Amy Musser

Recent advances in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and in computing technology have simplified user interfaces and reduced the time required to predict the...

Forensic Sciences: Review of Status and Needs

February 1, 1999

Author(s)

Alim A. Fatah, Kathleen M. Higgins

This document, Forensic Sciences: Status and Needs, is the product of a two-day meeting sponsored by OLES/NIJ/NIST on March 5-6, 1997. This meeting brought...

Using Raman Imaging to Detect Oxidative Stress Events in Plant Tissues

January 30, 1999

Author(s)

B M. Allen, Anne L. Plant

Raman Imaging represents the union of Raman spectroscopy and optical microscopic imaging. This non-invasive vibrational scattering technique allows one to...

The Proving Ring

January 1, 1999

Author(s)

Simone L. Yaniv

In this document the history of the proving ring is given. The forces that led to its invention in 1927 at the National Bureau of Standards is described; force...

Critical Evaluation and Compilation of Atomic Transition Probabilities

January 1, 1999

Author(s)

Wolfgang L. Wiese, Daniel E. Kelleher, Jeffrey R. Fuhr, Larissa Podobedova

Ultrasonic Research and Applications in the NIST Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory

January 1, 1999

Author(s)

Gerald V. Blessing, Steven E. Fick, Nelson N. Hsu, John A. Slotwinski, D Xiang

The Ultrasonics Group in the NIST Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory performs research, develops standards, and offers calibration services in support of U.S...

POLYMERS 1999 Programs and Accomplishments

January 1, 1999

Author(s)

B M. Fanconi, Eric J. Amis

Experiments in dilute atomic Bose-Einstein condensation, ed. by M. Inguscio, S. Stringari and C.E. Wieman

January 1, 1999

Author(s)

Eric A. Cornell, J R. Ensher, C E. Wieman

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