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THE PROFICIENCY TEST (PILOT) REPORT OF THE GLOBAL MICROBIAL IDENTIFIER INITIATIVE YEAR 2014

March 1, 2016

Author(s)

Nathanael D. Olson, Rene S. Hendriksen, Susanne K. Pedersen, Mette V. Larsen, Jamie N. Pedersen, Oksana Lukjancenko, Rolf S. Kaas, Pimlapas Leekitcharoenphon, Lasse Bergmark, Inge M. Hansen, Vitali Sintchenko, William J. Wolfgang, Henrik T. Westh, Jacob Moran-Gilad, Isabel Cuesta, Angel Zaballos, Brian Beck, Anthony Underwood, Errol Strain, James Pettengill

Reference Module in Materials Science and Materials Engineering MATS 01908

February 1, 2016

Author(s)

Randolph E. Elmquist, Anthony Hartland

The cryogenic current comparator is used to maintain national representations of the ohm based on the quantized Hall resistance standard. The measurement...

Flexible Lines with Setups: Analysis, Improvement, and Application

January 4, 2016

Author(s)

Cong Zhao, Jingshan Li, Ningjian Huang, John A. Horst

Setup times commonly exist in many flexible manufacturing lines to adjust tools and carry out safety and quality checks during product changeovers. In this...

Grasping the Performance: Facilitating Replicable Performance Measures via Benchmarking and Standardized Methodologies

December 31, 2015

Author(s)

Joseph A. Falco, Karl Van Wyk, Shuo Liu, Stefano Carpin

The expectation for robots to work side-by-side with humans in unstructured environments while reliably grasping and manipulating objects is a distant reality...

Heat pump concepts for nZEB Technology developments, design tools and testing of heat pump systems for nZEB in the USA, Country report IEA HPT Annex 40 Task 2, Task 3 and Task 4 of the USA

December 8, 2015

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William V. Payne, Arthur H. Fanney, William M. Healy, Joshua D. Kneifel, Tania Ullah, Farhad Omar, Steven T. Bushby, Brian P. Dougherty, Dustin G. Poppendieck, Lisa C. Ng

The IEA HPT Annex 40 "Heat pump concepts for Nearly Zero Energy Buildings" deals with the application of heat pumps as a core component of the HVAC system for...

Adapting the Poisson-Influenced K-Means Algorithm for a Larger User Base

November 19, 2015

Author(s)

Brian P. Morris, Zachary H. Levine

A superconducting transition edge sensor (TES) can be a useful tool for counting the number of photons in a highly attenuated pulse of light, but it requires...

Performance of Metal and Polymeric O-Ring Seals in Beyond-Design-Basis Temperature Excursions Revision 1

November 2, 2015

Author(s)

Jiann C. Yang, Edward J. Hnetkovsky, Doris L. Rinehart, Marco G. Fernandez

This report documents the beyond-design-basis thermal exposure test results of the performance of metallic and polymeric seals typically used in radioactive...

Chemical Kinetics and Photochemical Data for Use in Atmospheric Studies, Evaluation No. 18

October 30, 2015

Author(s)

James B. Burkholder, S. P. Sander, J. P. D. Abbatt D. Abbatt, J. R. Barker, Robert E. Huie, C E. Kolb, Michael J. Kurylo III, Vladimir Orkin, David M. Wilmouth, P. H. Wine

This is the eighteenth in a series of evaluated sets of rate constants, photochemical cross sections, heterogeneous parameters, and thermochemical parameters...

Order-Disorder and Phase Separation

October 28, 2015

Author(s)

Benjamin P. Burton

Order-disorder and phase separation in condensed solutions of two or more components are similar processes that are typically driven by energetics of opposite...

The JAR Extractor: a Soxhlet Modified Into a Large-Diameter Wafer Washer

October 20, 2015

Author(s)

Richard J. Sheridan, Aaron V. Kirchhoff

A closed-atmosphere, solvent-recirculating, large diameter wafer washer was fabricated for neutron reflectivity research at the National Institute of Standards...

Spent Fuel Transportation Package Response to the MacArthur Maze Fire Scenario

October 2, 2015

Author(s)

Kevin B. McGrattan, Harold Adkins

The NRC has established requirements that are the design bases for packaging and transportation of spent nuclear fuel assemblies under normal conditions of...

Report for Dedicated JPSS VIIRS Ocean Color Calibration/Validation Cruise

September 10, 2015

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Bettye C. Johnson, Michael Ondrusek, Eric Stengel, Veronica P. Lance, Menghua Wang, Kenneth Voss, Giuseppe Zibordi, Marco Talone, Zhongping Lee, Jianwei Wei, Junfang Lin, Chuanmin Hu, David English, Charles Kovach, Jennifer Cannizzaro, Alex Gilerson, Sam Ahmed, Amir Ibrahim, Ahmed El-Habashi, Robert Foster, Robert Arnone, Ryan Vandermeulen, Sherwin Ladner, Wesley Goode, Joaquim I. Goes, Helga de Rosario Gomes, Kali McKee, Scott Freeman, Aimee Neeley

The purpose of this cruise aboard the NOAA Ship Nancy Foster was to collect in situ optical and ancillary data for validation of JPSS VIIRS satellite ocean...

Spent Fuel Transportation Package Response to the Newhall Pass Tunnel Fire Scenario

September 2, 2015

Author(s)

Kevin B. McGrattan, Harold Adkins

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has established requirements that are the design bases for packaging and transportation of spent nuclear fuel assemblies...

Pioneering use of Synchrotron Radiation Research as a spectroscopic and metrological tool at NBS

August 14, 2015

Author(s)

Charles S. Tarrio, Keith Codling, Ederer David, Uwe Arp, Charles W. Clark, Thomas B. Lucatorto

Interest in the use of Synchrotron Radiation (SR) as a source of continuum in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) spectral region was stimulated by the 1956 Physical...

Community Resilience Planning Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems

July 20, 2015

Author(s)

Stephen A. Cauffman

Every community in the United States faces the risk of natural, human-caused, or technological hazards. While most hazards do not rise to the level of extreme...

Message from the Chair of the ASQ Statistics Division (April 2015)

June 30, 2015

Author(s)

Adam L. Pintar

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Community Resilience Planning Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems

June 30, 2015

Author(s)

Stephen A. Cauffman

Every community in the United States faces the risk of natural, human-caused, or technological hazards. While most hazards do not rise to the level of extreme...

Experimental and Modeling Study of Thermal Exposure of a Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA)

June 10, 2015

Author(s)

Michelle K. Donnelly, Jiann C. Yang

An experimental apparatus designed to study firefighter turnout gears exposed to a thermal environment was developed. The apparatus consisted of an elevated...

Impact of Decision and Allocation Rules on Selection Decisions

June 2, 2015

Author(s)

Dennis D. Leber, Jeffery W. Herrmann

The quality of a selection decision is a function of the decision rule used and the data collected to support the decision. When physical measurements are the...

Services & Maintenance: Emergency Notifications

March 30, 2015

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Erica D. Kuligowski

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Laser plasma x-ray source for ultrafast time-resolved x-ray absorption spectroscopy

March 1, 2015

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Luis Miaja Avila, Galen C. O'Neil, Jens Uhlig, Christopher L. Cromer, Marla L. Dowell, Ralph Jimenez, Andrew Hoover, Kevin L. Silverman, Joel N. Ullom

Message from the Chair of the ASQ Statistics Division (February 2015)

February 28, 2015

Author(s)

Adam L. Pintar

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Summary Article: IEA HPP Annex 36, Quality Installation/Quality Maintanace Sensitivity Studies

February 25, 2015

Author(s)

Glenn Hourahan, Piotr A. Domanski, Van Baxter

It is widely recognized that residential and commercial heat pump equipment experience significant "in-field" performance loss (i.e., capacity and efficiency)...

Annual Report of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program for Fiscal Year 2013

February 6, 2015

Author(s)

John(Jack) R. Hayes Jr., Steven L. McCabe, Edward Laatsch, Joy Pauschke, Bill Leith, John Filson, Tina M. Faecke

This is the annual report of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) for fiscal year (FY) 2013,1 presented by the NEHRP Interagency...

Take Two: Gearing Up for the Next Vitamin D Commutability Study

February 1, 2015

Author(s)

Johanna Camara, Andrew N. Hoofnagle, Graham D. Carter, Christopher T. Sempos

Measurement and Marketing: Considerations when Determining the Method of Sale for CNG/LNG

January 28, 2015

Author(s)

Juana S. Williams

Establishing an acceptable method of sale is a critical first step in the development of a fair and competitive marketplace for any commodity. For instance...

Roadmapping Workshop Measurement Science for Prognostics and Health Management for Smart Manufacturing Systems

January 16, 2015

Author(s)

Brian A. Weiss

IMPROVING RADIANT HEAT RESISTANCE OF POLYCARBONATE LENSES

January 1, 2015

Author(s)

George C. Braga, Amy Mensch, Nelson P. Bryner

The purpose of this paper is to make a study of the degradation of polycarbonate lenses when submitted to thermal radiations between 5 and 15kW/m2. In addition...

Review of Pavel P. Povinec, Katsumi Hirose, Michio Aoyama (2013) Fukushima Accident: Radioactivity Impact on the Environment, Elsevier ISBN-10: 0124081320

January 1, 2015

Author(s)

Mark A. Tyra, Jacqueline L. Mann

Measuring Impact of Cybersecurity on the Performance of Industrial Control Systems

December 31, 2014

Author(s)

Keith A. Stouffer, Richard Candell

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is developing a cybersecurity testbed for industrial control systems (ICS). The goal of the testbed is...