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Improving Concrete Bridge Decks with Internal Curing

Author(s)
Jason Weiss, Dale P. Bentz, Carmelo DiBella
Transportation agencies strive to provide durable, long lasting concrete bridge decks. While high performance concrete is frequently desired due to its

AGVs and Forklifts Gaining Sight for Safety

Author(s)
Roger V. Bostelman
Forklifts and automated guided vehicles are useful tools for the manufacturing industry. With regard to safety of workers (and equipment) near industrial

Standardization of Broadband UV Measurements

Author(s)
George P. Eppeldauer
The CIE standardized rectangular-shape UV response functions can be realized only with large spectral mismatch errors. The spectral power-distribution of UV

Introducing the Federal Cybersecurity R&D Strategic Plan

Author(s)
Douglas Maughan, William D. Newhouse, Tomas Vagoun
In December 2011, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released the Trustworthy Cyberspace: Strategic Plan for the Federal

SRM Spotlight

Author(s)
Regina R. Montgomery
The SRM Spotlight is a newsletter published by the Measurement Services Division for users of NIST standard reference materials. The Spotlight announces new

Overview of the TREC-2010 Blog Track

Author(s)
Ian M. Soboroff, Iadh Ounis, Craig Macdonald
The Blog track aims to investigate the information seeking behavior in the blogosphere. The track was initiated in 2006, and has used an incremental approach in

Summary Report of Research on TiO2 Nanomaterial

Author(s)
Vincent A. Hackley
Report summarizes study whose purpose was to optimize and validate a standardized and reproducible approach for the preparation of TiO2 nanoparticle dispersions

Conformance of Image Features to Classifier Assumptions

Author(s)
Julien M. Amelot, Peter Bajcsy, Mary C. Brady
Cell measurements are derived frequently from the results of pixel classification and contiguous region segmentation of microscopy images. Image segmentation is

SORCE SSI Workshop Summary

Author(s)
Joseph P. Rice, Jerald Harder, Martin Snow, Thomas Woods
Over 30 scientists and calibration specialists gathered at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland, for the first

ThermoData Engine (TDE) Version 7.0 (Pure compounds, Binary Mixtures, Ternary Mixtures, Chemical Reactions) Standard Reference Database 103b

Author(s)
Michael D. Frenkel, Robert D. Chirico, Vladimir Diky, Chris D. Muzny, Andrei F. Kazakov, Joe W. Magee, Ilmutdin M. Abdulagatov, Kenneth G. Kroenlein, Carlos A. Diaz-Tovar, Jeong W. Kang, Rafiqul Gani
The first full-scale software implementation of the dynamic data evaluation concept {ThermoData Engine (TDE)} is described for thermophysical and thermochemical

March 2012 SRM Spotlight.

Author(s)
Regina R. Montgomery
The SRM Spotlight is a newsletter published by the Measurement Services Division for users of NIST standard reference materials. The Spotlight announces new

A New Generation of Grain Moisture Meters

Author(s)
Gloria D. Lee
One of the current technologies used in the commercial determination of grain moisture is dielectric technology, a technology that has been used for over 60