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Kenneth G. Kroenlein, Chris D. Muzny, Andrei F. Kazakov, Vladimir Diky, Robert D. Chirico, E. D. Sloan, Michael D. Frenkel
To facilitate advances in application of technologies pertaining to gas hydrates, a database containing experimentally-derived information about those materials...
The summarization track at the Text Analysis Conference (TAC) is a direct continuation of the Document Understanding Conference (DUC) series of workshops...
There are a number of driving forces that are impacting the information management needs of the board fabrication and assembly segments. The electronics...
An effort to define a common data format for voting systems should begin with a data model that specifies the relevant concepts. To accelerate adoption and...
Donna Le, Nicholas Dagalakis, Jason J. Gorman, Jae M. Yoo
We describe the use of appropriate type simple resistor and capacitor (RC) compensators, which properly connected to a power amplifier, can improve the dynamic...
Enumeration of bacterial colonies in an agar plate is simple in concept, but automated colony counting is difficult due to variations in colony color, size...
The goal of the Computer Forensic Tool Testing (CFTT) project at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is to establish a methodology for...
This paper discusses the breakthroughs in science and engineering that have brought fire testing technology to its current state of maturity and provides...
To enable unprecedented imaging X-ray spectroscopy, scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and the National Institute of Standards and Technology are...
As mobile devices proliferate, incorporating a host of integrated features and capabilities, their use can be seen everywhere in our world today. Mobile...
Mobile devices incorporating cellular capabilities are ubiquitous and contain a wealth of personal information useful in criminal cases, civil disputes...
As mobile devices proliferate, incorporating a host of integrated features and capabilities, their use can be seen everywhere in our world today. Mobile...
Linda D. Crown, Tina G. Butcher, Steven E. Cook, Lisa Warfield
This is the agenda for the four Standing Committees of the National Conference on Weights and Measures - 94th Interim Meeting. This meeting will be held at the...
Ronald G. Dixson, Jon R. Pratt, Vincent A. Hackley, James E. Potzick, Richard A. Allen, Ndubuisi G. Orji, Michael T. Postek, Herbert S. Bennett, Theodore V. Vorburger, Jeffrey A. Fagan, Robert L. Watters
A new era of cooperation between North American National Measurement Institutes (NMIs) was ushered by the National Research Council of Canada Institute for...
We present an inexpensive and simple data acquisition platform for Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) designed to acquire and characterize fast digital or...
The proliferation of proprietary design info exchange formats is causing high costs to manufacturers. The standards solution is offered as both attainable and...
The NIST Spectroscopic Properties of Atoms and Atomic Ions Database provides listings of prominent air or vacuum emission wavelengths for neutral atoms and...
Plans, organizes, and manages the placement of technical experts from NIST, or selected by NIST, in key U.S. embassies and missions to provide technical advice...
Scott C. Glancy, Emanuel H. Knill, Thomas Gerrits, Tracy S. Clement, Martin J. Stevens, Sae Woo Nam, Richard P. Mirin
When one makes squeezed light by downconversion of a pulsed pump laser, many temporal / spectral modes are simultaneously squeezed by different amounts. There...
Dean C. Ripple, Anatoly Pokhodun, Peter Steur, Gregory F. Strouse
Working Group 1 of the Consultative Committee for Thermometry (CCT) has recommended methods for estimating the uncertainties of fixed-point temperatures...
Dean C. Ripple, Bernd Fellmuth, Joachim Fischer, Graham Machin, PPM Steur, Osamu Tamura, Rod D. White
The Consultative Committee for Thermometry has asked Working Group 1 to coordinate a task group formulating an assessment and possible work plan for the next...
Eric D. Simmon, John V. Messina, Matthew L. Aronoff, Michael Cox
Companies that in the recent past were primarily concerned with satisfying environmental regulations are finding that environmental responsibility and...
A comparison between the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Research Council (NRC) Josephson Voltage Standards (JVS) was...
The oscillating, or repeating, signal that is the basis for constructing all signals is a voltage that exactly follows simple periodic sine and cosine functions...
Around the world there is a growing awareness that the environmental impact from manufacturing needs to be minimized. Concerns about issues from toxic materials...