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Frequency Comb Based Optical Time Transfer

December 23, 2021

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Nathan R. Newbury, Emily Caldwell, Leo Hollberg, Benjamin Stuhl, Jean-Daniel Deschenes, Laura Sinclair, William C. Swann, Ian Coddington

Advanced Tests of Fundamental Physics with State-of-the-Art Optical Clocks/Two-Way Time Links in Space

December 23, 2021

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Chris Oates, Nathan R. Newbury, Laura Sinclair, Leo Hollberg, Andrei Derevianko, Marianna Safronova, Nan Yu, Kurt Gibble

Recent advances in optical atomic clocks and optical time transfer have enabled new possibilities in precision metrology for both tests of fundamental physics...

Nu Tools: Exploring Practical Roles for Neutrinos in Nuclear Energy and Security

December 21, 2021

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Hans Pieter Mumm, Tomi Akindele, Nathaniel Bowden, Rachel Carr, Andrew Conant, Milind Diwan, Anna Erickson, Michael Foxe, Bethany Goldblum, Patrick Huber, Igor Jovanovic, Jonathan Link, Bryce Littlejohn, Jason Newby

For decades, physicists have used neutrinos from nuclear reactors to advance basic science. These pursuits have inspired many ideas for application of neutrino...

Final Report: Quantitative Measures for Footwear Impression Comparisons

November 21, 2021

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Martin Herman

This document is the Final Report for the Interagency Agreement between the National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs and the National Institute...

Chiral Spin Bobbers in Exchange-Coupled Hard-Soft Magnetic Bilayers

November 17, 2021

Author(s)

X. H. Zhang, T. R. Gao, L. Fang, S. Fackler, Julie Borchers, Brian Kirby, Brian B. Maranville, S. E. Lofland, A. T. N'Diaye, E. Arenholz, A. Ullah, J. Cui, R. Skomski, Ichiro Takeuchi

The spin structure of exchange-coupled MnBi:Co-Fe bilayers is investigated by X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD), polarized neutron reflectometry (PNR)...

Privacy-enhancing cryptography to complement differential privacy

November 3, 2021

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Luis Brandao, Rene Peralta

In this post, we illustrate how various techniques from privacy-enhancing cryptography, coupled with differential privacy protection, can be used to protect...

Predicting High-Speed Machining Dynamics by Substructure Analysis

October 12, 2021

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Tony L. Schmitz, Matthew A. Davies, Michael Kennedy

High-speed machining (HSM) is an emerging area of technology within manufacturing engineering. Recent improvements in high-speed spindle design (reliable 4189...

NIST/NIJ DART-MS Data Interpretation Tool User Manual

October 8, 2021

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Edward Sisco, Arun Moorthy, Stephen Tennyson, Ruthmara Corzo

Using CO2 as a Ventilation Clue

October 7, 2021

Author(s)

Dustin Poppendieck

The science has demonstrated that risk reduction for COVID-19 transmission in classrooms specifically includes implementing masks, increased spacing, outdoor...

Antiferromagnetic VdW Phase at the Interface of Sputtered Topological Insulator/Ferromagnet Bi₂Te₃/Ni₈₀Fe₂0 Heterostructures

October 6, 2021

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Nirjhar Bhattacharjee, Krishnamurthy Mahalingam, Adrian Fedorko, Valeria Lauter, Matthew Matzelle, Bahadur Singh, Alexander Grutter, Alexandria Will-Cole, Michael Page, Michael McConney, Robert Markiewicz, Arun Bansil, Don Heiman, Nian Sun

Magnetic ordering in topological insulators (TI) is crucial for breaking time-reversal symmetry (TRS) and thereby opening a gap in the topological surface...

Measurement Matters Newsletter Volume 11 Issue 4 October 2021

September 30, 2021

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Katrice Lippa, Katya Delak, Robert Hanisch, Charles D. Ehrlich, Lisa Warfield, Georgia L. Harris, Micheal Hicks, David Sefcik, Elizabeth Benham, Tina G. Butcher, Elizabeth Koncki, Shelby Bowers

Preliminary Summary of Experimental Measurements Submitted to the 2021 MaCFP Condensed Phase Workshop

September 30, 2021

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Isaac Leventon

This report summarizes the experimental measurements submitted to the 2021 Condensed Phase MaCFP Workshop. Measurements from approximately 200 experiments were...

Elucidating Proximity Magnetism through Polarized Neutron Reflectometry and Machine Learning

September 16, 2021

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Nina Andrejevic, Zhantao Chen, Thanh Nguyen, Leon Fan, Henry Heiberger, Valeria Lauter, Ling-Jie Zhou, Yi-Fan Zhao, Cui-Zu Chang, Alexander Grutter, Mingda Li

Polarized neutron reflectometry (PNR) is a powerful technique to interrogate the structures of multilayered magnetic materials with depth sensitivity and...

Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, Version 1.1 (Portuguese translation)

September 8, 2021

Author(s)

Kevin Stine, Matthew Barrett

Translated courtesy of the US Chamber of Commerce and the Brazil-US Business Council. Not an official U.S. Government translation.

A Metrology Foundation for 3D Ballistic Imaging - NIJ Final Technical Report

September 1, 2021

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Michael Stocker, Johannes Soons, Thomas Renegar, Xiaoyu Zheng, Robert Thompson

Forensic laboratories considering optical 3D surface topography measurement for objective comparison and VCM face challenges with respect to cost, training, and...

NIST Privacy Framework: A Tool for Improving Privacy Through Enterprise Risk Management, Version 1.0 (Portuguese translation)

September 1, 2021

Author(s)

Naomi Lefkovitz, Katie Boeckl

NIST Privacy Framework: A Tool for Improving Privacy Through Enterprise Risk Management, Version 1.0 (Indonesian translation)

September 1, 2021

Author(s)

Naomi Lefkovitz, Katie Boeckl

NIST Privacy Framework: A Tool for Improving Privacy Through Enterprise Risk Management, Version 1.0 (Spanish translation)

September 1, 2021

Author(s)

Naomi Lefkovitz, Katie Boeckl

Forensic facial examiners versus super‐recognizers: Evaluating behavior beyond accuracy

August 24, 2021

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Carina Hahn, Liansheng Larry Tang, Amy Yates, P. Jonathon Phillips

We evaluated the detailed, behavioral properties of face matching performance in two specialist groups: forensic facial examiners and super-recognizers. Both...

NIST SRE CTS Superset: A large-scale dataset for telephony speaker recognition

August 16, 2021

Author(s)

Omid Sadjadi

This document provides a brief description of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) speaker recognition evaluation (SRE) conversational...

On the Multiplicative Complexity of Cubic Boolean Functions

August 11, 2021

Author(s)

Meltem Sonmez Turan, Rene Peralta

Multiplicative complexity is a relevant complexity measure for many advanced cryptographic protocols such as multi-party computation, fully homomorphic...

Effects of Binder Layer and Bath pH on Pt-Ag Replacement Reactions as Applied to Photographic Toning Practices

August 3, 2021

Author(s)

Joan Walker, Ronel Namde, Keana Scott, Alline Myers

NetSimulyzer: A 3D Network Simulation Analyzer for ns-3

July 16, 2021

Author(s)

Evan Black, Samantha Gamboa Quintiliani, Richard A. Rouil

The increased complexity of network protocols and scenarios simulated using ns-3 is making the verification of simulation correctness and the analysis of...

Japanese Translation of the Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (Cybersecurity Framework) V1.1

July 12, 2021

Author(s)

Amy Mahn

This is a direct translation of Version 1.1 of the Cybersecurity Framework produced by the Japan Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA).

NIST 2021 Speaker Recognition Evaluation Plan

July 12, 2021

Author(s)

Omid Sadjadi, Craig Greenberg, Elliot Singer, Lisa Mason, Douglas Reynolds

The 2021 Speaker Recognition Evaluation (SRE21) is the next in an ongoing series of speaker recognition evaluations conducted by the US National Institute of...

Iniciativa Nacional para Educação em Cibersegurança (NICE) Estrutura da Força de Trabalho em Segurança Cibernética

July 9, 2021

Author(s)

Bill Newhouse, Stephanie Keith, Benjamin Scribner, Greg Witte

Esta publicação descreve a Cybersecurity Workforce Framework [Estrutura da Força de Trabalho em Cibersegurança] (NICE Framework) da National Initiative for...

Iniciativa nacional para la educación en ciberseguridad (NICE) Marco para el personal de ciberseguridad

July 9, 2021

Author(s)

Bill Newhouse, Stephanie Keith, Benjamin Scribner, Greg Witte

Esta publicación describe el Marco para el personal de ciberseguridad (Marco de la NICE) de la Iniciativa nacional para la educación en ciberseguridad (NICE...

Framework da Força de Trabalho para Segurança Cibernética (NICE Framework)

July 9, 2021

Author(s)

Rodney Petersen, Danielle Santos, Karen A. Wetzel, Matthew C. Smith, Greg Witte

A presente publicação da Iniciativa Nacional para Educação em Segurança Cibernética (NICE) descreve o Framework da Força de Trabalho para Segurança Cibernética...

Face Identification Proficiency Test Designed Using Item Response Theory

July 1, 2021

Author(s)

Carina Hahn, Amy Yates, P. Jonathon Phillips, Alice O'Toole, Geraldine Jeckeln, Jacqueline Cavazos, Ying Hu, larry tang

IRIS-HEP Blueprint Workshop Summary: Learning from the Pandemic: the Future of Meetings in HEP and Beyond

June 30, 2021

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Mark Neubauer, Todd Adams, Jennifer Adelman-McCarthy, Gabriele Benelli, Tulika Bose, David Britton, Ben Galewsky, Bo Jayatilaka, Brendan Kiburg, Maciej Gladki, Aman Goel, Jonathan E. Guyer, Pat Burchat, Joel Butler, Timothy Cartwright, Tomáš Davídek, Jacques Dumarchez, Peter Elmer, Matthew Feickert, Mandeep Gill, Benjamin Krikler, David Lange, Claire Lee, Nick Manganelli, Giovanni Marchiori, Meenakshi Narain, Ianna Osborne, Jim Pivarski, Harrison Prosper, Graeme Stewart, Eduardo Rodrigues, Roberto Salerno, Marguerite Tonjes, Jaroslav Trnka, Vera Varanda, Vassil Vassilev, Gordon Watts, Sam Zeller, Yuanyuan Zhang

The COVID-19 pandemic has by-and-large prevented in-person meetings since March 2020. While the increasing deployment of effective vaccines around the world is...