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Melissa Taylor, Will Chapman, Austin Hicklin, George Kiebuzinski, John Mayer-Splain, Rachel Wallner, Peter Komarinski
This specification defines Extended Feature Set (EFS) Profiles - sets of features to be used in latent friction ridge (fingerprint, palmprint or plantar) searches of automated friction ridge identification systems (AFIS). The EFS Profiles are designed to
Shonali Nazare, Shaun M. Flynn, Rick D. Davis, Joannie W. Chin
In this study, environmentally stressed OS fabrics containing melamine fiber blends were evaluated for thermal and mechanical properties that are critical to the protective performance of firefighter turnout gear. Environmental stress factors that affect
Quantitative leak tests with vacuum technology have become an important tool in industry for safety and operational reasons and to meet environmental regulations. In lack of a relevant key comparison, so far, there are no calibration measurement
James Cline, David R. Black, Donald Windover, Albert Henins
The laboratory X-ray powder diffractometer offers several virtues that have rendered it a principal characterization device providing critical data for a range of technical disciplines. A continuous suite of hkl reflections can be collected with a single
Bethany E. Hackett, Bradley Moore, Dennis G. Camell
NIST Handbook 150-11, NVLAP Electromagnetic Compatibility and Telecommunications, presents the technical requirements and guidance for the accreditation of laboratories under the NVLAP Electromagnetic Compatibility and Telecommunications (ECT) LAP. It is
Seungkwan Kim, Keesuk Hong, Dong-Hoon Lee, David J. Livigni, Xiaoyu X. Li, John H. Lehman
We describe the results of a comparison of reference standards between the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST-USA) and Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS- R.O. Korea). We report optical fiber-based power measurements
Nicholas G. Paulter Jr., Melissa Taylor, Anil K. Jain, Qijun Zhao
Fingerprint image synthesis has received considerable attention because of its potential use in generating large databases to evaluate the performance of fingerprint recognition systems. Existing fingerprint synthesis algorithms (e.g., SFinGe) focus on
D Vega-Maza, W. Wyatt Miller, Dean C. Ripple, Gregory E. Scace
We have constructed a new humidity generator that produces gas streams of known moisture content at temperatures from 85 °C to 200 °C, absolute pressures from 0.2 MPa to 1.6 MPa, and relative humidities from 10 % to 90 %. The generator produces a moist gas
Vyacheslav B. Podobedov, George P. Eppeldauer, Thomas C. Larason
Analysis of multiple factors affecting the uncertainty of the absolute spectral responsivity of optical radiation detectors is presented. This includes both the validation of the radiometric scale of the infrared reference detectors and the scale transfer
Sensors can provide real-time production information to optimize manufacturing activities in a factory. Recently, more attention has been paid to the application of sensors in smart manufacturing systems. Sensor data exchange, sharing, and interoperability
Computer-interpretable representations of system structure and behavior are at the center of designing todays complex systems. Engineers create and review such representations using graphical modeling languages that support specification, analysis, design
Lee L. Yu, William C. Davis, Rabia Oflaz, Gregory C. Turk, Jeff M. Jarrett, Liza Valentin, Benjamin C. Blount, Dennis D. Leber, Eric L. Kilpatrick
Perchlorate, an inorganic anion, has recently been recognized as an environmental contaminant by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Assessment of human exposure to perchlorate requires measurement of the anion in urine. Although the
Fernando L. Podio, Dylan J. Yaga, Christofer J. McGinnis
The Computer Security Division of NIST/ITL supports the development of biometric conformance testing methodology standards and other conformity assessment efforts through active technical participation in the development of these standards and the
Marcia L. Huber, Richard A. Perkins, Daniel G. Friend, Jan V. Sengers, Marc J. Assael, Ifigenia N. Metaxa, Kiyoshi Miyagawa, Robert Hellmann, Eckhard Vogel
The International Association for the Properties of Water and Steam (IAPWS) encouraged an extensive research effort to update the IAPS Formulation 1985 for the Thermal Conductivity of Ordinary Water Substance, leading to the adoption of a Release on the
In this study, environmentally stressed OS fabrics containing melamine fiber blends were evaluated for thermal and mechanical properties that are critical to the protective performance of firefighter turnout gear. Environmental stress factors that affect
A series of three Hydrogen in Titanium Alloy Standard Reference Materials (SRMs 2452, 2453, and 2454) were prepared with hydrogen mass fractions bracketing the hydrogen specification limit of 125 mg/kg. Commercial titanium alloy Ti6Al4V (6 % aluminum, 4 %
William R. Kelly, Bruce S. MacDonald, John L. Molloy, Stefan D. Leigh, Andrew L. Rukhin
A procedure is presented whereby the fossil fuel community may design and mix SRMs in different proportions and thereby produce in their laboratory fossil fuel standards for selected elements of almost any desired concentration with uncertainties that are
Dean C. Ripple, William E. Murdock, Gregory F. Strouse, Keith A. Gillis, Michael R. Moldover
We have successfully conducted highly-accurate, primary acoustic thermometry at 600 K using a sound source and a sound detector at room temperature. We describe the source, the detector, and the ducts that connected them to our cavity resonator. This
Hansjoerg Scherer, Benedetta Camarota, Mark W. Keller, Sergey Lotkhov
Recent improvements on the ECCS experiment at PTB are reported. A 5-junction single-electron R-pump is shown to shuttle electrons with a relative transfer error of 5×10 -8. Moreover, the relative uncertainty of the setup for the cryogenic capacitor voltage
Testing standards are more fundamental from a metrological perspective and less controversial from an industrial perspective than product standards, representing a path of less resistance towards the standardization and commercialization of lab on a chip
Lee J. Gorny, Keith A. Gillis, Michael R. Moldover
As a part of NISTs program to standardize measurements of greenhouse gas emissions, we are developing a long-wavelength acoustic flowmeter (LWAF) for accurate, economical measurements of exhaust flows from coal-burning power plants. Measurements of the
Iosif I. Shinder, Michael R. Moldover, J. M. Hall, Mike Duncan, Joe Keck
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are improving their airspeed calibration services. Both laboratories use spinning disks to generate linear velocities that are traceable to NISTs length
Aaron N. Johnson, Chunhui Li, John D. Wright, Gina M. Kline, Christopher J. Crowley
We developed a new nozzle manifold that reduced the uncertainty of flow calibrations from 0.09 % to as low as 0.074 % for flows of air up to 0.84 kg/s (43 000 L/min at reference conditions of 101.325 kPa and 293.15 K). The nozzle manifold also reduces the