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John Worden, Paul Green, Annmarie Eldering, Evan Sherwin
This document provides a set of community-accepted practices for quantifying methane emissions based on plumes detected via spectroscopic remote sensing. Its primary goal is to promote consistency in the generation, validation, reporting, and quality
This report of the Semiconductors and Microelectronics Standards Working Group of the Interagency Committee on Standards Policy (ICSP) provides an overview of Federal government semiconductors and microelectronics standards activities and recommends
Eugene Song, Kang B. Lee, Hiroaki Nishi, Janaka Wejekoon
There are many challenges for Internet of Things (IoT) sensor networks including the lack of robust standards, diverse wireline and wireless connectivity, interoperability, security, and privacy. Addressing these challenges, the Institute of Electrical and
This report was written following a virtual government-to-stakeholder event hosted on October 1, 2024 by the U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council (TTC)'s Plastics Recycling Workstream of Working Group 1: Technology Standards, with representatives from the
Joshua Klein, Henry Lam, Tytus Mak, Wout Bittremieux, Yasset Perez-Riverol, Ralf Gabriels, Jim Shofstahl, Helge Hecht, Pierre-Alain Binz, Shin Kawano, Tim Van Den Bossche, Jeremy Carver, Ben Neely, Luis Mendoza, Tomi Suomi, Tine Claeys, Thomas Payne, Douwe Schulte, Zhi Sun, Nils Hoffmann, Yunping Zhu, Steffen Neumann, Andrew Jones, Nuno Bandeira, Juan Antonio Vizcaino, Eric Deutsch
Mass spectral libraries are collections of reference spectra, usually associated with specific analytes from which the spectra were generated, that are used for further downstream analysis of new spectra. There are many different formats used for encoding
This report summarizes the results of the workshop entitled "Empowering Small and Medium Size Enterprises Through Effective Additive Manufacturing Data Management." NIST co-hosted the event in partnership with the National Manufacturing Innovative
Clay Davis, Antonio Possolo, Stefanie Trapmann, Stephen L.R. Ellison, Angelique Botha, Jiang Zheng
The number of reference materials (RMs), including certified reference materials (CRMs) with assigned or certified qualitative properties, has steadily increased in recent years. In response, the Technical Committee for Reference Materials of the
Carl Simon Jr., Anne L. Plant, Catherine Zander, Erich Bozenhardt, Christina Celluzzi, David Dobnik, Melanie Grant, John Hughes, Uma Lakshmipathy, Kok-Seong Lim, Laura Montgomery, Hesham Nawar, Thiana Nebel, Linda Peltier, James Sherley, Rouzbeh Taghizadeh, Eddie Tan, Sandrine Vessillier
One of the most challenging aspects of cell and gene therapy products (CGTPs) is defining mechanism of action (MOA), potency and efficacy of the product. This perspective examines these concepts and presents helpful ways to think about them through the
John McGuire, David Sefcik, Lisa Warfield, Yvonne Branden, Katrice Lippa
NIST Handbook 130 includes a compilation of model laws and regulations and related interpretations and guidelines designed to encourage uniformity in adoption and implementation of weights and measures laws and regulations. The model laws and regulations
In FY 2022, the 22 federal agencies that reported did not add or rescind any GUS in lieu of VCS, leaving a total of 80 previously reported GUS in lieu of VCS still in use. This analysis does not reflect the use of standards by the Department of Defense
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death worldwide, casting a substantial economic footprint and burdening the global healthcare system. Historically, pre-clinical CVD modeling and therapeutic screening has been performed using animal
This report of the Semiconductors and Microelectronics Working Group of the Interagency Committee on Standards Policy (ICSP) provides an overview of Federal government semiconductors and microelectronics standards activities and recommends standards focus
Michael A. Riley, Nicholas G. Paulter Jr., Dwight D. Barry
A new configuration of the light screen pairs used in a redundant ballistic chronograph is described. This configuration complies with current ASTM International and National Institute of Justice requirements for measuring the ballistic performance of body
Prem Rachakonda, Geraldine S. Cheok, Marek Franaszek, Kamel S. Saidi
The Intelligent Systems Division (ISD) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is performing research to support the development of documentary standards within ASTM E57.23. This subcommittee is addressing the performance evaluation of
Milos Drobnjakovic, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Simon P. Frechette, Vijay Srinivasan
ISO and IEC have jointly initiated, and recently issued, a series of standards (the ISO/IEC 21838 series) for top-level ontologies. These standards have been used by industrial consortia to develop and disseminate standards for mid-level ontologies to ease
In an alternate universe, XML (1998) and XSLT 1.0 (1999) were not developed so early, and did not have to wait for the rest of the web to catch up. In ours, it took two decades before other critically important pieces of the puzzle – CSS, DOM, ECMAScript
Bullet velocity measurements are critical to the understanding of the performance of firearms, their ammunition, and the ballistic protection of armor materials and systems, and these are essential to the improvement and advancement of firearms, ammunition
Recent advances in the digitization of manufacturing have prompted ASME and ISO standards committees to reexamine the definition of datums. Any new definition of datums considered by the standards committees should cover all datum feature types used in
Colleen Naughton, Rochelle Holm, Nancy Lin, Brooklyn James, Ted Smith
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the benefits of wastewater surveillance to supplement clinical data. Numerous online information dashboards have been rapidly, and typically independently, developed to communicate environmental surveillance data to
Eric Deutsch, Juan Antonio Vizcaino, Andrew Jones, Pierre-Alain Binz, Henry Lam, Joshua Klein, Wout Bittremeieux, Yasset Perez-Riverol, David Tabb, Mathias Walzer, Sylvie Ricard-Blum, Henning Hermjakob, Steffen Neumann, Tytus Mak, Shin Kawano, Luis Mendoza, Tim Van Den Bossche, Ralf Gabriels, Nuno Bandeira, Jeremy Carver, Benjamin Pullman, Zhi Sun, Nils Hoffman, Jim Shofstahl, Yunping Zhu, Federica Quaglia, Silvio Tosatto, Sandra Orchard
The Human Proteome Organization (HUPO) Proteomics Standards Initiative (PSI) has been successfully developing guidelines, data formats, and controlled vocabularies (CVs) for the proteomics community and other fields supported by mass spectrometry since its
Annually since 1997, the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) provides a report to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) summarizing federal agency use of government unique standards (GUS) used in lieu of voluntary consensus standards (VCS) during the