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2024 NIST Summary of U.S. Legal Metrology Activities

January 10, 2025
Author(s)
Juana Williams, John McGuire, Loren Minnich, Gloria Lee, Jan Konijnenburg, Isabel Baucom, Katrice Lippa
The NIST Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) presents its second issue of the 2024 NIST Annual Summary of U.S. Legal Metrology Activities report. This report includes a summary of changes made to NIST Handbook 44 (2024) Specifications, Tolerances and

Checking the Net Contents of Packaged Goods

January 10, 2025
Author(s)
John McGuire, David Sefcik, Loren Minnich, Isabel Baucom, Katrice Lippa
This handbook has been prepared as a procedural guide for the compliance testing of net content statements on packaged goods. Compliance testing of packaged goods is the determination of the conformance results of packaging, distribution, and sale of

Uniform Laws and Regulations in the Areas of Legal Metrology and Fuel Quality

January 10, 2025
Author(s)
John McGuire, David Sefcik, Loren Minnich, Isabel Baucom, Katrice Lippa
This 2025 edition includes amendments made through the Committee on Laws and Regulations of the NCWM with technical guidance from the Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) of the NIST and input from weights and measures officials and industry

Metadata Modeling for Manufacturing Enterprise Integration

January 6, 2025
Author(s)
Yan Lu, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, James Jim Wilson, Michael Figura, Josh Ki, David Noller
The continuous digitalization and digital transformation are expanding enterprise information exchange scenarios that span product data, process data sets, and supply chain documents. This paper samples common manufacturing enterprise metadata exchange

Infographic on Post-Earthquake Functional Recovery Performance

January 3, 2025
Author(s)
Katherine Johnson, Siamak Sattar, Dustin Cook, Sandesh Aher
This research brief provides a research summary and research advancement details for the functional recovery post-earthquake performance objective being advanced by NIST's Engineering Laboratory. A current update on the status of functional recovery

Methods to evaluate 3D lidars used for automated driving

January 1, 2025
Author(s)
Prem Rachakonda, Abhilash Mane, Craig I. Schlenoff, Kamel S. Saidi
Evaluating perception sensor systems for on-road autonomous vehicles is still fraught with ambiguity due to the varying and dynamic environmental factors that these vehicles encounter. The critical safety of on-road AV operations is heavily dependent on

Interlaboratory Measurement of Adeno-Associated Virus: Comparative Quantification of Full and Empty Capsids

December 26, 2024
Author(s)
Sean Lehman, Wyatt N. Vreeland, Jerome Jacques, Sharee Adams-Hall, Shreya Ahuja, Adnan Arnaout, Hunter Balduf, Ivan Budyak, Thomas Cleveland, Dennis Delgado, James Deng, Brandon Doyle, David L. Duewer, Carsten Elger, Jeffrey Fagan, Tim Guo, Jorge Haller, Luisa Hilgenfeld, Van Hoang, Allison Huldin, Matthew Hyatt, Sambit Kar, Sandeep Kedia, Bashkim Kokona, Amy Liu, Li Ma, Diane McCarthy, He Meng, Easton Noble, Veronika Oettle, Andrew Pla, Thomas Powers, Dean Ripple, Herbert Runnels, Raphael Ruppert, Florian Semmelmann, Christopher Sims, Saurabh Singh, Ronald Toth, Austin Vogt, Sabine Wenzel, Neal Whitaker, Zhiwen Yang, Brandon Zhuang
Recombinant adeno-associated virus (AAV) is one of the main viral vector-based gene therapy platforms. AAV is a virus consisting of a ≈25 nm diameter capsid with a ≈4.7 kb cargo capacity. The safety and efficacy depend on the correct encapsidation of the

Nagaoka ferromagnetism in 3 * 3 arrays and beyond

December 26, 2024
Author(s)
Yan Li, Keyi Liu, Garnett Bryant
Nagaoka ferromagnetism (NF) is a long-predicted example of itinerant ferromagnetism (IF) in the Hubbard model that has been studied theoretically for many years. The condition for NF, an infinite onsite Coulomb repulsion and a single hole in a half-filled

NIST Scientific Integrity Program: Annual Report

December 26, 2024
Author(s)
Anne Andrews, Justyna Zwolak
This report summarizes the findings of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Scientific Integrity Program assessment of the program for Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) and the period between 1 October 2023 and 30 September 2024. It provides an

Disseminable single-photon source for quantum radiometry

December 24, 2024
Author(s)
Hristina Georgieva, Thomas Gerrits, Lijun Ma, Riley Dawkins, Marco Lopez, Oliver Slattery, Sven Rodt, Stephan Reitzenstein, Alan Migdall, Stefan Kueck
We present a disseminable single-photon source based on an InGaAs quantum dot in a micro-mesa. This source achieves a maximum photon flux of 2.8 million photons/s at a wavelength of 929.7 nm, with a multi-photon suppression of g(2)(0) = 0.22. The

Enabling Global Image Data Sharing in the Life Sciences

December 23, 2024
Author(s)
Anne L. Plant, Peter Bajcsy
Public, reference data are one of the most important foundational resources in the modern life and biomedical sciences. Over the last 40 years, the public release and availability of genomic and macromolecule structural databases accelerated discovery

Workshop on Compositional Structures in Systems Engineering and Design

December 20, 2024
Author(s)
Spencer Breiner, Eswaran Subrahmanian, Joseph Moeller, Priyaa Varshinee Srinivasan
The focus of this workshop is to foster the development of applications of category theory to systems engineering and design. We are interested in bringing together experts from engineering and applied category theory, and those involved in software tools

Food Nutrition and Safety Measurements Quality Assurance Program: Exercise 3 Final Report

December 19, 2024
Author(s)
Melissa Phillips, Colleen Bryan Sallee, Benjamin Place, Jacolin Murray, Alix Rodowa
The Food Nutrition and Safety Measurements Quality Assurance Program (FNSQAP) was launched in 2021. FNSQAP was established to assist laboratories in the development and validation of new analytical methods, in improving the quality of their analytical

Building a Digital Twin of a CNC Machine Tool

December 18, 2024
Author(s)
Deogratias Kibira, Guodong Shao, Rishabh Venketesh, Matthew Triebe
Developing digital twins for manufacturing applications is challenging due to insufficient modeling frameworks and standardized procedures. As a result, the number of successful digital twin implementations has not caught up with the increasing literature
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