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Training Excellence: What Does Success Look Like?

August 28, 2012
Author(s)
Carol T. Hockert, Georgia L. Harris
… The National Institute of Standards, Office of Weights and Measures has been working … last few years toward compliance with several educational standards in support of our training program for the legal …

Coaxial Line-Reflect-Match Calibration

October 1, 1995
Author(s)
Jeffrey A. Jargon, Roger Marks, Dylan F. Williams
We describe a coaxial line-reflect-match calibration that corrects for imperfections in the load used as a match standard. The method provides a practical means of obtaining accurate, wideband calibrations with compact coaxial standard sets. When our load

Draft B Report on the Key Comparison CCM.P-K4.2012 in Absolute Pressure from 1 Pa to 10 kPa

December 7, 2016
Author(s)
Jacob E. Ricker, Jay H. Hendricks, Thomas Bock, Prazak Dominik, Tokihiko Kobata, Jorge Torres, Irina Sadkovskaya
This report summarizes the Consultative Committee for Mass (CCM) key comparison CCM.P-K4.2012 for absolute pressure spanning the range of 1 Pa to 10 000 Pa. The comparison was completed via calibration of a transfer standard carried out at six NMIs during

Report on Pairing-based Cryptography

February 3, 2015
Author(s)
Dustin Moody, Rene C. Peralta, Ray A. Perlner, Andrew R. Regenscheid, Allen L. Roginsky, Lidong Chen
This report summarizes study results on pairing-based cryptography. The main purpose of the study is to form NIST’s position on standardizing and recommending pairing-based cryptography schemes currently published in research literature and standardized in

260 - Office of Weights and Measures

October 16, 2008
Author(s)
H V. Oppermann
… 750 state and local jurisdictions in weights and measures standards, laws, and practices to facilitate trade and … and conversion to businesses, state and local governments, standards organizations, trade associations, and the … for ensuring traceability of state weights and measures standards to NIST; provides technical support to the National …

ER Simulation Prototypes for Incident Management Training

May 19, 2008
Author(s)
Guodong Shao, Charles R. McLean
… Effective, technically sound, and commercially available standards-based solutions are needed. A concept demonstration … has been developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology to facilitate the identification, development, and deployment of standards that enable the integrated use of modeling, …

Simulation Prototypes for Incident Management Training

October 1, 2006
Author(s)
Guodong Shao, Charles R. McLean
… Effective, technically sound, and commercially available standards-based solutions are needed. A concept demonstration has been developed at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to facilitate the identification, development, and deployment of standards that enable the integrated use of modeling, …

Detector-Based Sphere Photometry for Industry

June 2, 2003
Author(s)
Yoshihiro Ohno, R S. Bergman
The Absolute Integrating Sphere Method is now used at NIST for the detector-based calibration of total luminous flux of lamps, as well as for the realization of the lumen. This method has many benefits for high-accuracy applications, allowing for

The New UV Radiometry Facility at SURF

March 1, 2002
Author(s)
Ping-Shine Shaw, Keith R. Lykke, R Gupta, Uwe Arp, Thomas B. Lucatorto, Albert C. Parr
… Radiation Facility (SURF III) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides a unique opportunity …

CODATA Recommended Values of the Fundamental Physical Constants: 1998

November 1, 2000
Author(s)
Peter J. Mohr, Barry N. Taylor
This paper gives the 1998 self-consistent set of values of the basic constants and conversion factors of physics and chemistry recommended by the Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) for international use. Further, it describes in detail

Background Study: Requisite Elements, Rationale, and Technology Overview for the Systems Integration for Manufacturing Applications (SIMA) Program

August 1, 1995
Author(s)
Edward J. Barkmeyer Jr., Ted Hopp, Mike Pratt, Gaylen Rinaudot
… and electromechanical products. Existing and emerging standards are likely to play a key role in this process: … are also discussed, and details of potentially useful standards provided in appendices. The document is intended as … collaborative efforts between NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology), industry, other government …

An Introduction to the NIST PDES Toolkit

June 1, 1990
Author(s)
Steve Clark
… Testbed has been established at the National Institute of Standards and Technology to provide testing and validation …

Automated Piston Gauge Calibration System.

April 22, 2021
Author(s)
Julia Scherschligt, Yuanchao Yang, Katie M. Schlatter, Robert G. Driver, Christina D. Cross, John S. Quintavalle
… Piston gauges or pressure balances are important primary standards for the realization of the SI unit of pressure, the Pascal. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) operates and maintains a … of using transducers as instantaneous in-situ transfer standards, we now present the results of a near …

A Suite of Ontologies for Robotics and Automation

March 24, 2017
Author(s)
Sandro R. Fiorini, Julita Bermejo-Alonso, Paulo Goncalves, Edison Pignaton de Freitas, Alberto Olivares Alarcos, Joanna Isabelle Olszewska, Edson Prestes, Craig I. Schlenoff, Veera S. Ragavan, Signe Redfield, Bruce Spencer, Howard Li
One of the basic requirements for any type of robot communication (whether with other robots or humans) is the need for a common vocabulary along with clear and concise definitions. With the growing complexity of tasks that robots are expected to perform

Design of a Table-Top Watt Balance

July 26, 2016
Author(s)
Stephan Schlamminger, Jon R. Pratt, David B. Newell, Frank C. Seifert, Michael Liu, Leon S. Chao, Luis Manuel Pea Prez, Shisong Li, Darine El Haddad
… that we have recently built at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The capacity of these table top …

ITRAP+10 Spectroscopic Radiation Portal Monitor Testing

November 14, 2013
Author(s)
Anne L. Sallaska, Leticia S. Pibida, Huaiyu H. Chen-Mayer, Luc Murphy, Christina Ward
… commercial radiation detectors against published consensus standards. Though data was assessed against requirements of the American National Standards Institute/Institute of Electrical and Electronics … (IEC), the passing or failing criteria described in the standards was not applied to the instruments’ response. …

Continuity of Care Document (CCD) Suitability Analysis

September 15, 2011
Author(s)
Liora Alschuler
… It is part of the Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) Standards Analysis Project carried out by Lantana Consulting Group for The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). …

Canonical Machining Commands

January 31, 1997
Author(s)
Frederick M. Proctor, Thomas Kramer, John L. Michaloski
… Control, Standards …
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