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NIST Handbook 130: Uniform Laws and Regulations in the Areas of Legal Metrology and Fuel Quality (2024 Ed.)

December 18, 2023
Author(s)
Lisa Warfield, John McGuire, Katrice Lippa
… and guidelines designed to encourage uniformity in adoption and implementation of weights and measures laws … in place. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has a statutory responsibility to promote … Measures (OWM) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and input from weights and measures …

Single-photon Sources and Detectors Dictionary

September 7, 2023
Author(s)
Joshua Bienfang, Thomas Gerrits, Paulina Kuo, Alan Migdall, Sergey Polyakov, Oliver Slattery
… dictionary is to define relevant terms and metrics used in the characterization of single-photon detectors and … communication of those metrics across the single-photon technology community. With the recent emergence and …

NIST Handbook 130: Uniform Laws and Regulations in the Areas of Legal Metrology and Fuel Quality (2023 Ed.)

February 13, 2023
Author(s)
Tina Butcher, David Sefcik, Lisa Warfield, Shelby Bowers, Katrice Lippa
… and guidelines designed to encourage uniformity in adoption and implementation of weights and measures laws … in place. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has a statutory responsibility to promote … Measures (OWM) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and input from weights and measures …

Small Changes Yield Large Results at NIST's Net-Zero Energy Residential Test Facility

September 28, 2017
Author(s)
Arthur H. Fanney, William V. Payne, Joshua D. Kneifel, Lisa C. Ng, Brian P. Dougherty, Tania Ullah, William M. Healy, Farhad Omar
… The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has embarked on a multi-year project to … use of advanced framing and enhanced insulation resulting in component U-factors significantly lower than those found in typical U.S. residences. A continuous air/moisture barrier …

SVClassify: a method to use multiple datasets to classify candidate structural variants into true positives and false positives

January 16, 2016
Author(s)
Justin M. Zook, Hemang M. Parikh, Desu Chen, Hariharan K. Iyer, Marc L. Salit, Wolfgang Losert
… The human genome contains variants ranging in size from small single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) to … variant calls have recently been developed by the Genome in a Bottle Consortium, no similar high-quality benchmarks … more aligned bam files from any high-throughput sequencing technology, and then builds a one-class model using these …

Energy Use Consequences of Ventilating a Net-Zero Energy House

December 2, 2015
Author(s)
Lisa C. Ng, William V. Payne
… constructed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland to demonstrate that a home similar in size, aesthetics, and amenities to those in the …

QUANTIFYING WIND DRIVEN FIREBRAND PENETRATION INTO BUILDING VENTS USING FULL SCALE AND REDUDCED SCALE EXPERIMENTAL METHODS

July 5, 2010
Author(s)
Samuel L. Manzello, Seul-Hyun Park, Sayaka S. Suzuki, John R. Shields, Yoshihiko Hayashi
… Facility (FRWTF) at the Building Research Institute (BRI) in Tsukuba, Japan. In these experiments, a structure was placed inside the FRWTF … The experiments demonstrate that mesh was not effective in reducing ignition for the fine fuels tested and firebrand …

NIST Role in Radiometric Calibrations for Remote Sensing Programs at NASA, NOAA, DOE and DOD

July 1, 2001
Author(s)
Albert C. Parr, Raju V. Datla
… The Optical Technology Division (OTD) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been actively involved in providing calibration support to establish SI traceable … Advances in Space Research … and Accuracy of Derived Physical Parameters Advances in Space Research | Elseveir Science …

Scalable Bottom-Up Synthesis of Nanoporous Hexagonal Boron Nitride (h-BN) for Large-Area Atomically Thin Ceramic Membranes

February 14, 2025
Author(s)
Andrew Naclerio, Peifu Cheng, Saban Hus, John Diulus, Marti Checa, Ivan Vlassiouk, William Fissel, Liam Collins, Matthew Coupin, Jamie Warner, Andrei Kolmakov, An-Ping Li, Piran Ravichandran Kidambi
… resistance. However, fabricating size-selective nanopores in monolayer h-BN via scalable top-down processes remains … pores into the monolayer h-BN lattice, in combination with manufacturing compatible polymer casting … nanoporous atomically thin membranes, nanopores, defects in h-BN …

Morphologic alterations across three levels of biological organization following oral exposure to silver-polymer nanocomposites in Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes)

July 5, 2024
Author(s)
Melissa Chernick, Alan Kennedy, Treye Thomas, Keana C. K. Scott, Joana Sipe, Christine Hendren, Mark Wiesner, David Hinton
… and/or degradation as they age thereby resulting in potentially altered mixture exposures and differential … via 7 oral gavages over the course of 2 weeks. In vivo observations showed alterations in the liver and gallbladder of fish exposed to pristine … following oral exposure to silver-polymer nanocomposites in Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes) …

Chip-based laser with 1-hertz integrated linewidth

October 28, 2022
Author(s)
Joel Guo, Charles McLemore, Chao Xiang, Dahyeon Lee, Lue Wu, Warren Jin, Megan Kelleher, Naijun Jin, Lin Chang, Avi Feshali, Mario Paniccia, Peter Rakich, Kerry Vahala, Scott Diddams, Franklyn Quinlan, John Bowers
… well beyond conventional microwave counterparts. In this work, we break this paradigm to demonstrate a … substrates and hold the potential for parallel high-volume manufacturing. This work provides an important advance …

International interlaboratory comparison of Raman spectroscopic analysis of CVD-grown graphene

May 20, 2022
Author(s)
Angela Hight Walker
… and meaningful outliers occurred due to differences in both the measurements performed, instrument calibration, … and data analysis. These variations ultimately resulted in inconsistent reports of peak intensity ratios, peak widths … of relative intensity calibration, the relative difference in the 2D and G peak intensity ratios (�2D/�G) …

Development of a pregnancy-specific reference material for thyroid biomarkers, vitamin D, and nutritional trace elements in serum

October 24, 2020
Author(s)
Ashley Russell, Lisa Kilpatrick, Carolyn Burdette, Denise S. Tevis, Zachary A. Fultz, Michael Nelson, Jeff M. Jarrett, Stephen A. Wise, Brittany Kassim, Stephen E. Long
… Methods Serum pools from non-pregnant women and women in each trimester were bottled into four levels. New liquid … values were described for rT3, Tg, and TSH. Changes in matrix qualities are evident by significantly different … Tg concentrations were higher than previously recorded in the literature regardless of dilution factor. Conclusion …

Effect of irradiation and detection of long-lived polyenyl radicals in highly crystalline UHMMPE fibers

May 27, 2019
Author(s)
Amanda Forster, Zois Tsinas, Mohamad Al-Sheikhly
… radiation is commonly used to crosslink bulk UHMMPE in other applications, such as artificial joints. However, UHMMPE fibers differ from bulk UHMMPE in that they have a higher crystallinity (approximately 85 % … and are very highly oriented during manufacture in which the fibers are stretched 50 to 100 times their …

Observation of Triplet Level Crossing in Single Crystal Organic Transistors Using Magnetoconductance

November 26, 2017
Author(s)
Emily G. Bittle, Hyuk-Jae Jang, Qin Zhang, Curt A. Richter, David J. Gundlach
… of large and flexible LED screens and photovoltaic arrays. In order to lower the operating voltages of organic LEDs … and improve efficiency above the Shockley-Queisser limit in organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices, quantum processes such … efficiency of these van der Waals bounded materials. In the reverse process, triplets created by charge carriers …

TSV Reveal height and bump dimension metrology by the TSOM method

April 30, 2013
Author(s)
Ravikiran Attota, Haesung Park, Victor H. Vartanian, Ndubuisi G. Orji, Richard A. Allen
… changes at the nanoscale, such as small perturbations in sidewall angle and height, with little or no ambiguity, … time, is particularly important for high volume manufacturing. For example, TSOM has been demonstrated to show sensitivity to nanometer-scale changes in height. These two attributes make TSOM particulary …

Assessment of Factors Affecting Fire Performance of Mattresses: A Review

September 3, 2012
Author(s)
Rick D. Davis, Shonali Nazare, Kathryn M. Butler
… An in-depth analysis of U.S. residential fire statistics shows … flammability regulation (16 CFR 1633) was introduced in 2007. The 16 CFR 1633 prescribes performance standards … for residential mattress has generated much interest in understanding the burning behavior of mattresses as well …

Direct Determination of Phases in Portland Cements by Quantitative X-Ray Powder Diffraction

November 15, 2010
Author(s)
Paul E. Stutzman
… Other methodologies for the direct determination of phases in cements have been sought for potentially more accurate and … resulting diffraction patterns. Difficulties encountered in these analyses include the matching of standards to the … the difficulties of the earlier XRD analyses, resulting in a renewed interest in powder diffraction and a …

Improved Contact X-Ray Microradiographic Method to Measure Mineral Density of Hard Dental Tissues

December 12, 2009
Author(s)
Burton D. Schmuck, Clifton M. Carey
… tooth specimens. The X-ray sensitive film specified in the last J Res NIST publication on the subject is no … modifications is a significant improvement for use in the X-ray microradiographic method. Further improvements … method is appropriate for quantitatively measuring changes in mineral density and erosion. …

Research Into Non-Mercury Containing Metallic Alternatives

August 1, 2001
Author(s)
F Eichmiller
… alternatives to dental amalgam. Much of the difficulty in achieving success is the inability to meet the physical, … is that it be environmentally friendly, both from a manufacturing standpoint and in use. Gold foil has been on of dentistry's most successful …

Updating a Turning Center Error Model by Singular Value Decomposition

March 1, 2001
Author(s)
David E. Gilsinn, Herbert T. Bandy, Alice V. Ling
… The precision of manufacturing using machine tools depends on the accuracy of … of nominal tool position and machine temperatures. In general these functions are low order polynomials in terms of position and temperatures. The coefficients are …

A Spline Algorithm for Modeling Cutting Errors on Turning Centers

January 1, 2000
Author(s)
David E. Gilsinn, Herbert T. Bandy, Alice V. Ling
… The precision of manufacturing using machine tools depends on the accuracy of … of nominal tool position and machine temperatures. In general these functions are low order polynomials in terms of position and temperatures. The coefficients are …
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