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Computer Security Incident Handling Guide

August 6, 2012
Author(s)
Paul R. Cichonski, Thomas Millar, Timothy Grance, Karen Scarfone
… response has become an important component of information technology (IT) programs. Security-related threats have … computing services. This publication assists organizations in establishing computer security incident response …

RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER AS A TOOL FOR PROBING INTERFACE FORMATION IN NANOCOMPOSITES

June 24, 2012
Author(s)
Mauro Zammarano, Edward D. McCarthy, Douglas M. Fox, Paul H. Maupin, Li Piin Sung, Yeon S. Kim
… One of the most enduring problems in the evolution of science and technology using nanoscale materials is the characterization of their morphology in macroscopic systems.1 This involves spatial and … ENERGY TRANSFER AS A TOOL FOR PROBING INTERFACE FORMATION IN NANOCOMPOSITES …

Ground Truth for Evaluating 6 Degrees of Freedom Pose Estimation Systems

March 28, 2012
Author(s)
Jeremy Marvel, Joseph Falco, Tsai H. Hong
… Systems developed to estimate poses of objects in 6 degrees of freedom (6DOF) Cartesian space (X, Y, and Z … yet standardized, and are rarely reported by the vendors in sufficient detail to enable users and integrators to … utilized at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST): a laser-tracker-based system for pose …

2011 Solutions in Perception Challenge Performance Metrics and Results

March 22, 2012
Author(s)
Jeremy Marvel, Tsai H. Hong, Elena R. Messina
… The 2011 Solutions in Perception Challenge (SPC) presented an international … that could positively identify and accurately locate in space an arbitrary collection of artifacts. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) generated a series of artifacts synonymous …

Spin transport in memristive devices

January 26, 2012
Author(s)
Hyuk-Jae Jang, Oleg A. Kirillov, Oana Jurchescu, Curt A. Richter
… electrochemically precipitated copper filaments formed in TaOX memristive devices consisting of … formed copper nano-filament as long as 16 nm in the memristive ON-state at 77K. Spin transport vanishes in … We expect our findings could advance current electronic technology combining spintronic and electronic …

Biology and Genetics of New Autosomal STR Loci Useful for Forensic DNA Analysis

January 4, 2012
Author(s)
John Butler, Carolyn Steffen
… are accordion-like regions of the human genome that vary in length (through expansion or contraction) with a core … containing a four base pair repeat structure such as GATA. In 1997, the FBI Laboratory selected 13 STR loci that form … maintained by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology, contains helpful information on STR markers used …

Quantum-based Voltage Waveform Synthesis

November 11, 2011
Author(s)
Samuel P. Benz
… and stepwise-approximation, have been implemented in a number of practical systems that are presently being … as well as the challenges that are typical of technology development. Most importantly, these events have …

Strategy and Modeling for Building DR Optimization

October 17, 2011
Author(s)
Richard Lau, Sami Ayyorgun, Siun Chuon Mau, Archan Misra, David Holmberg, Steven T. Bushby
… Further, loads are becoming increasingly responsive, in terms of both sheddability and shiftability. In this paper, we formulate the building energy management … have no DR, the proposed optimization achieves savings in the range of approximately 35 to 70 %, depending on the …

Determination of Fat-Soluble Vitamins and Carotenoids in Standard Reference Material 3280 Multivitamin/Multielement Tablets by Liquid Chromatography with Absorbance Detection

August 17, 2011
Author(s)
Jeanice M. Brown Thomas, Katherine E. Sharpless, Catherine A. Rimmer, James H. Yen
… of selected fat-soluble vitamins and carotenoids in Standard Reference Material (SRM) 3280 … performed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). This SRM has been prepared as part of a … the concentration levels of vitamin A, E, and β-carotene in the SRM employed reversed-phase liquid chromatography with …

ACCELERATING STANDARDS AND MEASUREMENTS FOR THE SMART GRID

July 12, 2011
Author(s)
David A. Wollman
… The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has efforts underway to accelerate the … capable of monitoring and responding to changes in everything from power plants to customer preferences to … coordinating and accelerating the development of standards in private-sector standards setting organizations, including …

Assessing the shelf-life of a prototype reference material for product emissions testing

May 2, 2011
Author(s)
Cynthia H. Reed, Daniel V. Samarov, Dennis D. Leber, Zhe Liu, John Little
… The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Virginia Tech (VT) are developing a … The emission rate of toluene was measured from each film in a 50 L stainless steel chamber after storage times of 1 … emission rate was observed at 2 h and 24 h, the difference in the amount of toluene emitted from each of the different …

Frequency Up-conversion Single Photon Detectors for Quantum Communication Systems

April 27, 2011
Author(s)
Lijun Ma, Oliver T. Slattery, Xiao Tang, Joshua Bienfang
… Frequency up-conversion technology can be used to increase detection efficiency for near infrared photons, as has been demonstrated in fiber-based quantum communication systems. In a continuous wave pumped up-conversion detector, the …

Experiments in Parallel Fingerprint Matching - Architectural Implications for Large Scale Fingerprint Matching Evaluation Systems

April 18, 2011
Author(s)
Antoine Fillinger, Lukas Diduch, Imad Hamchi, Vincent M. Stanford
… the feasibility of a parallel fingerprint matching hosted in the NIST Data Flow System Version II middleware layer, and … when introducing parallelism. The starting point consisted in a standalone matcher that takes two fingerprint images as … Special Database 14 and tools were used for matching and in order to handle fingerprint images and perform the minutia …

NIST Measurement Services: Regular Spectral Transmittance

March 10, 2011
Author(s)
David W. Allen, Edward A. Early, Benjamin K. Tsai, Catherine C. Cooksey
… nm to 2500 nm at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Section 2 explains the basic theory in deriving the transmittance, while the complex details of the derivation are reserved for the interested reader in Appendix A. A description of the reference instrument …

Up-conversion Single-photon Detector Using Multi-wavelength Sampling Techniques

March 8, 2011
Author(s)
Lijun Ma, Joshua Bienfang, Oliver T. Slattery, Xiao Tang
… system s single-photon detectors. Frequency up-conversion technology can be used to increase detection efficiency for IR photons. In this paper we describe a scheme to improve the temporal … techniques, allowing for increased the transmission rates in single-photon communications systems. We experimentally …

Transitions: Recommendation for Transitioning the Use of Cryptographic Algorithms and Key Lengths

January 13, 2011
Author(s)
Elaine B. Barker, Allen L. Roginsky
… the 21st century, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) began the task of providing cryptographic … information, and planning ahead for possible changes in the use of cryptography because of algorithm breaks or the … (SP) 800-57, Part 1 was the first document produced in this effort, and includes a general approach for …

An Optical Frequency Comb Tied to GPS for Laser Frequency/Wavelength Calibration

November 1, 2010
Author(s)
Jack A. Stone Jr., Patrick F. Egan
… This article describes procedures and techniques utilized in the Precision Engineering Division of NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) for comb-based calibration of laser wavelength, … of these calibrations is to provide traceable standards in support of length measurement. The relative uncertainty …

Study on Noise Reduction in Up-conversion Single Photon Detectors

September 9, 2010
Author(s)
Lijun Ma, Oliver T. Slattery, Xiao Tang
… Up-conversion single photon detector technology has been established as efficient for photons in near infrared range. However, its dark count rate is a major concern for some applications in quantum optics. We have theoretically and experimentally … Study on Noise Reduction in Up-conversion Single Photon Detectors …

Trade Collaboration Systems

August 30, 2010
Author(s)
Peter O. Denno
… coordinate the work of supply chain stakeholders involved in the business processes of global logistics. Using the … agencies. The National Institute of Standards and Technology, (NIST) through collaboration with the Automotive … performed a pilot investigation of TCS capabilities in cooperation with a software vendor that developed a …

Authentication Assurance Level Taxonomies for Smart Identity Token Deployments - A New Approach

June 21, 2010
Author(s)
Ramaswamy Chandramouli
… assurance level taxonomies that have been specified in many real-world smart identity token deployments do not … with their underlying authentication mechanisms. In this paper we describe the development and application of … a new set of authentication factors appropriate for this technology, identifies all the security properties that need …
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