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NIST Interlaboratory Studies Involving DNA Mixtures (MIX05 and MIX13): Variation Observed and Lessons Learned

August 1, 2018
Author(s)
John Butler, Margaret C. Kline, Michael D. Coble
… studies are a type of collaborative exercise in which many laboratories are presented with the same set of … protocols used across participating laboratories. In 2005 and again in 2013, the Applied Genetics Group of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) conducted interlaboratory studies involving …

Reasoning about Smart City

July 31, 2018
Author(s)
Edward R. Griffor, Martin J. Burns, David A. Wollman, Marcello Balducinni, Claire Vishik, Michael Huth
… and the public. The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and its government, university and industry … be achieved. To demonstrate capabilities of the approach in a short paper, we develop a public safety use case and …

NIST Big Data Interoperability Framework: Volume 4, Big Data Security and Privacy [Version 2]

June 26, 2018
Author(s)
Wo L. Chang, Arnab Roy, Mark Underwood, NBD-PWG NIST Big Data Public Working Group
… Data is a term used to describe the large amount of data in the networked, digitized, sensor- laden, … of data is outpacing scientific and technological advances in data analytics. To advance progress in Big Data, the NIST Big Data Public Working Group (NBD-PWG) …

Topological quantization of energy transport in micromechanical and nanomechanical lattices

March 21, 2018
Author(s)
Chih-Chun Chien, Kirill Velizhanin, Yonatan Dubi, Robert Ilic, Michael P. Zwolak
… quantum computation. These effects are typically discussed in the context of quantum physics. Here, we demonstrate the role of topology in determining the energy transport properties of dimerized … the ramifications of topological properties on nanoscale technology. …

Activity measurements of the radionuclides 18F and 64Cu for the NIST, USA in the ongoing comparisons BIPM.RI(II)-K4.F-18 and BIPM.RI(II)-K4.Cu-64

January 1, 2018
Author(s)
Denis E. Bergeron, Jeffrey T. Cessna, Ryan P. Fitzgerald, Leticia S. Pibida, Brian E. Zimmerman, Carine Michotte, Manuel Nonis, Andrew Fenwick, Kelly Ferreira, John Keightley
… In 2016, comparisons of activity measurements of 18F and 64Cu … took place at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST, USA). This is the first SIRTI comparison … 27 kBq of 18F and 100 kBq of 64Cu solutions were measured in the SIRTI for about 5 and 1.5 half-lives, respectively. …

Natural Uranium Radioactivity Solution Standard: SRM 4321d

December 27, 2017
Author(s)
Ronald Colle, Lizbeth Laureano-Perez, Svetlana Nour, Jerome J. LaRosa, Brian E. Zimmerman, Leticia S. Pibida, Denis E. Bergeron
… be disseminated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as Standard Reference Material 4321d. The … for the massic activities of 234U, 235U, and 238U in solution, and it is based on isotopic mass data for the …

Development of a new UHV/XHV pressure standard (Cold Atom Vacuum Standard)

November 10, 2017
Author(s)
Julia Scherschligt, James A. Fedchak, Daniel Barker, Stephen Eckel, Nikolai Klimov, Constantinos Makrides, Eite Tiesinga
… The National Institute of Standards and Technology has recently begun a program to develop a primary … due to collisions with the background gas (primarily H2) in the vacuum. The pressure is determined from a …

Organizational Practices in Cryptographic Development and Testing

October 9, 2017
Author(s)
Julie Haney, Simson L. Garfinkel, Mary Theofanos
… including usability and human factors, that may result in decreased security, increased development time, and missed opportunities to use the technology to its fullest potential. To better identify these … of 121 individuals representing organizations involved in the development of products that include cryptography. We …

A Retrospective on the Impact of Annex 40 and Annex 47 Research on the International State of Building Commissioning

August 20, 2017
Author(s)
Natascha S. Milesi-Ferretti, Masato Miyata, Oliver Baumann
… Since 2000, the International Energy Agency (IEA) Energy in Buildings and Communities Program (EBC, formerly ECBCS) … recognizing the role of the building commissioning process in meeting energy conservation goals. Annex 40 established a … Subsequently, Annex 47 focused on advancing the use of technology in commissioning and the work developed and ideas …

Spin-wave propagation in cubic anisotropy materials

June 30, 2017
Author(s)
Koji Sekiguchi, Seo-Won Lee, Hiroaki Sukegawa, Nana Sato, Se-Hyeok Oh, Robert McMichael, Kyung-Jin Lee
… moving charges and thus alleviates Joule heating [1-3]. In this respect, magnonic devices in which the information is carried by spin-waves attract an … closely mimics the gate-controlled conducting channel in traditional field-effect transistors. These attractive …

CFD-Based Modeling of Combustion and Suppression in Compartment Fires

February 19, 2017
Author(s)
Arnaud Trouve, Andre Marshall
… is developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA, and is one of the leading fire simulation … as well as indicative of future trends. The material in this Chapter is organized around a presentation of the … CFD-Based Modeling of Combustion and Suppression in Compartment Fires …

Refractive index measurements of Ge

October 20, 2016
Author(s)
John H. Burnett, Simon G. Kaplan
… properties of technologically important IR materials, in order to provide the IR optics community with updated … is provided. An analysis of the uncertainty is presented in detail. These measurements are compared to previous …

Recent Advancements of Wide-Angle Polarization Analysis with 3 He neutron Spin Filters

October 10, 2016
Author(s)
WangChun Chen, Thomas R. Gentile, Qiang NMN Ye, A. Kirchhoff, Shannon Watson, Jose A. Rodriguez, Yiming Qiu, Collin L. Broholm
… (MACS) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Neutron Research (NCNR). Over the past … using spin exchange optical pumping based 3 He NSFs. In this paper, we report substantial improvements in the on-beam-line performance of the apparatus and progress …

Certified DNA Reference Materials to Compare HER2 Gene Amplification Measurements Using Next- Generation Sequencing Methods

September 1, 2016
Author(s)
Chih-Jian Lih, Robin D. Harrington, Kneshay Harper, David J. Sims, Paul McGregor, Corinne Camalier, Han Si, Biswajit Das, P. M. Williams, Hua-Jun He, Jamie L. Almeida, Steven Lund, Steven J. Choquette, Kenneth D. Cole
… The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Standard Reference Materials 2373 is a set … ratios. Although good reproducibility was observed in each next-generation sequencing method, slightly different … assay performance as well as for increasing confidence in reporting HER2 amplification for clinical applications. …

NIST Micronutrients Measurement Quality Assurance Program Winter, Spring, and Fall 1988 Comparability Studies: Results for Round Robins XII, XIII, and XIV Fat-Soluble Vitamins and Carotenoids in Human Serum

August 29, 2016
Author(s)
Jeanice M. Brown Thomas, David L. Duewer, Margaret C. Kline, Willie E. May
… The National Institute of Standards and Technology coordinates the Micronutrients Measurement Quality … that measure fat-soluble vitamins and carotenoids in human serum and plasma. This report describes the design … 1) Round Robin XII Fat-Soluble Vitamins and Carotenoids in Human Serum, 2) Round Robin XIII Fat-Soluble Vitamins and …

Magnetic Random Access Memory

August 5, 2016
Author(s)
Michael L. Schneider, P. G. Mather
… benefits over those available with conventional memory technology. Here we discuss the state-of-the-art of MRAM, from parts currently in production to development efforts underway. A promising … and optimized. While high density is highly desirable in any data-storage medium, MRAM differentiates itself from …

Report on Post-Quantum Cryptography

April 28, 2016
Author(s)
Lidong Chen, Stephen P. Jordan, Yi-Kai Liu, Dustin Moody, Rene C. Peralta, Ray A. Perlner, Daniel C. Smith-Tone
… In recent years, there has been a substantial amount of … to break many of the public-key cryptosystems currently in use. This would seriously compromise the confidentiality … Report shares the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)'s current understanding about the status of …

Handheld Real-Time PCR Device

January 26, 2016
Author(s)
Christian D. Ahrberg, Robert Ilic, Andreas Manz, Pavel Neu?il
… V power supply. Four simultaneous reactions are performed in form of virtual reaction chambers (VRC) where a ≈ 100 nL … extending to rapid detection of infectious diseases in small clinics. …

Photomask Linewidth Comparison by PTB and NIST

November 2, 2015
Author(s)
Detleff Bergmann, Bernd Bodermann, Harald Bosse, Egbert Buhr, Gaoliang Dai, Ronald G. Dixson, W H?er-Grohne
… institutes (NMIs): the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the United States and the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) in Germany. For the comparison, a chrome on glass (CoG) …

NIST Big Data Interoperability Framework: Volume 4, Security and Privacy

October 22, 2015
Author(s)
Wo L. Chang, Arnab Roy, Mark Underwood, NBD-PWG NIST Big Data Public Working Group
… Data is a term used to describe the large amount of data in the networked, digitized, sensor-laden, information-driven … of data is outpacing scientific and technological advances in data analytics. To advance progress in Big Data, the NIST Big Data Public Working Group (NBD-PWG) …
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