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Policy Machine: Features, Architecture, and Specification

May 31, 2014
Author(s)
David F. Ferraiolo, Serban I. Gavrila, Wayne Jansen
… The ability to control access to sensitive data in accordance with policy is perhaps the most fundamental … of these policies can be enforced through off-the-shelf technology, and even a smaller subset can be enforced by any … architecture of the PM and the properties of the PM model in detail. …

Optical detection of radio waves through a nanomechanical transducer

March 5, 2014
Author(s)
Jacob M. Taylor, Tolga Bagci, A Simonsen, Silvan Schmid, L Villanueva, Emil Zeuthen, Anders Sorensen, Koji Usami, A Schliesser, E.S. Polzik
… signals is an ubiquitous technological challenge, crucial in fields as diverse as radio astronomy, medical imaging, … enabling quantum-limited signal detection. Research in the field of cavity optomechan- ics [1, 2] has shown that … would bear great promise as the intermediate platform in a radio-to-optical transduction cascade. Here, we …

Proficiency Testing for Pressure Calibration at the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP)

December 3, 2013
Author(s)
Douglas A. Olson, Thomas R. Hettenhouser, Robert G. Driver
… NVLAP-provided test artifacts at specific pressure points in gas, and then comparisons of the results to similar … by the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Thermodynamic Metrology Group. The statistical … demonstrates proficiency for their declared scope in pressure. This proficiency test can evaluate both …

Simulating Occupancy in The NIST Net-Zero Energy Residential Test Facility

November 21, 2013
Author(s)
Farhad Omar, Steven T. Bushby
… (NZERTF), at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland, is a research house that is comparable in size and aesthetic to the houses in the greater Washington … Simulating Occupancy in The NIST Net-Zero Energy Residential Test Facility …

Energy Performance of the NIST Net Zero Energy Residential Test Facility relative to a Maryland Code- Compliant Design

September 30, 2013
Author(s)
Joshua D. Kneifel
… The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) received funding through the American … residential design can “look and feel” like a typical home in the Gaithersburg area. The demonstration phase of the … an entire year. The NZERTF began the demonstration phase in July 2013. The purpose of this report is to compare the …

Strong Casimir force reduction by metallic surface nanostructuring

September 27, 2013
Author(s)
Francesco Intravaia, Stefan T. Koev, Il Woong Jung, Albert A. Talin, Paul S. Davids, Ricardo Decca, Vladimir Aksyuk, Diego A. Dalvit, Daniel Lopez
… (EM) field and is technologically significant in micro- and nanomechanical systems. Despite rapid progress in nanophotonics, the goal of engineering this force remains … distances d above ≈ 400 nm, the measured Casimir force in vacuum decreases faster than the d^-4 power-law, reducing …

NIST Micronutrients Measurement Quality Assurance Program Winter and Summer 1999 Comparability Studies: Results for Round Robin XLV and XLVI Fat-Soluble Vitamins and Carotenoids in Human Serum and Round Robin 12 Ascorbic Acid in Human Serum

August 7, 2013
Author(s)
David L. Duewer, Sam A. Margolis, Katherine E. Sharpless, Jeanice M. Brown Thomas
… The National Institute of Standards and Technology coordinates the Micronutrients Measurement Quality … measure fat- and water-soluble vitamins and carotenoids in human serum and plasma. This report describes the design … 1) Round Robin XLV Fat-Soluble Vitamins and Carotenoids in Human Serum, 2) Round Robin XLVI Fat-Soluble Vitamins and …

Prediction of the gasification rate of thermoplastic polymers in fire-like environments

August 1, 2013
Author(s)
Gregory T. Linteris, Richard E. Lyon, Stanislav Stoliarov
… required for input to the numerical models, are measured in independent laboratory tests, and presented. The … time-dependent mass loss rate for each polymer is measured in the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) gasification device and predicted using two …

A Dynamic Human Body Computational Phantom for RF Propagation Study

May 20, 2013
Author(s)
John G. Hagedorn, Kamran Sayrafian, Judith E. Terrill
… Recent advances in micro-electronics technology to build small radio-enabled … medical sensors have sparked considerable interest in further understanding the characteristics of radio …

Characterization of the NIST Shellfish Standard Reference Material 4358

March 1, 2013
Author(s)
Svetlana Nour, Kenneth G. Inn, James J. Filliben, Hank dan der Gaast, Lee Chung Men, M.D. Calmet, P Povinec, Y Takata, M. Wisdom, K. Nakamura, Pia Vesterbacka, Ching-Chung Huang, S M. Vakulovsky
… was developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) via an international intercomparison … This Standard Reference Material (SRM) has been developed in cooperation with member laboratories of the International … bottled, and sterilized. The SRM is intended for use in tests of measurements of radioactivity contained in …

Standard Guide for Size Measurement of Nanoparticles Using Atomic Force Microscopy

January 1, 2013
Author(s)
Vincent A. Hackley, Frank W. DelRio
… (AFM)to determine the size of nanoparticles2 deposited in dry form on flat substrates using height (z-displacement) … measurement corresponds to the diameter of the particle. In this guide, procedures are described for dispersing gold … these procedures are National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) reference materials containing …

The spectrum of Fe II

January 1, 2013
Author(s)
Gillian Nave, S Johansson
… range 900 Å to 5.5 μm. The spectra were recorded in high-current continuous and pulsed hollow cathode … Spectrograph at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Roughly 12 900 lines were classified using 1028 … wavenumbers. The wavenumber uncertainties of lines in the FT spectra range from 10−4 cm−1 for strong lines …

Testing the Nations Health care Information Infrastructure

November 10, 2012
Author(s)
Kevin G. Brady, Ram D. Sriram, Bettijoyce B. Lide, Kathleen M. Roberts
… States spent nearly $2.6 trillion dollars on health care in 2010. It is estimated that this will nearly double by the … health care, and India’s population is three times ours.” In an attempt to reign in the health care costs, the Bush and … Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and providing appropriate incentives for the …

ROBOTICALLY CONTROLLED MM-WAVE NEAR-FIELD PATTERN RANGE

October 21, 2012
Author(s)
Josh Gordon, David R. Novotny, Jeffrey R. Guerrieri, Jason Coder, Michael Francis
… Metrology Lab at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder Colorado has developed a robotically controlled … remote sensing, communications and imaging. A new concept in near-field range systems, this system incorporates the …

Size Measurement of Nanoparticles Using Atomic Force Microscopy, ASTM E2859-11

January 2, 2012
Author(s)
Jaroslaw Grobelny, Frank W. DelRio, Pradeep Namboodiri, Doo-In Kim, Vincent A. Hackley, Robert F. Cook
… (AFM) to determine the size of nanoparticles2 deposited in dry form on flat substrates using height (z-displacement) … measurement corresponds to the diameter of the particle. In this guide, procedures are described for dispersing gold … these procedures are National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) reference materials containing …

Numerical Simulations of Thermoplastic Burning Rate: Effects of Property Variations

November 30, 2011
Author(s)
Gregory T. Linteris
… numerical codes, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) and the … predict the influence of material parameters on the MLR in the order of decreasing importance: heat of reaction, … activation energy of the polymer decomposition. Changes in the material properties also influence the MLR curves by …

Guidelines for Predicting the Capacity and Demand of Steel Bean-Columns Under Fires: Part 1, Perimeter Columns.

November 22, 2011
Author(s)
Maria E. Garlock, Spencer E. Quiel, Ignacio Paya-Zaforteza
… Reports by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Gann 2005), the UK-based Institution of … codes, which are the current state of practice in the US, state how a building is to be constructed to … are used to estimate the response of loaded members in a building frame to fire. On the other hand, …

Uncertainties of Measures in Speaker Recognition Evaluation

November 10, 2011
Author(s)
Jin Chu Wu, Alvin F. Martin, Craig S. Greenberg, Raghu N. Kacker
… The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Speaker Recognition Evaluations (SRE) are an ongoing series of projects conducted by NIST. In the NIST SRE, speaker detection performance is measured … and type II error. The sampling variability can result in measurement uncertainties of the detection cost function. …

Demand Response and Standards: Enabling a New Role for Buildings in the Smart Grid

November 1, 2011
Author(s)
David G. Holmberg
… The role of buildings in the electric grid is steadily being transformed to that of active participant in managing the grid, serving as a key player in maintaining grid reliability. The necessity for this … Response and Standards: Enabling a New Role for Buildings in the Smart Grid …

Guidelines for Predicting the Capacity and Demand of Steel Beam-Columns Under Fire: Part 1, Perimeter Columns.

November 1, 2011
Author(s)
Maria E. Garlock, Spencer E. Quiel, Ignacio Paya-Zaforteza
… Reports by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Gann 2005), the UKbased Institution of Structural … codes, which are the current state of practice in the US, state how a building is to be constructed to … are used to estimate the response of loaded members in a building frame to fire. On the other hand, …

STR Sequence Analysis for Characterizing Normal, Variant, and Null Alleles

August 1, 2011
Author(s)
Margaret C. Kline, Carolyn R. Steffen, John M. Butler, Amy Decker
… DNA sequence variation is known to exist in and around the repeat region of short tandem repeat (STR) loci used in human identity testing. While the vast majority of STR … Our group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been sequencing variant and null …
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