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Pilot Demonstration of an Impact Evaluation Protocol: NIST NCST Recommendations Arising from The Station Nightclub Fire

January 8, 2015
Author(s)
John R. Hall, Jr, Micheal Karter, Amanda Kimbell, Minchao Yin
… Team (NCST) Act, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) establishes a National Construction Safety … on a single incident, to be documented and conducted in such a way that the specific evaluation will also form the … study. The content, opinions and conclusions contained in this report are solely those of the authors. …

A Method of Determining Sphere Center to Center Distance Using Laser Trackers For Evaluating Laser Scanners.

November 11, 2014
Author(s)
Prem K. Rachakonda, Balasubramanian Muralikrishnan, Vincent D. Lee, Daniel S. Sawyer, Steven D. Phillips, John Palmateer
… Group (DMG) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is involved in the development of documentary standards for volumetric … than the current generation of laser scanners. Challenges in establishing such a calibrated grid of spheres include the …

Electronic Structure and Band Alignment at Epitaxial Co3O4/SrTiO3 Heterojunction

July 21, 2014
Author(s)
Liang Qiao, Wei Li, Haiyan xiao, Harry M. Meyer, Xuelei Liang, Nhan Van Nguyen, Michael D. Biegalski
… properties of solid-solid interfaces play critical roles in a variety of technological applications. Recent advance of … the type-I heterojunction with a flat-band state results in a simultaneous confinement of both electrons and holes …

A Stiffness Model for Control and Analysis of a MEMS Hexapod Nanopositioner

July 9, 2014
Author(s)
Hongliang Shi, Hai-Jun Su, Nicholas Dagalakis
… built by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). This nanopositioner is capable of producing high-resolution motions in 6 degrees of freedom (DOF) by actuating three planar X-Y … to their inherent structural complexity and difficulties in measuring 6DOF positioning accuracy. In this paper, we …

Direct generation of three-photon polarization entanglement

April 28, 2014
Author(s)
Deny Hamel, Krister Shalm, Hannes Hubel, Aaron J. Miller, Francesco F. Marsili, Varun Verma, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Kevin Resch, Thomas Jennewein
Non-classical states of light are of fundamental importance for emerging quantum technologies. All optics experiments producing multi-qubit entangled states have until now relied on outcome post-selection, a procedure where only the measurement results

Structure-Property Relationships in Polyethylene Fusion Bonds

February 24, 2014
Author(s)
Aaron Forster, Kar T. Tan, Wei-Lun Ho, Donald Hunston
… research program at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) aims to develop an un-derstanding of the … observed during the formation of butt fusion joints in polyethylene. … Structure-Property Relationships in Polyethylene Fusion Bonds …

Interlaboratory Analytical Comparison Study of Total Fatty Acid Concentrations in Human Serum: Results for Exercise 01: QA12FASER01

September 18, 2013
Author(s)
Michele M. Schantz, Carissa Powers, Rosemary Schleicher
… The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and … comparison study of total fatty acid concentrations in human serum in May 2012. The first sample was candidate … Comparison Study of Total Fatty Acid Concentrations in Human Serum: Results for Exercise 01: QA12FASER01 …

(NISTIR 7952) Toward a Shared Approach for Ensuring Patient Safety with Enhanced Workflow Design for Electronic Health Records -- Summary of the Workshop

August 7, 2013
Author(s)
Svetlana Z. Lowry, Mala Ramaiah, Ant Ozok, Ayse P. Gurses, Michael C. Gibbons, David Brick, Emily S. Patterson, Debora Simmons
… Roundtable: Supporting Patient Safety Through EHR Design. In addition to representatives from the host organizations, … experts, and three academic representatives with expertise in human factors, information technology, and clinical safety. The goal of the workshop was …

Effect of crystallographic alignment on the magnetocaloric effect in alloys near the Ni(sub2)MnGa stoichiometry

May 1, 2013
Author(s)
A K. Giri, Brigitte A. Paterson, Michael V. McLeod, Cindi L. Dennis, B S. Majumdar, Kyu C. Cho, Robert D. Shull
… of commercial applications of magnetic refrigerator technology, a large magnetocaloric effect (MCE) in polycrystalline materials must be realized for relatively low magnetic field changes. In this context, a crystallographic alignment technique, … of crystallographic alignment on the magnetocaloric effect in alloys near the Ni(sub2)MnGa stoichiometry …

Performance Evaluation of a Robotically Controlled Millimeter-Wave Near-Field Pattern Range At the NIST

April 7, 2013
Author(s)
David R. Novotny, Josh Gordon, Jason Coder, Michael Francis, Jeffrey R. Guerrieri
… Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA (NIST) is developing a robotically controlled … positioning arm is programmable and allows scanning in a variety of geometries including spherical, planar, cylindrical, and perform in-situ extrapolation measurements, as well as, other user …

The MEMS 5-in-1 Test Chips (Reference Materials 8096 and 8097)

March 27, 2013
Author(s)
Janet M. Cassard, Jon C. Geist, Craig D. McGray, Richard A. Allen, Muhammad Y. Afridi, Brian J. Nablo, Michael Gaitan, David G. Seiler
… an overview of the Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) 5-in-1 Reference Material (RM), which is a single test chip … the documentary standard test methods by comparing their in-house measurements taken on the RM with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) measurements taken on the same test …

Requirements Analysis for Safer Ambulance Patient Compartments

March 22, 2013
Author(s)
Mehdi Dadfarnia, Yung-Tsun T. Lee, Allison Barnard Feeney, Deogratias Kibira
… Providing emergency care services in the confined space of the patient compartment of a moving … a hazardous activity. A National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST)/Department of Homeland Security (DHS) … disciplines and bringing information sources together. In the first phase of this project we compiled a number of …

NIST/NIH Vitamin D Metabolites Quality Assurance Program Report of Participant Results: Winter 2012 Comparability Study (Exercise 5)

March 18, 2013
Author(s)
Mary Bedner, Katrice A. Lippa, Susan Tai
… The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has established a Vitamin D Metabolites Quality Assurance Program (VitDQAP) in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Dietary Supplements. Participants in the fifth exercise of this program, the Winter 2012 …

Workshop Report for Ambulance Patient Compartment Design

November 26, 2012
Author(s)
Allison Barnard Feeney, Deogratias Kibira, Yung-Tsun T. Lee, Jennifer L. Marshall
… the U.S Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate’s Human Factors/Behavioral Sciences … issues associated with the design of patient compartments in emergency medical services (EMS) vehicles(i.e., … Patient Compartment Design Workshop to allow leaders in the EMS community to review and validate the preliminary …

Indoor Air Quality Analyses of Commercial Reference Buildings

November 1, 2012
Author(s)
Lisa C. Ng, Amy Musser, Andrew K. Persily, Steven J. Emmerich
… Sixteen commercial reference buildings were created in the multizone airflow and contaminant transport program CONTAM in order to support airflow and indoor air quality (IAQ) … Annual airflow and contaminant simulations were performed in CONTAM for six of the buildings. Contaminant analyses were …

Conformance Testing Methodology for ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2011, Data Format for the Interchange of Fingerprint, Facial & Other Biometric Information (Release 1.0)

September 5, 2012
Author(s)
Fernando L. Podio, Dylan J. Yaga, Christofer J. McGinnis
… faithfully implements the technical requirements defined in a standard. Conformance testing provides developers, … users, and purchasers with increased levels of confidence in product quality and increases the probability of successful interoperability. The Information Technology Laboratory of NIST (NIST/ITL) sponsored the …

Topography Measurements and Performance Comparisons between NIST SRM 2460 Standard Bullet Masters and BKA Bullet Replicas

July 31, 2012
Author(s)
Jun-Feng Song, Theodore V. Vorburger, Robert M. Thompson, Susan M. Ballou, Xiaoyu Alan Zheng, Thomas Brian Renegar, Richard M. Silver
… produced by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) were used as masters for the fabrication of … of replica bullets made from the first SRM bullet master. In some cases, the cross-correlation values dropped to below …

A Microelectromechanically Controlled Cavity Optomechanical Sensing System

July 17, 2012
Author(s)
Houxun H. Miao, Kartik A. Srinivasan, Vladimir A. Aksyuk
… (MEMS) have been applied to many measurement problems in physics, chemistry, biology and medicine. In parallel, cavity optomechanical systems have achieved … the standard quantum limit is combined with MEMS actuation in a fully integrated, compact, low power, stable system …

A Proteomics Performance Standard to Support Measurement Quality in Proteomics

April 21, 2012
Author(s)
Ashley B. Green, David M. Bunk, Paul A. Rudnick, Karen W. Phinney, Lisa E. Kilpatrick
… mass spectrometry-based proteomic platforms as a prominent technology utilized in biochemical and biomedical research has increased the need … eukaryote Saccharomyces cerevisiae and can be utilized in the design and optimization of proteomics-based … Performance Standard to Support Measurement Quality in Proteomics …

Performance Evaluation Experiments on a Laser Spot Triangulation Probe

November 25, 2011
Author(s)
Balasubramanian Muralikrishnan, Wei Ren, Dennis S. Everett, Eric S. Stanfield, Theodore D. Doiron
… probes are increasingly used for dimensional measurements in a variety of applications. At the National Institute of Standards and Technology, we have recently explored the use of laser spot … dimensional features such as height and width of channels in a fuel cell plate. To assess the suitability of the probes …

Construction of a High Power OPO Laser system for Differential Absorption LIDAR

September 13, 2011
Author(s)
Kevin O. Douglass, Stephen E. Maxwell, David F. Plusquellic, Joseph T. Hodges, Roger D. van Zee, Daniel V. Samarov, James R. Whetstone
… Our goal is to develop and characterize optical measurement technology to enable accurate quantification of … from 1 Hz to 100 Hz and a temporal pulse width of 4.2 ns. In the current configuration the seed laser is locked to a …
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