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Inter-laboratory study approach to validate the performance of a prototype reference material for product emissions testing

May 2, 2011
Author(s)
Cynthia H. Reed, Andrew K. Persily, Zhe Liu, Steve Cox, John Little, Wolfgang Horn, Olaf Wilke, Katharina Wiegner
… 2006). Despite the potential for significant variability in measurement results within and among laboratories, there … Simultaneously, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Virginia Tech (VT) started a program to … materials that mimic real building products, can be tested in typical emissions chambers, and have independently known …

BIOS Protection Guidelines

April 29, 2011
Author(s)
David Cooper, William Polk, Andrew Regenscheid, Murugiah Souppaya
… presence (if the BIOS is implanted with malware). As used in this publication, the term BIOS refers to conventional … firmware (e.g., conventional BIOS or UEFI BIOS) stored in the system flash memory of computer systems, including … Option ROMs, UEFI drivers, and firmware stored elsewhere in a computer system. While this document focuses on current …

Specimen Banking for Marine Animal Health Assessment

November 8, 2010
Author(s)
John R. Kucklick, Rebecca S. Pugh, Paul R. Becker, Jennifer M. Lynch, Russell D. Day, Jennifer Yordy, Amanda J. Moors, Steven J. Christopher, Colleen E. Bryan Sallee, Lori Schwacke, Randall S. Wells, Brian C. Balmer, Aleta Hohn, Teri Rowles
… of toxic pollutants. There are several efforts in the USA seeking to relate health metrics to the exposure … and disease. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) supports those efforts through projects … conducted by NIST aid multiple investigators engaged in live-capture and release marine mammal health assessments. …

Automatic Reconstruction of As-Built Building Information Models from Laser-Scanned Point Clouds: A Review of Related Techniques

November 1, 2010
Author(s)
Robert R. Lipman, Pingbo Tang, Daniel Huber, Burcu Akinci, Alan M. Lytle
… from automation. This article surveys techniques developed in civil engineering and computer science that can be … knowledge about shape, identity, and relationships. In addition, we formalize the possible variations of the … progress of the field. Finally, we identify and discuss technology gaps that need to be addressed in future research. …

Data Sets for the Qualification of Volumetric CT as a Quantitative Imaging Biomarker in Lung Cancer

October 20, 2010
Author(s)
Charles D. Fenimore, Andrew Buckler, Lawrence H. Schwartz, Nicholas Petrick, Michael McNitt-Gray, Binsheng Zhao, Anthony P. Reeves, P. David Mozeley, Ricardo S. Avila
… to understand biology as well as the increasing interest in personalized treatments for smaller patient segments … Deployment of qualified imaging biomarkers lags apparent technology capabilities. The lack of consensus methods and … to be the limiting factors. The current fragmentation in imaging vendor offerings, coupled with the independent …

Quantification of drugs of abuse in municipal wastewater via SPE and direct injection liquid chromatography mass spectrometry

September 24, 2010
Author(s)
Katrice A. Lippa, Michele M. Schantz, A. Lynn Roberts, Kevin Bisceglia
… 23 drugs of abuse, drug metabolites, and human-use markers in municipal wastewater. The method places particular … directly quantify (without preconcentration) 18 analytes in wastewater at concentrations less than 50 ng/L. We also … been evaluated using National Institute of Standards and Technology Standard Reference Material 1511 Multi-Drugs of …

Measuring Up to Sustainable Water: Report from the 2010 NIST/Virginia Tech. Water Workshop

September 9, 2010
Author(s)
Lauren F. Greenlee, Jessica D. Torrey, Stephanie A. Hooker, Michael J. Fasolka, Sunil K. Sinha, Marc A. Edwards
… a major barrier to growing communities. Major investments in capitol and materials are planned in water treatment and distribution system infrastructure … in system maintenance, improvement, and use of new technology with confidence. The joint NIST/VT workshop …

Number Enhancement for Compact Laser-Cooled Atomic Samples by use of Stimulated Radiation Forces

June 2, 2010
Author(s)
Elizabeth A. Donley, Tara C. Liebisch, Eric M. Blanshan, John E. Kitching
… For cold samples of laser-cooled atoms to be most useful in emerging technologies such as compact atomic clocks and … of cold atoms. We consider achieving large atom numbers in a small system is a major challenge for producing … atomic clocks, since the number of captured atoms in a vapor-cell magneto-optical trap (MOT) scales as the …

NIST Reference Material Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering

December 1, 2009
Author(s)
Carl G. Simon Jr.
… The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has deployed Reference Material (RM) … it is stable during storage and has been cleared for use in tissue engineering implants. The scaffold structural … for 8395, 300 m for 8396 and 450 m for 8397, resulting in porosities of 47%, 60% and 69%, respectively. These …

Realization of a programmable two-qubit quantum processor

November 15, 2009
Author(s)
David Hanneke, Jonathan Home, John D. Jost, Jason Amini, Dietrich G. Leibfried, David J. Wineland
… significant gains for some important computational tasks. In the context of quantum information, "universality" refers … the ability to perform arbitrary unitary transformations in the system's Hilbert space. The combination of arbitrary … two-qubit gate is a universal set for computation in any size Hilbert space, provided these can be performed …

Benefits and Costs of Research: A Case Study of the NIST High Performance Concrete Program

September 30, 2009
Author(s)
Jennifer F. Helgeson
… economic review of the National Institute of Standards and Technology High Performance Concrete (HYPERCON) Program from … are analyzed within the framework of grounded theory in order to build a cohesive understanding and assessment of … (VCCTL) is compared to three other major consortia in the cement/concrete industry to highlight its strengths …

The SIM Network: Improved Time Coordination for North, Central, and South America

April 23, 2008
Author(s)
Jose M. Lopez, Michael A. Lombardi, Andrew Novick, Jean-Simon Boulanger, R. de Carvalho, R. Solis, Francisco Jimenez
… consists of national metrology institutes (NMIs) located in the 34 member nations of the Organization of American … 34 member NMIs maintain time and frequency laboratories.  In order for these NMIs to establish metrological … located throughout the SIM region, by utilizing the technology of both the Internet and the Global Positioning …

Proceedings of Static Analysis Summit II

April 1, 2008
Author(s)
Paul E. Black, Elizabeth N. Fong
… on Obfuscation Versus Analysis Who Will Win? , and a new technology demonstration fair. The workshop is one of a …

Suite of Proposed Imaging Performance Metrics and Test Methods for Fire Service Thermal Imaging Cameras

April 1, 2008
Author(s)
Francine K. Amon, Nelson P. Bryner
… and image quality. The National Institute of Standards and Technology facilitates this process by providing … to the fire service, has been proposed for inclusion in the standard. The performance metrics, with their … performance metrics are derived from perception tests in which image contrast, brightness, noise, and spatial …

Development of a Field Test to Measure Gaseous Air Cleaner Performance in a Multizone Building

October 1, 2007
Author(s)
Cynthia H. Reed, Steven J. Nabinger, Andrew K. Persily, Victor Henzel
… reflect the actual performance of an air cleaner installed in a real building. However, to date, there are no air … field data. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has conducted a series of experiments to … of which 23 portable air cleaner experiments and 6 in-duct air cleaner experiments are described in this paper. …

NIST Special Publication 250-79 Airspeed Calibration Service.

September 26, 2007
Author(s)
Tsyh Tyan Yeh, J. M. Hall
… The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides calibration services for airspeed … for the operation of the LDA. The range of the airspeed in the calibration service is from 0.15 m/s to 40 m/s.This … expanded uncertainty at 95 % confidence level, i.e. k = 2, in m/s can be expressed by the root-sum-square of 0.0064V and …

An Ontology for Assembly Representation

July 1, 2007
Author(s)
Xenia Fiorentini, Iacopo Gambino, V.C. Liang, Sebti Foufou, Sudarsan Rachuri, Mahesh Mani, Conrad E. Bock
… describes the development of an Ontological Assembly Model in the broader context of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). The ontological assembly model can help in achieving various levels of interoperability as required … developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) [7] [8] [9]. Besides developing a semantic …

Database-Assisted Design of Low-Rise Buildings for Wind Loads: Recent Developments and Comparisons With ASCE/SEI 7-05

May 17, 2007
Author(s)
Joseph A. Main
… While specialized wind tunnel tests are routinely conducted in the design of high-rise buildings, constraints on project … and timelines generally do not permit wind tunnel testing in the design of low-rise buildings. Instead, simplified wind … being assembled at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), containing measured pressure time …

Leveraging LER to Minimize Linewidth Measurement Uncertainty in a Calibration Exercise

April 5, 2007
Author(s)
James Roberts, W Banke, Ronald G. Dixson
… variation and proper sampling is becoming a major player in nearly every area of semiconductor measurement.  This … to uniquely characterize the measurement target in such a way to make the LER contribution negligible in a … were released by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to SEMATECH member companies in 2004.  The …

Verification and Validation--How to Determine the Accuracy of Fire Models.

March 1, 2007
Author(s)
Mark H. Salley, Jason Dreisbach, Kendra Hill, Bijan Najafi, Francisco Joglar, Anthony Hamins, Kevin B. McGrattan, Richard Peacock, Robert Kassawara
… of fires. To provide the regulator with confidence in the calculation results, NFPA calls for fire models to be … (EPRI) and the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST), has conducted a first-of-its-kind … the NRC s regulatory framework. This V&V study began in 2003 and has resulted in a seven-volume report that is …

Fabrication Strategies for Producing Gradient Roughness Libraries

January 1, 2007
Author(s)
Christopher Stafford, Jun Y. Chung, Xuesong Hu, Heqing Huang
… performance and reliability measures to dominating them. In particular, interfacial properties, such as adhesion, of … present here fabrication strategies for creating gradients in roughness having continuous changes in both the dominant period and amplitude of the surface …

Effect of Xenon Bombardment on Ruthenium-Coated Grazing Incidence Collector Mirror Lifetime for EUV Lithography

September 1, 2006
Author(s)
M Nieto, J P. Allain, V Titov, M R. Hendricks, A Hassanein, D Rokusek, C Chrobak, Charles Tarrio, Yaniv Barad, Steven Grantham, Thomas B. Lucatorto, Bryan Rice
… reflectivities at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Interaction of Materials with Particles … decreases an order of magnitude with only a 60% decrease in energy. Incident angle-dependent data of Xe+ bombardment … on angle at energies near 1 keV. Dynamic measurements of in-situ EUV reflectivity during Xe+ irradiation show that the …
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