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Building Design Considerations to Support Immediate Occupancy Performance Objectives

June 16, 2019
Author(s)
Siamak Sattar, Christopher Segura, Katherine Johnson, Therese P. McAllister, Steven McCabe
… U.S. Senate tasked the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) with identifying research needs and … from subject matter experts and stakeholders participating in a national workshop, NIST developed a report to fulfill … The research needs and implementation activities discussed in this paper articulate the steps necessary to develop the …

Semantic Preserving Bijective Mappings for Representations of Special Functions between Computer Algebra Systems and Word Processors

May 20, 2019
Author(s)
Howard S. Cohl, Moritz Schubotz, Andre Greiner Petter
… our WP. Approach: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) developed a collection of special LaTeX … links from mathematical symbols to their definitions in the NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions (DLMF). … to perform rule-based translations between the formulae in the DLMF and CAS. Moreover, we develop software to ease …

Elastic Rate Coefficients of Li+H2 collisions in the calibration of a Cold Atom Vacuum Sensor

April 29, 2019
Author(s)
Constantinos Makrides, Daniel Barker, Julia Scherschligt, Stephen Eckel, Eite Tiesinga
… On going efforts at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in creating a Cold Atom Vacuum Sensor device have prompted … the ideal gas law. The predominant background constituent in these environments is molecular hydrogen H2 . We compute … Elastic Rate Coefficients of Li+H2 collisions in the calibration of a Cold Atom Vacuum Sensor …

A data science challenge for converting airborne remote sensing data into ecological information

February 28, 2019
Author(s)
Sergio Marconi, Sarah J. Graves, Dihong Gong, Shahriari Nia Morteza, Marion Le Bras, Bonnie J. Dorr, Peter Fontana, Justin Gearhart, Craig Greenberg, Dave J. Harris, Sugumar A. Kumar, Agarwal Nishant, Joshi Prarabdh, Sandeep U. Rege, Stephanie A. Bohlman, Ethan P. White, Daisy Z. Wang
… In recent years ecology has reached the point where a data … that would traditionally collected by ecologists in the field: 1) crown segmentation, for identifying the … the last two years the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has embarked on an effort to examine data …

Photonic waveguide to free-space Gaussian beam extreme mode converter

October 10, 2018
Author(s)
Sangsik Kim, Daron Westly, Brian J. Roxworthy, Qing Li, Alexander Yulaev, Kartik Srinivasan, Vladimir Aksyuk
… systems can advance science and open many possibilities in chip-scale devices and technology. Compact photonic structures for direct coupling … and arbitrary free-space modes spanning hundreds of waves in cross-section would eliminate bulky optical components and …

Structures Ignited by Virginia WUI Fires 2/2015 - 2/2017

September 10, 2018
Author(s)
David D. Evans, Lavern R. Scott, William D. Walton
… or significantly damaged by burning wildland vegetation in Virginia over a two-year period starting in 2015. The structures included all of those that would have … to supply data to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) from wildland-urban interface (WUI) fire …

Development of Airborne Nanoparticle Exposure Modeling Tools

July 27, 2018
Author(s)
William S. Dols, Andrew K. Persily, Brian J. Polidoro
… Engineered nanoparticles (ENP) are being used in many applications including consumer products. There are … is working with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop modeling tools to enable evaluation of consumer exposure to airborne ENPs in the built environment. NIST has developed two tools, the …

THE INTERDEPENDENT NETWORKED COMMUNITY RESILIENCE MODELING ENVIRONMENT (IN-CORE)

June 22, 2018
Author(s)
Paolo Gardoni, John W. van de Lindt, Bruce Ellingwood, Therese P. McAllister, Jong Lee, Harvey Cutler, Daniel Cox
… The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) funded the multi-university five-year … resilience assessment. Measurement science is implemented in a computational environment with fully integrated … Community Resilience Modeling Environment (abbreviated as IN-CORE) is built upon the MAEViz/Ergo software. Version 1 of …

PROGRESS AND CHALLENGES IN MODELING COMMUNITY RESILIENCE: AN UPDATE ON THE CENTER FOR RISK-BASED COMMUNITY RESILIENCE PLANNING

June 2, 2018
Author(s)
John W. van de Lindt, Bruce Ellingwood, Therese P. McAllister, Paolo Gardoni, Daniel Cox
… of urban communities has garnered significant attention in industry, government, and academic research over the last decade. Recent events such as Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the 2011 Christchurch, New Zealand earthquake, the … In 2015, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) funded the multi-university five-year …

Educational commitment and social networking: The power of informal networks

May 29, 2018
Author(s)
Justyna Zwolak, Michael P. Zwolak, Eric Brewe
… an engaging pedagogy and the highly competitive atmosphere in introductory science courses tend to discourage students from pursuing STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) majors. Once in a STEM field, academic and social integration has been …

Millimeter-Wave Polarimeters Using Kinetic Inductance Detectors for TolTEC and Beyond

March 8, 2018
Author(s)
Jason Austermann, James A. Beall, Sean A. Bryan, Bradley Dober, Jiansong Gao, Gene C. Hilton, Johannes Hubmayr, Phillip Mauskopf, Christopher M. McKenney, S M. Simon, Joel Ullom, Michael Vissers, G W. Wilson
… spectrometer arrays needed for next-generation experiments in millimeter-wave cosmology and astronomy. We describe the … (LMT). Observations with TolTEC are planned to begin in early 2019. TolTEC will comprise ̃ 7000 … experiments with over 10 5 detectors. TolTEC will operate in observational bands at 1.1, 1.4, and 2.0 mm and will use …

Mission Critical Voice QoE Mouth-to-Ear Latency Measurement Methods

March 1, 2018
Author(s)
Jesse Frey, Jaden Pieper, Silas Thompson
… (M2E) latency describes the time it takes speech input in a voice communication transmit device to be output from a … as a key component of quality of experience (QoE) in communications. NIST's PSCR division developed a method to … (PTT) devices. This measurement method is the first step in establishing QoE key performance indicators (KPI) for …

Protein Adsorption and Layer Formation at the Stainless Steel - Solution Interface Mediates Shear-Induced Particle Formation for an IgG1 Monoclonal Antibody

February 9, 2018
Author(s)
Cavan K. Kalonia, Frank Heinrich, Joseph E. Curtis, Sid Raman, Maria A. Miller, Steven Hudson
… certain pumps, tubing, and/or filling nozzles can result in the production of unwanted subvisible protein particles (SVP). In this work, surface mediated SVP formation was … were measured for the National Institute of Standards and Technology monoclonal antibody (NISTmAb), a reference IgG1 …

Determination of nicotine, NNN, and NNK in a new cigarette tobacco filler Standard Reference Material (SRM 3222) and its smoke

January 1, 2018
Author(s)
Walter B. Wilson, Jeanita Pritchett, Lane C. Sander
… cigarettes/year. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has recently collaborated with the Center … low nicotine tobacco and is intended primarily for use in evaluating the accuracy of current and new analytical … pyridyl-1-butanone (NNK), and moisture in cigarettes sold daily. The certified values for nicotine, …

A New Wipe-Sampling Instrument for Measuring the Collection Efficiency of Trace Explosives Residues

December 3, 2017
Author(s)
Elizabeth L. Robinson, Edward R. Sisco, Matthew E. Staymates, Jeffrey A. Lawrence
… such as manual sampling or a slip/peel meter, are limited in their ability to isolate a single parameter or in their sampling path. A new wipe-sampling instrument, a … capable of investigating the same parameters as current technology (wipe materials, test surfaces, forces of …

A Self-Learning Algorithm for Estimating Solar Heat Gain and Temperature Changes in a Single- Family Residence

August 22, 2017
Author(s)
Farhad Omar, Steven T. Bushby, Ronald D. Williams
… for managing residential electricity consumption in a smart grid environment, predictive algorithms are needed … self learning algorithm for predicting indoor temperature in a single-family residence using a first-order lumped … data from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Net-Zero Energy Residential Test Facility. …

Void Populations in Y2O3-Stabilized ZrO2 Coatings Deposited by High Velocity Oxy-Fuel (HVOF) Thermal Spray

February 19, 2017
Author(s)
T A. Dobbins, Andrew J. Allen, J Ilavsky, Gabrielle G. Long, A Kulkarni, H Herman
… are used to protect turbine rotor and blade components in aircraft and land-based engines from operational … Oxy-Fuel (HVOF) thermal spray (Figure 1) offers competing technology for TBC deposition. The high velocity jet is … present research examines anisotropic void microstructures in HVOF deposited thermal barrier coatings with comparison to …
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