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Introduction (NISTIR 6191)

July 1, 1998
Author(s)
Daniel M. Madrzykowski
… (BFRL) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), under the sponsorship of the United States … The work reported here addresses a broad range of tests in order to determine those parameters that most critically …

Active Cavity Radiometer Based on High-TC Superconductors

January 1, 1998
Author(s)
Joseph P. Rice, Raju V. Datla, Leila R. Vale, David A. Rudman, M L. Sing, D Robbes
… To implement the detector-based radiometric scale in the new Medium Background infrared [MBIR] facility at the National Institute of Standards and Technology [NIST], we have developed an electrical … [Tc] superconducting thin film temperature sensors in the active control loops, we have achieved closed-loop …

Storage and Discharge Characteristics of Halon Alternatives

October 21, 1995
Author(s)
Jiann C. Yang, Thomas G. Cleary, I Vazquez, C I. Boyer, M D. King, B D. Breuel, Marcia L. Huber, L Weber
… issues regarding the use of halon alternatives for in-flight fire protection applications were studied as part … program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST): (1) the conditions inside the vessel at … and (3) the distribution of the agent/nitrogen mixture in piping systems. The first issue addresses the resultant …

A Stewart Platform Lunar Rover

March 3, 1994
Author(s)
Roger V. Bostelman, James S. Albus, Karl Murphy, T M. Tsai, E Amatucci
… Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to address the needs of NASA researchers. … of actuators to create a gantry. The legs are joined in a Stewart Platform configuration providing a means for canceling out rotations normally present in gantry structures. Therefore, the frame can be made …

The Use of Application Model Validation in Testing a Proposed Standard

May 1, 1992
Author(s)
Mary Mitchell, KC Morris
… that the technical solutions provided by an AP will work in a practical sense. This validation focuses on the … PDES Testbed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has undertaken a software project to support this … project has been formulated from our initial experiences in exercising this process and with software automation for …

Robotics -- Past, Present, and Future

October 4, 1985
Author(s)
James S. Albus
… feedback control of mechanical devices. It draws on work in pattern recognition, scene analysis, geometrical … control, mobility, and navigation. Mankind's interest in mechanical contraptions that move and act under automatic … Future applications will cover a broad spectrum. Robot technology for mobility, database access, and sensing will …

Surface Characterization: Present Status and the Need for Standards

January 1, 1978
Author(s)
Cedric J. Powell
… status and use of surface-characterization measurements in the United States. Attention is primarily devoted to those … four forms of surface characterization are widely utilized in surface-science experiments while measurements of surface … a variety of agency missions. Surface science and surface technology have both grown rapidly in the past ten years, and …

Troubleshooting Key Comparisons

Author(s)
Adriana Hornikova, William F. Guthrie
… the signing of the Mutual Recognition Arrangement (MRA) in 1999, approximately 120 Key Comparisons in a wide range of metrological areas have been completed and … maintained by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the U.S. As with many new standardized …

A Standard Reporting Format for Summative Usability Evalutations

October 16, 2008
Author(s)
Jean C. Scholtz, Emile L. Morse
… potential software purchasers use usability as a factor in their decisions?An effort to increase the visibility of … of 1997 by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST: http://www.nist.gov) and resulted in the … was submitted to the National Committee for Information Technology Standards (NCITS: http://www.ncits.org/) as a …

A Standard Reporting Format for Summative Usability Evaluations

January 10, 2007
Author(s)
Jean C. Scholtz, Emile L. Morse
… potential software purchasers use usability as a factor in their decisions? An effort to increase the visibility of … of 1997 by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST: http://www.nist.gov) and resulted in the … was submitted to the National Committee for Information Technology Standards (NCITS: http://www.ncits.org/) as a …

Crystal Growth, Characterization, and Domain Studies in Lithium Niobate and Lithium Tantalate Ferroelectrics

January 1, 2001
Author(s)
Norman A. Sanford, J A. Aust
… rroelectricity in lithium niobate (LiNbO 3 ) and lithium tantalate (LiTaO 3 ) crystals was discovered by Matthias and Remeika in 1949 [1]. They emerged as key technological materials in the areas of nonlinear optics, [2] integrated optics [3], … Crystal Growth, Characterization, and Domain Studies in Lithium Niobate and Lithium Tantalate Ferroelectrics …

Report of the Sub-Committee on Reference Materials

November 1, 2000
Author(s)
John A. Tesk
… now available from The National Institute of Standards and Technology. RM 8456 is intended primarily for use in mechanical characterization of material properties and … development discussions are resuming with the Polymer Technology Group.A brief summary report was published in the …

Key Practices in Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management: Observations from Industry

February 11, 2021
Author(s)
Jon M. Boyens, Celia Paulsen, Nadya Bartol, Kris Winkler, James Gimbi
… In today's highly connected, inter-dependent world, all … globalization, while providing many benefits, has resulted in a world where organizations no longer fully control -- and … with their supply chains. The Key Practices presented in this document can be used to implement a robust C-SCRM …

Interlaboratory Comparison with a Reference Measurement Procedure (RMP) for Determining 24,25-Dihydroxvitamin D3 in Human Serum using Liquid Chromatography - Tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)

April 28, 2026
Author(s)
Stephen Wise, Ekaterina Mineva, Christine Pfeiffer, Hubert Vesper, Etienne Cavalier, Stephenie Peters, Karen Galvin, Kevin Cashman, Andrew Norbert Hoofnagle, Hsuan-Chieh (Joyce) Liao, Emma Williams, Laura Briggs, Adam Kuszak, Grace Hahm, Johanna Camara
… determination of 24,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 [24,25(OH)2D3] in human serum using liquid chromatography - tandem mass … values assigned by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) using a reference measurement procedure … of the five laboratory methods provided results that were in good agreement with the NIST RMP results, i.e., linear …

End-effector Pose Extrapolation using Wireless Channel State Information

April 21, 2026
Author(s)
Karl Montgomery, Nathan Wei, Jing Geng, Mohamed Hany, Richard Candell
… may need to be designed with wireless communications in mind, so they adapt in real-time to the state of the radio frequency (RF) … wireless networks and lead to greater adoption of the technology. …

Development of a Tenability-based Path Planning Model for Building Fire Evacuations Using Reinforcement Learning

December 30, 2025
Author(s)
Hongqiang Fang, Wai Cheong Tam, Ruggiero Lovreglio, Md. Ismail Siddiqi Emon, Michael Xuelin Huang
… Dijkstra's algorithm (DA), through two test cases. In one case, the results show that SafeStep provides safer … evacuation paths, achieving approximately a 62% reduction in FED exposure compared to DA. In the other, it successfully identifies viable evacuation …

Mitigating Cybersecurity and Privacy Risks in Telehealth Smart Home Integration

December 17, 2025
Author(s)
Ronald Pulivarti, Kevin Littlefield, Sue Wang, Bronwyn Patrick, Ryan Williams
… In-patient service demands have increased during a time when … hospital care. Hospital-at-Home (HaH) solutions provide an in-patient care experience for patients, which may result in reduced costs and improved outcomes. While these are … Mitigating Cybersecurity and Privacy Risks in Telehealth Smart Home Integration …

Augmented Reality Visualization for Enhanced Spatial-Temporal Cognition in Indoor Emergency Response

July 30, 2025
Author(s)
Fang Xu, Haohui Bao, Tianyu Zhou, Hengxu You, Joseph Gabbard, Jing Du, Scott Ledgerwood
… In indoor emergency scenarios, such as search and rescue … times and assess one's own status, plays a crucial role in making vital decisions under pressure. This paper explores … tasks. The result showed that despite the limitations in distance and scale estimation, AR displays have its unique …

Comparison of Bulk and Micro Sampling Techniques for the Elemental Analysis of SRM 610 and 612

July 25, 2025
Author(s)
Nicholas Sharp, Maria Isabel Vega Martinez, Ruthmara Corzo, Blaza Toman, Rick Paul, Savelas Rabb, Jack Prothero, Jamie Weaver
… reference materials for the analysis of trace elements in glass [1,2]. This study evaluates the differences in elemental mass fractions obtained using bulk-sampling … measurements, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Certificate of Analysis (CoA) values, and …

Small-Angle Scattering and Dark-Field Imaging for Validation of a New Neutron Far-Field Interferometer

December 1, 2024
Author(s)
Caitlyn M. Wolf, Peter Bajcsy, Wei-Ren Chen, Robert Dalgliesh, Michael Daugherty, Liliana de Campo, Fumiaki Funama, Lilin He, Michael Huber, David Jacobson, Paul A. Kienzle, Youngju Kim, Hubert King, Nikolai Klimov, Jacob LaManna, Fankang Li, Alexander Long, Ryan Murphy, Gergely Nagy, Sarah M. Robinson, Pushkar Sathe, Gregory N. Smith, Anna Sokolova, Sven Vogel, Erik Watkins, Yuxuan Zhang, Daniel Hussey, Kathleen Weigandt
… heterogeneous materials. Therefore, there are benefits in the simultaneous characterization of multiple length scales. At the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a new neutron far-field interferometer is under … dark field is analogous to the polarization loss measured in spin-echo SANS (SESANS) and is related to isotropic SANS …

Status Report on the First Round of the Additional Digital Signature Schemes for the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Process

October 24, 2024
Author(s)
Gorjan Alagic, Maxime Bros, Pierre Ciadoux, David Cooper, Quynh Dang, Thinh Dang, John M. Kelsey, Jacob Lichtinger, Carl A. Miller, Dustin Moody, Rene Peralta, Ray Perlner, Angela Robinson, Hamilton Silberg, Daniel Smith-Tone, Noah Waller, Yi-Kai Liu
… The National Institute of Standards and Technology is in the process of evaluating public-key digital signature … future, including after the advent of quantum computers. In June 2023, 50 candidate algorithms were submitted to NIST …
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