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Full-Scale House Fire Experiment for InterFIRE VR, May 6, 1998. Report of Test.

April 10, 2000
Author(s)
Anthony D. Putorti Jr., Jay A. McElroy
… and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST); and private industry partners: American … The CD-ROM contains video of fire ignition and development in a single family dwelling, as well as visual documentation … computerized acquisition system. The experiment discussed in this report occurred on May 6, 1998, at the Massachusetts …

A Policy Perspective on Electronic Commerce

September 1, 1999
Author(s)
E Maxwell, S A. Wakid, J A. Moline
… for Global Electronic Commerce identifying nine areas in which international agreements would be needed in order to preserve the Internet as a non-regulatory … to total more than one trillion dollars. The information technology and telecommunications sectors account for about …

Development of a Hazard-Based Method for Evaluating the Fire Safety of Passenger Trains

June 29, 1999
Author(s)
Richard W. Bukowski, Richard D. Peacock, Paul A. Reneke, Jason D. Averill, S. H. Markos
… move toward performance codes, there has been interest in the application of fire hazard assessment to rail vehicles … with FRA funding, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Volpe National Transportation … the heat release and smoke production of actual materials in use were characterized in the Cone Calorimeter. Next, …

Enhancing Competitiveness Via a Public Fault & Failure Data Repository

November 13, 1998
Author(s)
D Wallace
… software fault and failure data to locate systems in your application domain with project characteristics … tools to help gauge whether inspections paid off in product quality, cost of the project, and delivery time. … at the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology which is building tools and collecting data for …

Role-Based Access Control for the Web

October 29, 1998
Author(s)
John Barkley, David R. Kuhn, Lynne S. Rosenthal, Mark Skall, Anthony V. Cincotta
… customer interface. One of the most challenging problems in managing large networked systems is the complexity of … for organizations that are attempting to manage security in distributed multimedia environments such as those using … system individually. Role-based access control (RBAC) is a technology that is attracting increasing attention, …

Computer Integrated Knowledge Systems: Proposed Framework.

September 24, 1997
Author(s)
T Y. Kurihara
… and disciplines. The industry lacks consistency in the way it represents, communicates, and interprets … product, materials, and systems knowledge users involved in operation and maintenance activities, such as condition …

Characterization of the Coherent Microwave Emission From the Surf II Synchrotron Storage Ring

July 1, 1997
Author(s)
Gerald T. Fraser, Angela R. Hight Walker, Thomas B. Lucatorto, Uwe Arp, K. K. Lehmann
… storage ring at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have been studied to access the utility of SURF II … by intense ~ 0.2 ms bursts of radiation, which are random in time at high electron beam currents and nearly periodic in time [t ~ 10 ms] at low beam currents. The radiation is …

U.S. Government Activities to Protect the Information Infrastructure

April 28, 1997
Author(s)
Dennis D. Steinauer, Shirley M. Radack, Stuart W. Katzke
… privacy of information and about the obstacles that stand in the way of achieving the needed protection. The U.S. … cryptography. The Clinton Administration came into office in 1993 with information technology as one of its principal areas of focus. The …

Inhibition of Premixed Methane-Air Flames by Fluoromethanes

April 1, 1996
Author(s)
Gregory T. Linteris, L Truett
… as replacements for CF3Br, so that studying their behavior in methane flames provides an important first step towards … developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Even in this first test of the kinetic mechanism on inhibited …

Smoke Plume Trajectory From In Situ Burning of Crude Oil in Alaska: Field Experiments (NISTIR 5764)

November 1, 1995
Author(s)
Kevin B. McGrattan, William D. Walton, Anthony D. Putorti Jr., W H. Twilley, Jay A. McElroy, D D. Evans
… of their effort to assess the impact of smoke plumes from in situ burning of crude oil on nearby populations, the … Agreement with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 1993 with the intent of developing predictive methods to … crude oil, oil spills, in situ combustion, pool fires, smoke, fire plumes, smoke …

Concepts of the NIST EXPRESS Server

August 1, 1994
Author(s)
Don E. Libes
… The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has built numerous software toolkits and … is possible to use the Server as a collaborative testbed in which case results can be immediately shared with other … First International Workshop on Services in Distributed and Networked Environments (SDNE) …

Staging Areas for Persons With Mobility Limitations

February 1, 1992
Author(s)
J H. Klote, Harold E. Nelson, Scott Deal, Bernard M. Levin
… The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is engaged in a project funded by the General Services Administration … who can not travel the building emergency exit routes in the same manner or as quickly as expected of able persons. …

Framework for Performance Evaluation of Face, Text, and Vehicle Detection and Tracking in Video: Data, Metrics, and Protocol

Author(s)
Rangachar Kasturi, D Goldgof, K Soundararajan, V Manohar, M Boonstra, V Korzhova, J Zhang, Rachel J. Bowers, John S. Garofolo
… considerable impact on research and development in a variety of application domains. These resources provide both consumers and developers of technology with a common framework to objectively compare the … of different algorithms and algorithmic improvements. In this paper, we present such a framework for evaluating …

Characterizing the thermal effects of High Energy Arc Faults

November 30, 2015
Author(s)
Anthony D. Putorti Jr., Nicholas Melly, Scott Bareham, Joseph E. Praydis
… experience involving High Energy Arc Faults (HEAF) in Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) electrical power systems have … safety consequences and substantial economic loss. In an effort to better understand and characterize the … performed at low (≤ 1000 V) and medium (≤35 kV) voltages in electrical components. This paper introduces the methods …

Combustion Models for Wooden Brands.

October 4, 1999
Author(s)
J P. Woycheese, P J. Pagni
… distances are calculated for disk-shaped brands lofted in large fires, such as occur after earthquakes or at urban/wildland interfaces. Lofting in the fire plume and propagation downwind are approximated … constant horizontal velocity driving downwind propagation. In the plume, the brands rise with maximum drag and no lift. …

Through-focus Scanning Optical Microscopy

December 31, 2011
Author(s)
Ravikiran Attota
Through-focus scanning optical microscopy (TSOM) method provides three-dimensional information (i.e. the size, shape and location) about micro- and nanometer-scale structures. TSOM, based on a conventional optical microscope, achieves this by acquiring and

A large interlaboratory electron diffraction study of monolayer graphene

February 20, 2026
Author(s)
Andrew Herzing
… is essential to enable commercialisation of 2D materials in a wide range of technologies. Selected area electron diffraction (SAED) in the transmission electron microscope (TEM) is one of the … vapour deposited graphene. Large variations were observed in the measured ratios of diffraction spot intensities, with …

Intermethod Characterization of Commercially Available Extracellular Vesicles as Reference Materials

December 30, 2025
Author(s)
Sumeet Poudel, Diane Nelson, Blaza Toman, Zhiyong He, Ashley Green, Thomas Cleveland, Sean Lehman, Wyatt Vreeland, Kurt Benkstein, Bryant Nelson, Lili Wang, Elzafir Elsheikh, Yuefan Wang, Hui Zhang
… The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is developing analytical methods to … fluorescent protein exosome served as a control, except in Cryo-EM, proteomic, and miRNA analyses. Cryo-EM, regarded … particle size, except for AF4. Quantitative discrepancies in PNCs reached up to two orders of magnitude across methods …

Structural and Dynamical Behaviors of Fast Ionic Conducting Potassium nido -(Carba)borates

August 21, 2025
Author(s)
Mads B. Amdisen, Hui Wu, Mikael S. Andersson, Mirjana Dimitrievska, Wei Zhou, Torben R. Jensen, Craig Brown, Juscelino Leao, Terrence J. Udovic
… iterations of electrochemical energy storage, and the technology can potentially provide safer and … as well as wide electrochemical stability windows. In the present study, we investigate the four potassium … disordered phase with the space group Fm3m. In the high-temperature polymorphs, the anions are disordered …

Characterizing rapid changes in the prevalence and concentration of key compounds in Philadelphia's fentanyl supply, March-November 2024

June 22, 2025
Author(s)
Karli Hochstatter, Talia Nadel, Edward Sisco, Sarah Laurel, Tori McDowell, Elise Pyfrom, Meghan Appley, Fernando Montero
… epidemiological study is to examine recent shifts in the street opioid supply of the largest U.S. open-air drug market, including changes in prevalence and concentration of key compounds. Methods: … and shipped to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, where they underwent qualitative testing using …

NIST Seafood Reference Materials for Authenticating Imported Products

May 21, 2025
Author(s)
Debra Ellisor, Amanda Bayless, William Davis, Tracey Johnston, Mary Gregg, Angela Folz, Antonio Possolo
… at import (ie. species, provenance, weight), resulting in inflated payouts, encouraging unsustainable practices, and … such as gels, dyes, and antibiotics commonly found in fish feed can negatively impact consumer health. Food … address this need, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) utilized shrimp and salmon, two of the …

Status Report on the Fourth Round of the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Process

March 11, 2025
Author(s)
Gorjan Alagic, Maxime Bros, Pierre Ciadoux, David Cooper, Quynh Dang, Thinh Dang, John Kelsey, Jacob Lichtinger, Yi-Kai Liu, Carl Miller, Dustin Moody, Rene Peralta, Ray Perlner, Angela Robinson, Hamilton Silberg, Daniel Smith-Tone, Noah Waller
… The National Institute of Standards and Technology is selecting public-key cryptographic algorithms … (ML-DSA), Falcon (FN-DSA), and SPHINCS+ (SLH-DSA). In August 2024, NIST published the first three post-quantum … for key establishment have continued to be studied in a fourth round of analysis: BIKE, Classic McEliece, HQC, …
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