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Fastener Quality Act of 1990; Public Law 101-592

October 16, 2008
Author(s)
Charles D. Ehrlich
The OSS' Technical Standards Activities Program (TSAP) manages responsibilities assigned to NIST under the Fastener Quality Act (FQA) of 1990. Fasteners are a $6 billion U.S. industry critical to the automobile, aerospace, construction, chemical and

A Collection of Homes to Represent the U.S. Housing Stock

August 1, 2008
Author(s)
Andrew K. Persily, Amy Musser, Dennis D. Leber
In order to allow nationwide analysis of ventilation and indoor air quality issues in residential buildings, a set of homes has been defined to represent the housing stock of the United States. This collection of dwellings is based on two residential

Role-Based Access Control, Second Edition

December 31, 2006
Author(s)
David Ferraiolo, David Kuhn, Ramaswamy Chandramouli
[ISBN-13: 978-1-59693-113-8] This newly revised edition of "Role-Based Access Control" offers the latest details on a security model aimed at reducing the cost and complexity of security administration for large networked applications. The second edition

Performance of the GHRS Pt-Ne Hollow-Cathode Lamps After Their Return From Space and Comparison With Archival Data

May 1, 2006
Author(s)
F Kerber, D Lindler, P Bristow, Gillian Nave, Joseph Reader, Craig J. Sansonetti, D Lembke, S Heap, Michael R. Rosa, H J. Wood
The Space Telescope European Co-ordinating Facility (ST-ECF) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are collaborating to study hollow cathode calibration lamps as used onboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). As part of the STIS

High-Temperature Guarded Hot Plate Apparatus Optimal Locations of Circular Heaters

June 1, 2005
Author(s)
Daniel R. Flynn, William M. Healy, Robert R. Zarr
The National Bureau of Standards (now the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)) pioneered the use of circular line-heat-sources in guarded hot plate (GHP) apparatus, the most common type of absolute apparatus for measurement of the thermal

A Suite of Homes Representing the U.S. Housing Stock

December 1, 2003
Author(s)
Andrew K. Persily, Dennis D. Leber
In order to facilitate nationwide analysis of ventilation and indoor air quality issues in residential buildings, a set of homes has been defined to represent the housing stock of the United States. This so-called suite of homes is based on two residential

The Crystal Structure of Chorismate Lyase Shows a New Fold and a Tightly Retained Product

August 15, 2001
Author(s)
David T. Gallagher, M P. Mayhew, Marcia J. Holden, A J. Howard, K J. Kim, V L. Vilker
The enzyme chorismate lyase (CL) catalyzes the removal of pyruvate from chorismate to produce 4-hydroxy benzoate (4HB) for the ubiquinone pathway. In Escherichia coli, CL is monomeric with 164 residues; we have determined the structure of the CL product

Effects of Bond Strength on Densification and Flow of Powder Compacts

July 1, 2000
Author(s)
R B. Clough, Richard J. Fields
Plastic flow surfaces for metal and metal/composite powder compacts with variable cohesive strength are derived using the Beltrami total strain energy criterion, modified to permit asymmetric yielding. The present theory thus includes the domains of both

Effect of Ag on the Primary Phase Field of High T c (Bi,Pb)-2223 Superconductor

February 1, 2000
Author(s)
Winnie K. Wong-Ng, Lawrence P. Cook, W Greenwood, Anthony J. Kearsley
The subsolidus equilibria and the primary phase field (crystallization field) of the 110K high T c (Bi,Pb)-2223 ([Bi,Pb]:Sr:Ca:Cu) superconductor in the presence of Ag have been determined under 7.5 volume % O 2 (92.5 % Ar). A total of 29 six-phase volumes

Early Streamer Emission Lightning Protection Systems: An Overview

January 1, 2000
Author(s)
Richard J. Van Brunt, Thomas L. Nelson, Ken L. Stricklett
Early streamer emission (ESE) lightning protection systems are a relatively new approach to the perennial problem of lightining damage, and these systems may hold promise for a more effective protection against lighting. However, the scientific and

Toward Nanometer Accuracy Measurements

June 1, 1999
Author(s)
John A. Kramar, E Amatucci, David E. Gilsinn, Jay S. Jun, William B. Penzes, Fredric Scire, E C. Teague, John S. Villarrubia
We at NIST are building a metrology instrument called the Molecular Measuring Machine (MMM) with the goal of performing 2D point-to-point measurements with one nanometer accuracy cover a 50 mm by 50 mm area. The instrument combines a scanning tunneling

Enterprise Representation: An Analysis of Standards Issues

January 1, 1995
Author(s)
Jim G. Nell
The purpose of this paper is to describe the domain of standards with respect to achieving the best enterprise integration. There are some definitions about frameworks and architectures, discussions regarding the use of enterprise models and modeling, the

ENABLING MODELERS TO TEST THEIR SIMULATIONS AGAINST RIGOROUS, HIGHLY CONTROLLED ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING BENCHMARK (AM BENCH) MEASUREMENT DATA

July 6, 2026
Author(s)
Jordan Weaver, David Deisenroth, Timothy Redford, Sergey Mekhontsev, Sandra Young, Brandon Lane, Lyle Levine
The Additive Manufacturing Benchmark Test Series (AM Bench) is a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) led organization that provides a continuing series of additive manufacturing (AM) benchmark measurements, challenge problems, and

Dielectric Capped Niobium Films for Increased Process Thermal Budget

May 7, 2026
Author(s)
Kirsten Lina, Anna Fox, Paul Dresselhaus
To avoid degradation of circuit performance, fabrication processes for niobium-based superconductive electronics are typically limited to temperatures below 150∘C. In this study, we investigated protective dielectric capping layers that preserve the

Operando XPS for Plasma Process Monitoring: A Case Study on the Hydrogenation of Copper Oxide Confined under h-BN

April 29, 2024
Author(s)
Trey Diulus, Andrew Naclerio, J. Anibal Boscoboinik, Ashley Head, Evgheni Strelcov, Piran Kidambi, Andrei Kolmakov
We demonstrate that ambient pressure x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (APXPS) can be used for in situ studies of dynamic changes in surface chemistry in a plasma environment. Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) was used in this study as a model system since it

Additive Manufacturing Data and Metadata Acquisition-General Practice

June 30, 2023
Author(s)
Yan Lu, Ho Yeung, Jason Fox, Felix Kim, Luke Mohr
Increasingly, a vast variety of additive manufacturing (AM) datasets are generated through AM development lifecycles. The amount, type, and speed of the collected data are unprecedented. The datasets are created and collected for material development

Monitoring Protein Complexation with Polyphosphazene Polyelectrolyte Using Automated Dynamic Light Scattering Titration and Asymmetric Flow Field Flow Fractionation and Protein Recognition Immunoassay

April 21, 2023
Author(s)
Michael Lueckheide, Alexander Marin, Harichandra Tagad, Nicholas Posey, Vivek Prabhu, Alexander Andrianov
Polyphosphazenes represent a class of intrinsically flexible polyelectrolytes with potent immunoadjuvant activity, which is enabled through non-covalent self-assembly with antigenic proteins by charge complexation. The formation of supramolecular complexes

DIC Challenge 2.0: Developing Images and Guidelines for Evaluating Accuracy and Resolution of 2D Analyses: Focus on the Metrological Efficiency Indicator

January 4, 2022
Author(s)
Philip Reu, EMC Jones, S.S. Fayad, B. Blaysat, E. Toussaint, Mark Iadicola, P. Lava, J Rethore, J. Yang, K. Bhattacharya, L. Yang, D. Deb, C.S.R. Vemulapati, M Klein, E Ando, E Roubin, O. Stamati, C Couture, Alexander Landauer, M. Liu, S Jaminion, T. Siebert, S.N. Olufsen
Background The DIC Challenge 2.0 follows on from the work accomplished in the first Digital Image Correlation (DIC) Challenge Reu et al. (Experimental Mechanics 58(7):1067, 1). The second challenge was required to better quantify the spatial resolution of

Virial Coefficients of Mixtures

October 12, 2021
Author(s)
J H. Dymond, K N. Marsh, R C. Wilhoit, Michael D. Frenkel
This critical compilation of virial coefficients of mixtures is a sequel to The Virial Coefficients of Pure Gases and Mixtures, by J.H. Dymonand E.B. Smith (Oxford Universi Press, 1979) and a companion of Virial Coefficients of Gases and Gas Mixtures

Single-cycle all-fiber frequency comb

July 8, 2021
Author(s)
Sida Xing, Daniel Lesko, Takeshi Umeki, Tsung Han Wu, Alexander Lind, Nazanin Hoghooghi, Scott Diddams
Broad bandwidth mid-infrared frequency combs are important for molecular spectroscopy in a wide range of fundamental and applied research. However, realization of such light sources in a compact and robust format remains a challenge. In this paper, we

Sensors and Machine Learning Models to Prevent Cooktop Ignition and Ignore Normal Cooking

March 18, 2021
Author(s)
Amy Mensch, Anthony Hamins, Andy Tam, John Lu, Kathryn Markell, Christina You, Matthew Kupferschmid
Cooking equipment is involved in nearly half of home fires in the United States, with cooktop fires the leading cause of deaths and injuries in cooking-related fires. In this study, we evaluate 16 electrochemical, optical, temperature and humidity sensors
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