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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
The drug development industry is faced with increasing costs and decreasing success rates. New ways to understand biology as well as the increasing interest in personalized treatments for smaller patient segments requires new capabilities for the rapid

A Combined Fit of Total Scattering and Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure Data for Local-Structure Determination in Crystalline Materials

October 5, 2009
Author(s)
Igor Levin, Victor L. Krayzman, Joseph C. Woicik, Terrell A. Vanderah, M. G. Tucker, Thomas Proffen
Reverse Monte Carlo (RMC) refinements of local structure using a simultaneous fit of x-ray/neutron total scattering and EXAFS data were developed to incorporate an explicit treatment of both single- and multiple-scattering contributions to EXAFS. 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
Both domestically and worldwide, there is a movement to introduce risk-informed and performance-based analyses into fire protection engineering practice. One key tool needed to support risk-informed, performance-based (RI/PB) fire protection is fire models

Common Biometric Exchange File Format (CBEFF), Augmented

April 15, 2004
Author(s)
Fernando L. Podio, J S. Dunn, L Reinert, C J. Tilton, L O'Gorman, P Collier, Mark Jerde, B Wirtz
This report is an augmentation of the original standard, which was published as NISTIR 6529 (January 2001). Common Biometric Exchange File Format (CBEFF) describes a set of data elements necessary to support biometric technologies in a common way. These

The TREC-2002 Video Track Report

April 1, 2003
Author(s)
Alan Smeaton, Paul D. Over
TREC-2002 saw the second running of the Video Track, the goal of which was to promote progress in content-based retrieval from digital video via open, metrics-based evaluation. The track used 73.3 hours of publicly available digital video (in MPEG-1/VCD

The HI0073/HI0074 Protein Pair From Haemophilus Influenzae is a Member of a New Nucleotidyltransferase Family: Structure, Sequence Analyses, and Solution Studies

February 1, 2003
Author(s)
C Lehmann, Kap Lim, V R. Chalamasetty, W Krajewski, E Melamud, Andrey Galkin, A Howard, Z Kelman, Prasad T. Reddy, A Murzin, O Herzberg
The crystal structure of HI0074 from Haemophilus influenzae, a protein of unknown function, has been determined at a resolution of 2.4 . The molecules form an up-down four-helix bundle, and associate into homodimers. The fold is most closely related to the

Standards of Seismic Safety for Existing Federally Owned and Leased Buildings

January 1, 2002
Author(s)
Stephen A. Cauffman, Hai S. Lew
The seismic safety evaluation and mitigation standards, Standards for Seismic Safety for Existing Federally Owned and Leased Buildings, were developed for use by the Federal Government by the Interagency Committee on Seismic Safety in Construction (ICSSC)

Evaluation of Kitchen Cooking Appliance Efficiency Test Procedures

January 1, 1999
Author(s)
Steven J. Nabinger
In 1978, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a Final Rule containing test procedures for measuring the efficiency and energy consumption of conventional ranges, ovens, cooking tops, and microwave ovens. Based on a number of technical concerns

Industrial Need: Production Management Standards

August 1, 1997
Author(s)
Albert T. Jones, Charles R. McLean
The High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) program was formally established by the High Performance Computing Acto of 1991 (Public Law 102-194). T The goal of this program is to accelerate the development of future generations of high

Quantifying the Ignition Propensity of Cigarettes

July 1, 1995
Author(s)
Thomas J. Ohlemiller, K M. Villa, E Braun, K Eberhardt, Richard H. Harris Jr., James R. Lawson, Richard G. Gann
Research funded under the Fire Safe Cigarette Act of 1990 (United States Public Law 101-35) has led to the development of two test methods for measuring the ignition propensity of cigarettes. The Mock-Up Ignition Test Method uses substrates physically

Guidelines for Security of Computer Applications

June 30, 1980
Author(s)
Institute for Computer Sciences and Technology National Bureau of Standards
[Withdrawn February 8, 2005] Security decisions should be an integral part of the entire planning, development, and operation of a computer application. This guideline describes the technical and managerial decisions that should be made in order to assure

Safeguarding International Science: Research Security Framework

November 21, 2025
Author(s)
Gregory Strouse, Claire Saundry, Timothy Wood, Philip Bennett, Mary Bedner, Jeremy Schultz
The U.S. science and research ecosystem retains its leadership by actively engaging with the global community through the conduct of mutually beneficial collaborative research and the welcoming of international scientists. Coupled with that, the national

Product ion distributions using H3O+ proton-transfer-reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometry (PTR-ToF-MS): mechanisms, transmission effects, and instrument-to-instrument variability

February 27, 2025
Author(s)
Michael Link, Megan Claflin, Christina Cecelski, Ayomide Akande, Delany Kilgour, Paul Heine, Matthew Coggon, Chelsea Stockwell, Andrew Jensen, Jie Yu, Han Huyhn, Jenna Ditto, Carnsten Warneke, William Dresser, Keighan Gemmell, Spiro Jorga, Rileigh Robertson, Joost de Gouw, Timothy Bertram, Jonathan Abbatt, Nadine Borduas-Dedekind, Dustin Poppendieck
Proton-transfer-reaction mass spectrometry (PTR-MS) using hydronium ion (H3O+) ionization is widely used for the measurement of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) both indoors and outdoors. H3O+ ionization, as well as the associated chemistry in an ion

Evaluations of the decay data of 55Fe, 55Co, 103mRh, 103Pd, 129mSn and 166Ho from the Decay Data Evaluation Project (DDEP)-2024

February 18, 2025
Author(s)
Xavier Mougeot, Philippe Cassette, Valery Chechev, Christophe Dulieu, Xiaolong Huang, Mark Kellett, Tibor Kibedi, Nikolay Kuzmenko, Sylvain Leblond, Alan Nichols, Brian Zimmerman
Since 1995, members of the Decay Data Evaluation Project (DDEP) have evaluated the decay data from different radionuclides of special interest for metrology or practical applications, e.g. nuclear medicine, monitoring and reactor shielding, etc. Since 2004

Development of NIST X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) Database, Version 5

September 18, 2024
Author(s)
Angela Y. Lee, Cedric J. Powell, Justin Gorham, Adam Morey, John Henry Scott, Robert Hanisch
It has been over 20 years since the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) first launched the web version of its X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) database [1] [2]. The XPS website has an approximate 1000 users everyday. The technology

Transmission Electron Imaging and Diffraction of Asbestos Fibers in an SEM

July 24, 2024
Author(s)
Jason Holm, Elisabeth Mansfield
Asbestos, a known carcinogen, can be found in consumer products ranging from building materials to textiles. While most of the products are no longer produced domestically, the release of asbestos fibers from these and other non-anthropogenic sources into
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