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Using a Single-Zone Residential Model to Evaluate Virus Particle Exposure

September 20, 2022
Author(s)
Stephen Zimmerman, Brian Polidoro, Lisa Ng, William Stuart Dols, Steven Emmerich
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak a global pandemic. As noted by ASHRAE and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), engineering and other controls should be part of a broader

The National Institute of Standards and Technology's Impact on Fire Safety Standards

February 1, 2022
Author(s)
Benjamin M. Miller, Tom Latourrette, Drake Warren, David Metz
Standards provide critical benefits across a wide variety of contexts, including safety and health, environmental protection, and quality of products and services. However, while these benefits are generally acknowledged, estimating the social and economic

Recommended Dose Calculation Formalisms and Consensus Dosimetry Parameters for Intravascular Brachytherapy Dosimetry: An Update of the 1999 AAPM Task Group 60 Report

October 12, 2021
Author(s)
Sou-Tung Chiu-Tsao, Dennis Schaart, Christopher G. Soares, Ravinder Nath
Since the publication of AAPM Task Group 60 report in 1999, a considerable amount of dosimetry data for the three coronary brachytherapy systems in use in the United States has been reported. A subgroup of the AAPM working group on Unconventional

User Guide for NIST Media Forensic Challenge (MFC) Datasets

July 6, 2021
Author(s)
Haiying Guan, Andrew Delgado, Yooyoung Lee, Amy Yates, Daniel Zhou, Timothee N. Kheyrkhah, Jonathan G. Fiscus
NIST released a set of Media Forensic Challenge (MFC) datasets developed in DARPA MediFor (Media Forensics) project to the public in the past 5 years. More than 300 individuals, 150 organizations, from 26 countries and regions worldwide use our datasets

The impact of COVID-19 on CO2 emissions in the Los Angeles and Washington DC/Baltimore metropolitan areas

June 7, 2021
Author(s)
Kimberly Mueller, Anna Karion, Sharon Gourdji, Israel Lopez Coto, James Whetstone, Vineet Yadav, Geoffrey Roest, Kevin R. Gurney, Kristal R. Verhulst, Jooil Kim, Michael Stock, Elizabeth DiGangi, Steve Prinzivalli, Ralph Keeling, R. F. Weiss, Charles E. Miller, Clayton Fain, Riley Duren, Subhomoy Ghosh
Responses to COVID-19 has resulted in and unintended reductions of city-scale carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Here we detect and estimate decreases in CO2 emissions in Los Angeles and Washington DC/Baltimore during March and April 2020. Our analysis uses

Sequence-based U.S. population data for 7 X STR loci

April 26, 2021
Author(s)
Lisa Borsuk, Carolyn R. Steffen, Kevin M. Kiesler, Peter Vallone, Katherine Gettings
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) U.S. population sample set of unrelated individuals was used to determine allele and haplotype frequencies for seven X-chromosome short tandem repeat (STR) loci in four linkage groups. DXS7132

A Historical and Statistical Study of the Software Vulnerability Landscape

April 18, 2021
Author(s)
Assane Gueye, Peter Mell
Understanding the landscape of software vulnerabilities is key for developing effective security solutions. Fortunately, the evaluation of vulnerability databases that use a framework for communicating vulnerability attributes and their severity scores

IREX Validation Dataset 2019

September 16, 2019
Author(s)
James R. Matey, George W. Quinn, Patrick J. Grother
… provided model releases that permit use of the images in publications and datasets that are distributed by NIST. • The …

Quantifying Macroeconomic Resilience Dividends in Cedar Rapids

July 17, 2019
Author(s)
Juan F. Fung, Jennifer F. Helgeson, Cheyney M. O'Fallon, David H. Webb, Harvey Cutler
Cedar Rapids, Iowa offers a unique case study in planning for increased resilience. In 2008, Cedar Rapids experienced severe flooding. Rather than simply rebuilding, the city of Cedar Rapids is investing in a resilient flood control system, as well as in

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 Center of Excellence for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning (CoE), headquartered at Colorado State University, to develop the measurement science to

Semantic Preserving Bijective Mappings of Mathematical Formulae between Word Processors and Computer Algebra Systems

June 28, 2017
Author(s)
Howard S. Cohl, Bonita V. Saunders, Marjorie A. McClain, Moritz Schubotz, Joon Bang, Juergen Gerhardt, Andre Greiner Petter
There are many different approaches to represent mathematical expressions on computers. Word processors like LaTeX offer the ability to render mathematical expressions as one would write these on paper. Using LaTeX, LaTeXML, and tools generated for use in

Prediction and Validation of Diffusion Coefficients in a Model Drug Delivery System Using Microsecond Atomistic Molecular Dynamics Simulation and Vapor Sorption Analysis

October 21, 2014
Author(s)
Christopher Forrey, D M. Saylor, Joshua S. Silverstein, Jack F. Douglas, Eric Davis, Yossef A. Elabd
Diffusion of small to medium sized molecules in polymeric medical device materials underlies a broad range of public health concerns related to unintended leaching from or uptake into implantable medical devices. Knowledge of diffusion rates is thus

A Review of U.S.A. Participation in the ISO and IEC

August 4, 2014
Author(s)
Erik Puskar, Dong G. Choi
Based on the Section 2543 of the Trade Agreements Act of 1979 , the Department of Commerce (DOC) has been responsible for monitoring the representation of United States interests before international standards organizations. As an agency of DOC, the
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