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The Real Deal-Cash In The Kitchen, is a guide to saving money now, negotiation strategies, creative use of every dollar, and maintaining a prosperity mindset. The book explores the myth of the budget...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) Validation Program tests the ability of products to use the features and functionality available through...

Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12) requires all Federal agencies to standardize and enhance the security of their facilities and information resources by adopting a secure...

To support natural resource damage assessment (NRDA) in response to the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a large number of samples were collected from protected species...

Computer-interpretable representations of system structure and behavior are at the center of designing today's complex systems. Engineers create and review such representations using graphical...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently established a Vitamin D Metabolites Quality Assurance Program (VitDQAP) in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has established a Vitamin D Metabolites Quality Assurance Program (VitDQAP) in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH)...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently established a Vitamin D Metabolites Quality Assurance Program (VitDQAP) in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health...

The Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) is a multi-agency multi-stakeholder effort to develop the infrastructure needed to enable the materials science community to design, develop, manufacture, and...

NIST, Standards Services of the Standards Coordination Office (SCO), provides standards-related expertise and services to strengthen the economy and improve the quality of life in the United States...

This paper focuses on the logistics aspect of supply chain management. It proposes a randomized flow management algorithm for time-varying, random, supply chain network.Author: U. S. Department of...

Federal, state, and local first responders who work with explosives and respond to improvised explosive device (IED) attacks rely on relevant documentary standards to make their jobs safer.Author: U...

The NIST Software Assurance Metrics And Tool Evaluation (SAMATE) project conducted a workshop on Metrics and Standards for Software Testing (MaSST) on June 20, 2012. This workshop was co-located with...

The use of biometric devices has become critical to implementing various forms of security in a large number of organizations worldwide. The current state of biometric sensor integration is labor...

Open and consensus standards play a critical role in enabling globally-distributed manufacturing. A close connection between standards development and implementation strategies is critical to ensure...

To interact with various services in the cloud and to store the data generated/processed by those services, several security capabilities are required. Based on a core set of features in the three...

Thermal conductivity measurements at and near room temperature are presented as the basis for certified values of thermal conductivity of SRM 1453, Expanded Polystyrene Board. The measurements have...

Ten commercial laboratories participated in an interlaboratory study to establish the repeatability and reproducibility of compression strength tests conducted according to ASTM International...

This report is a summary of the work performed by A.P. Robbins, S.M.V. Gwynne and E.D. Kuligowski on a standardized approach for selection of scenarios used in performancebased analysis with...

This document provides general guidance designed to help the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Program Managers and other executives inside and outside of DHS. It is intended to provide...

Previously, the chemical and mechanical deterioration of polyaramid and polybenzimidazolebased protective clothing fabrics that resulted from concurrent thermal, moisture, and simulated sunlight...

The objective of this study was to evaluate whether polyurethane foam (PUF) could be produced as a Standard Reference Material for ultimate use in a standard test intended to ensure the smoldering...

Destruction of homes and businesses from Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) fires has been steadily escalating as have the fire suppression costs associated with them. Since 2000, in the United States,...

In this study, the mechanical properties critical to the protective performance of firefighter turnout gear were evaluated in environmentally stressed outer shell (OS) fabrics containing melamine...

The performance of an upholstery cover fabric in the promotion of smoldering combustion of polyurethane foam (PUF) can be assessed by a previously developed bench scale test. The purpose of the...

Under the 2004 Biological Opinion for operation of the Federal Columbia River Power System released by the National Marine Fisheries Service, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), the Bonneville...

The Jordan River in Midvale and West Jordan, Utah, flows adjacent to two U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Superfund sites: Midvale Slag and Sharon Steel. At both sites, geotechnical caps extend...

Roosevelt City, Utah, asserts a need for an additional supply of water to meet municipal demands and has identified a potential location for affectional groundwater development at the Sprouse well...

The measured winter snow, maximum winter snow, net, and annual balances for 1997-2001 in the Gulkana Glacier basin are determined at specific points and over the entire glacier area using the...

Paleomagnetic inclination and polarity studies have been conducted on thousands of subcore samples from 51 coreholes located at the Idaho National Laboratory. These studies are used to...