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This publication details the four major phases of analytical development work, coupled with several additional side studies, undertaken by the Office of Law Enforcement Standards in writing the...

NIST Handbook 150-25 augments NIST Handbook 150, NVLAP Procedures and General Requirements, by gathering the technical requirements of the Laboratory Accreditation Program (LAP) for conformance...

The process of designing an electro-mechanical device generally begins with generating a product design specification (PDS) document1. The PDS document describes the intended function of the device...

The Home Lift, Position and Rehabilitation (HLPR) Chair, developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has unique capabilities and a unique shape as compared to conventional...

This is the 2009 Annual Supplement to NIST Handbook 135, Life-Cycle Costing Manual for the Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP). The annual supplement provides energy price indices and discount...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has Reduced Risk of Fire Spread in Wildland-Urban Interface Communities research program.Author: U. S. Department of CommercePublisher: Createspace...

The term "Mobile ID" can conjure up several different interpretations. In the strictest sense, it may consist of an un-tethered device used to capture one or more biometric samples from a subject...

Presently, there is no integrated solution for delivering building data into the hands of emergency responders. Technically, there are many challenges to collect, format, process, integrate and...

Experimental data have been gathered by applying 3D imaging systems, such as LIDAR/LADAR instruments, to spherical objects. This report proved a compilation of statistical and analytic procedures to...

This report concerns the theoretical and practical issues with automatically populating mobile devices with reference test data for use as reference materials in validation of forensic tools. It...

We examined the air flow distribution through a residential indoor air conditioning heat exchanger. The test heat exchanger was a finned tube, A-shaped coil outfitted with a condensation collection...

This report provides an economic review of the National Institute of Standards and Technology High Performance Concrete (HYPERCON) Program from the period FY01 through FY09. The HYPERCON research...

This paper quantifies the influence of Al2O3 nanoparticles on the pool boiling performance of R134a/polyolester mixtures on a roughened, horizontal, flat surface. Nanofluids are liquids that contain...

The General Services Administration's (GSA) Public Buildings Services manages 1600 buildings totaling 180, 000, 000 square feet. GSA's ability to capture, validate, and report the spatial information...

Supporting different stakeholder viewpoints across the product's entire lifecycle requires semantic richness for representing product related information. This paper proposes a multi-layered product...

A field standard weight cart (after this, simply called "weight cart") is intended for use in conjunction with Class F weights for testing commercial weighing devices for compliance with the...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) and other Department of Defense operations require mobile biometric collection (Mobile ID) devices. These devices are used...

One of the most prevalent requirements of manufacturing industries today is the need to exchange and share product information within and between enterprises. This becomes almost impossible without a...

The level of safety that a building affords occupants during a fire is determined in one of two ways: 1) the use of prescriptive codes and 2) the use of performance-based codes or design. In the...

Complex Systems are composed of large, interacting entities which taken together, exhibit a macroscopic behavior which is not predictable by examination of the individual entities. The Complex...

A linear fit method of rating residential-type air conditioning systems was evaluated based on performance predictions and laboratory testing of one two-speed matched system and two mixed systems...

In compliance with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) requirements of RFP SB1341-09-RQ-0200, a reinforced concrete block garage system was constructed for the purpose of...

The purpose of this document is to describe the best practices that personnel from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed and implemented to efficiently and...

The Calibration Laboratories Accreditation Program was developed by the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology as a result of...

The Calibration Laboratories Accreditation Program was developed by the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology as a result of...

The Calibration Laboratories Accreditation Program was developed by the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as a...

This guide presents the general technical requirements of the laboratory accreditation program for calibration laboratories along with specific technical criteria and guidance applicable to optical...

The guide presents the general technical requirements of the laboratory accreditation program for calibration laboratories along with specific technical criteria and guidance applicable to...

The Calibration Laboratories Accreditation Program was developed by the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology as a result of...

The Calibration Laboratories Accreditation Program was developed by the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology as a result of...