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When the Holy Spirit leads an inspired writer to record someone's name in the Bible, there is a story of courage and tenacity; or infamy and duplicity that we can learn from. In God's Honorable...

Word lists arranged according to the phonemic sounds represented by different vowel pairs. (Also available in the Kindle Store, with each word linked to an online dictionary definition - over 7,000...

Published stories of the survivor's of the World Trade Center (WTC) attacks were collected to document the event and as background material to guide the development of the National Institute of...

This is the 11th annual report of the results of the Federal Transit Administration's (FTA) Drug and Alcohol Testing Program. This report summarizes the reporting requirements for calendar year 2005,...

This is the 14th annual report of the results of the Federal Transit Administration's (FTA) Drug and Alcohol Testing Program. This report summarizes the reporting requirements for calendar year 2008,...

This is the sixth annual report of the results of the Federal Transit Administration's (FTA) Drug and Alcohol Testing Program. The report summarizes the new reporting requirements introduced for...

This report documents the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff's review and safety and safeguards evaluation or AREVA Enrichment Services LLC's application for a license to construct a gas...

This is the fourth in a series of NIST Technical Notes (TN) on propagation and detection of radio signals in large building structures (apartment complex, hotel, office building, sports stadium,...

The Microelectromechanical System (MEMS)5 5-in-1 is a standard reference device sold as a NIST Standard Reference Material (SRM) in the form of a test chip that contains test structures for five...

The current version of the ANSI/NIST-ITL standard "Data Format for the Interchange of Fingerprint, Facial & Other Biometric Information" is specified in two parts. Part 1, ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2007,...

This study is the adjudication and analysis of all 353 official comments received from interested stakeholders regarding Supplement 3, Revision 1, "Guidance for Protective Action Strategies", draft...

The objectives of the Convention on Nuclear Safety (CNS) are to achieve and maintain a high level of nuclear safety worldwide. Contracting parties to the CNS have four obligations: submit a national...

In light of recent results from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission loss-of-coolant accident (LOCA) research program, the staff of the Division of Systems Analysis in the Office of Nuclear...

In the pipeline industry, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems are used to collect data from pipeline sensors in real time and display these data to humans who monitor the data...

In 2003, airbags were first certificated for pilot and copilot seats on general aviation (GA) aircraft, and as of August 2010, they have been installed in nearly 18,000 seats in over 7,000 GA...

In 2003, airbags were first certificated for pilot and copilot seats on general aviation (GA) aircraft, and as of August 2010, they have been installed in nearly 18,000 seats in over 7,000 GA...

There are 8.22 million single-unit trucks registered in the United States, which travel more than 110.7 billion miles each year. Although single-unit trucks comprise three percent of registered motor...

This report is the product of an intensive eleven-month U.S. Department of Commerce examination of market-distorting practices and trade barriers in the global steel industry and their possible...

Title 10 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 835, "Occupational Radiation Protection," establishes radiation protection standards, limits, and program requirements for protecting individuals from...

The objective of the present paper is to review the adhesion, friction and wear properties of materials and some of the factors influencing these properties. The forms of lubrication and types of...

On November 7, 2007, the Hong Kong-registered, 901-foot-long containership M/V Cosco Busan allided with the fendering system at the base of the Delta tower of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge...

Since late 1993, Metro Wastewater Reclamation District of Denver (Metro District, MWRD), a large wastewater treatment plant in Denver, Colorado, has applied Grade I, Class B biosolids to about 52,000...

The Sunnyside porphyry copper system is part of the concealed San Rafael Valley porphyry system located in the Patagonia Mountains of Arizona. To help characterize the size, resistivity, and skin...

This report describes shoreline surveys conducted in the marshes of Louisiana in areas impacted by oil spilled from the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico. Three...

A variety of satellites provide remotely sensed images of the earth at different pixel resolutions, generally categorized as high, moderate, or low resolution.Author: U. S. Department of the...

American Samoa and the neighboring islands of the South Pacific lie near active tectonic-plate boundaries that host many large earthquakes which can result in strong earthquake shaking and tsunamis...

North-central Nevada contains a large amount of gold in a variety of deposit types (Hofstra, 2002), and the origin of that gold (such as in Carlin-type deposits) is a much debated subject (Hofstra...

The Fort Collins Science Center (FORT) is a multi-disciplinary research and development center of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) located in Fort Collins, Colo. Organizationally, FORT is within the...

The United States has made major investments in assessing, managing, regulating, and conserving natural resources such as water, minerals, soils, and timber. Sustaining the quality of the Nation's...

We use newspaper accounts from the United States and Canada to assign modified Mercalli intensity (MMI) at 90 towns for the May 16, 1909 Northern Plains earthquake. Our MMI assignments generally are...