Technology & Engineering

Fire fighters are exposed to highly variable environments including elevated temperatures and convective and radiant thermal flux, which can put a significant burden on personal protective equipment...

The Iris Exchange IREX III evaluation was conducted to measure the accuracy and speed of iris identification algorithms. This document details findings and recommendations.Author: G. W...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), with the cooperation of eight technology providers, performed a test of accuracy for searching latent fingerprints when using automatic...

The U.S. DOT SafeTrip-21 (Safe and Efficient Travel through Innovation and Partnerships for the 21stCentury) Initiative was established to test and evaluate integrated, intermodal, Intelligent...

The Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) promotes the U.S. economy and public welfare by providing technical leadership for the...

The objectives of this document was to investigate the four interference scenarios outlined below and determined separation distances between base and mobile units of the PC and AIS systems to...

This safety evaluation report documents the technical review of the Beaver Valley Power Station, Units 1 and 2, license renewal application by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff...

This safety evaluation report documents the technical review of the Indian Point Nuclear Generating Unit Nos. 2 and 3, license renewal application by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff...

This safety evaluation report documents the technical review of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station license renewal application by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff.Author: U...

The International Energy Agency (IEA) was established in 1974 within the framework of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to implement an international energy program. A...

The International Energy Agency (IEA) was established in 1974 within the framework of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to implement an international energy program. A...

The workshop on high-temperature guarded-hot-plate and pipe measurements was held on March 19- 20, 2012 at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA...

This report summarizing the lessons learned from the nine pilot site visits that were performed to review early implementation of the maintenance rule using the draft NRC Maintenance Inspection...

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Performance and Accountability Report presents the agency's program performance and financial manage- ment information for fiscal year (FY) 2010. The...

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Performance and Accountability Report is an account of the agency's effectiveness and efficiency in achieving its mission.Author: U. S. Nuclear Regulatory...

This report documents the addition of ghost node Local Grid Refinement (LGR2) to MODFLOW-2005, the U.S. Geological Survey modular, transient, three-dimensional, finite-difference groundwater flow...

Error that is inherent to geospatial raster data can propagate through geospatial models that are used in geographic information systems (GIS) for many natural science and social science applications...

On October 31, 2009, two teenagers, aged 16 and 18, were killed when a petroleum storage tank exploded in a rural oil field in Carnes, Mississippi. Six months later a group of youths were exploring a...

The U.S. Geological Survey uses continuous water- quality monitors to assess the quality of the Nation's surface water. A This report describes the water-use categories and data ele- ments required...

Streamflow is not measured at every location in a stream network. Yet hydrologists, State and local agencies, and the general public still seek to know streamflow characteristics, such as mean annual...

The recent commercial availability of in situ optical sensors, together with new techniques for data collection and analysis, provides the opportunity to monitor a wide range of water-quality...

Preservation of nature in its original state and human appreciation of wilderness conditions are common themes associated with the designation of wild and protected areas (for example, wilderness...

The steps necessary to conduct a pitfall trapping survey for small terrestrial vertebrates are presented. Descriptions of the material needed and the methods to building trapping from raw materials...

The techniques and standards for making discharge mea- surements at streamflow gaging stations are described in this publication. The vertical axis rotating-element current meter, principally the...

The mission of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Water Resources Discipline is to provide the information and understanding needed for wise management of the Nation's water resources. Inherent in...

The Stochastic Empirical Loading and Dilution Model (SELDM) is designed to transform complex scientific data into meaningful information about the risk of adverse effects of runoff on receiving...

TracerLPM is an interactive Excel(R) (2007 or later) workbook program for evaluating groundwater age distributions from environmental tracer data by using lumped parameter models (LPMs). Lumped...

A new analytical method for the determination of ele- ments in filtered aqueous matrices using inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) has been implemented at the U.S. Geological Survey...

This document provides information to U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Water Science Centers on interpreting and reporting radiological results for samples of environmental matrices, most notably water...

This report documents work at the U.S. Geological Sur- vey (USGS) National Water Quality Laboratory (NWQL) to validate enzymatic reduction, colorimetric determinative meth- ods for nitrate + nitrite...