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The National Institute of Standards and Technology is responsible for providing an evaluated tandem mass spectral library for reliable compound identification
Membrane proteins constitute approximately 30% of all cellular proteins. Nevertheless, this group of proteins is traditionally understudied due to limitations
The Tattoo Recognition Technology Program features a family of activities designed with goals to evaluate and measure image-based tattoo recognition technology
The Tattoo Recognition Technology – Evaluation (Tatt-E) is being initiated by NIST to assess and measure the capability of systems to perform automated image
Security is becoming increasingly complicated and difficult both on technical grounds and on policy grounds. Technically, Federal agencies and other have to
The objective of this project is to characterize temperature effects on flow meters used in cryogenic liquids, e.g. turbine and Coriolis flow meters. With a
Our goal is to develop critical measurement solutions that enable nanomanufacturing with template guided block copolymer assembly for next generation magnetic
The human brain does some types of information processing, like speech recognition, image recognition, or video processing, much more efficiently than can be
Project goal is to develop a fully-instrumented version of the tension-compression test, to enable measurement of the Bauschinger Effect in sheet metal, and to
Far-infrared (or THz, 25 to 300 micron wavelength) femtosecond laser methods are employed to generate high power (ca. 1 µJ) broadband pulses for far-field
Imaging in the terahertz frequency range enables the detection of concealed weapons and other contraband (e.g., explosives under clothing) without the use of
There has been a growing recognition of the importance of community-wide evaluations for research in information technologies. The Text Analysis Conference is a
The Text Recognition Algorithm Independent Evaluation (TRAIT) is being conducted to assess the capability of text detection and recognition algorithms to
The Text REtrieval Conference (TREC), co-sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and U.S. Department of Defense, was started in
Mass spectrometry is an important technique in analytical chemistry, essential in areas including drug development, criminal and agricultural forensics
Renewable energy sources such as solar energy are attractive alternatives to fossil fuels because of their abundant supply and pollution-free power generation
The overarching objective of this project is reliably calculating the bulk optical properties of materials, such as complex index of refraction, absorption, and
The working of countless electronic devices involves electric and magnetic effects interacting within nanostructured materials. In the phenomenon known as spin
Thermal desorption ambient mass spectrometry decouples analyte desorption and ionization. Here, analytes are thermally desorbed directly from a primary surface
We are developing a method to measure and regulate temperature throughout a three dimensional volume with Systeme International (SI)-traceable Thermal Magnetic
This project develops methods for very accurate measurements of thermal noise and provides support for such measurements in the communications and electronics
Industry needs thermodynamic and kinetic data for the development of new materials for sustainable energy applications; expanded and new databases are needed