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Journal of Research (NIST JRES)

On the Stability of Exponential Backoff

Author(s)
N-O Song, B-J Kwak, Leonard E. Miller
New analytical results are given for the stability and performance of the exponential backoff (EB) algorithm. Previous studies on the stability of the (binary)

Review of Instrumented Indentation

Author(s)
Mark R. VanLandingham
Instrumented indentation, also known as depth-sensing indentation or nanoindentation, is increasingly being used to probe the mechanical response of materials

A Link-Level Simulator of the CDMA2000 Reverse-Link Layer

Author(s)
Hamid Gharavi, R Wyatt-Millington, F Chin, K Ban
This paper presents the design and implementation of a simulation model for the cdma2000 reverse link. The model includes all the radio configurations and their

Radiometric Measurement Comparison on the Integrating Sphere Source Used to Calibrate the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and the Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+)

Author(s)
James J. Butler, Steven W. Brown, Robert D. Saunders, B. Carol Johnson, S F. Biggar, E F. Zalewski, B L. Markham, P N. Gracey, J B. Young, R Barnes
As part of a continuing effort to validate the radiometric scales assigned to integrating spheresources used in the calibration of Earth Observing System (EOS)

Characterization of an Ellipsoidal Radiometer

Author(s)
A V. Murthy, I Wetterlund, D P. DeWitt
An ellipsoidal radiometer, under development by Nils-Erik Gunners in close cooperation with the SP Swedish National Testing and Research Institute, has been

The TREC-2002 Video Track Report

Author(s)
Alan Smeaton, Paul D. Over
TREC-2002 saw the second running of the Video Track, the goal of which was to promote progress in content-based retrieval from digital video via open, metrics

Terrain Characterization from Ground-Based LADAR

Author(s)
Christoph J. Witzgall, Geraldine S. Cheok, David E. Gilsinn
Test runs of Army Research Laboratory s (ARL) autonomous vehicle (Experimental Unmanned Vehicle, XUV) were followed by the acquisition of high resolution scans

NDRL/NIST Solution Kinetics Database on the WEB

Author(s)
Robert E. Huie
A Solution Kinetics Database, jointly created byNIST and the Notre Dame Radiation Laboratory, hasbeen made available on the Internet in a format similarto that

Magnetic Thin Film Interlaboratory Comparison

Author(s)
Fabio C. da Silva, David P. Pappas, C. M. Wang
A potential low magnetic moment standard reference material (SRM) was studied in an interlaboratory comparison. The mean and the standard deviation of the

Quantitative Synthetic Polymer Mass Spectrometry Workshop

Author(s)
William E. Wallace, Charles M. Guttman, S D. Hanton
Mass spectrometry is a rapidly evolving measurement technique for synthetic polymers. It holds the promise of providing not only absolute molecular mass

Uncertainties in Interpolated Spectral Data

Author(s)
J L. Gardner
Interpolation is often used to improve the accuracy of integrals over spectral data convolved with various response functions or power distributions. Formulae