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Image validation and verification are important functions in the acquisition of fingerprint images from live-scan devices and for assessing and maintaining the fidelity of fingerprint image databases. Such databases are used by law enforcement agencies, for which data integrity is paramount, and many hours...

The Internet is an extraordinary platform for innovation, economic growth, and social communication. It has become the backbone of a global digital infrastructure and an integral part of the information economy. Statistical reports on job growth and retail sales show the importance of the...

This document has been developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in furtherance of its statutory responsibilities under the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) of 2002, Public Law 107-347.Author: U. S. Department of CommerceISBN-10: 1495291871ISBN-13: 9781495291876Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage:...

Four real-scale experiments were conducted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology to measure the temperatures above and below a wood floor assembly exposed to fire conditions from below. The objectives of the experiments were: 1) to examine the heat transfer through a...

This report defines the Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) Dictionary version 2.3 specification. The CPE Dictionary Specification is a part of a stack of CPE specifications that support a variety of use cases relating to information technology (IT) product description and naming. An individual CPE...

Following the September 19, 1985 Mexico earthquake, a team consisting of four engineers and one seismologist from the National Bureau of Standards and the United States Geological Survey was dispatched to Mexico City to provide technical advice to the US rescue effort and to...

The Federal Information Processing Standards Publication Series of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is the official publication relating to standards and guidelines adopted and promulgated under the provisions of Section 111(d) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949...

This report documents a set of 9 full scale ISO 9705 room under-ventilated compartment fire experiments. The gas species composition and temperature throughout the interior of the compartment were mapped during quasi-steady burning conditions. Particular focus is placed on minor carbonaceous gas species and...

On February 27, 2011, a fire began in the outskirts of Amarillo, Texas, that destroyed or damaged buildings in three housing developments. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), as part of its Disaster and Failure Studies Program, deployed a team within 44...

The objective of the work described in this report was to analyze the global response of WTC 7 to initial failure events due to fire and to analyze the resulting sequence of component and subsystem failures to determine the events that led to the...

Modern computers rely on fundamental system firmware, commonly known as the system Basic Input/Output System (BIOS), to facilitate the hardware initialization process and transition control to the operating system. The BIOS is typically developed by both original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and independent BIOS vendors,...

This report documents the design and installation of the smoke management systems in World Trade Center 1, 2, and 7 and compares the design to the requirements contained in applicable codes and standards.Author: U. S. Department of CommerceISBN-10: 1495294374ISBN-13: 9781495294372Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage:...

A wireless local area network (WLAN) enables access to computing resources for devices that are not physically connected to a network. WLANs typically operate over a fairly limited range, such as an office building or building campus, and usually are implemented as extensions to...

Simpson Gumpertz and Heger, Inc. developed finite element models of the components, connection and subsystems of the World Trade Center towers to study their structural performance in the fire environment that followed the aircraft impact to the towers.Author: U. S. Department of CommerceISBN-10: 1495294072ISBN-13:...

This report established the baseline performance of the North and South World Trade Center Towers under design gravity and wind loading conditions.Author: U. S. Department of CommerceISBN-10: 149529370XISBN-13: 9781495293702Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/31/2014Pages: 230Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.48d

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 Nation's measurement and standards infrastructure. ITL develops tests, test methods, reference data, proof of concept implementations, and...

The office of Environmental Technologies Industries, through the Commercial Section of the U.S. Embassy in Mexico, commissioned the production of this report covering short- and medium-term business opportunities in Mexico for U.S. suppliers of environmental equipment and services. The report informs U.S. environmental companies...

On December 7, 2011, about 1630 Pacific standard time, a Sundance Helicopters, Inc., Eurocopter AS350-B2 helicopter, N37SH, operating as a "Twilight tour" sightseeing trip, crashed in mountainous terrain about 14 miles east of Las Vegas, Nevada. The pilot and four passengers were killed, and...

This report reviews the contemporaneous steel and welding standards used to construct the 110-story World Trade Center towers. It describes the major structural elements in the towers and the many grades of steels relevant to the WTC investigation.Author: U. S. Department of CommerceISBN-10: 1494787024ISBN-13:...

Information technology is undergoing a paradigm shift from desktop computing, where isolated workstations connect to shared servers across a network, to pervasive computing, where myriad portable, embedded, and networked information appliances continuously reconfigure themselves individually and collectively to support the information requirements of mobile...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides its Internet Time Service (ITS) to the general public. The service distributes Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) kept at NIST and called UTC(NIST), which is an official source of time both in the United States and...

This report is an overview of the results of the mechanical and metallurgical analysis of structural steel from the World Trade Center pat of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Investigation of the WTC disaster of September 11, 2001.Author: U. S. Department of...

This report was prepared to support the analysis of building fire codes and standards of the National Institute of Standards and Technology World Trade Center Investigation.Author: U. S. Department of CommerceISBN-10: 1494786869ISBN-13: 9781494786861Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/21/2014Pages: 82Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 11.02h x...

This report was prepared to support the analysis of building and fire codes and practices of the National Institute of Standards and Technology World Trade Center Investigation.Author: U. S. Department of CommerceISBN-10: 1494786826ISBN-13: 9781494786823Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/21/2014Pages: 62Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.37lbsSize: 11.02h...

The Extensible Configuration Checklist Description Format (XCCDF) was originally intended to be used for technical security checklists. Although this is still the primary use of XCCDF, XCCDF also has extensions into non-technical applications (e.g., owner's manuals, user guides, non-technical Federal Information Security Management Act...

In today's computing environment, there are many threats to the confidentiality of information stored on end user devices, such as personal computers, consumer devices (e.g., personal digital assistant, smart phone), and removable storage media (e.g., universal serial bus [USB] flash drive, memory card, external...

The World Wide Web (WWW) is a system for exchanging information over the Internet. At the most basic level, the Web can be divided into two principal components: Web servers, which are applications that make information available over the Internet (in essence, publish information),...

Organizations have information technology (IT) plans in place, such as contingency and computer security incident response plans, so that they can respond to and manage adverse situations involving IT. These plans should be maintained in a state of readiness, which should include having personnel...

Michael A. Brattoli has over 35 years experience in new product development, quality engineering, project management and development, and engineering supervision in a variety of industries, from aerospace to faucets. As the Lead CAD Designer/PLM Administrator for Moen, Incorporated, he is responsible for all...

Passenger rail systems provided 10.7 billion passenger trips in the United States in 2008.11 The nation's passenger rail systems include all services designed to transport customers on local and regional routes, such as heavy rail, commuter rail, and light rail services. Heavy rail systems--...

Many cybersecurity technologies that can be used to protect critical infrastructures from cyber attack are currently available, while other technologies are still being researched and developed. These technologies, including access control technologies, system integrity technologies, cryptography, audit and monitoring tools, and configuration management and...

Our objective was to determine whether HUD's 2011 expenditure plan satisfied the statutory conditions. On March 27, 2012, we provided your offices with briefing slides and met with your staff to discuss the results of our review. The purpose of this report is to...

Given the size and significance of the government's investment in IT, it is important that projects be managed effectively to ensure that public resources are wisely invested. Effectively managing projects entails, among other things, developing reliable and high-quality cost estimates that project realistic life-cycle...

In July 1981 the most disastrous structural engineering failure in U.S. history took place in Kansas City. Two interior walkways in the lobby atrium collapsed at the recently constructed Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, with a resulting loss of 114 lives and injuries...

Public agencies face serious ethical challenges when attempting to implement a design-build construction delivery process. This publication examines these challenges and offers two processes that will permit design-build to be implemented as a construction delivery process, while maintaining the integrity of an agency's procurement...

There is only one Panama Canal. But there are two Panama Canal stories. One is about the successful construction of the Panama Canal by the United States. The other is about an earlier failed attempt by French interests. This is the story of the...

"Design-Build" is a process for undertaking construction projects that has become increasingly popular. Although used to a substantive degree by private owners for many decades, it was rarely used by public agency owners because competitive bidding laws required separation of the design and construction...

This publication will introduce you to a huge library of building design technical manuals, specifications and tools that you can use on real projects tomorrow....and it is all free!Author: J. Paul GuyerISBN-10: 1490563008ISBN-13: 9781490563008Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/29/2013Pages: 38Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 11.02h...

This is an introduction to the physics of noise and its generation, transmission and control in buildings.Author: J. Paul GuyerISBN-10: 1490552588ISBN-13: 9781490552583Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/28/2013Pages: 26Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.19lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.05d

The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) is a relatively inexpensive Navy surface combatant equipped with modular "plug-and-fight" mission packages. The Navy wants to field a force of 55 LCSs. Twelve LCSs have been funded through FY2012, and the FY2013-FY2017 Future Years Defense Plan (FYDP) calls...

The planned size of the Navy, the rate of Navy ship procurement, and the prospective affordability of the Navy's shipbuilding plans have been matters of concern for the congressional defense committees for the past several years. In February 2006, the Navy presented to Congress...

Transformers have been used at power plants since the inception of alternating-current generation, a century ago. While operating principles of transformers remain the same, the challenges of maintaining and testing transformers have evolved along with transformer design and construction. This book is about the...

Our DEDICATION TO PROTECT has risen from my past rescues as a professional firefighter. My wife and I have innovated, prototyped, and patented, an alert system to allow safety concerns for our public and military. Many lives have been lost, and continue. With our...

Author: Guillermo C. Ph. D. EtienneISBN-10: 145686159XISBN-13: 9781456861599Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/31/2011Pages: 302Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68d

This book is generated from a thesis written by this author in 2009 and provides an insight into the myth that is offshore outsourcing. The Information Technology field has often been criticized for its offshore outsourcing strategy and the negative impact it has on...

Author: Anatoly RozenblatISBN-10: 1449071961ISBN-13: 9781449071967Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/11/2010Pages: 516Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.53lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.25w x 1.04d

This book is not intended to be an "Everything you will ever need to know" about Microsoft Excel 2007, although in some cases it might be. It is, as the name implies, a "beginner's guide" to Excel 2007. This book has two purposes: First...

This botanical book details the intricacies of commercial fruit-growing from preparation to cultivation, harvesting, and, finally, packaging and sale. An interesting and insightful book, Fruit Growing is a compete manual for the commercial fruit-grower, containing timelessly important information imperative to the success of such...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Herbert ChatleyISBN-10: 1443744727ISBN-13: 9781443744720Publisher: Baker...

Today machines can outplay us at chess, perform surgeries, manage airports, design buildings, act in films. Soon they'll compete with us in nearly every field. Will this cause mass layoffs and riots? Or will these robotic workers usher in a paradise of wealth and...