The program responds to the mandate of the Justice System Improvement Act of 1979, which created NIJ and directed it to encourage research and development to improve the criminal justice system and to disseminate the results to Federal, State, and local agencies. The Law Enforcement and Corrections Standards and Testing Program is an applied research effort that determines the technological nee...

Historically, the mental health system has not effectively addressed the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse individuals (President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, 2003), which has contributed to significant racial and ethnic disparities in mental health care (USDHHS, 2001). This paper focuses on exploring how a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Minor...

1. Department of Physics, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 2 Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland and Department of Electrical Engineering, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 3 National Center for Electron Microscopy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 4 Center for Nanoscale Science ...

† Center for Neutron Research, NIST. ‡ National Institutes of Health. § Polymers Division, NIST. * Corresponding author. E-mail [email protected]. National Institute of Standards and Technology, Center for Neutron Research, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-8562; National Institutes of Health, NICHD, Laboratory of Integrative and Medical Biophysics, 13 South Drive, Bethesda, Maryla...

-The IEEE P1547 Standard For Interconnecting Distributed Resources With Electric Power Systems is the first in the P1547 series of planned interconnection standards, and additional standards are needed. There are major issues and obstacles to an orderly transition to the use and integration of distributed power resources with electric power systems. The lack of uniform national interconnection ...

The Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation develops voluntary standards for medical devices so that manufacturers might provide information on their product and basic safety and performance criteria that should be considered in qualifying the instrument for clinical use. American national standards are generated through a consensus process by committees consisting of experts...

This is an updated guideline prepared for the British Association of Dermatologists’ (BAD) Clinical Standards Unit, made up of the Therapy & Guidelines (T&G) subcommittee. Members of the Clinical Standards Unit are: J. Hughes (Chairman T&G), J. McLelland, S. Punjabi, D.A. Buckley, I. Nasr, V.J. Swale, C.E. Duarte Williamson, P.M. McHenry, S. Wagle (British National Formulary), S. Amin (British ...

This paper focuses upon the uncertainty of force calibration measurements at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The uncertainty of the realization of force for the national deadweight force standards at NIST is discussed, as well as the uncertainties associated with NIST's voltage-ratio measuring instruments and with the characteristics of transducers being calibrated. T...

A direct comparison was made between the air kerma primary standards used for the measurements of low-energy x rays at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Physical Laboratory (NPL). The comparison was conducted at the NPL using NPL reference radiation qualities between 10 kV and 80 kV. The results show the primary air-kerma standards to agree within 0.6 % ...