http://www.ntis.gov/rss/RSSNTISCategoryList.aspxNational Technical Reports Libraryen(c) 2008, National Technical Information Service. All rights reserved.5http://www.ntis.gov/images/logoRSS.jpghttp://www.ntis.govThis report describes sample design, sample selection, weighting, and variance estimation procedures for the 2008 Post-Election Voting Survey of Department of State Voting Assistance Officers. The first section of this report describes the design and ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA504031This report describes sample design, sample selection, weighting, and variance estimation procedures for the 2008 Post-Election Voting Survey of Federal Civilians Overseas. The first section of this report describes the design and selection of sample ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA504035This report describes sample design, sample selection, weighting, and variance estimation procedures for the 2008 Post-Election Voting Survey of Local Election Officials. The first section of this report describes the design and selection of sample. ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA504028This report describes sample design, sample selection, weighting, and variance estimation procedures for the 2008 Post-Election Voting Survey of Overseas Citizens. The first section of this report describes the design and selection of sample. The sec ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA504033This report describes sample design, sample selection, weighting, and variance estimation procedures for the 2008 Post-Election Voting Survey of Uniformed Service Members. The first section of this report describes the design and selection of sample. ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA504034This report describes sample design, sample selection, weighting, and variance estimation procedures for the 2008 Post-Election Voting Survey of Unit Voting Assistance Officers. The first section of this report describes the design and selection of s ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA504027The primary objective of this paper is to develop an adaptive bilateral impedance control method for a team of mobile robotic agents, which implements formation control, cooperative grasping force compensation, and operator induced error compensation ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505730Increasingly large and severe wildfires threaten millions of forested acres throughout the West. Under certain conditions, mechanical thinning can address these hazardous conditions while providing opportunities to create renewable energy and reduce ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010101393A thermal test overview of the Constellation Environmental Qualification and Acceptance Test Requirement (CEQATR) is presented. The contents include: (1) CEQATR Thermal Test Overview; (2) CxP Environments; (3) CEQATR Table 1.2-1; (4) Levels of Assemb ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=N20090029355We report the status of ongoing activities in development of a compact, low-power atomic time/frequency standard, the Chip-Scale Atomic Clock (CSAC). The status of efforts addressing the refinement of the CSAC for improved mechanical and environmenta ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505746The ability to recognize the encountered terrain is an essential part of any terrain-dependent control system designed for mobile robots. Terrains such as sand and gravel make vehicle mobility more difficult and thus reduce vehicle performance. To al ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505696A transducer with a closed heat pipe is provided with a hot surface and a cold surface. The hot surface is in contact with the transducer interior and the cold surface is in contact with a cooler contact area. A fluid is used in the pipe which boils ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADD020410Prescribed burning may be conducted at times of the year when fires were infrequent historically, leading to concerns about potential adverse effects on vegetation and wildlife. Historical and prescribed fire regimes for different regions in the cont ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010101392Transmission and scanning electron microscopy studies of tungsten disulphide nanomaterials revealed nanotubes and onion-like structures. An electron diffraction pattern confirmed the lattice image of this nanotube. The tungsten disulphide nanomateria ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505368The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health(NIOSH) is the Public Health Service organization within the CDC that has primary responsibility for conducting epidemiologic and clinical investigations of occupational diseases and injuries. ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010101025The proposed Occupational Safety and Health Administration health standards define an exposure measurement action level as one half of the permissible exposure limit currently found in 29 CFR 1910.1000, Tables Z-1, Z-2, and Z-3. The action level is t ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010101022In February 2008, the Robotics Program Office of the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and General Dynamics Robotics Systems (GDRS) conducted an assessment of path planning technologies designed to improve Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) autonomous mobilit ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505693This project was an implementation of research conducted under TxDOT Research Project 0-4124 on the use of post-installed shear connectors to develop composite action in existing non-composite steel bridge girder systems. In this implementation study ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010101368This report describes the findings of the third phase of the project sponsored by the United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority on 'Minimum Color Vision Requirements for Professional Flight Crew.' This third part of the project, 'Recommendations for Ne ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505840The effective use of multiple Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) in an indoor environment can be challenging due to the several environmental and technical constraints. It becomes more challenging when a single operator is required to manage more than o ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505704Chapter 1: Distributed Detection of Attacks/Intrusions and Prevention of Resource-Starvation Attacks in Mobile Ad Hoc Network by Jong Kim and Kang G. Shin; Chapter 2: Electronic, Photonic and Magnetic Properties of Modified DNAs Complexed with Heavy ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505628This Packaging Review Guide (PRG) provides guidance for Department of Energy (DOE) review and approval of packagings to transport fissile and Type B quantities of radioactive material. It fulfills, in part, the requirements of DOE Order 460.1B for th ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010102064In an effort to identify the benefits of using optimized aggregate gradation (OAG) in paving concrete, three test sections were constructed; each in Wichita Falls (US287 northbound), Fort Worth (SH114B northbound), and Dallas (SH121 westbound) Distri ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010101369The Producer Price Index (PPI) of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is a family of indexes that measure the average change over time in the prices received by domestic producers of goods and services. PPIs measure price change from the perspective ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010101784Self-reconfigurable modular robots are metamorphic systems that can autonomously change their logical or physical configurations (such as shapes, sizes, or formations), as well as their locomotion and manipulation, based on the mission and the enviro ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505687This report documents Part I of a study on the interaction between shock waves and material systems as part of a U.S. Army initiative to better protect individual Soldiers against novel blast threats. The research was conducted using a shock tube fab ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA506204At 1:33 pm on December 19, 2007, a powerful explosion and subsequent chemical fire killed four employees and destroyed T2 Laboratories, Inc. (T2), a chemical manufacturer in Jacksonville, Florida. It injured 32, including four employees and 28 member ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010101603Considering the interest in and challenges of using ceramic matrix composites, a full understanding of the physical properties is needed to continue to move the technology forward. A property of interest to the design process is the through thickness ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505960Advanced laser stabilization techniques now permit one to lock laser frequencies onto line centers of natural atomic/molecular resonances with unprecedented precision and accuracy, leading to improved visible optical frequency standards. A novel appr ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505521The use of explosives at military installations has and does provide environmental concerns through soil and groundwater contamination, even after training or manufacturing activities have ceased. The concentration of munitions constituents in ground ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505748In general, it has long been known that the hardness of ceramics correlates with gross impact performance, however, not to a degree useful for materials development. Wilkins, Cline and Honodel, 1969, were the first to point out the apparent importanc ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505731