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Specifications

Here are entered works on the particular qualities prescribed for a product to meet specific requirements.

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• Testing
• Grading
• Standardization

• Bridges -- Specifications
• Building, Wooden -- Specifications
• Buildings -- Specifications
• Computer systems -- Specifications

• Contract Documents for the Construction of the Substructure of the Henry Hudson Bridge: Contract #1 at Harlem River Ship Canal in the Boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx, New York City (1935), by Henry Hudson Parkway Authority (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contract Documents for the Construction of the Superstructure of the Henry Hudson Bridge: Contract #2 at Harlem River Ship Canal in the Boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx, New York City (1935), by Henry Hudson Parkway Authority (page images at HathiTrust)

• Details for Conventional Wood Frame Construction (c2001), by American Wood Council (PDF at awc.org)

• Southwest Contractor and Manufacturer (partial serial archives)

• Specifying Systems: The TLA+ Language and Tools for Hardware and Software Engineers (Boston et al.: Addison-Wesley, c2003), by Leslie Lamport (PDF with commentary at awurewebsites.net)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Your Money's Worth: A Study in the Waste of the Consumer's Dollar (New York: Macmillan, 1927), by Stuart Chase and F. J. Schlink (HTML and page images at LOC)

• Accelerated Aging: Photochemical and Thermal Aspects (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 1994), by Robert L. Feller (PDF and page images at getty.edu and Google)

• Psychological Studies in Dementia Praecox (Ann Arbor: Edwards Bros., 1940), by Isabelle Kendig and Winifred V. Richmond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Performance Tests for Children of Pre-School Age (Genetic Psychology Monographs v1 #1; 1926), by Rachel S. Ball (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Analysis of Stress and Deformation (sixth printing, 1991), by G. W. Housner and Thad Vreeland (PDF with commentary at Caltech)

• Wind Tunnel Investigation of the Interaction and Breakdown Characteristics of Slender-Wing Vortices at Subsonic, Transonic, and Supersonic Speeds (NASA Technical Paper 3114; 1991), by Gary E. Erickson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Understanding Your Aptitudes (updated successor to Trembly's "Learning to Use Your Aptitudes"; 2011), by Johnson O'Connor Research Foundation, contrib. by Dean Trembly (PDF with commentary at jocrf.org)
• Assessment of Men: Selection of Personnel for the Office of Strategic Services (New York: Rinehart and Co., c1948), by United States Office of Strategic Services (page images at HathiTrust)
• Born That Way (Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins Co., 1928), by Johnson O'Connor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Functional Periodicity: An Experimental Study of the Mental and Motor Abilities of Women During Menstruation (1914), by Leta Stetter Hollingworth (HTML at York)

• Studies in Aphasia: An Approach to Testing: Manual of Administration and Scoring for the Language Modalities Test for Aphasia (1961), by Joseph M. Wepman and Lyle V. Jones (page images at HathiTrust)

• Test-Driven Development With Python, by Harry Percival (illustrated HTML with commentary at obeythetestinggoat.com)

• Police Body Armor Standards and Testing (2 volumes, OTA-ISC-534 and OTA-ISC-535; 1992), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I (main report): PDF at Georgetown
  • Volume II (Appendixes): PDF at fas.org

• Police Body Armor Standards and Testing (2 volumes, OTA-ISC-534 and OTA-ISC-535; 1992), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I (main report): PDF at Georgetown
  • Volume II (Appendixes): PDF at fas.org

• Test of a Highway Bridge (U-Illinois bachelors thesis; 1911), by Howard William Kaar and Henry Pearson Kettron
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Review of Systemization of the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (1996), by National Research Council Board on Army Science and Technology (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Engineering Properties of Clay Shales, Report 2: Residual Shear Strength and Classification Indexes of Clay Shales (Vicksburg, MS: Dept. of Defense, Dept. of the Army, Corps of Engineers, Waterways Experiment Station, Soils and Pavements Laboratory, 1974), by Frank C. Townsend and Paul A. Gilbert (page images at HathiTrust)

• .NET Performance Testing and Optimization: The Complete Guide (c2010), by Paul Glavich and Chris Farrell (PDF with commentary at red-gate.com)
• The CUTGroup: Civic User Testing Group as a New Model for UX Testing, Digital Skills Development, and Community Engagement in Civic Tech (Chicago: Smart Chicago Collaborative, 2014), by Daniel X. O'Neil (HTML with commentary at cutgroupbook.org)

• Maintenance and Preservation of Concrete Structures (Technical Report C-78-4, 3 volumes; 1978-1980), by Tony C. Liu, Edward F. O'Neil, and J. E. McDonald
  • all 3 reports: page images at OCLC
  • Report 1 (Annotated Bibliography, 1927-1977; may be mislabeled as report 2): page images at HathiTrust
  • Report 2 (Repair of Erosion-Damaged Structures): page images at HathiTrust
  • Report 3 (Abrasion-Erosion Resistance of Concrete): page images at HathiTrust

• Chemical Testing of Milk and Cream (USDA Bureau of Animal Industry A-7; Washington: GPO, 1916), by Roscoe H. Shaw
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Postmarketing Surveillance of Prescription Drugs (1982), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton
• Drug Bioequivalence (1974), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Testing Drugs for Physical Dependence Potential and Abuse Liability, ed. by Joseph V. Brady and Scott E. Lukas (PDF at NIH)

• Mécanisme de la Physionomie Humaine: ou, Analyse Électro-Physiologique de L'Expression des Passions (2 volumes in French; Paris: Ve Jules Renouard, 1862), by G.-B. Duchenne, contrib. by Charles Darwin
  • main volume (owned by Charles Darwin): multiple formats at archive.org
  • handwritten page in Darwin's volume: multiple formats at archive.org
  • atlas volume (no title page; not a copy known to be owned by Darwin): multiple formats at archive.org
• Mécanisme de la Physionomie Humaine: ou, Analyse Électro-Physiologique de L'Expression des Passions (second edition; 2 volumes in French; Paris: J. B. Balliere et fils, 1876), by G.-B. Duchenne
  • main volume: multiple formats at Google
  • atlas volume: multiple formats at Google

• Rheological Methods in Food Process Engineering (second edition, 1996), by James Freeman Steffe (PDF at MSU)

• The CUTGroup: Civic User Testing Group as a New Model for UX Testing, Digital Skills Development, and Community Engagement in Civic Tech (Chicago: Smart Chicago Collaborative, 2014), by Daniel X. O'Neil (HTML with commentary at cutgroupbook.org)

• Handbook for the Therapeutic Use of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide-25: Individual and Group Procedures (1959), by D. B. Blewett and N Chwelos (PDF at maps.org)

• Accelerated Aging: Photochemical and Thermal Aspects (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 1994), by Robert L. Feller (PDF and page images at getty.edu and Google)

• Measuring What Counts: A Conceptual Guide for Mathematics Assessment (1993), by National Research Council Mathematical Sciences Education Board (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Measuring Up: Prototypes for Mathematics Assessment, by National Research Council Mathematical Sciences Education Board (page images and partial Hypercard at NAP)

• Assessing the Efficacy and Safety of Medical Technologies (1978), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• A Theory for the Effect of Mean Stress on Fatigue of Metals Under Combined Torsion and Axial Load or Bending (1958), by William N. Findley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Chemical Testing of Milk and Cream (USDA Bureau of Animal Industry A-7; Washington: GPO, 1916), by Roscoe H. Shaw
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Milk-Analysis: A Practical Treatise on the Examination of Milk and its Derivatives, Cream, Butter, and Cheese (London: Trübner and Co., 1874), by J. Alfred Wanklyn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Milk-Analysis: A Practical Treatise on the Examination of Milk and its Derivatives, Cream, Butter, and Cheese (New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1874), by J. Alfred Wanklyn (page images at Cornell)

• Blast Tests of Expedient Shelters in the DICE THROW Event (Oak Ridge, TN: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1978), by Cresson H. Kearny and Conrad V. Chester (page images at HathiTrust)

• SPERT III Thermowell Failure and Replacement (Idaho Falls, ID: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Idaho Operations Office, 1962), by R. E. Heffner, Stephen Walter Gleave, and J. A. Norberg (page images at HathiTrust)

• Project Trinity, 1945-1946, by Carl R. Maag and Steve Rohrer (Gutenberg text)

• The Analytical Distillation of Petroleum and its Products (Bureau of Mines bulletin #207; Washington: GPO, 1922), by E. W. Dean, H. H. Hill, N. A. C. Smith, and Walter A. Jacobs (page images at HathiTrust)

• Flotation of a North Carolina Pyrophyllite Ore (Washington: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1950), by F. D. Lamb and John Ruppert (page images at HathiTrust)

• Engineering Properties of Clay Shales, Report 2: Residual Shear Strength and Classification Indexes of Clay Shales (Vicksburg, MS: Dept. of Defense, Dept. of the Army, Corps of Engineers, Waterways Experiment Station, Soils and Pavements Laboratory, 1974), by Frank C. Townsend and Paul A. Gilbert (page images at HathiTrust)

• Understanding and Managing Irrigated Acid Sulfate and Salt-Affected Soils: A Handbook for the Lower Murray Reclaimed Irrigation Area (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2017), by R. W. Fitzpatrick, Luke Mosley, and Freeman J. Cook (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)

• Phosphorus Diffusion Conditions for Shallow-Junction Solar Cells (NASA technical note D-5629, 1970), by Harold E. Kautz (page images at HathiTrust)

• Digest of Steels for High Temperature Service (sixth edition; 1957), by Timken Roller Bearing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Digest of Steels for High Temperature Service (fifth edition; 1946), by Timken Roller Bearing Company (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.