NASA Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports

ABBREVIATIONS
MSFC Space Station Program Commonly
Used Acronyms and Abbreviations
Listing – 279
ABDOMEN
Effects of Hindlimb Unweighting on Arterial
Contractile Responses in
Mice – 159
ABLATION
Laser-Induced Back-Ablation of Aluminum
Thin Films using Picosecond Laser
Pulses – 252
ABLATIVE MATERIALS
Solution Based Deposition of Polymide
Ablators for NIF Capsules – 234
Subscale Testing of Nozzle Ablative Materials
in a Supersonic Particle Impingement
Environment – 31
ABSORPTIVITY
Portable Instrument to Measure CDOM
Light Absorption in Aquatic Systems:
WPI Success Story – 103
ABUNDANCE
The Abundance and Isotopic Composition
of Hg in Extraterrestrial Materials
– 328
ACCELERATION (PHYSICS)
FAST/Polar Conjunction Study of Field-
Aligned Auroral Acceleration and Corresponding
Magnetotail Drivers – 142
ACCELEROMETERS
Angular and Linear Velocity Estimation
for a Re-Entry Vehicle Using Six Distributed
Accelerometers: Theory, Simulation
and Feasibility – 19
Animal Noise Monitor: Assessment of
Accelerometers for Determining Animal
Behavior – 140
ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION
CFD Support for STS-107 Ascent Investigation
– 87
Material Modeling of Space Shuttle
Leading Edge and External Tank Materials
For Use in the Columbia Accident
Investigation – 123
Meteorology and Wake Vortex Influence
on American Airlines FL-587 Accident
– 5
Test and Analysis Correlation of Form
Impact onto Space Shuttle Wing Leading
Edge RCC Panel 8 – 124
The Use of LS-DYNA in the Columbia
Accident Investigation and Return to
Flight Activities – 124
ACCRETION DISKS
An Accretion Model for the Growth of
Black Hole in Quasars – 315
Subject Term Index
Discovery of a Three-Layered Atmospheric
Structure in Accretion Disks
around Stellar-Mass Black Holes – 322
Evidence of Spin and Energy Extraction
in a Galactic Black Hole Candidate: The
XMM-NEWTON/EPIC SPECTRUM of
XTE 11650-500 – 310
Relativistic Effects on X-Ray Emission
from Accretion Disk around Black
Holes – 320
Studying the Accretion Disks in Black
Hole X-Ray Binaries with Monte-Carlo
Simulations – 312
The Dynamical Influence of a Planet at
Semimajor Axis 3.4 A on the Dust around
Epsilon Eridani – 297
Three-Layered Atmospheric Structure in
Accretion Disks Around Stellar-Mass
Black Holes – 295
ACCURACY
Nulling Infrared Radiometer for Measuring
Temperature – 104
Parallelizing a High Accuracy Hardware-
Assisted Volume Renderer for Meshes
with Arbitrary Polyhedra – 186
ACOUSTIC EMISSION
Acoustically-Driven
tems – 88
Microfluidic Sys-
Stimulus-Frequency Otoacoustic Emissions:
Validity and Reliability of SFOAES
Implemented on Mimosa Acoustics
SFOAE Measurement System
V2.1.18 – 162
ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE
Design and Evaluation of Modifications
to the NASA Langley Flow Impedance
Tube – 245
ACOUSTIC PROPAGATION
Characterization of Unsteady Flow Structures
Near Landing-Edge Slat – 96
Investigation of Volumetric Sources in
Airframe Noise Simulations – 245
ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES
A Deconvolution Approach for the Mapping
of Acoustic Sources (DAMAS) Determined
from Phased Microphone Arrays
– 241
Toward Improving the Efficiency and Realism
of Coupled Meteorological Acoustic
Computer Models for the Forest
Canopy – 151
ACOUSTIC SCATTERING
Quasi-Wavelet Calculations of Sound
Scattering Behind Barriers – 95
ACOUSTIC SIMULATION
Filtering in Hybrid Dynamic Bayesian
Networks – 184
ACOUSTICS
Distributed Surveillance Sensor Network
– 247
Dynamic Analysis of a Building Under
Rocket Engine Plume Acoustic
Load – 124
Methods of Measuring Lock-In Strength
and their Application to the Case of Flow
over a Cavity Locking into a Single Side
Branch Resonator – 88
Stimulus-Frequency Otoacoustic Emissions:
Validity and Reliability of SFOAES
Implemented on Mimosa Acoustics
SFOAE Measurement System
V2.1.18 – 162
Toward Improving the Efficiency and Realism
of Coupled Meteorological Acoustic
Computer Models for the Forest
Canopy – 151
ACOUSTO-OPTICS
Fibre Optic Hydrophone Array Evaluation
of Technique and Possibilitites – 79
ACQUISITION
Productivity Improvement in the Acquisition
Environment – 272
ACTIVE CONTROL
Integration of Oxford Class Cryocoolers
with Thermal Detectors – 77
ACTIVE GALAXIES
Far-Infrared and Submillimeter Spectroscopy
of Low to Moderate Redshift Normal
and Active Galaxies – 305
ACTUATORS
An Investigation of Flow Acceleration and
Electromagnetic Absorption Phenomena
Induced by Paraelectric and Peristaltic
Electrohydrodynamic Effects of the One
Atmosphere Uniform Glow Discharge
Plasma – 3
Improved Electrohydraulic Linear Actuators
– 104
Manipulation of Microenvironment with a
Built-in Electrochemical Actuator in Proximity
of a Dissolved Oxygen Microsensor
– 110
On the Use of Electrically Stimulated
Muscle as a Controlled Actuator of a
Limb – 243
ADAPTATION
Intrauterine Pressure (IUP) Telemetry in
Pregnant and Parturient Rats: Potential
Applications for Spacecraft and Centrifugation
Studies – 160
Re-Adaptation to 1-G of Pregnant Rats
Following Exposure to Spaceflight or
Centrifugation – 159
The Relationship Between Detection Algorithms
for Hyperspectral and Radar
Applications – 72
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