NASA Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports

POLYETHYLENES
Graphite/Ultra-High Modulus Polyethylene
Hybrid Fiber Composites with Epoxy
and Polyethylene Matrices for Cosmic
Radiation Shielding – 39
POLYHEDRONS
Parallelizing a High Accuracy Hardware-
Assisted Volume Renderer for Meshes
with Arbitrary Polyhedra – 186
POLYIMIDES
Polyimide/Carbon Nanotube Composite
Films for Electrostatic Charge Mitigation
– 38
Solution Based Deposition of Polymide
Ablators for NIF Capsules – 234
POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES
Assessment of Erosion Resistance of
Coated Polymer Matrix Composites for
Propulsion Applications – 37
POLYMERIC FILMS
Polyimide/Carbon Nanotube Composite
Films for Electrostatic Charge Mitigation
– 38
POLYMERS
Developments in Nanoscience: Polyhedral
Oligomeric Silsesquioxane (POSS)
-Polymers – 64
Lithium Polymer Batteries – 136
[Synthesis and Characterization of a
Sugar Based Electrolyte for Thin-film
Polymer Batteries] – 45
POLYMORPHISM
Metabolizing Enzyme 1 Polymorphisms
and Prognosis Among Women Treated
with Breast Cancer – 172
Polymorphous Computing Architecture
(PCA) Application Benchmark 1: Three-
Dimensional Radar Data Processing
– 189
POLYPROPYLENE
Dynamic Studies in Fiber Processing
– 49
POPULATIONS
Estimating the Board Foot to Cubic Foot
Ratio – 186
Human-Induced Climate Variations
Linked to Urbanization: From Observations
to Modeling – 140
POROSITY
Assembly of Functional Porous Solids in
Complex Hybrid Composites – 40
Characterization of C/Enhanced SiC
Composite During Creep-Rupture Tests
Using an Ultrasonic Guided Wave Scan
System – 41
Nanophase and Composite Optical Materials
– 39
Pore Formation and Mobility Investigation
(PFMI): Concept, Hardware Development
and Initial Analysis of Experiments
– 57
POROUS MATERIALS
Assembly of Functional Porous Solids in
Complex Hybrid Composites – 40
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POROUS SILICON
Porous Silicon Coated With Ultrathin
Diamond-Like Carbon Film Cathodes
– 33
PORTABLE EQUIPMENT
Field-Portable X-Ray Fluorescence (FP-
XRF) Determinations of Metals in Post-
Blast Ordnance Residues – 53
POSITION (LOCATION)
A Novel Wave Front Method Used for
Tracking Terrestrial Concentrator Focal
Spot Location – 257
Electromagnetic Propagation, Localization
and Lasing in Random and Periodic
Media – 244
Jet Noise Source Localization Using Linear
Phased Array – 89
POSITRONS
Compact Positron Tomograph for Prostate
Imaging – 169
POTABLE WATER
Information Strategic Plan: Modernizing
the Safe Drinking Water Information System
for the Public Water System Supervision
Program – 183
POTENTIAL FIELDS
FAST/Polar Conjunction Study of Field-
Aligned Auroral Acceleration and Corresponding
Magnetotail Drivers – 142
POTENTIAL FLOW
An Overview of the Materials Science
Research at the Marshall Space Flight
Center Electrostatic Levitator Facility and
Recent CDDF Efforts – 93
POWDER METALLURGY
Advanced NDE Techniques for Powder
Metal Components – 56
POWDER (PARTICLES)
Advanced NDE Techniques for Powder
Metal Components – 56
Densification of nanocrystalline powders.
Field Activated Sintering of Tantalum nanopowders
– 50
Friction Stir Welding of GR-Cop 84 for
Combustion Chamber Liners – 119
POWER CONDITIONING
Measurements of the Radiated Fields
and Conducted Current Leakage from
the Pulsed Power Systems in the National
Ignition Facility at LLNL – 234
POWER LOSS
Radiative Power Loss Calculations for
Krypton and Argon in Intermediate-to-
High Density Plasmas – 237
PREDICTIONS
An Automated Method of Predicting
Clear-Air Turbulence – 6
Predicting Catastrophic BGP Routing Instabilities
– 197
Understanding, Predicting, and Reducing
Appointment No-Shows in a Military
Medical Treatment Facility – 168
PREFORMS
Friction Stir Welding of GR-Cop 84 for
Combustion Chamber Liners – 119
PREGNANCY
Intrauterine Pressure (IUP) Telemetry in
Pregnant and Parturient Rats: Potential
Applications for Spacecraft and Centrifugation
Studies – 160
Pregnancy and Parenthood: Results of
the 2001 Survey – 166
Re-Adaptation to 1-G of Pregnant Rats
Following Exposure to Spaceflight or
Centrifugation – 159
PREPROCESSING
Software for Preprocessing Data from
Rocket-Engine Tests – 156
PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION
Energy Release Rate in a Constrained
Polymeric Disk under Internal Pressure
and Thermal Loads – 242
Underexpanded Screeching Jets From
Circular, Rectangular, and Elliptic
Nozzles – 141
PRESSURE MEASUREMENT
Accuracy and Precision in the Southern
Hemisphere Additional Ozonesondes
(SHADOZ) Dataset 1998-2000 in Light of
the JOSIE-2000 Results – 143
PRESSURE SENSORS
Fibre Optic Hydrophone Array Evaluation
of Technique and Possibilitites – 79
PRESSURE VESSELS
Characterization of Nanostructural Features
in Irradiated Reactor Pressure Vessel
Model Alloys – 58
PRESSURE
Differential Velocity between Solar Wind
Protons and Alpha Particles in Pressure
Balance Structures – 144
PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTIONS
EUPDF-II: An Eulerian Joint Scalar
Monte Carlo PDF Module : User’s
Manual – 91
PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION FUNC-
TIONS
Grid-Search Location Methods for
Ground-Truth Collection from Local and
Regional Seismic Networks – 185
PROBABILITY THEORY
CO(2)-Laser Polishing for Reduction of
351-nm Surface Damage Initiation in
Fused Silica – 253
Deriving Laws from Ordering Relations
– 229
Stochastic Control Synthesis of Systems
with Structured Uncertainty – 223
PROBLEM SOLVING
Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element
Method for Parabolic Problems – 186
Unifying Temporal and Structural Credit
Assignment Problems – 181
PROCEDURES
NASA’s Productivity Improvement and
Quality Enhancement Initiatives – 267