NASA Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports

PROTOCOL (COMPUTERS)
Analysis of Network Management Protocols
in Optical Networks – 206
Denial of Service Attacks on 802.1X Security
Protocol – 197
Innovative Active Networking Services
– 205
Network Protocols for Mobile Robot Systems
– 199
Predicting Catastrophic BGP Routing Instabilities
– 197
Protocols for Robot Communications:
Transport and Content Layers – 209
Study of Wireless Transmission Protocol
Technology for Use in Flight Line Environment
to Assist the Data Loading and
Downloading on Aircraft – 17
PROTONS
Differential Velocity between Solar Wind
Protons and Alpha Particles in Pressure
Balance Structures – 144
Extraction Kickers and Modulators for the
Advanced Hydrodynamic Facility – 235
High Performance Oxygen Electrodes for
PEM Fuel Cells – 135
PROTOPLANETARY DISKS
Disk Dispersal Around Young
Stars – 292
PROTOPLANETS
Production of Star-Grazing and Star-
Impacting Planetestimals via Orbital Migration
of Extrasolar Planets – 295
PROTOTYPES
Development of Superconducting Focusing
Quadrupoles for Heavy Ion Drivers
– 236
Ideal Integrating Bolometer – 114
Lab Test of a Prototype HMMWV Air
Filter Element Constructed With Microstructured
Oriented Fiber (MOF) Filter
Media – 206
Multiple Cell Common Pressure Vessel
Nickel-Hydrogen Battery – 134
Sunpower Cooling Solutions – 76
PSYCHOLOGY
May 2003 Status of Forces Survey of
Reserve Component Members: Tabulations
of Responses – 281
PUBLIC HEALTH
Global Climate Change and California:
Potential Implications for Ecosystems,
Health, and the Economy – 148
PULSARS
Changes in the X-Ray Emission from the
Magnetar Candidate 1E 2259+586 During
its 2002 Outburst – 334
Revealing the X-Ray Emission Processes
of Old Rotation-Powered Pulsars:
XMM-Newton Observations of PSR
B0950+08, PSR B0823+26 and PSR
J2043+2740 – 293
RXTE and BATSE Observations of the
Recent Outbursts of 2S 1417-624 – 316
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PULSE DETONATION ENGINES
Experiments with a PDE Using Multiple
Injection – 30
PULSE DURATION
Measurements of the Radiated Fields
and Conducted Current Leakage from
the Pulsed Power Systems in the National
Ignition Facility at LLNL – 234
PULSED LASERS
Atmospheric Photo Ionization of Argon
with a Short Pulse Laser – 144
PUPILS
Pupil Plane Array Based Millimeter-Wave
Imaging Radiometer – 84
PURIFICATION
Biotechnology Protein Expression and
Purification Facility – 161
Succinonitrile Purification Facility – 62
PYLONS
Jet-Pylon Interaction of High Bypass Ratio
Separate Flow Nozzle Configurations
– 246
PYROELECTRICITY
Thermopile Detector Arrays for Space
Science Applications – 287
PYROLYSIS
Identification of Selected Fibers by
Pyrolysis-Gas Chromatography-Mass
Spectrometry – 49
PYROTECHNICS
Development of a Fatigue Crack Growth
Coupon for Highly Plastic Stress Conditions
– 122
PYRUVATES
Function of Several Critical Amino Acids
in Human Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Revealed
by Its Structure – 157
Structural Biology of Proteins of the
Multi-enzyme Assembly Human Pyruvate
Dehydrogenase Complex – 66
Q FACTORS
Optical Processes in High-Q Semiconductor
Microcavities – 256
QUADRUPOLES
Development of Superconducting Focusing
Quadrupoles for Heavy Ion Drivers
– 236
Longitudinal Quadrupole Instability and
Control in the Frascati DAphiNE Electron
Ring – 233
QUALITY CONTROL
Committing to Excellence – 268
Modernization in Aerospace – 273
NASA’s Productivity Improvement and
Quality Enhancement Initiatives – 267
Quality in Practice at IBM – 269
smesh User’s Guide – 182
QUALITY
Introduction to NASA Symposium on
Productivity and Quality – 268
QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS
Urban Air Toxics Monitoring Program
(UATMP), 2002 – 137
QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS
High pT Physics at RHIC – 239
Lattice QCD at Finite Temperature and
Density – 239
QUANTUM COMPUTATION
Experimental Demonstration of Quantum
Lattice Gas Computation – 221
Quantum Scattering Study of Ro-
Vibrational Excitations in N+N(sub 2)
Collisions
tions – 215
under Re-entry Condi-
Superconducting Qubits for Quantum
Computation – 84
QUANTUM DOTS
AlGaN/InGaN Nitride Based Modulation
Doped Field Effect Transistor – 84
QUANTUM EFFICIENCY
Entangled States, Holography, and
Quantum Surfaces – 238
Ultimate Sensitivity of Superconducting
Single-Photon Detectors in the Visible to
Infrared Range – 98
QUANTUM ELECTRONICS
Superconducting Qubits for Quantum
Computation – 84
QUANTUM OPTICS
Joint Services Optics Program
Reasearch in the Optical Sciences – 84
MURI Fellow on Quantum Information
Technology: Entanglement, Teleportation,
and Quantum Memory – 257
QUANTUM THEORY
A Quantum Computer for Shor’s Algorithm
– 222
Experimental Demonstration of Quantum
Lattice Gas Computation – 221
Intersubband Light Emission Type II Heterostructures
– 46
QUANTUM WELLS
Optical Processes in High-Q Semiconductor
Microcavities – 256
QUARKS
High pT Physics at RHIC – 239
RX J1856.5-3754: A Strange Star with
Solid Quark Surface? – 314
QUASARS
An Accretion Model for the Growth of
Black Hole in Quasars – 315
An Accretion Model for the Growth of the
Central Black Holes Associated with Ionization
Instability in Quasars – 315
The Growth of Central Black Hole and
the Ionization Instability of Quasar
Disk – 320
The Physics of AGN, a Deep Understanding
of the Quasar 3C 273 – 333