NASA Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports

conditions that can be assembled into a model describing the conditions required to accomplish the transfer of objects. This
included a review and documentation of quantum teleportation, its theoretical basis, technological development, and its
potential applications. The characteristics of teleportation were defined and physical theories were evaluated in terms of their
ability to completely describe the phenomena. Contemporary physics, as well as theories that presently challenge the current
physics paradigm were investigated. The author identified and proposed two unique physics models for teleportation that are
based on the manipulation of either the general relativistic spacetime metric or the spacetime vacuum electromagnetic
(zero-point fluctuations) parameters. Naturally occurring anomalous teleportation phenomena that were previously studied by
the USA and foreign governments were also documented in the study and are reviewed in the report. The author proposes an
additional model for teleportation that is based on a combination of the experimental results from the previous government
studies and advanced physics concepts. Numerous recommendations outlining proposals for further theoretical and
experimental studies are given in the report. The report also includes an extensive teleportation bibliography.
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Data Processing; Quantum Theory
20040111611 National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, Washington, DC
Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science: Proceedings of an International
Symposium
Esanu, Julie M.; Uhlir, Paul F.; Jan. 2004; 184 pp.; In English
Report No.(s): AD-A425700; No Copyright; Avail: CASI; A09, Hardcopy
Data and information produced by government-funded, public-interest science is a global public good caught between two
different trends. On the one hand, the Internet provides valuable new opportunities for overcoming geographic limitations and
the promise of unprecedented open access to public information for research on a global basis. On the other hand, there are
growing restrictions on the availability and use of public data and information arising from the privatization and
commercialization of such sources. This countervailing trend undermines the traditional scientific cooperative and sharing
ethos. It diminishes the public domain and open access to such global public goods and leads to a host of lost opportunity costs
at both the national and international levels. To address these issues the International Council for Science (ICSU), the United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the U.S. National Academies, the Committee on Data
for Science and Technology (CODATA), and the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) jointly
organized this symposium, which was held on March 10-11, 2003, at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The symposium brought
together policy experts and managers from the government and academic sectors in both developed and developing countries
to do the following: (1) describe the role, value, and limits that the public domain and open access to digital data and
information have in the context of international research; (2) identify and analyze the various legal, economic, and
technological pressures on the public domain in digital data and information and their potential effects on international
research; and (3) review the existing and proposed approaches for preserving and promoting the public domain and open
access to scientific and technical data and information on a global basis, with particular attention to the needs of developing
countries.
DTIC
Conferences; Developing Nations; Digital Data; Information Retrieval
20040111688 Florida Univ., Gainesville, FL
Interpreting the Embedded Media Experience: A Qualitative Study of Military-Media Relations During the War in
Iraq
Westover, David S., Jr; May 2004; 90 pp.; In English
Report No.(s): AD-A425831; CI04-390; No Copyright; Avail: CASI; A05, Hardcopy
The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine how the U.S. Department of Defense’s embedded media policy
affected relations between the U. S. military and the American media during the War in Iraq. Based on 13 in-depth interviews,
four main themes of trust, understanding, access, and exchange emerged from the data, drawing several theoretical
connections to the relationship theory of public relations. Additionally, the media representatives in this study collectively
identified and labeled some of the same key elements that public relations scholars have been using to define, measure, and
maintain organization-public relationships over the past several years.
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Armed Forces (United States); Embedding; Iraq; Public Relations; Warfare
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