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Articles in Oct 2003 issue of NASA Tech Briefs

• Product of the month
• Software for displaying data from planetary rovers
  by Powell, Mark
• Finite-element methods for real-time simulation of surgery
  by Basdogan, Cagatay
• Switching and rectification in carbon-nanotube junctions
  by Srivastava, Deepak
• ICCD camera enables PLIF technique for fuel visualization in engines
  by Levine, Evelyn Roberts
• Software helps retrieve information relevant to the user
  by Mathe, Nathalie
• Using correlated photons to suppress background noise
  by Jackson, Deborah
• Cloverleaf vibratory microgyroscope with integrated post
  by Tang, Tony K
• A reference design for a rapidIO end point
  by Connolly, Dave
• Continuous tuning and calibration of vibratory gyroscopes
  by Hayworth, Ken
• Dr. David Hathaway, solar physicist, and Paul Meyer, athmospheric scientist, Marshall Space Flight Center
  by Hathaway, David
• Flight test of an intelligent flight-control system
  by Davidson, Ron
• Compact, pneumatically actuated filter shuttle
  by Leighty, Bradley D
• Micro-Arcsecond Metrology testbed, The
  by Goullioud, Renaud
• Microgyroscope with vibrating post as rotation transducer
  by Tang, Tony K
• Cryogenic temperature-gradient foam/substrate tensile tester
  by Vailhe, Christophe
• Toroidal-core microinductors biased by permanent magnets
  by Lieneweg, Udo
• Improved bearingless switched-reluctance motor
  by Morrison, Carlos R
• Flight software directs and controls Mars rover
• System for testing thermal insulation of pipes
  by Fesmire, James E
• NASA software helps fight forest fires
• Scanning tunneling optical resonance microscopy
  by Bailey, Sheila
• Scandia-and-yttria-stabilized zirconia for thermal barriers
  by Mess, Derek
• Growing three-dimensional corneal tissue in a bioreactor
  by Spaulding, Glen F
• Motors enable Mars rover instruments
• Software for planning scientific activities on Mars
  by Ai-Chang, Mitchell
• Atmospheric-fade-tolerant tracking and pointing in wireless optical communication
  by Ortiz, Gerardo
• Software for diagnosis of multiple coordinated spacecraft
  by Barrett, Anthony
• Detecting moving targets by use of soliton resonances
  by Zak, Michael
• Slat heater boxes for thermal vacuum testing
  by Ungar, Eugene
• Curved focal-plane arrays using back-illuminated high-purity photodetectors
  by Nikzad, Shouleh
• Technologies of the month
• Environmentally safer, less toxic fire-extinguishing agents
  by Parrish, Clyde F
• Fluorescent quantum dots for biological labeling
  by McDonald, Gene
• Brushless DC rotary motor improves efficiency in fuel cell applications
• Simulation system for training in laparoscopic surgery
  by Basdogan, Cagatay
• Infrared camera software realizes spatial and temporal radiometric data
  by Cromwell, Brian
• Software for training in pre-college mathematics
  by Shelton, Robert O
• Software for refining or coarsening computational grids
  by Daines, Russell
• Single-Vector Calibration of wind-tunnel force balances
  by Parker, P A
• Improved autoassociative neural networks
  by Hand, Charles
• Flasher powered by photovoltaic cells and ultracapacitors
  by Eichenberg, Dennis J
• NASA names co-winners for Software of the Year
• Electrical-impedance-based ice-thickness gauges
  by Weinstein, Leonard
• Software for simulating a complex robot
  by Goza, S Michael
• Multiaxial temperature- and time-dependent failure model
  by Richardson, David