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Articles in May 2004 issue of NASA Tech Briefs

• Cooperative Lander-Surface/Aerial Microflyer Missions for Mars Exploration
• Scalable Architecture for Multihop Wireless ad Hoc Networks
• Lightweight, Flexible, Thin, Integrated Solar-Power Packs
• Improved Ball-and-Socket Docking Mechanism
• 2003 Product of the Year Awards
• Weld Quality Monitoring and Fault Detection
• Fibrous-Ceramic/Aerogel Composite Insulating Tiles
• Reduction of Phase Ambiguity in an Offset-QPSK Receiver
• Current Pulses Momentarily Enhance Thermoelectric Cooling
• Improved Cryostat for Cooling a Wide Panel
• Short-Range Microwave Data System for Smart Cards
• Time-Transfer System for Two Orbiting Spacecraft
• What's New Online
• DuPont Materials Help Keep Mars Rovers Moving
• Ambient-Light-Canceling Camera Using Subtraction of Frames
• Polyethylene Natural-Gas Valves Designed With Finite-Element Analysis
• Two-Stage Solenoid
• Software-Defined Radio Subsystem Enables Satellite Communications
• Curing Composite Materials Using Lower-Energy Electron Beams
• NASA Helps Identify Diseases Before They Strike
• Wheel Made With Engineered Plastics
• Fresnel Lenses for Wide-Aperture Optical Receivers
• Low-Temperature Plasma Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes
• Calculating Mass Diffusion in High-Pressure Binary Fluids
• One-Step Production of Multilayer Solid-Surface Material
• Chuck Jorgensen, Chief Scientist for Neuroengineering, Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
• Dual-Frequency Airborne Scanning Rain Radar Antenna System
• Higher-Order Finite Elements for Computing Thermal Radiation
• PRODUCT OF THE MONTH
• Urethane/Silicone Adhesives for Bonding Flexing Metal Parts
• Laser Sensor-Based System for Automated Inspection of Jet Engine Blades
• Eight-Channel Continuous Timer
• Increasing Accuracy in Computed Inviscid Boundary Conditions
• Radar for Monitoring Hurricanes From Geostationary Orbit
• Aluminum-Alloy-Matrix/Alumina-Reinforcement Composites
• Q&A: What is MRF technology? How is it different from other polishing techniques?
  by Tariff, Matthew
• Hand-Held Color Meters Based on Interference Filters
• Ordered Nanostructures Made Using Chaperonin Polypeptides
• Liquid Cooling for Electric Motors
• One-Step Sterilization and Packaging
• Improved Thermoplastic/Iron-Particle Transformer Cores
• FEA Software Enables Study of Tissue Ablation Dynamics
• Making the Monte Carlo Approach Easier and Faster
• Embedded Heaters for Joining or Separating Plastic Parts
• Windows®-Based Software Models Cyclic Oxidation Behavior
• Software for Analyzing Sequences of Flow-Related Images
  by Klimek, Robert; Wright, Ted
• Patents
  by Corda, Stephen; Vachon, Michael Jake; Dewberry, Brandon Scott; Varnavas, Kosta A; Et al