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5,883 papers · NASA NTRS, NTSB, FAA CAMI
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- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2018 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Book Review: Fundamentals of International Aviation
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- Semantic Scholar 2018 Article (Integrative Cancer Therapies)
The Effect of Clown Intervention on Self-Report and Biomarker Measures of Stress and Fatigue in Pediatric Osteosarcoma Inpatients: A Pilot Study
Background: Pediatric cancer patients experience different psychological processes during hospitalization that may regulate the immune response and affect recovery and response to cancer treatment.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2018 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Personality Types and Learning Styles of Collegiate Aviation Students
The personality types and learning styles of students have been studied across education populations, yet the research analyzing aviation students is lacking.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2018 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Competitiveness of Hybrid Electric Aircraft on Short Range Scheduled Flights
Hybrid electric aircraft are expected to enter the small regional aircraft market within the next two decades. The aim of this study was to investigate if a hybrid electric passenger aircraft with 50 seats can be competi…
- NTSB Aircraft Accident Reports 2018 NTSB Accident report
Atlas Air Flight 3591 Boeing 767 Loss of Control (preliminary)
Atlas Air 3591 / Boeing 767-300 / Trinity Bay TX (Feb 23 2019) — preliminary. Preliminary investigation findings; superseded by the AAR-21/01 final report.
- NASA NTRS 2018 LaRC Conference Paper
A Toolset for Supporting Iterative Human Automation: Interaction in Design
The addition of automation has greatly extended humans' capability to accomplish tasks, including those that are difficult, complex and safety critical.
- NASA NTRS 2018 LaRC Conference Paper
Physiological Based Simulator Fidelity Design Guidance
The evolution of the role of flight simulation has reinforced assumptions in aviation that the degree of realism in a simulation system directly correlates to the training benefit, i.e., more fidelity is always better.
- NASA NTRS 2018 LaRC Conference Paper
A Simulation-Based Approach to Training Operational Cultural Competence
Cultural knowledge and skills are critically important for military operations, emergency response, or any job that involves interaction with a culturally diverse population.
- NASA NTRS 2018 LaRC Conference Paper
Simulation Based Training Improves Airway Management for Helicopter EMS Teams
The use of paralytic medications in the performance of RSI intubation is a high risk intervention used by many HEMS crews. There is no margin for error in RSI intubation as the results can be fatal.
- Semantic Scholar 2018 Article (Volume 6: Ceramics; Controls, Diagnostics, and Instrumentation; Education; Manufacturing Materials and Metallurgy)
Fleet Monitoring and Diagnostics Framework Based on Digital Twin of Aero-Engines
Monitoring aircraft performance in a fleet is fundamental to ensure optimal operation and promptly detect anomalies that can increase fuel consumption or compromise flight safety.
- NASA NTRS 2018 JSC Conference Paper
Transition Flight Control Room Automation
The Workstation Prototype Laboratory is currently working on a number of projects which we feel can have a direct impact on ground operations automation.
- NASA NTRS 2018 KSC Conference Paper
International Space Station Powered Bolt Nut Anomaly and Failure Analysis Summary
A key mechanism used in the on-orbit assembly of the International Space Station (ISS) pressurized elements is the Common Berthing Mechanism.
- NASA NTRS 2018 ARC Other
Improving Airline Safety
Under a NASA-Ames Space Act Agreement, Coryphaeus Software and Simauthor, Inc., developed an Aviation Performance Measuring System (APMS).
- NASA NTRS 2018 LaRC Other
Parachuting to Safety
NASA's Langley Research Center awarded Ballistic Recovery Systems, Inc., three Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contracts to research and develop a new, low cost, lightweight recovery system for aircraft in both…
- NASA NTRS 2018 JPL Conference Paper
Battlespace Forecasting of Aviation Icing Hazards
Aircraft icing endangers aviators, restricts surveillance opportunities, and reduces combat effectiveness.
- NASA NTRS 2018 JPL Preprint (Draft being sent to journal)
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Adequate performance was achieved relatively early in the development of ion engines and most subsequent development programs have focussed on demonstrating adequate engine life.
- NASA NTRS 2018 JPL Conference Paper
JPL software training plan
The purpose of this document is to define the software training approach and plans for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
- NASA NTRS 2018 JPL Conference Paper
Single-event upset in advanced PowerPC microprocessors
Proton and heavy-ion single-event upset susceptibility has been measured for the MotorolaPowerPC7400. The results show that this advanced device has low upset susceptibility, despite the scaling and design advances.
- NASA NTRS 2018 JPL Conference Paper
Single-event upset in advanced commercial power PC microprocessors
Single-event upset from heavy ions in measured for advanced commercial microprocessors, comparing upset sensitivity in registers and d-cache for several generations of devices.
- NASA NTRS 2018 JPL Conference Paper
Single event upset susceptibility testing of the Xilinx Virtex II FPGA
Heavy ion testing of the Xilinx Virtex IZ was conducted on the configuration, block RAM and user flip flop cells to determine their single event upset susceptibility using LETs of 1.2 to 60 MeVcm^2/mg.
- arXiv 2018 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Secure and Decentralized Swarm Behavior with Autonomous Agents for Smart Cities
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), referenced as drones, have advanced to consumer adoption for hobby and business use. Drone applications, such as infrastructure technology, security mechanisms, and resource delivery, are…
- NASA NTRS 2018 GRC Conference Paper
Small Airframe Manufacturer's Icing Perspective
This viewgraph presentation describes the icing effects, risk mitigation practices, and icing certifications for various Cessna small aircraft models.
- NASA NTRS 2018 GRC Conference Paper
Materials on the International Space Station - Forward Technology Solar Cell Experiment
This paper describes a space solar cell experiment currently being built by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in collaboration with NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC), and the US Naval Academy (USNA).
- NASA NTRS 2018 GRC Conference Paper
NASA Airframe Icing Research Overview Past and Current
This slide presentation reviews the past and current research that NASA has done in the area of airframe icing. Both the history experimental efforts and model development to understand the process and problem of ice for…
- NASA NTRS 2018 GRC Other
Inflight and Preflight Detection of Pitot Tube Anomalies
The health and integrity of aircraft sensors play a critical role in aviation safety. Inaccurate or false readings from these sensors can lead to improper decision making, resulting in serious and sometimes fatal consequ…
- arXiv 2018 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Adaptive twisting sliding mode control for quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles
This work addresses the problem of robust attitude control of quadcopters. First, the mathematical model of the quadcopter is derived considering factors such as nonlinearity, external disturbances, uncertain dynamics an…
- NASA NTRS 2018 CDMS Other
Scale Model Icing Research Tunnel
NASA Lewis Research Center's Icing Research Tunnel (IRT) is the world's largest refrigerated wind tunnel and one of only three icing wind tunnel facilities in the United States.
- NASA NTRS 2018 GRC Other
Compressor Stall Recovery Through Tip Injection Assessed
Aerodynamic stability is a fundamental limit in the compressor design process. The development of robust techniques for increasing stability has several benefits: enabling higher loading and fewer blades, increasing safe…
- NASA NTRS 2018 LaRC Other
Characterizing the Hazard of a Wake Vortex Encounter
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is conducting research with the goal of enabling safe improvements in the capacity of the nation's air transportation system.
- NASA NTRS 2018 LaRC Preprint (Draft being sent to journal)
CFIT Prevention Using Synthetic Vision
In commercial aviation, over 30-percent of all fatal accidents worldwide are categorized as Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT) accidents where a fully functioning airplane is inadvertently flown into the ground, water…
- NASA NTRS 2018 CDMS Other
NASA Lewis Helps Company With New Single-Engine Business Turbojet
Century Aerospace Corporation, a small company in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is developing a six-seat aircraft powered by a single turbofan engine for general aviation.
- NASA NTRS 2018 GRC Other
Aeronautical Satellite-Assisted Process for Information Exchange Through Network Technologies (Aero-SAPIENT) Conducted
Broadband satellite communications for aeronautics marries communication and network technologies to address NASA's goals in information technology base research and development, thereby serving the safety and capacity n…
- NASA NTRS 2018 GRC Other
Training Data Optimized and Conditioned to Learn Characteristic Patterns of Vibrating Blisks and Fan Blades
At the NASA Glenn Research Center, we have been training artificial neural networks to interpret the characteristic patterns (see the leftmost image) generated from electronic holograms of vibrating structures.
- NASA NTRS 2018 LaRC Other
Crew/Automation Interaction in Space Transportation Systems: Lessons Learned from the Glass Cockpit
The progressive integration of automation technologies in commercial transport aircraft flight decks - the 'glass cockpit' - has had a major, and generally positive, impact on flight crew operations.
- NASA NTRS 2018 GRC Other
Preliminary Integrated Safety Analysis of Synthetic Vision Conducted
The goal of the NASA Aviation Safety Program is to develop and demonstrate technologies that could help reduce the aviation fatal accident rate by a factor of 5 by the year 2007 and by a factor of 10 by the year 2022.
- Semantic Scholar 2018 Article (Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases)
A Physical and Psychological Approach to Managing Fatigue in Myasthenia Gravis: A Pilot Study
Background Fatigue in myasthenia gravis (MG) is common and difficult to manage. Unlike myasthenic weakness it is not amenable to drug therapies.
- NASA NTRS 2018 LaRC Other
A Numerical Simulation Study to Develop an Acceptable Wake Encounter Boundary for a B737-100 Airplane
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is conducting research with the goal of enabling safe improvements in the capacity of the nation's air transportation system.
- NASA NTRS 2018 LaRC Other
A Formal Methods Approach to the Analysis of Mode Confusion
The goal of the new NASA Aviation Safety Program (AvSP) is to reduce the civil aviation fatal accident rate by 80% in ten years and 90% in twenty years.
- NASA NTRS 2018 GRC Other
Piloted Flight Simulator Developed for Icing Effects Training
In an effort to expand pilot training methods to avoid icing-related accidents, the NASA Glenn Research Center and Bihrle Applied Research Inc.
- NASA NTRS 2018 GRC Other
Ceiling Fires Studied to Simulate Low-Gravity Fires
A unique new way to study low-gravity flames in normal gravity has been developed. To study flame structure and extinction characteristics in low-stretch environments, a normal gravity low-stretch diffusion flame was gen…
- NASA NTRS 2018 CDMS Other
National Transportation Safety Board Aircraft Accident Investigation Supported
The main purpose of this investigation was for NASA to help the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) gain better understanding of the events that led to the loss of Comair Flight 3272 over Monroe, Michigan, on Jan…
- Semantic Scholar 2018 Article (European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine)
Virtual reality to augment robot-assisted gait training in non-ambulatory patients with a subacute stroke: a pilot randomized controlled trial.
BACKGROUND Active performance is crucial for motor learning, and, together with motivation, is believed to be associated with a better rehabilitation outcome.
- Semantic Scholar 2018 Article (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health)
Duty of Notification and Aviation Safety—A Study of Fatal Aviation Accidents in the United States in 2015
After the Germanwings accident, the French Safety Investigation Authority (BEA) recommended that the World Health Organization (WHO) and European Community (EC) develop clear rules for the duty of notification process.
- Semantic Scholar 2018 Article (Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Psychoeducational Intervention for Symptom Management of Fatigue, Pain, and Sleep Disturbance Cluster Among Cancer Patients: A Pilot Quasi-Experimental Study.
OBJECTIVES To assess the feasibility of conducting a trial of a psychoeducational intervention involving the provision of tailored information and coaching to improve management of a cancer-related symptom cluster (fatig…
- Semantic Scholar 2018 Article (The American journal of hospice & palliative care)
Quality of Life and Compassion Satisfaction in Clinicians: A Pilot Intervention Study for Reducing Compassion Fatigue
There were positive effects for CS and BO in participants over time, indicating possible benefits of providing self-care education to healthcare providers, and additional research is needed to address how healthcare prov…
- arXiv 2018 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Cellular Controlled Cooperative Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Networks with Sense-and-Send Protocol
In this paper, we consider a cellular controlled unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) sensing network in which multiple UAVs cooperatively complete each sensing task.
- arXiv 2018 ARXIV arXiv preprint
On mass conservation for ice sheets
A new continuum-mechanical formulation is proposed which encompasses all material processes within and surrounding an ice sheet. Using this formulation, the balance of mass and free-surface relations for ice sheets are d…
- Semantic Scholar 2018 Article (Decision Analytics)
Insights for Critical Alarm-Based Warning Systems from a Risk Analysis of Commercial Aviation Passenger Screening
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) recently commissioned a risk analysis of the passenger threat vector in which an adversary gains access through the screening checkpoint.
- arXiv 2018 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Joint Configuration of Transmission Direction and Altitude in UAV-based Two-Way Communication
When considering unidirectional communication for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as flying Base Stations (BSs), either uplink or downlink, the system is limited through the co-channel interference that takes place over …
- arXiv 2018 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A novel unsteady aerodynamic Reduced-Order Modeling method for transonic aeroelastic optimization
In aircraft design, structural optimization and uncertainty quantification concerning transonic aeroelastic issues are computationally impractical, because the iterative process requires great number of aeroelastic analy…