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AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2004 ARTICLES

Biomimetic nanotechnology
Using DNA, RNA, and a huge variety of proteins, living cells build complex molecules
and create nonliving substances. Researchers are trying to mimic biology to form
nanoscale devices and new materials--Eric J. Lerner
http://www.tipmagazine.com/tip/INPHFA/vol-10/iss-4/p16.html?type=ALERT

Narrowing uncertainty in global climate change
A series of linked computer models at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is
being used to predict the likelihood of serious climate change with and without
policies to stabilize atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide--Chris Forest,
Mort Webster, and John Reilly
http://www.tipmagazine.com/tip/INPHFA/vol-10/iss-4/p20.html?type=ALERT

Scramjets integrate air and space
Supersonic combustion ramjet (scramjet) engines breathe air, have no moving parts,
and have potential for powering cruise missiles, global strike and reconnaissance
craft, and space-access vehicles--Dean Andreadis
http://www.tipmagazine.com/tip/INPHFA/vol-10/iss-4/p24.html?type=ALERT

Business
Creating economic value from research knowledge
The rise of the global economy has caused industrial science and technology in the
U.S. to change from closed innovation--where every step was done in-house--to open
innovation--where ideas, people, and products flow across company  boundaries
--Charles B. Duke
http://www.tipmagazine.com/tip/INPHFA/vol-10/iss-4/p29.html?type=ALERT
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NEWS
Plasmon microscopy, quantum measurement, quantum entanglement, smoke spun into fiber
--Eric Lerner
http://www.tipmagazine.com/tip/INPHFA/vol-10/iss-4/p8.html?type=ALERT
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Letters
Readers write about global warming, the hydrogen economy, and spinning spheres
http://www.tipmagazine.com/tip/INPHFA/vol-10/iss-4/p4.html?type=ALERT
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Books
Reviews of "Thinking in Complexity: The Computational Dynamics of Matter, Mind, and
Mankind," by Klaus Mainzer, and "The Space Environment: Implications for Spacecraft
Design," by Alan C.Tribble. Plus a new book list with purchase links to Amazon and
Barnes & Noble.
http://www.tipmagazine.com/tip/INPHFA/vol-10/iss-4/p33.html?type=ALERT
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New Products
The best new offerings of products, literature, services, and software in an
award-winning format: Torque flange,luminance detector, high-speed camera,
pressure gauge, laser diode,illumination source, wafer-dicing system, deposition
tool, backpack carrier, pipe-mounting collars, micromachining, digital camera,
design package, flow visualization.
http://www.tipmagazine.com/tip/INPHFA/vol-10/iss-4/p38.html?type=ALERT

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TIP HAS FIVE  HANDY COLLECTIONS ON ITS HOME PAGE.
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Reviews
Collected articles from recent issues of TIP under key
subjects--biophysics, nanotechnology, optics, energy, microsystems,
computers, lasers, semiconductors, space, materials, business,
instruments, electronics, intellectual property, and R&D.
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Profiles
Stories about physicists in industry--Jennifer Chayes, W. Edwards
Deming, William L. Ditto, M. Cynthia Hipwell, Shirley Jackson, Greg
Sanger, Jeff Schoenwald, Jing Tian, C. P. Yang, biophysicists, and
others.
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Primers
On grid computing, tunable lasers, fiber-Bragg gratings, ion
implantation, curve-fitting, fiber optics, shielding magnetic
fields, modeling fuel cells, solving differential equations,
remodeling the internal combustion engine, design of experiments,
heat exchangers, and dimensional analysis.
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Multimedia
Computer simulations, audio clips, and interactive exercises.
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TIP Top 40
The companies with the most readers of The Industrial Physicist,
now expanded and updated from our subscription list in June 2004.
From TRW/Northrop Grumman to Computer Sciences Corp. Is your company listed?

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