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Rights & Permissions Free PDF Access Sign in to download PDF book and chapters Free Resources PDF Report Brief Display this book on your site! Related Titles Review of NASA Plans for the International Space Station Recapturing a Future for Space Exploration: Life and Physical Sciences Research for a New Era Other Related Titles Factors Affecting the Utilization of the International Space Station for Research in the Biological and Physical Sciences (2003) Space Studies Board (SSB) Citation Manager Export the bibliographic data for this book in your chosen format Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Citation Manager . "Appendix K: Acronym List and Glossary." Factors Affecting the Utilization of the International Space Station for Research in the Biological and Physical Sciences. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2003. Please select a format: Page 85   E-mail Share on facebook Facebook Share on delicious Delicious Share on stumbleupon Stumble Share on twitter Twitter More Sharing ServicesMore The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. Appendix K Acronym List and Glossary ADVASC Advanced Astroculture Unit ALS Advanced Life Support System AMS Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Arabidopsis member of the mustard family, a small flowering plant that is widely used as a model organism in plant biology ARC Ames Research Center ARTIC Advanced Thermoelectric Refrigerator Freezer Astroculture the growing of various plants in space BEST Boundary Effect near the Superfluid Transition BPS Biomass Production System Brassica rapa member of the turnip family BSTC Biotechnology Specimen Temperature Controller centrifuge large, rotating module whose rotational velocity can be varied, providing for differing levels of “gravity” under which to perform experiments CEVP Countermeasure Evaluation and Validation Program CIR Combustion Integrated Rack circumnutation cyclic growth movement common to many plant species CLASS Condensate Laboratory Aboard the Space Station COEX Coexistence Curve Experiment CPBF Commercial Plant Biotechnology Facility critical point temperature and pressure at which the liquid and gaseous phases of a pure, stable substance become identical CQ Heat Capacity at Constant Heat Current cytoarchitecture the general way neurons connect up in a given lump of neuroanatomy—many-to-many, many-to-one, and so on DECLIC Despositif pour l’Etude de la Croissance et des Liquides Critiques (CNES Directional Solidification Furnace) dendrite mineral crystallizing in another mineral in a branching or treelike form dosimeter instrument that measures and indicates the amount of x-rays or radiation absorbed in a given period DYNAMX Critical Dynamics in Microgravity EC experimental container EMCS European Modular Cultivation System Page 85 Front Matter (R1-R14) Prologue (1-2) Executive Summary (3-7) 1 Introduction (8-12) 2 Impact of ISS Changes on Physical Sciences Research (13-28) 3 Impact of ISS Changes on Bioastronautics (29-48) 4 Impact of ISS Changes on Fundamental Biology (49-57) 5 Conclusions and Recommendations (58-64) References (65-68) Appendix A: Future Investigations in Materials Science Planned for the ISS (69-71) Appendix B: Planned ISS Combustion-Related Investigations through 2006 (72-72) Appendix C: Future Flight Investigations in Fluid Physics Planned for ISS (73-74) Appendix D: List of ISS Fundamental Physics Experiments 2002-2008 (75-76) Appendix E: Systems Physiology Experiments Planned for the ISS (77-79) Appendix F: Cardiovascular Physiology Experiments (80-80) Appendix G: Future Bone and Muscle Physiology Experiments for ISS (81-81) Appendix H: Radiation Experiments Currently Planned for the ISS (82-82) Appendix I: Future Investigations in Cell and Developmental Biology on the ISS (83-83) Appendix J: Future Experiments in Plant Biology Currently Planned for the ISS (84-84) Appendix K: Acronym List and Glossary (85-85) Appendix L: Excerpt from NASA Authorization Act of FY 2001 (89-89) Appendix M: Short Biographies (90-92)

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Factors Affecting the Utilization of the International Space Station for Research in the Biological and Physical Sciences Appendix K Acronym List and Glossary ADVASC Advanced Astroculture Unit ALS Advanced Life Support System AMS Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Arabidopsis member of the mustard family, a small flowering plant that is widely used as a model organism in plant biology ARC Ames Research Center ARTIC Advanced Thermoelectric Refrigerator Freezer Astroculture the growing of various plants in space BEST Boundary Effect near the Superfluid Transition BPS Biomass Production System Brassica rapa member of the turnip family BSTC Biotechnology Specimen Temperature Controller centrifuge large, rotating module whose rotational velocity can be varied, providing for differing levels of “gravity” under which to perform experiments CEVP Countermeasure Evaluation and Validation Program CIR Combustion Integrated Rack circumnutation cyclic growth movement common to many plant species CLASS Condensate Laboratory Aboard the Space Station COEX Coexistence Curve Experiment CPBF Commercial Plant Biotechnology Facility critical point temperature and pressure at which the liquid and gaseous phases of a pure, stable substance become identical CQ Heat Capacity at Constant Heat Current cytoarchitecture the general way neurons connect up in a given lump of neuroanatomy—many-to-many, many-to-one, and so on DECLIC Despositif pour l’Etude de la Croissance et des Liquides Critiques (CNES Directional Solidification Furnace) dendrite mineral crystallizing in another mineral in a branching or treelike form dosimeter instrument that measures and indicates the amount of x-rays or radiation absorbed in a given period DYNAMX Critical Dynamics in Microgravity EC experimental container EMCS European Modular Cultivation System

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