Abstract: A method of treating oral pain includes administering an effervescing composition into a user's mouth. The user retains the composition with the mouth closed until the effervescing composition fully dissolves, maintaining greater than ambient pressure in the mouth and releasing only excess gas through the nose.

Abstract: A protective coating for a graphite (Gr) containing fuel element used in a nuclear thermal propulsion system includes a first layer that is configured to resist hot hydrogen attacks. The first layer has a coefficient of thermal expansion that is higher than a coefficient of thermal expansion of the Gr containing substrate. The coating also includes a plurality of second layers located between the first layer and the substrate. The second layers are configured to mitigate the differences in coefficients of thermal expansion between the first layer and the substrate to minimize debonding and exposure of the substrate to hydrogen attack. Preferably, the protective coating can comprise an outermost first layer including zirconium carbide (ZrC), a second layer including niobium (Nb), a third layer including molybdenum (Mo), and a fourth layer including molybdenum carbide (Mo2C) located adjacent to the substrate.

Abstract: A system for remotely debugging application code on client/server systems. The system comprises a kicker program and a debugging engine installed on the server and a debugging user interface installed on a client machine. When a call is made to the application code on the server machine, the kicker program starts the debugging engine to debug the application code. The kicker program stops the debugging engine when the application code has been stepped through or returns. The debugging engine includes means for remotely starting the debugging user interface installed on the client machine.