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Articles in Feb 2005 issue of NASA Tech Briefs

• Next Month in NTB
• Patched Off-Axis Bending/Twisting Actuators for Thin Mirrors
• Printed Microinductors for Flexible Substrates
• Fast Laser Shutters With Low Vibratory Disturbances
• Series-Connected Buck Boost Regulators
• Split-Resonator, Integrated-Post Vibratory Microgyroscope
• Design Automation Software Facilitates Radar Development
• Improving Control in a Joule-Thomson Refrigerator
• Software Captures Power System Design Information
• Direct Steering Component for Recumbent Tricycles
• Blended Buffet-Load-Alleviation System for Fighter Airplane
• Tissue Engineering Using Transfected Growth-Factor Genes
• Coherent Laser Instrument Would Measure Range and Velocity
• Three-Dimensional Audio Client Library
  by Rizzi, Stephen A
• Angel Investing 101
  by Fitzgerald, Mike
• Energy Technologies for a Clean Future
• Atom Skimmers and Atom Lasers Utilizing Them
• Digital Receiver for Microwave Radiometry
• High-Temperature, High-Load-Capacity Radial Magnetic Bearing
• Printed Antennas Made Reconfigurable by Use of MEMS Switches
• Gifford-McMahon/Joule-Thomson Refrigerator Cools to 2.5 K
• Instrumentation for Sensitive Gas Measurements
• Computer-Based Motion Test System for Medical Positioning Tables
• Apparatus for Testing Flat Specimens of Thermal Insulation
• Motor Technologies Compete for Space in Small Variable Speed Drives
  by Jones, Dan
• Fabrication of Spherical Reflectors in Outer Space
• Miniature Laser Doppler Velocimeter for Measuring Wall Shear
• Photocatalytic Coats in Glass Drinking-Water Bottles
• NASA Explores How Exercise Pumps You Up
• Automation of Vapor-Diffusion Growth of Protein Crystals
• PRODUCT OF THE MONTH
• Automated Rapid Prototyping of 3D Ceramic Parts
• Quadrupole Ion Mass Spectrometer for Masses of 2 to 50 Da
• Nickel-Tin Electrode Materials for Nonaqueous Li-Ion Cells
• Technologies of the Month
• Isogrid Membranes for Precise, Singly Curved Reflectors
• Who's Who at NASA
• Gears Based on Carbon Nanotubes
• Training Software in Artificial-Intelligence Computing Techniques
  by Howard, Ayanna; Rogstad, Eric; Chalfant, Eugene
• Traffic-Light-Preemption Vehicle-Transponder Software Module
  by Bachelder, Aaron; Foster, Conrad
• Single-Command Approach and Instrument Placement by a Robot on a Target
  by Huntsberger, Terrance; Cheng, Yang
• Central-Monitor Software Module
  by Bachelder, Aaron; Foster, Conrad
• Parallel Adaptive Mesh Refinement Library
  by MacNeice, Peter; Olson, Kevin
• Predicting Noise From Aircraft Turbine-Engine Combustors
  by Gliebe, P; Mani, R; Salamah, S; Coffin, R; Mehta, Jayesh
• Diagnosis and Prognosis of Weapon Systems
  by Nolan, Mary; Catania, Rebecca; deMare, Gregory
• APGEN Version 5.0
  by Maldague, Pierre; Page, Dennis; Chase, Adam
• Intersection-Controller Software Module
  by Bachelder, Aaron; Foster, Conrad
• Estimating Effects of Multipath Propagation on GPS Signals
  by Byun, Sung; Hajj, George; Young, Lawrence
• Space Physics Data Facility Web Services
  by Candey, Robert M; Harris, Bernard T; Chimiak, Reine A
• Generating Animated Displays of Spacecraft Orbits
  by Candey, Robert M; Chimiak, Reine A; Harris, Bernard T