Dissertation (Ph.D.) — 1977

• Anderson, James Rodney — The Polymetamorphic Sequence in the Paleozoic Rocks of Northern Vermont: A New Approach Using Metamorphic Veins as Petrologic and Structural Markers
• Aristoff, Paul Adrian — An Approach to the Total Synthesis of Aphidicolin
• Attar, Amir — The Chemistry of Selective Oxidation of Sulfur Compounds and its Relation to Fuel Desulfurization
• Bachovchin, William Walter — The Mechanism of Action of Adenosylcobalamin: I. 3-Fluoro-1, 2-Propanediol Dehydrase - Mechanistic Implications. II. Glycerol and Other Substrate Analogues as Substrates and Inactivators for Propanediol Dehydrase. Kinetics, Stereospecificity and Mechanism. III. The Involvement of a 5'-Deoxyadenosine Intermediate Containing Three Equivalent Hydrogens in the Mechanism of Glycerol Inactivation of Propanediol Dehydrase Holoenzyme. IV. Hydrogen Transfer from Enzyme-Bound Adenosylcobalamin as a Partial Rate Limiting Step in Catalysis
• Baker, Gregory Richard — Studies in Vortex Motion
• Barnes, Frank Edward (Ted) — Quarks, Gluons, Bags, and Hadrons
• Bedrosian, Gary — The Invariant Imbedding Solution for Electromagnetic Wave Propagation in Periodic, Almost Homogeneous, and Almost Periodic Media
• Berg, Dale Evan — Surface Roughness Effects on the Hypersonic Turbulent Boundary Layer
• Berg, Jacqueline O. — Theory of Radiationless Transitions, Light Scattering and Fluorescence
• Bloom, John Roll — On the Invariants of some Zℓ-Extensions
• Burdick, Lawrence James — Broad-Band Seismic Studies of Body Waves
• Burke, Jonathan Arno — Investigations of the Photochemistry of Mixtures of Methane, Nitrogen and Ammonia with Lyman-Alpha Radiation
• Cadena-Cepeda, Fernando — Temperature Effects on the Activity Coefficient of the Bicarbonate Ion
• Chambers, John L. — Inhibited Bovine Trypsin, and Bovine Trypsinogen : the Refined Structure and Mechanism of a Not-Too-Serene Protease
• Cheetham, Craig McClain — Perception of Pitch in Pulse Wave Forms whose Power Spectra are Flat
• Chen, Martin Yu-Wen — Luminescence Properties of Electron-Hale-Droplets in Pure and Doped Germanium
• Cheong, Paul How-Kei — A Modeling Study of Coal Pyrolysis
• Corderman, Reed Roeder — Ion Cyclotron Resonance Studies of Inorganic Molecules in the Gas Phase: I. Organotransition Metal Complexes. II. Chain Reactions Involving Ionic Intermediates
• Craig, James Eldon — Weak Shocks in Open-Ended Ducts with Complex Geometry
• Ćuk, Slobodan M. — Modelling, Analysis, and Design of Switching Converters
• Curtright, Thomas Lynn — Stability and Supersymmetry
• Davidson, Cliff Ian — Deposition of Trace Metal-Containing Aerosols on Smooth, Flat Surfaces and on Wild Oat Grass (Avena fatua)
• Davis, James Hubbard — Theoretical Studies of Organic Diradicals and the Thermal Rearrangement of Bicyclopropenyls
• DeNiro, Michael Joseph — I. Carbon Isotope Distribution in Food Chains. II. Mechanism of Carbon Isotope Fractionation Associated with Lipid Synthesis
• Denkin, Nathan Myron — Stopping Power of Gases for Heavy Ions
• Dymek, Robert F. — Mineralogic and Petrologic Studies of Archaean Metamorphic Rocks from West Greenland, Lunar Samples, and the Meteorite Kapoeta
• Dzurisin, Daniel — 1. Scarps, Ridges, Troughs, and Other Lineaments on Mercury. 2. Geologic Significance of Photometric Variations on Mercury
• Edwards, Dean Barton — Time Domain Analysis of Switching Regulators
• Fischer, Elliot — Exact Solutions and Transformation Properties of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations from General Relativity
• Fischer, Ernst Peter — Serine Proteases, their Inhibitors and Chitin Synthetase in Phycomyces
• Foutch, Douglas Allen — A Study of the Vibrational Characteristics of Two Multistory Buildings
• Franson, James Dean — I. Microwave Impedance of Superconducting Weak Links. II. Effects of Non-Equilibrium Quasi-Particle Distributions in Superconducting Weak Links
• Freiser, Ben Sherman — Photochemical Investigations of Ions in the Gas Phase Utilizing Ion Cyclotron Resonance Spectroscopy
• Garrott, W. Riley — Transient Response of Two-Dimensional Cantilevered Semi-Infinite and Finite Elastic Plates, Subjected to Base Motions
• Gates, Edward Maurice — The Influence of Freestream Turbulence, Freestream Nuclei Populations and a Drag-Reducing Polymer on Cavitation Inception on Two Axisymmetric Bodies
• Gates, Nathan Craig — The Earthquake Response of Deteriorating Systems
• Geller, Robert James — Part I. Earthquake Source Models, Magnitudes and Scaling Relations. Part II. Amplitudes of Rotationally Split Normal Modes for the 1960 Chilean and 1964 Alaskan Earthquakes
• Goldman, Don Steven — Crystal-Field and Mössbauer Applications to the Study of Site Distribution and Electronic Properties of Ferrous Iron in Minerals with Emphasis on Calcic Amphiboles, Orthopyoxene and Cordierite
• Green, Richard Frederick — A Complete Sample of White Dwarfs, Hot Subdwarfs, and Quasars
• Gregg, Ron — Sputtering of Uranium
• Hall, David Howard — The Posterior Nervous System of the Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans
• Hart, Robert Stuart — The Distribution of Seismic Velocities and Attenuation in the Earth
• Hesselink, Lambertus — An Experimental Investigation on Propagation of Weak Shock Waves in a Random Medium
• Higuchi, Hiroshi — Experimental Investigation on Axisymmetric Turbulent Wakes with Zero Momentum Defect
• Hill, Christopher Thaddeus — Higgs Scalars and the Nonleptonic Weak Interactions
• Huchra, John Peter — The Nature of Markarian Galaxies and Studies of Star Formation In Blue Galaxies
• Isenberg, David Saul — Attention Demands of Processing Phonetic Information in the Perception of Dichotic Speech
• Jackson, Darrell Richard — Light-Cone Behavior of Hadronic Wavefunctions in QCD and Experimental Consequences
• Jaggard, Dwight L. — Bragg Interactions in Periodic Media
• Johnson, Carl Douglas — Multiple Molecular Forms of Cholinesterase from Elongated Animals
• Johnson, Robert Edward — Slender-Body Theory for Stokes Flow and Flagellar Hydrodynamics
• Keenan, Donald Eugene — Subsets of a Finite Set that Intersect Each Other in at Most One Element
• Koblasz, Arthur Joseph — Nonlinear Analysis of the Human Electroretinogram
• Konrad, John Harrison — An Experimental Investigation of Mixing in Two-Dimensional Turbulent Shear Flows with Applications to Diffusion-Limited Chemical Reactions
• Kovács, Sándor János, Jr. — The Generation of Gravitational Waves
• Laird, Jo — Phase Equilibria in Mafic Schist and the Polymetamorphic History of Vermont
• Mann, Kent Robert — An Investigation of the Photochemical and Spectroscopic Properties of Chromium, Molybdenum, Tungsten, and Rhodium Isocyanide Complexes
• Manriquez, Juan Manuel — I. The Reduction of Molecular Nitrogen in Binuclear Dinitrogen Complexes of Titanium and Zirconium. II. Hydrogen Reduction of Carbon Monoxide Promoted by Mononuclear Carbonyl and Hydride Complexes of Bis(Pentamethylcyclopentadienyl) Zirconium
• Marshall, Francis E. — The Streaming of 1.3-2.3 MeV Cosmic-Ray Protons During Periods Between Prompt Solar Particle Events
• McMillen, Thomas Joe — The Thermal Constitutive Behavior of Suspensions
• McMurry, Peter Howard — On the Relationship Between Aerosol Dynamics and the Rate of Gas-to-Particle Conversion
• Melnick, Jorge — The Structure of Giant Extragalactic HII Regions
• Merritt, Frank Smith — The Structure of the Neutral Current Coupling in High Energy Neutrino-Nucleon Interactions
• Mosher, James Marshall — The Magnetic History of Solar Active Regions
• Murphy, Milton Keith — Gas Phase Investigations of the Lewis Acid Properties of Electron Deficient Compounds of Boron, Carbon and Silicon
• Novoseller, Daniel Edward — π-Exchange in a Partial Wave Analysis of πN → Nππ: I. Partial Wave Analysis Including π-Exchange for πN → Nππ in the Center of Mass Energy Range 1.65 - 1.97 GeV. II. Resonance Parameter Analyses of πN → Δπ + ρN + εN
• Olowolafe, Johnson Olufemi — Silicide Formation and the Interaction of Metals with Polycrystalline Si
• Pearson, William Raymond — Studies on the Arrangement of Repeated Sequences in DNA
• Ready, Donald Furner — Development of the Drosophila Retina
• Redondo-Muiño, Antonio — Theoretical Studies of Silicon Surfaces Using Finite Clusters
• Reiner, Robert Henry — I. Calculation of Vibrational Transition Moments. II. Photochemistry of Vibrationally Excited Hydrogen Iodide. III. Photochemistry of Iodine Monochloride in Hydrogen
• Roberts, Philip Joseph William — Dispersion of Buoyant Waste Water Discharged from Outfall Diffusers of Finite Length
• Rosales, Rodolfo Rubén — I. Exact Solution of Some Nonlinear Evolution Equations. II. The Similarity Solution for the Korteweg-De Vries Equation and the Related Painlevé Transcendent
• Rosenfeld, Leo C. — The Diffractive Dissociation Process at π⁻ p → π⁻ (π⁻π⁺p) at 14 GeV/c
• Ross, Michael Jay — I. Purification and Partial Characterization of Chromatin Subunits. II. Structural Studies of a Membrane-Bound Acetylcholine Receptor
• Sankur, Vega Dibag — I. Study of Macromolecular Brownian Motion by Laser Light Scattering. II. Light Scattering Investigation of Amorphous Polymethylmethacrylate
• Scott, Margaret Yoshiko Iwaki — Studies on Selective Neuroregeneration in Lower Vertebrates
• Shah, Piyush Chimanlal — Estimation of Properties in Petroleum Reservoirs
• Sovero-Ternoche, Emilio Andres — Application of Microwave Diagnostics to Copper Chloride and Carbon Dioxide Lasers
• Spanos, Polihronis Thomas Dimitrios — Linearization Techniques for Non-Linear Dynamical Systems
• Srinivas, Sankaran — Error Recovery in Robot Systems
• Stoll, Michael Edward — Spin Dynamics of Pulsed Nuclear Magnetic Double Resonance in Solids
• Udupa, Shriram Mahabal — Collision Detection and Avoidance in Computer Controlled Manipulators
• van der Kogel, Hans — Wave Propagation in Saturated Porous Media
• Walch, Stephen Perry — Theoretical Studies of Chemisorption
• Ward, Gerald Wayne — Strain Induced Changes in the Permeability of Water Swollen Segmented Polyurethane Elastomers
• Weiner, Stephen — Aspects of the Biochemistry of the Organic Matrix of Extant and Fossil Mollusks
• Wherland, Scot Edward — Metalloprotein Electron Transfer Mechanisms
• Wilkes, Mahlon McGregor — DNA Sequence Organization by Electron Microscopy
• Wojcik, Gregory Lynn — Self-Similar Elastodynamic Solutions for the Plane Wedge
• Wright, Steven Jay — Effects of Ambient Crossflows and Density Stratification of the Characteristic Behavior of Round, Turbulent Buoyant Jets
• Yates, George Thomas — Finite Amplitude Unsteady Slender Body Theory and Experiments
• Yen, Huan-chun — A Study of a New Electromechanical Energy Conversion Process Using Superconducting Frequency Modulated Resonators
• Yogi, Tadashi — Radio Frequency Studies of Surface Resistance and Critical Magnetic Field of Type I and Type II Superconductors