Dissertation (Ph.D.) — 1981

• Agard, David Andrew — Approaches to Macromolecular and Supramolecular Structure Determination
• Aston-Jones, Gary — The Behavioral Physiology of Locus Coeruleus Neurons
• Ball, Gregory John — A Proximity Formulation of Nuclear Dynamics
• Bell, John Richard — The Isolation and Partial Biochemical Analysis of Sindbis Virus Proteins
• Berman, D. Wayne — I. Thermochemistry and Reaction Kinetics of Disolvated Protons by Ion Cyclotron Resonance Spectroscopy. II. Thermochemical Studies of Small Fluorocarbons by Photoionization Mass Spectrometry
• Bernal, Luis Paulino — The Coherent Structure of Turbulent Mixing Layers. I. Similarity of the Primary Vortex Structure. II. Secondary Streamwise Vortex Structure
• Bone, Russell Leslie — Kinetics and Mechanism of the Co-Oxidation of Aldehydes and Model Organic Sulfur Compounds in Studies Related to the Oxo-Desulfurization of Fuel Oil and Coal
• Brooks, Alexander Nelson — A Petrov-Galerkin Finite Element Formulation for Convection Dominated Flows
• Brown-Wensley, Katherine Ann — Formation of Bonds to Carbon at Transition Metal Centers
• Brown, Arthur Raymond — Topics in the Analysis, Measurement, and Design of High-Performance Switching Regulators
• Brown, Duncan William — Synthesis and Matrix Isolated Photolysis of 2,3-Dimethylbicyclo[2.2.0]Hexa-2,5-Diene-1,4-Dicarboxylic Acid Anhydride: A Potential Precursor to 2,3 -Dimethyl-1,4-Dehydrobenzene
• Brudvig, Gary Wayne — The Nature and Distribution of the Metal Centers in Cytochrome C Oxidase
• Carson, Douglas Glenn — Solid State NMR at High Magnetic Fields Using Multiple Pulse Techniques
• Casewit, Carla Jutta — I. Electrophilic Reactions of p-Toluenesulfonyl Azide. II. ¹⁵N and ¹³C Nuclear Magnetic Studies of Aryldiazonium Compounds Effect of Substituent, Solvent and 18-Crown-6
• Chiu, Arlene Yuen-Chin — Biochemical and Immunohistochemical Studies of the Egg-Laying Hormone of Aplysia californica: Purification, Primary Structure, Neurosecretion and Morphological Distribution
• Cipar, John Joseph — Seismic Source Processes and Tectonics: Observations of Four Intracontinental Earthquakes
• Cohen, Martin — Silent Boundary Methods for Transient Wave Analysis
• Cook, Walter Richardson, III — Elemental Composition of Solar Energetic Particles
• Criss, Robert Everett — An ¹⁸O/¹⁶O, D/H and K-Ar Study of the Southern Half of the Idaho Batholith
• Davis, Mark Morris — Programmed DNA Rearrangements During Differentiation: Immunoglobulin Class Switching
• Daw, Murray Scott — Theory of Vacancies and Core Excitons Near Semiconductor Surfaces
• Deutsch, Leslie Joseph — Sharp Bounds for the Operator Norm of the Mehler Kernel Operator
• Drew, Horace Rainsford, III — The High Resolution Structure of DNA by Single-Crystal X-Ray Methods
• Ebel, John Edward — Evidence for Fault Asperities from Systematic Time-Domain Modeling of Teleseismic Waveforms
• Eidem, Penny Kristen — An Investigation of the Photochemistry and Structures of Selected Second and Third Row Transition Metal Complexes
• Eigenberg, Kenneth Eugene — The Interaction of Chlorophyll α with Lipids in Model and Natural Membrane Systems
• Flanders, Bradley A. — Application of TDHF Methods to Nuclear Physics
• Frommer, Jane Elizabeth — Syntheses and Reactions of Polymer-Bound Molybdenum Complexes and Hydrogenolyses of an Alkynyl Cobalt Carbonyl Cluster
• Fuller, George Michael — Nuclear Weak Interaction Rates During Stellar Evolution and Collapse
• Gabriel, Andrew Keith — Optogalvanic Spectroscopy and Cataphoretic Laser Isotope Separation
• George, Patricia Margaret — Electron Attachment Reactions and Photochemistry of Transition Metal Carbonyls in the Gas Phase and on Surfaces
• Glezer, Ari — An Experimental Study of a Turbulent Vortex Ring
• Gregory, Robert Theodore — Geology and Isotope Geochemistry of the Samail Ophiolite Complex, Southeastern Oman Mountains
• Hahn, Robert William — An Assessment of the Viability of Marketable Permits
• Hall, Shawn Anthony — Vortex-Induced Vibrations of Structures
• Hanlon, Philip James — Applications of the Quaternions to the Study of Imaginary Quadratic Ring Class Groups
• Hardy, Richard Randolph — Studies of the Specificities and Function of Immunoglobulins: I. Relationship Between Structures and Specificity in Dinitrophenyl-Binding Mouse Myeloma Immunoglobulins. II. Effector Function Triggering in Immunoglobulins
• Harvey, Jeffrey Alan — Baryon Number Generation and Mass Relations in SO(10) Unified Models
• Herndier, Brian — Activation of Cell Function: Pharmacological Agents Which Degranulate Mast Cells and Cause Skeletal Muscle to Contract
• Highe, Albert John — Ionic Motion in Solid Electrolytes: A Solid State NMR Study of Sodium and Lithium in β-Alumina
• Huggins, John Mitchell — A Study of Fundamental Reaction Pathways for Transition Metal Alkyl Complexes. I. The Reaction of a Nickel Methyl Complex with Alkynes. II. The Mechanism of Aldehyde Formation in the Reaction of a Molybdenum Hydride with Molybdenum Alkyls
• Ibbotson, Dale Edward — A Fundamental Study of NO Reduction with Hydrogen over Ir(110)
• Isaac, Robert Mark — Essays on the Role of Information in Natural Resource Exploration and Development
• James, Ralph Boyd — Theoretical Studies of the Nonlinear Infrared Properties of p-Type Semiconductors
• Jepson, Allan Douglas — I. Asymptotic Boundary Conditions for Ordinary Differential Equations. II. Numerical Hopf Bifurcation
• Jin, Michael Yih-Hwa — Temporal-Spatial Functional Analysis of the Class-II-a1 Motion Detection Cell of the Fly Calliphora phaenicia
• Johannsen, David Lawrence — Silicon Compilation
• Johnson, Deanna Ojala — Transcription of the HeLa Cell Mitochondrial Genome
• Johnson, Nelson Daniell — An Analysis of Patterns of Diversity in Antibodies with Defined Specificity
• Jones, John Hume — Studies of the Geochemical Similarity of Plutonium and Samarium and Their Implications for the Abundance of ²⁴⁴Pu in the Early Solar System
• Kanamori, Keiko — ¹⁵N Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of the Active Sites of Enzymes and In Vivo Nitrogen Metabolism
• Kastanas, Ilias George — The Ramsey Property and Degrees in the Analytical Hierarchy
• Kath, William Lawrence — I. Propagating and Waiting Fronts in Nonlinear Diffusion. II. Sustained Reentry Roll Resonance
• Katz, Joseph — AlGaAs Optoelectronic Devices for Optical Communications
• Koelsch, Peter Martin — Use of Masked Quinones in Organic Synthesis: Efforts Directed Towards the Synthesis of Tropolonoid Natural Products
• Kreh, Robert Paul — The Synthesis, Electrochemistry and Reactivity of Binuclear Copper(I) Complexes as Mimics of Protein Active Sites
• Krousgrill, Charles Morton — A Linearization Technique for the Dynamic Response of Nonlinear Continua
• Kuech, Thomas Francis — Investigations of Schottky Barrier Structures in Compound Semiconductors: I. HgTe on CdTe: a Lattice Matched Schottky Barrier. II. Au-Cd Barriers to CdTe. III. AAu Barriers on InₓGa₁₋ₓP
• Kwon, Heemin — Experimental Investigations of Neutrino Oscillations at a Fission Reactor
• Lacy, Elizabeth Hardy — The Structure, Expression and Chromosomal Arrangement of Rabbit β Globin Genes
• Lau, Kam-Yin — Ultra-High Frequency Dynamics of Semiconductor Injection Lasers
• Lauer, Joyce Ellen — Molecular Cloning of the Human α-Globin Gene Family
• Lee, James Roy — Measurements of νN Charged Current Cross Sections from Eν = 25 GEV to Eν = 260 GEV
• Lepelletier, Thierry Georges — Tsunamis – Harbor Oscillations Induced by Nonlinear Transient Long Waves
• Lin, Hong-Chuan — On the Reconstruction Problem in Graph Theory
• Linfield, Roger Paul — Studies of Compact Extragalactic Radio Sources
• Lisensky, George Clark — Reactions of Multidentate-Ligand Copper(I) Complexes with Dioxygen
• Liu, Wing Kam — Development of Finite Element Procedures for Fluid-Structure Interaction
• Lockhart, Thomas Paul — The Chemistry of 1,4-Dehydrobenzenes
• Ma, Fai — Stability Theory of Linear and Nonlinear Stochastic Difference Systems
• Martin, David Uhl — Studies of the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation and its Application to Water Waves
• McKinnon, William Beall — Large Impact Craters and Basins: Mechanics of Syngenetic and Postgenetic Modification
• McRae, Gregory John — Mathematical Modeling of Photochemical Air Pollution
• Melton, Ronald Benjamin — A Study of Horizontal Cell-Photoreceptor Interaction in the Frog Retina Using a Randomly Modulated Stimulus
• Merritt, Kay Wyatt Brown — Observation of Prompt Single Muon Production of 400 GEV Protons
• Milenkovic, Paul Henry — A Systematic Assessment of the Accuracy of Vocal Tract Area Function Estimates Made from the Speech Waveform
• Miller, James Arthur — Studies on Ligand Binding to the Histrionicotoxin and the Agonist Binding Sites of Membrane Bound Acetylcholine Receptor from Torpedo californica
• Mitchard, Gordon Stuart — Low Temperature Photoluminescence Properties of Silicon and Silicon-Germanium Alloys
• Morse, Randall Heywood — EPR Spectroscopic Studies of the Active Sites of Some Heme- and Copper-Containing, Oxygen-Binding Proteins
• Nadeau, Daniel — High Spectral Resolution Observations of the Molecular Hydrogen Emission in the Orion Molecular Cloud
• Nelson, John Victor — I. The Stereochemistry of the [3,3] Sigmatropic Rearrangement of 1,5-Diene-3-Alkoxides. II. Stereoselective Aldol Condensations via Dialkylboron Enolates
• Olbricht, William Lee — The Motion of Macromolecules and Immiscible Drops in Creeping Flow
• Ouimette, James Richard — Aerosol Chemical Species Contributions to the Extinction Coefficient
• Palfrey, Thomas Rossman, III — Equilibrium Models of Multiple-Object Auctions
• Phichitkul, Charunya — Catalytic Activity and Deactivation Mechanisms of Supported NiO in CH₄ Oxidation
• Powell, Robert Edward — Geology of the Crystalline Basement Complex, Eastern Transverse Ranges, Southern California: Constraints on Regional Tectonic Interpretation
• Quick, James Edward — Part I: Petrology and Petrogenesis of the Trinity Peridotite, Northern California. Part II: Petrogenesis of Lunar Breccia 12013
• Rabin, Douglas Mark — Studies of Stellar Populations: Star Clusters in M3l, the Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds
• Rappé, Anthony Kay — Theoretical Studies of Homogeneous Catalysis by Transition Metal Complexes
• Reimer, Jeffrey Allen — The Development of Novel Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Techniques for the Study of Solids, Thin Films and Surfaces with Particular Application to Amorphous Semiconducting Silicon-Hydrogen Films
• Reiss, David Benjamin — Some Topics in Grand Unified Models and the Cosmological Baryon Asymmetry
• Rice, Charles Moen, III — Studies on the Structural Proteins of Sindbis Virus
• Robinson, Randy Richard — Sequence Analysis of a tRNA Gene Cluster: Drosophila Leucine-tRNA Genes contain Intervening Sequences
• Rogerson, William Paul — Legal Remedies and Reputation as Solutions to Moral Hazard in Contracting
• Ruth, Edward Kenneth — Experiments with Unconventional Cross Flow Heat Exchangers
• Sargent, Thomas Dean — The Rat Serum Albumin Gene
• Schatzman, James Carl — A Model for the von Kármán Vortex Street
• Schilling, James Walter, Jr. — Antibody Diversity
• Schlup, John Robert — The Nature of Fluorinated Oxide Catalysts: A Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Investigation
• Shepherd, Joseph Emmett — Dynamics of Vapor Explosions: Rapid Evaporation and Instability of Butane Droplets Exploding at the Superheat Limit
• Shih, Choon-Foo — Failure of Liquid Storage Tanks Due to Earthquake Excitation
• Smith, Duane Donald — Optical Dephasing and Energy Transfer in Ordered and Disordered Solids: Studies by Laser Spectroscopy and Optical-Microwave Double Resonance
• Stapanian, Maritza Irene — Induced Fission Track Measurements of Carbonaceous Chondrite Th/U Ratios and Th/U Microdistributions in Allende Inclusions
• Stephenson, Rodney Alan — The Equilibrium Field Near the Tip of a Crack for Finite Plane Strain of Incompressible Elastic Materials
• Stevens, Amy Elizabeth — Fundamental Studies of Reactive Intermediates in Organometallic Chemistry
• Stevens, Tom Hall — The Structure of the Metal Centers in Cytochrome c Oxidase
• Sung, Windsor — Catalytic Effects of the γ-FeOOH (Lepidocrocite) Surface on the Oxygenation Removal Kinetics of the Fe(II) and Mn(II)
• Taber, Terry Ray — The Total Synthesis of A-23187 and Related Enantioselective Aldol Condensations
• Takacs, James Michael — Approaches to Asymmetric Synthesis. The Diastereoselective Alkylations of Chiral Propionamide Enolates
• Taylor, Dean Dalton — Laboratory Studies of Submicron Particle Formation in Pulverized Coal Combustion
• Tenhover, Michael Alan — Mössbauer Effect Studies in Yttrium Based Metallic Glasses
• Terrano, Anthony Emerson — Topics in Perturbative Field Theory
• Thiel, Patricia Ann — Adsorption, Co-Adsorption and Catalytic Reactions on Rh(111) and Ru(001) Surfaces
• Trentacosti Presti, Florence L. — Cholesterol's Important Influence on Structure and Function of Membrane Lipids
• Vasilakos, Nikolaos Petrou — Coal Desulfurization by Selective Chlorinolysis
• Wade, Richard Alan — Spectroscopy and Spectrophotometry of Cataclysmic Variable Stars
• Williams, Arthur Ray — Atomic Structure of Transition Metal Based Metallic Glasses
• Wilt, Daniel Paul — (AlGa)As Semiconductor Lasers and Integrated Optoelectronics
• Wisdom, Jack Leach — 1. The Origin of the Kirkwood Gaps: A Mapping for Asteroidal Monitor Near the 3/1 Commensurability. 2. The Resonance Overlap Criterion and the Onset of Stochastic Behavior in the Restricted Three-Body Problem
• Yee, Howard Kwong Chew — Optical Spectral Properties of Active Galactic Nuclei and Quasars
• Yu, Kwang-I — Communicative Databases
• Zumberge, James Frederick — A Balloon Measurement of the Isotopic Composition of Galactic Cosmic Ray Boron, Carbon, and Nitrogen