Dissertation (Ph.D.) — 1984

• Abushagur, Mustafa A. G. — Scattering of Light from Large Cylinders
• Aines, Roger Deane — Trace Hydrogen in Minerals
• Alam, Md. Khairul — Nucleation and Condensational Growth of Aerosols: Application to Silicon Production
• Audett, Jay Douglas — (2,2-Dimethylcyclopropyl)carbinyl Grignard Reagents and the Reactivity of Osmium Tetraoxide and Peroxycarboxylic Acids with Low Valent Iridium Compounds
• Banerjee, Utpal — Alamethicin: Secondary Structure in Solution and Interactions with Phospholipid Membranes
• Bardet, Jean-Pierre — Application of Plasticity Theory to Soil Behavior: A New Sand Model
• Bartroli, Javier Francisco — Stereoselective Aldol Condensations via Boron Enolates. The Syntheses of (+)-Prelog-Djerassi Lactone and (+)-Tylonolide
• Bartur, Meir — Utilization of Silicides for VLSI-Contacts with Aluminum and Thermal Oxidation
• Bassett, Mark Elliott — Mathematical Modeling of Atmospheric Aerosol Equilibria and Dynamics
• Baxter, David Verge — EXAFS Studies of La-Ga Metallic Glasses
• Berry, Donald Harry — Studies of the Reactivity of Permethylzirconocene Complexes with Binuclear Transition Metal Carbonyl Compounds
• Boslough, Mark Bruce — Shock-Wave Properties and High-Pressure Equations of State of Geophysically Important Materials
• Brinza, David Edward — I. Millimeter Microwave Spectroscopy of Radicals. II. Laser Spectroscopy of the Van der Waals Molecule Ne-Cl₂
• Brooks, Eugene David, III — Non-Perturbative Analysis of Some Simple Field Theories on a Momentum Space Lattice
• Buttry, Daniel Alan — Effects of Electron Exchange on the Photochemical, Electrochemical and Electrocatalytic Responses of Polymer Modified Electrodes
• Casassa, Michael Paul — Infrared Photodissociation of Van der Waals Molecules
• Cimbala, John Michael — Large Structure in the Far Wakes of Two-Dimensional Bluff Bodies
• Clark, Douglas S. — Molecular Level Investigations and Mathematical Modeling of Immobilized α-Chymotrypsin Preparation, Utilization and Deactivation
• Corbett, Edward John — Seismicity and Crustal Structure Studies of Southern California: Tectonic Implications from Improved Earthquake Locations
• Cornet, Jean-Luc — Evaluation of the Unsteady Effects for a Class of Wind Turbines
• Cronin-Golomb, Alice Mary — Intrahemispheric Processing and Subcortical Transfer of Non-Verbal Information in Subjects with Complete Forebrain Commissurotomy
• Crowley, Thomas Edward — Functions and Regulation of RNAs Transcribed from the Drosophila melanogaster 68C Puff
• Durand, Richard Raymond, Jr. — Catalysis of the Electroreduction of Dioxygen by Monomeric and Dimeric Cobalt Porphyrins
• Eatock, Ruth Anne — Sensory Adaptation in Hair Cells of the Bullfrog's Sacculus
• Eriksen, K. Jeffrey — Biophysical Source Modeling of Some Exogenous and Endogenous Components of the Human Event-Related Potential
• Filippenko, Alexei Vladimir — Physical Conditions in Low-Luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei
• Fitzsimmons, Brian Joseph — The Total Synthesis of the Enantiomer of Lasalocid A
• Fowler, Joel Christopher — Topics in Linear Spaces and Projective Planes
• Froidevaux, Lucien — Photochemical Modeling of the Earth's Stratosphere
• Given, Jeffrey Wayne — Inversion of Body-Wave Seismograms for Upper Mantle Structure
• Goldberg, David Alan — Molecular Studies on the Alcohol Dehydrogenase Gene of Drosophila melanogaster
• Goodgame, Marvin Mark — Exchange Forces in Transition-Metal Bonding
• Gordon, Herman J. — Postnatal Development of Motor Units in Rabbit and Rat Soleus Muscles
• Gray, Murray Ross — The Effects of Moisture and Ash Content on the Pyrolysis of a Wood Derived Material
• Greene, Glenn Joel — ICRF Antenna Coupling and Wave Propagation in a Tokamak Plasma
• Gurer, Cigdem — Time Dependent and Equilibrium Stress-Strain Behavior of Rubbers in Moderately Large Deformations
• Haas, Jean-François Luc — Interaction of Weak Shock Waves and Discrete Gas Inhomogeneities
• Hanle, Daniel Dale — In Vitro Fluid Dynamics of Prosthetic Aortic Heart Valves in Steady and Pulsatile Flow
• Hereld, Mark — A Search for Gravitational Radiation from PSR 1937+214
• Hertzberg, Robert P. — Cleavage of DNA with Methidiumpropyl-EDTA
• Hill, Robert Ian — Petrology and Petrogenesis of Batholithic Rocks, San Jacinto Mountains, Southern California
• Ho, Kuo Ting — Evolution of Nitrogen Impurities in Metal-Silicon Binary Couples and their Effect on Silicide Formation
• Ho, Tai-Ping — The Dialogue Designing Dialogue System
• Hofmeister, Anne Marie — A Spectroscopic and Chemical Study of the Coloration of Feldspars by Irradiation and Impurities, Including Water
• Houseworth, James Evan — Longitudinal Dispersion in Nonuniform, Isotropic Porous Media
• Huang, Moh-jiann — Investigation of Local Geology Effects on Strong Earthquake Ground Motions
• Hushmand, Behnam — Experimental Studies of Dynamic Response of Foundations
• Ikeda, Richard Alan — I. Bismethidium Intercalators: the Binding of Nucleic Acids and II. Experiments in the Design of Site Specific DNA Cleaving Agents
• Kaiser, Robert James, Jr. — Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Kinetic Studies of the Catalytic Mechanism of the Serine Proteases
• Katz, Lawrence Charles — Intrinsic Connectivity of Identified Projection Neurons in Cat Visual Cortex Brain Slices
• Khanna, Rohit — Control Model Development for Packed Bed Chemical Reactors
• Koller, Jeffrey George — Yang-Mills Theory in Six-Dimensional Superspace
• Koochesfahani, Manoochehr Mohseni — Experiments on Turbulent Mixing and Chemical Reactions in a Liquid Mixing Layer
• Koop, Dale E. — Prompt Electron Production in Electron-Positron Annihilations at 29 GeV
• Kravaris, Constantine (Costas) — Identification of Spatially-Varying Parameters in Distributed Parameter Systems
• Krouse, Mauri Eugene — Investigation of Competitive Antagonist Binding to the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Using Voltage-Jump and Light-Flash Techniques
• Kuo, Chia-lam — Use of Temperature Sensitive Mutants to Study Yeast DNA Replication
• Larson, Peter Brennan — I. An ¹⁸O/¹⁶O Investigation of the Lake City Caldera, San Juan Mountains, Colorado. II. ¹⁸O/¹⁶O Relationships in Tertiary Ash-Flow Tuffs from Complex Caldera Structures in Central Nevada and the San Juan Mountains, Colorado
• Lee, Chi-Woo — Adsorption and Electrochemistry of BIS-1, 10-Phenanthroline Complexes of Copper (I,II) and Fungal Laccase A
• Lichten, Stephen Morris — Turbulence and Mass Motion in Galactic Molecular Clouds
• Lyberatos, Gerasimos — Dynamic and Steady-State Bifurcation for Modeling Chemical Reaction Systems
• Macdonald, Douglas Alan — Black-Hole Electrodynamics
• MacFarlane, David Brian — Nucleon Structure from Neutrino Interactions in an Iron Target with a Study of the Singlet Quark Distribution
• Mailhiot, Christian — Theoretical Investigations of Electron States in Small-Scale Semiconductor Structures
• Marcus, Neil — Finiteness in Supersymmetric Theories
• Margoliash, Daniel — Songbirds, Grandmothers, Templates: a Neuroethological Approach
• Mayne, Jeffrey Terrell — The Post-Translational Processing of Sindbis Virus Glycoproteins
• McCue, Kenneth Frank — The Structure of Individual Decisions in American Elections: the Influence of Relevant Alternatives
• McElwee-White, Lisa Ann — Theoretical and Experimental Assessment of the Viability of 1,4,6,9-Spiro[4.4]Nonatetrayl as a Reactive Intermediate
• Meisling, Kristian Erik — Neotectonics of the North Frontal Fault System of the San Bernardino Mountains, Southern California: Cajon Pass to Lucerne Valley
• Mikolič-Torreira, Igor — Norm Constant Holomorphic Functions on Banach Spaces
• Moonan, William Kevin — Superposition of the Effects of Time, Temperature, and Pressure in Polymetric Materials
• Moore, Eric Jan — Synthetic, Structural and Mechanistic Studies of Interactions of Carbon, Nitrogen, and Oxygen Nucleophiles with Bis-Pentamethylcyclopentadienyl Zirconium and Hafnium Derivatives
• Moser, David Randall — Regulation of ColEl Plasmid DNA Replication in Escherichia coli
• Myers, Jay J. — Cognitive Transfer from Right to Left Hemisphere after Section of the Forebrain Commissures
• Neikirk, Dean Paul — Integrated Detector Arrays for High Resolution Far-Infrared Imaging
• Ngo, Khai Doan The — Topology and Analysis in PWM Inversion, Rectification, and Cycloconversion
• Nocera, Daniel George — Spectroscopy, Electrochemistry, and Photochemistry of Polynuclear Metal-Metal Bonded Complexes
• Papachristidis, Alexandros Christou — Heterogeneous Data Base Access
• Papanicolaou, Panayiotis Nikolas — Mass and Momentum Transport in a Turbulent Buoyant Vertical Axisymmetric Jet
• Partridge, Richard Allan — Study of the ψ"(3770) Using the Crystal Ball Detector
• Patel, Apoorva Dayaram — Monte-Carlo Renormalisation Group for Lattice QCD
• Pearson, Laurence Timothy — A Model for the Lateral Organization of Protein Molecules in Lipid Bilayers
• Perry, Joseph Walter — Nature and Energy Redistribution of Highly Vibrationally Excited Polyatomic Molecules
• Piepgras, Donald John — The Isotopic Composition of Neodymium in the Marine Environment: Investigations of the Sources and Transport of Rare Earth Elements in the Oceans
• Polivka, William M. — Applications of Magnetics to Problems in Switched-Mode Power Conversion
• Purohit, Milind Vasant — Nucleon Structure Functions from νμ-Fe Interactions and a Study of the Valence Quark Distribution
• Redmount, Ian H. — Topics in Black-Hole Physics: Geometric Constraints on Noncollapsing, Gravitating Systems and Tidal Distortions of a Schwarzschild Black Hole
• Reinelt, Douglas Alan — The Penetration of a Finger into a Viscous Fluid
• Robinson, Allen Conrad — Existence and Stability of Vortices and Vortex Arrays
• Roddick, Dean Michael — Synthesis, Structure, and Reactivity of Hydride and Phosphide Complexes of Hafnium and Zirconium
• Sadanand, Asha B. — Three Essays in Law and Economics
• Saha, Abhijit — A Survey of Halo RR Lyrae Stars
• San, Ka-Yiu — Studies on the On-Line Identification and Optimal Control of Bioreactors
• Schultz, Jocelyn Chupka — Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Alkyl and Alkenyl Free Radicals
• Schultz, Peter G. — I. Ground and Excited State Studies of Persistent 1,1-Diazenes. II. Design of Sequence Specific DNA Cleaving Molecules
• Schulz, Robert — Electrical Transport During Phase Transformation in Metallic Glasses
• Selinger, Stephen Richard — Three Essays in Theoretical, Applied, and Normative Economics
• Senior, Constance Lynn — Submicron Aerosol Formation During Combustion of Pulverized Coal
• Shatz, Michael Phillip — A QCD Based Model of Hadron Hadron Scattering
• Shaw, Henry Francis, III — Sm-Nd and Rb-Sr Isotopic Systematics of Tektites and Other Impactites, Appalachian Mafic Rocks, and Marine Carbonates and Phosphates
• Shih, Thomas Loong — Use of Enantioselective Aldol Condensations: Efforts Directed Towards the Total Synthesis of Ionomycin
• Simmen, Jeffrey Alan — Steady Deep-Water Waves on a Linear Shear Current
• Siu, Byron Bong — Upper Bounds on the Magnetization of Ferromagnetic Ising Models
• Smyth, Noel Frederick — Part I: Soliton on a Beach and Related Problems. Part II: Modulated Capillary Waves
• Soto Gonzalez, Jorge — Mechanistic Aspects of the Ziegler-Natta Polymerization
• Steigerwald, Michael Louis — 2ₛ + 2ₛ Reactions at Transition Metals
• Swartz, Barry Allan — Free Jet Expansion Laser Spectroscopy of van der Waals Molecules Containing Ne and Br₂
• Tanveer, Saleh Ahmed — Topics in 2-D Separated Vortex Flows
• Templeton, Michael Karpovich — The Identification of Stable Reaction Intermediates on Aluminum Oxide Surfaces with Inelastic Electron Tunneling Spectroscopy
• Van Dyke, Michael W. — MPE•Fe(II) Footprinting: Drug Binding Sites on Native DNA
• Vorpérian, Vatché — Analysis of Resonant Converters
• Walck, Marianne Carol — Teleseismic Array Analysis of Upper Mantle Compressional Velocity Structure
• Wang, Chiun — The Effects of Curvature on Turbulent Mixing Layers
• Warne, Larry Kevin — Electromagnetic Radiation and Scattering in a Plasma with an Azimuthal Biasing Field
• White, Jeffrey Owen — Four-Wave Mixing and Phase Conjugation in Photorefractive Crystals
• Wilson, John Charles — Analysis of the Observed Earthquake Response of a Multiple Span Bridge
• Winget, James Michael — Element-by-Element Solution Procedures for Nonlinear Transient Heat Conduction Analysis
• Winkler, Jay Richmond — Spectroscopy and Photochemistry of Metal-Oxo Complexes
• Yang, Vigor — Pressure Oscillations in Liquid-Fueled Ramjet Engines
• Yu, Paul Kit-Lai — Long Wavelength InGaAsP/InP Lasers and Optoelectronic Integration
• Zur, Amikam — Theoretical Investigations of Solid Interfaces: 1. The Position of the Fermi Level at a Metal-Semiconductor Interface. 2. Geometric Lattice Match and Its Application to Heteroepitaxy. 3. Ab-Initio Calculation of the Elastic Properties of Silicon, Using Small Clusters