Dissertation (Ph.D.) — 1987

• Arakeri, Jaywant H. — Structure Measurements in a Synthetic Turbulent Boundary Layer
• Arnold, Robert Glenn — Dissimilative Fe(III) Reduction by Pseudomonas sp. 200
• Asselt, Allan van — Reactions of Oxygen Containing Ligands in the Coordination Sphere of Permethylhafnocene and Permethyltantalocene
• Astiz Delgado, Luciana Maria de Los Angeles — I. Source Analysis of Large Earthquakes in Mexico. II. Study of Intermediate-Depth Earthquakes and Interplate Seismic Coupling
• Athas, William C., Jr. — Fine Grain Concurrent Computations
• Axup, Andrew William — Laser Flash Spectroscopy of Zinc/Ruthenium Myoglobins: An Investigation of Distance and Medium Effects on Photoinduced Long-Range Intraprotein Electron Transfers
• Bassiri, Sassan — Electromagnetic Wave Propagation and Radiation in Chiral Media
• Bonnefoi, Alice Renée — Electronic Properties and Device Applications of GaAs/AlₓGa₁₋ₓAs Quantum Barrier and Quantum Well Heterostructures
• Boothroyd, Arnold Ian — Low Mass Stars with Mass Loss and Low-Luminosity Carbon Star Formation
• Brewster, Mary Elizabeth — Asymptotic Analysis of Thin Plates Under Normal Load and Horizontal Edge Thrust
• Brugman, Melinda Mary — Water Flow at the Base of a Surging Glacier
• Burger, Barbara J. — Olefin Insertion and β-Elimination Reactions of Permethylniobocene Olefin Hydride and Permethylscandocene Alkyl Complexes
• Burridge, Paul Brian — Failure of Slopes
• Campos, Jose Edgardo L. — The Political Economy of Price Supports
• Carroll, Steven S. — The Construction and Kinetic Analysis of Specific Mutants of β-Lactamase
• Carter, Emily Ann — Finesse in Quantum Chemistry: Accurate Energetics Relevant for Reaction Mechanisms
• Chang, Yie-Hwa — Studies of the Roles of Residues 71 and 72 of RTEM-1 Beta-Lactamase and the Structure-Function Relationships between Beta-Lactamases and D,D-Carboxypeptidases by Mutagenesis
• Cheng, Yang-Tse — Ion-Beam Mixing and the Formation of Amorphous Alloys
• Cheung, Kar-Ming — Error-Correction Coding in Data Storage Systems
• Cheung, Kwok-wai — An Acousto-Optical Correlation Spectrometer for Radio Astronomy
• Chiang, Huey-jenn — Studies of the Thermodynamics of Some Native and Ruthenated Metalloproteins by Spectroelectrochemistry
• Chobotov, Michael V. — Gravity Currents with Heat Transfer Effects
• Choo, Young-il — Logic from Programming Language Semantics
• Chou, Dean-Yi — Development and Evolution of Magnetic Fields in Active Regions on the Sun
• Chow, Christopher Vincent — The Flow of a Liquid Jet in a Homogenous Suspension
• Chu, Ming-chung — Hydrodynamics of Ultra-Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions
• Coffman, Daniel Mark — The Properties of Semileptonic Decays of Charmed D Mesons
• Cohen, Mark Daniel — Studies of Concentrated Electrolyte Solutions Using the Electrodynamic Balance
• Compton, Richard C. — Analysis of Millimeter and Microwave Integrated Circuits
• d'Agostino, Luca — Experimental and Theoretical Study on Cavitation Inception and Bubbly Flow Dynamics: I. Design, Development and Operation of a Cavitation Susceptibility Meter. II. Linearized Dynamics of Bubbly and Cavitating Flows with Bubble Dynamics Effects
• Dailey, Russell Lane — Conic Sector Analysis for Digital Control Systems with Structured Uncertainty
• Dandy, David Stewart — Intermediate Reynolds Number Free-Surface Flows
• Doğanata, Yurdaer Nezihi — Analysis of Traffic Problems of Integrated Networks
• Dussault, Patrick H. — Approaches to the Total Synthesis of Aplysiatoxin
• Edelson, Richard Allen — Broadband Properties of Active Galactic Nuclei
• Edelstein, Sergio — Adsorption of Sulphur Dioxide and Reduction of Sulphate on Alumina and Alkali-Alumina at High Temperatures
• Engstrom, James Robert — The Influence of Surface Structure and Adlayer Composition on the Kinetics and Mechanisms of Gas-Surface Reactions
• Erondu, Ngozi Emmanuel — Regional Distribution and Subcellular Associations of Type II Calcium and Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase in Rat Brain
• Fanson, James L. — An Experimental Investigation of Vibration Suppression in Large Space Structures Using Positive Position Feedback
• Finn, Lee Samuel — Relativistic Stellar Pulsations
• Flower, Jonathan William — Lattice Gauge Theory on a Parallel Computer
• Friedson, Andrew James — I. Meridional Energy Balance of Uranus. II. Viscosity of Rock-Ice Mixtures. III. The Thermosphere of Titan
• Grosz, Ron — Biochemical and Mathematical Modeling of Microaerobic Continuous Ethanol Production by Saccharomyces cerevisiae
• Hamidi, Shahram — Interactions of Strings Compactified on Orbifolds
• Hannoun, Imad A. — Turbulent Mixing in Stably-Stratified Fluids Subjected to Zero-Mean Shear
• Hauenstein, Robert Joseph — Investigations of Single-Crystal Silicide/Silicon Structures
• Hills, Malina Manon — Characterization of Reaction Intermediates and Adsorbate Interactions on the Ru(001) Surface
• Holden, Peter James — Extension Theorems for Functions of Vanishing Mean Oscillation
• Hong, John Hyunchul — Optical Computing for Adaptive Signal Processing and Associative Memories
• Houston, Heidi Beth — Source Characteristics of Large Earthquakes at Short Periods
• Humphrey, Joseph William, III — Linear and Nonlinear Acoustics with Nonuniform Entropy in Combustion Chambers
• Jain, Rakesh — Direct Observation and Reactions of Organic Biradicals Generated from Novel Bicyclic Azoalkanes
• Jayakumar, Paramsothy — Modeling and Identification in Structural Dynamics
• Jery, Belgacem — Experimental Study of Unsteady Hydrodynamic Force Matrices on Whirling Centrifugal Pump Impellers
• Kamm, James Russell — Shape and Stability of Two-Dimensional Uniform Vorticity Regions
• Kasilingam, Dayalan P. — Topics in Millimeter-Wave Imaging Arrays
• Keech, John Tyler — High Valent Osmium Complexes Incorporating a Tetradentate Tetraanionic Chelating Ligand; Stabilization Modification Resulting from the Formation of Non-Planar Amides
• Kirk, Randolph Livingstone — I. Thermal Evolution of Ganymede and Implications for Surface Features. II. Magnetohydrodynamic Constraints on Deep Zonal Flow in the Giant Planets. III. A Fast Finite-Element Algorithm for Two-Dimensional Photoclinometry
• Kremer, Richard M. — ¹²C(α,γ)¹⁶O Reaction at Low Energies
• Kytömaa, Harri Kaarlo — Stability of the Structure in Multicomponent Flows
• Lacerda, Nehemias Lima — On the Start Up of Supersonic Underexpanded Jets
• Lam, Wayne W. — Millimeter-Wave Monolithic Schottky Diode-Grid Phase Shifter
• Landman, Michael J. — New Solutions of an Amplitude Equation Describing Transition in a Laminar Shear Flow
• Lau, Billy Ying Bui — Small-Signal Frequency Response Theory for Ideal Dc-to-Dc Converter Systems
• Lee, Tai-yong — Estimation of Petroleum Reservoir Properties
• Leland, Burton Alan — Photoinduced Electron Transfer: Synthetic Models of the Primary Processes in Photosynthesis
• Leung, Ping-Sang Kenneth — Co-Phthalocyanine Catalyzed Autoxidation of Mercaptans
• Lin, Jane Ming-Chin — Transient Gas Jets into Liquid
• Lind, Kevin Robert — Observations and Gas Dynamics of Extragalactic Radio Jets
• Lindsey, Christopher Paul — High Power Phased Array and Tailored Gain Semiconductor Lasers
• Louie, John Nikolai — Seismic Reflection Experiments Imaging the Physical Nature of Crustal Structures in Southern California
• Lowe, Graeme — Rotation of Bacterial Flagella at High Frequency
• Lutz, Jack Harold — Resource-Bounded Category and Measure in Exponential Complexity Classes
• Lyn, Dennis Anthony — Turbulence and Turbulent Transport in Sediment-Laden Open-Channel Flows
• Lynch, Diane Lynn — Dynamics of Single and Multiphoton Ionization Processes in Molecules
• Mahadevan, Ramaswamy — Problems in Analysis, Control, and Design of Switching Inverters and Rectifiers
• Mandler, Jorge Anibal — Robust Control System Design for a Fixed-Bed Catalytic Reactor
• Marshall, Janet Layne — Spectroscopy and Photochemistry of Pyrazolyl-Bridged Binuclear Iridium(I) Complexes
• Masek, Brian B. — The Static and Dynamic Conformational Properties of Some (1,5)-Naphthalenophanes
• Matthews, Beverley Bond — Structure and Expression of the Actin Gene Family of Drosophila melanogaster
• Mattox, William Wayne — The Molecular Structure of the Beadex and Heldup-A Loci of Drosophila melanogaster
• Meinhart, James Douglas — Synthesis and Reactivity of Titanocene Methylene Complexes and Bis(η⁵-Cyclopentadienyl) Titanacyclobutenes
• Meister, Markus — Studies on Flagellar Rotation: The Angular Symmetry, the Stall Torque, and the Proton Consumption of the Bacterial Flagellar Motor
• Meredith, Dawn Christine — Quantum Chaos: Spectral Fluctuations and Overlap Distributions of the Three Level Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick Model
• Middlemas, David S. — Topographical Studies of the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor
• Mijić, Milan B. — Quantum and Inflationary Cosmology with Higher Derivative Gravity
• Morris, Duncan Andrew — The Relativistic String in the Caltech-II Model of Hadronization and Electron-Positron Annihilation
• Moser, Michael Anthony — The Response of Stick-Slip Systems to Random Seismic Excitation
• Natsiavas, Sotirios — Response and Failure of Fluid-Filled Tanks under Base Excitation
• Neitzel, James Joseph — The Expression, Stability, and Enzymatic Activity of Specific Beta-Lactamase Mutants
• Neuhauser, Daniel — Two Problems in Many Body Physics: I. Photon Production: A Probe of Heavy Ion Collisions. II. Structure of Matter in Strong Magnetic Fields
• Ngai, John J. — Expression of the Genes Encoding the Cytoskeletal Proteins Vimentin and Protein 4.1
• Ni, Ching-Long — Electrocatalytic Reduction of Dioxygen at Chemically Modified Electrodes
• O'Connor, Kim Claire — The Effects of Immobilization on Structure and Substrate Activation of Glutamate Dehydrogenase
• O'Hern, Timothy John — Cavitation Inception Scale Effects: I. Nuclei Distributions in Natural Waters. II. Cavitation Inception in a Turbulent Shear Flow
• Odencrantz, Kristiana — Effects of a Magnetic Field on the Trace of the Heat Kernel for a Schrödinger Operator with a Potential Well
• Onuchic, José Nelson — New aspects of the theory of electron transfer reaction dynamics
• Paciello, Rocco Angelo — Synthesis and Reactivity of Electron-Rich Ruthenium and Iron Half-Sandwich Complexes
• Papamoschou, Dimitri — Experimental Investigation of Heterogeneous Compressible Shear Layers
• Paparizos, Leonidas G. — Some Observations on the Random Response of Hysteretic Systems
• Peake, Geoffrey Tower — Studies of the Donor Properties of New Polyanionic Chelating Ligands through the Synthesis and Characterization of Osmium Complexes
• Peretti, Steven William — Theoretical Modeling and Experimental Investigation of Host-Plasmid Interactions in Recombinant Escherichia coli
• Pjura, Philip — X-Ray Crystallographic Studies of DNA-Drug and DNA-Protein Interactions
• Polychronakos, Alexios P. — Anomalous Quantum Mumbers and Topological Properties of Field Theories
• Prairie, Michael Roland — Steady-State and Transient Methods for Modeling Chemical Reactions on Supported Catalysts
• Rakuljic, George Anthony — Photorefractive Properties and Applications of Barium Titanate and Tungsten Bronze Ferroelectrics
• Ramarathnam, Narasimhan — Mode I, Plane Stress Crack Initiation and Growth in Elastic-Plastic Solids: A Finite Element Analysis
• Regan, Janice — Numerical Studies of Propagation of Lg Waves Across Ocean Continent Boundaries Using the Representation Theorem
• Rivera, Daniel Eduardo — Modeling Requirements for Process Control
• Romani, Roger William — Neutron Stars Observations as Astrophysical Probes
• Rudin, Leonid Iakov — Images, Numerical Analysis of Singularities and Shock Filters
• Rudy, Donald James — Mars: High Resolution VLA Observations at Wavelengths of 2 and 6 cm and Derived Properties
• Sageev Grader, Gideon — Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy of a Single Aerosol Particle
• Sanders, Christopher O'Neill — I. Seismotectonics of the San Jacinto Fault Zone and the Anza Seismic Gap. II. Imaging the Shallow Crust in Volcanic Areas with Earthquake Shear Waves
• Schatzle, Paul Russell — An Experimental Study of Fusion of Vortex Rings
• Schilling, Jerald Bruce — Experimental and Theoretical Aspects of Hydrocarbon Activation by Transition Metal Ions in the Gas Phase
• Schmitt, Douglas Ray — I. Applications of Double-Exposure Holography to the Measurement of In Situ Stress and the Elastic Moduli of Rock from Boreholes. II. Shock Temperature Measurements in Fused Quartz and Crystalline NaCl to 35 GPa
• Scott, David Russell — Magmons: Solitary Waves Arising in the Buoyant Ascent of Magma by Porous Flow through a Viscously Deformable Matrix
• Siopsis, George — Some Aspects of the Quantization of Theories with a Gauge Invariance
• Skogestad, Sigurd — Studies on Robust Control of Distillation Columns
• Sobota, Thomas Henry — An Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Swirling Flows in a Rectangular Nozzle
• Sponsler, Michael Bradley — Synthesis, EPR Spectroscopy, and Matrix-Isolation Decay Kinetics of Triplet Cyclobutanediyls
• Sterling, James David — Longitudinal Mode Combustion Instabilities in Air Breathing Engines
• Stolorz, Paul Ernest — Numerical Simulations of Lattice QCD
• Toby, Brian H. — Studies of Molecular Bonding, Interactions and Decomposition Reactions on the (001) Surface of Ruthenium
• Toner, Stephen James — Entrainment, Chemistry, and Structure of Fire Plumes
• Tsai, Wilman — Interactions of Ammonia with Platinum and Ruthenium Surfaces
• Vajo, John J. — Mechanistic Studies of Heterogeneously Catalyzed Reactions of Ammonia and Acetic Acid on Platinum Surfaces
• Venkatesh, Santosh Subramanyam — Linear Maps with Point Rules: Applications to Pattern Classification and Associative Memory
• Vidale, John Emilio — Application of Two-Dimensional Finite-Difference Wave Simulation to Earthquakes, Earth Structure, and Seismic Hazard
• Voth, Gregory Alan — Theoretical Studies of Intramolecular Dynamics and Energy Redistribution
• Wagner, Kelvin H. — Time and Space Integrating Acousto-Optic Signal Processing
• Walzl, Kerry Neil — Variable-Angle Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy of Polyatomic Molecular Systems
• Wang, Hsin — Mössbauer and Spectroscopic Studies of Yeast Cytochrome Oxidase
• Wark, David Lee — The β Spectrum Following Fission from ²⁵²Cf
• Warr, Brian John — The Regularisation and Renormalisation of Gauge Theories
• Wawrzynek, John Charles — VLSI Concurrent Computation for Music Synthesis
• Waymouth, Robert Mebane — Synthesis and Reactivity of Alkylaluminum Adducts of Zirconium Ketene and Ketone Complexes
• Werner, Bradley T. — A Physical Model of Wind-Blown Sand Transport
• Williamson, Jack Marshall — Financial Equilibrium, Voting Procedures, and Coalition Structures in Allocational Mechanisms
• Wu, Jin Jwang — Powder Synthesis in Aerosol Reactors
• Yeh, Xian-Li — Reaction of Hydrogen with Crystalline and Amorphous Alloys — Crystal to Amorphous Transformation Induced by Hydrogen
• Yu, Lei — The Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor: Gene Expression and Ion Channel Function
• Zafiriou, Evanghelos — A Methodology for the Synthesis of Robust Control Systems for Multivariable Sampled-Data Processes
• Zehnder, Alan T. — Dynamic Fracture Initiation and Propagation in Metals: Experimental Results and Techniques
• Zhang, Zhe — Coupled-Inductor Magnetics in Power Electronics
• Zufiria, Juan Antonio — Part I: Symmetry Breaking of Water Waves. Part II: On the Superharmonic Instability of Surface Water Waves