Dissertation (Ph.D.) — 1988

• Adkins, Carol Leslie Jones — Use of a Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor for the Study of Aqueous Aerosol Chemistry
• Allen, Theodore John — The Singular Mechanics of Particles and Strings
• Anlage, Steven Mark — Icosahedral Order in Metastable Metallic Alloys
• Anslyn, Eric Van — Mechanistic, Synthetic and Theoretical Studies of High Valent Metallacycles and metal Alkylidenes
• Antypas, William George, Jr. — Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Biological Systems
• Arndt, Norbert Karl Erhard — Experimental Investigation of Rotor-Stator Interaction in Diffuser Pumps
• Ascoli, Edward Paul — The Effects of a Planar Wall on the Low Reynolds Number Motion of Solid Particles, Drops and Bubbles
• Avila-Segura, Francisco E. — The Creeping Motion of Immiscible Drops Through a Converging/Diverging Tube: I. Non-Newtonian Effects of Viscoelastic Drops. II. Effects of Constant Pressure Gradient Condition for the Flow. III. Motion of Drops Through a Parallel Channel
• Bagajewicz, Miguel Jorge — Studies on Hot Gas H₂S Removal Sorbents in Fixed-Bed Reactors at High Temperatures
• Baker, Brenda Faye — Sequence Specific Cleavage of Double Helical DNA N-Bromoacetyldistamycin
• Bell, Mark Robert — Information Theory and Radar: Mutual Information and the Design and Analysis of Radar Waveforms and Systems
• Boudville, Wesley J. — Fluctuations Due to Object Discreteness
• Braunstein, Samuel Leon — Novel Quantum States and Measurements
• Brusich, Mark John — Theoretical Insights into the Bonding in Thorium Organometallic Complexes: A Comparison with Group IV Transition Metal Chemistry
• Bulls, Al Ray — Carbon-Hydrogen Bond Activation by Peralkylhafnocene and Peralkylscandocene Derivatives
• Butler, Malcolm Nicholas — Scaling Violations in Quasielastic Electron Scattering
• Callaway, Edward Matthew — Regulation of Competitive Interactions During Neuromuscular Synapse Elimination
• Cannizzo, Louis Fiscel — Titanium Carbenes: Reactions with Selected Carbonyl Compounds and Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization of Cyclic Olefins
• Chan, Hong-Man — Numerical Study of Quiescent and Sheared Sedimenting Suspensions
• Chang, Caren — Molecular Genetic Studies in Arabidopsis thaliana: I. Cloning and Characterization of the Alcohol Dehydrogenase Gene; II. Complementation of an Alcohol Dehydrogenase Mutant; III. A Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Map of the Genome
• Chang, Shih-Bin Robin — Bacterial Magnetite in Sedimentary Deposits and its Geophysical and Paleoecological Implication
• Clawson, Leigh Ellen — Studies on the Reactivity of Titanocene Alkylidenes and Titanocene Alkyl Chlorides
• Cline, James Michael — Effective Lagrangians and Infinity Cancellations for Open String Theories
• Cline, Joseph Isaac, III — Photodissociation Dynamics of Triatomic van der Waals Molecules
• Cox, Robert William — A Model for Stress-Driven Diffusion in Polymers
• Crouch, David Dale — A Theoretical Study of the Generation of Squeezed-State Light via Degenerate Parametric Amplification
• Da Silva, Nancy Anderson — Host-Plasmid Interactions and Regulation of Cloned Gene Expression in Recombinant Cells
• Douglas, Michael Ronald — G/H Conformal Field Theory
• Dowling, David Russell — Mixing in Gas Phase Turbulent Jets
• Dowling, Michael John — Nonlinear Seismic Analysis of Arch Dams
• Dubs, Richard Leslie — Single- and Multiphoton Ionization Processes in Molecules
• Durón, Ziyad Hassan — Experimental and Finite Element Studies of a Large Arch Dam
• Edwards, Richard Lawrence — High Precision Thorium-230 Ages of Corals and the Timing of Sea Level Fluctuations in the Late Quaternary
• Evard, Dwight David — Structure and Dynamics of Several Rare Gas-Halogen van der Waals Molecules
• Finger, Mark Harold — The Imaging of Extra-Galactic Low-Energy Gamma-Ray Sources: Prospects, Techniques, and Instrumentation
• Fisher, Peter Harrison — A Search for Double Beta Decay in ⁷⁶Ge
• Freeland, Stephen D. — I. A Unified Analysis of Converters with Resonant Switches. II. Input-Current Shaping for Single-Phase Ac-Dc Power Converters
• Fuhs, Susan Elizabeth — Studies of Inertial Deposition of Particles onto Heat Exchanger Elements
• Garfinkel, Mark David — Structural and Functional Studies of the 68C Glue Protein Gene Cluster of Drosophila melanogaster
• Gasmi, Farid — Econometrics of Duopolistic Games in Prices and Advertising: The Case of the U.S. Soft Drink Industry
• Giezen, Jurgen Johannes — Plastic Buckling of Cylinders Under Biaxial Loading
• Glaffig, Clemens H. — Smoothness of the Integrated Density of States for Random Schrödinger Operators on Multidimensional Strips
• Green, Sheldon Isaiah — Tip Vortices - Single Phase and Cavitating Flow Phenomena
• Grossman, Erich Nathan — A Far-Infrared Heterodyne Spectrometer for Airborne Astronomy
• Hahn, Chang Soo — Structure-Function Relationships in the Structural Proteins and in the RNAs of Alphaviruses and Flaviviruses
• Hair, Sally Reid — Experimental and Theoretical Studies of van der Waals Molecule Photodissociation
• Hannoun, Betty Jane Miller — Ethanol Production by Saccharomyces cerevisiae Immobilized in Calcium Alginate
• Hansen, Wendy Lynn — Regulatory Theory and Its Application to Trade Policy: A Study of ITC Decision-Making
• Hardarson, Askell — Doublewell Tunneling via the Feynman-Kac Formula
• Hernández Valencia, Enrique José — Queues of Queues in Communication Networks
• Hipes, Paul Gregory — Three Dimensional Atom-Diatom Reactive Scattering Calculations Using Symmetrized Hyperspherical Coordinates
• Ho-Liu, Phyllis Hang-Yin — I. Attenuation Tomography. II. Modeling Regional Love Waves: Imperial Valley to Pasadena
• Hong, Pui-Kwan Andrew — Catalytic Oxidation of Sulphur Dioxide by Heterogeneous Cobalt-Phthalocyanine
• Hu, Mickey ChienTsung — I. The E. coli Lac Operator-Repressor System is Functional for Control of Gene Expression in Animal Cells. II. Molecular Cloning and Characterization of the Mouse Skeletal Muscle (α) Actin Gene
• Hungerford, Gregory Jude — Boundaries of Smooth Sets and Singular Sets of Blaschke Products in the Little Bloch Class
• Huxtable, Barton Duane — Absence of a Scott Correction for the Total Binding Energy of Noninteracting Fermions in a Smooth Potential Well
• Iverson, Brent Lee — 1. Nonenzymatic Cleavage of Single-Stranded DNA to Nucleotide Resolution. 2. Novel Base Specific DNA Cleavage Reactions
• Iverson, Sheila Anne — Blue Copper Proteins: Gene Synthesis and Expression
• Kamb, Alexander — Molecular Biology of Shaker, a Drosophila Gene that Encodes Multiple Potassium Channel Components
• Kang, In Seok — Bubble Dynamics and Breakup in Straining Flows
• Karyeaclis, Michael P. — Dynamics of a Semi-Active Impact Damper: Regular and Chaotic Motions
• Khundkar, Lutfur Rahman — Microcanonical Rates of Unimolecular Reactions Studied by Time-Resolved Photofragment Spectroscopy
• Kim, Sung Joon — I. Ion-Solid Interactions with Markers. II. Oxidation Phenomena in Silicides and Aluminides
• King, Michael Paul — Studies of Human Mitochondria. I. Steady-State Levels and Metabolic Properties of the Mitochondrial tRNAs. II. Injection of Mitochondria into Human Cells Leads to a Rapid Replacement of the Endogenous Mitochondrial DNA
• Kiritsis, Elias B. — Topics in Conformal Field Theory
• Klippenstein, Stephen Jacob — Theoretical Studies of Chemical Reaction Dynamics
• Korber, Bette Tina Marie — Regulation of Class I Genes by Interferons
• Kruppa, Gary Hermann — Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Reactive Intermediates
• Kumar, Pawan — Excitation and Damping of Solar P-Modes
• Lane, Charles E. — GUT Monopole Detection with Scintillator
• Larson, Susan Mary — A Study of Summer Midday Low-Visibility Events in the Los Angeles Area
• Laughlin, Daniel Lee — Control System Design for Robust Performance Despite Model Parameter Uncertainties: Application to Cross-Directional Response Control in Paper Manufacturing
• Lederman, Steven Mark — Artificial Intelligence in Quantum Intramolecular Dynamics with Application to a Heavy Central Mass Problem
• Lester, Julia Catherine — Hydrodynamic Dispersion in Concentrated Sedimenting Suspensions
• Levendis, Yiannis Angelo — A Fundamental Study of Char Oxidation Kinetics Using Model Materials
• Liang, Liyuan — Effects of Surface Chemistry on Kinetics of Coagulation of Submicron Iron Oxide Particles (α-Fe₂O₃) in Water
• Lin, Anne — A Numerical Evaluation of the Method of Equivalent Nonlinearization
• Liu, Gang — In Search of Slow-moving Ionizing Massive Particles
• Loewenberg, Michael — A Theoretical Study of Reaction and Diffusion in Microstructured Materials
• Ma, Hong — Experimental Tests of Electroweak Theory with µ⁺µ⁻ and µ⁺µ⁻γ Final States from e⁺e⁻ Annihilation
• Madhavan, Raghu — On the Collapse of Long Thick-Walled Circular Tubes under Biaxial Loading
• Majani, Eric Etienne — A Model for the Study of Very Noisy Channels, and Applications
• Manduca, Cathryn Clement Allen — Geology and Geochemistry of the Oceanic Arc-Continent Boundary in the Western Idaho Batholith near McCall
• Martin, Christopher Hayes — Evolution and Expression at the 68C Glue Gene Cluster of Drosophila
• Matus Bloch, Ivan J. — Models for the Avoidance Response in Phycomyces
• Mayo, Stephen Leon — Electron Transfer in Structurally Engineered Metalloproteins
• McAdon, Mark Herbert — New Concepts of Metallic Bonding
• McCarthy, James K. — Echelle Spectroscopy of the Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae
• Meng, Wen Jin — Solid State Amorphization Reactions in thin Film Diffusion Couples
• Miller, Stephen G. — Brain Type II Calcium and Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase: Characterization of a Brain-Region Specific Isozyme and Regulation by Autophosphorylation
• Morris, Michael Scott — The R +ɛR² Cosmology
• Northrop, Paul Scott — A Fundamental Study of Char Combustion: Changes in Particle Morphology during Oxidation
• Ojakangas, Gregory Wayne — I. Episodic Volcanism of Tidally Heated Satellites with an Application to Io. II. Thermal State of an Ice Shell on Europa. III. Polar Wander of a Synchronously Rotating Satellite with Application to Europa
• Olson, Terese Marie — The Formation Kinetics, Mechanisms, and Thermodynamics of S(IV)-Aldehyde Addition Compounds
• Parker, Garth Rockwood, Jr. — Determination of Nascent H₂ Rovibrational Distributions by Laser Induced Fluorescence: Applications to Formaldehyde Photodissociation and Hydrogen Exchange Reactions
• Parmeter, John Ethan — The Organometallic Chemistry of the Ru(001) Surface
• Parsons, Ian Dennis — The Application of the Multigrid Method to the Finite Element Solution of Solid Mechanics Problems
• Peng, Chia-Yen — Generalized Modal Identification of Linear and Nonlinear Dynamic Systems
• Perez, Dianne Marie — Structure-Function Studies of Serine Hydrolases: Synthesis of a Gene for α-Lytic Protease and the Purification and Characterization of a Mutant β-Lactamase
• Pettersen, Michael Steven — Melting of Methane Adsorbed on Graphite Studied by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
• Petti, Michael Anthony — Studies in Molecular Recognition
• Pilinis, Christodoulos — Mathematical Modeling of the Dynamics and Thermodynamics of Multicomponent Atmospheric Aerosols
• Porter, Alain Cheyney — Isophotometry of Brightest Elliptical Galaxies in Rich Clusters
• Pugh, Jeffrey David — Finite Amplitude Waves in Plane Poiseuille Flow
• Reardon, Kenneth Frederick — Deactivation and Regeneration Kinetics during Bioconversions by Immobilized Clostridium acetobutylicum
• Rebeiz, Gabriel M. — Monolithic Millimeter-Wave Two-Dimensional Horn Imaging Arrays
• Regehr, Wade Gordon — Neuron-Microdevice Connections
• Rey, Soo-Jong — On the BRST Invariance of String Theory
• Reyes, Vicente Mendoza — Transcription and Processing of Transfer RNA in S. cerevisiae
• Rizvi, Syed Azhar Abbas — The Critical Points of Poynting Vector Fields
• Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent — The Fruits of Revolution; Property Rights, Litigation and French Agriculture 1700-1860
• Sahu, Ranajit — On the Combustion of Bituminous Coal Chars
• Seressiotis, Alexandros — Mathematical Models Based on Molecular Processes of the Cell
• Shanks, Brent Howard — Reactor Input Manipulation for Developing Models for Catalytic Reactions
• Shepodd, Timothy Jon — Studies in Molecular Recognition: Hydrophobic Binding of Water-Soluble Guests by High Symmetry, Chiral Hosts
• Silver, Lynn Alison — Water in Silicate Glasses
• Sluka, James P. — Design, Synthesis and Characterization of Sequence Specific DNA Cleaving Agents
• Smith, Paul Wesley, Jr. — Considerations for the Design of Gas-Lubricated Slider Bearings
• Smith, Sheryl Leigh — A Search for Gravitational Waves from Coalescing Binary Stars Using the Caltech 40 Meter Gravity Wave Detector
• Smyth, Padhraic — The Application of Information Theory to Problems in Decision Tree Design and Rule-Based Expert Systems
• Snyder, ‌Gary James — 2,4-Dimethylene-1,3-Cyclobutanediyl and 2,4-Dimethylenebicyclobutane. Synthesis, Spectroscopy, and Reactivity of a Triplet Biradical and Its Covalent Isomer
• So, Frank Cheung Tao — Diffusion Barriers for VLSI Applications
• Soha, James Martin — Specificity and Competition During Maturation of Neuromuscular Synapses
• Stern, Jennifer E. — Aerosol Formation and Growth in Aromatic Hydrocarbon/NOₓ Systems
• Stone, Howard Alvin — Dynamics of Drop Deformation and Breakup in Time-Dependent Flows at Low Reynolds Numbers
• Stone, Howard D. — Experimental Tests of QCD and Fragmentation Models in Electron-Positron Annihilation
• Stoos, James Arthur — Particle Dynamics near Fluid Interfaces in Low-Reynolds Number Flows
• Stork, Christof — Ray Trace Tomographic Velocity Analysis of Surface Seismic Reflection Data
• Svendsen, Robert Frederik, Jr. — Optical Radiation from Shock-Compressed Materials
• Swager, Timothy Manning — Precursor Routes to Conducting Polymers from the Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization of Cyclic Olefins
• Theiler, James Patrick — Quantifying Chaos: Practical Estimation of the Correlation Dimension
• Treco, Brian G. R. T. — Production of Transition Metal Oxidants through Design and Synthesis of Polyanionic Chelating Ligands
• Waas, Anthony Marius — Compression Failure of Fibrous Laminated Composites in the Presence of Stress Gradients: Experiment and Analysis
• Wang, Haimin — Magnetic Fields and Supergranule Velocity Fields on the Quiet Sun
• Wang, Rueen-Fang Theresa — Laboratory Analysis of Settling Velocities of Wastewater Particles in Seawater using Holography
• Ward, Michael Jeffrey — Asymptotic Methods in Semiconductor Device Modeling
• Wengler, Michael James — Heterodyne Detection with Superconducting Tunnel Diodes
• Whirley, Robert Gary — Random Response of Nonlinear Continuous Systems
• Witt, Stephan N. — The Mechanism of Cytochrome c Oxidase-Catalyzed Dioxygen Reduction
• Woodward, Ted Kirk — Experimental Studies of Heterostructure Devices: Resonant Tunneling Transistors and GaAs/AlAs/GaAs Capacitors
• Wu, Yu-shu George — Electronic Properties of II-VI Superlattices and III-V Tunnel Structures
• Youngquist, Robert Scott — Sequence Specific Recognition and Cleavage of DNA by Synthetic Molecules
• Yu, Jeffrey Winston — Optical Processing Using Photorefractive Crystals
• Yuan, Ren-Feng — ¹⁸O + ¹⁸O Reactions
• Zhang, Jiajun — Determination of Source Finiteness and Depth of Large Earthquakes