Dissertation (Ph.D.) — 1989

• Ahn, Hojin — Experimental and Analytical Investigations of Granular Materials: Shear Flow and Convective Heat Transfer
• Anilkumar, A. V. — Experimental Studies of High-Speed Dense Dusty Gases
• Barsony, Mary Anne — Outflows in High Mass Star-Forming Regions
• Beran, Philip Stewart — An Investigation of the Bursting of Trailing Vortices Using Numerical Simulation
• Brouillette, Martin — On the Interaction of Shock Waves with Contact Surfaces Between Gases of Different Densities
• Bunel, Emilio Enrique — Synthetic and Mechanistic Studies of Organoscandium Compounds. Dimerization and Branching of Alkenes Catalyzed by Scandocene Hydrides
• Bursik, Marcus Ivan — Late Quaternary Volcano-Tectonic Evolution of the Mono Basin, Eastern California
• Callahan, Sean Macauley — Exchange Interactions in Solid ³He on a Parallel Computer
• Chao, Chi-chao — Error-Correction Coding for Reliable Communication in the Presence of Extreme Noise
• Chiueh, Tzi-Dar — Pattern Classification and Associative Recall by Neural Networks
• Chow, David Hsingkuo — Growth, Characterization, and Simulation of Novel Semiconductor Tunnel Structures
• Christian, Eric Richard — Evidence for Anomalous Cosmic Ray Hydrogen
• Coffey, John Timothy — On Complexity and Efficiency in Encoding and Decoding Error-correcting Codes
• Colberg, Richard Dale — Area, Cost and Resilience Targets for Heat Exchanger Networks
• Collett, Jeffrey Lee, Jr. — Characterization of Cloudwater and Precipitation Chemistry and Deposition at Elevated Sites in Central and Southern California
• Collins, Oliver Michael — Coding Beyond the Computational Cutoff Rate
• Coms, Frank D. — Synthesis, Spectroscopy and Reactivity of Phenyl-Substituted 1,3-Biradicals
• Dearden, David Vernell — Experimental Probes of Gas Phase Ions and Molecules: I. Product Kinetic Energy Release Measurements as a Probe of Reaction Thermochemistry, Dynamics, and Chemical Structure in Systems Containing Transition Metal Ions. II. Photoelectron and Optical Studies of Organic Transient Species
• Derry, Pamela Louise — Properties of Buried Heterostructure Single Quantum Well (Al,Ga)As Lasers
• DiChristina, Thomas J. — Dissimilative Fe(III) Reduction by Alteromonas putrefaciens Strain 200
• Donlon, William Patrick, Jr. — Experimental Investigation of the Nonlinear Seismic Response of Concrete Gravity Dams
• Dowling, Timothy Edward — A Dynamical Study of Jupiter's Great Red Spot
• Eakle, Kurt Andrew — Characterization of the SEC18 Gene of S. cerevisiae: Identification of a Protein Involved in Yeast Secretion
• El-Aidi, Bahaa — Nonlinear Earthquake Response of Concrete Gravity Dam Systems
• El-Kareh, Ardith W. — I. On a New Constitutive Equation for Non-Newtonian Fluids. II. Brownian Motion with Fluid-Fluid Interfaces
• Feres, Renato — Geodesic Flows on Manifolds of Negative Curvature with Smooth Horospheric Foliations
• Fox, Lucius Seiberling — Intramolecular Electron Transfer in an Iridium d⁸-d⁸ Donor-Acceptor System
• Franz, Ronald John — Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Cavitation on the Rotordynamic Forces on a Whirling Centrifugal Pump Impeller
• Galazzo, Jorge Luis — Effects of Cell Entrapment in Ca-Alginate on the Metabolism of Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
• Grove, Jon Eric — A Balloon Measurement of the Isotopic Composition of Galactic Cosmic Ray Iron
• Gutt, Gary Michael — The Physics of Granular Systems
• Hahn, Young Shin Lim — Functional Analysis of Viral Nonstructural and Structural Proteins
• Handel, Tracy Marie — Disulphide Polymerizeable Phosphatidylcholines: Characterization of Membrane Physical Properties and Investigations of in vivo Behavior
• Harshman, Keith Duncan — Isolation and Characterization of Factors that Interact with Eukaryotic Transcriptional Enhancers
• Hasselblatt, Boris — Regularity of the Anosov Splitting and A New Description of the Margulis Measure
• Hauser, Kai — Independence Results for Indescribable Cardinals
• Healey, William Joseph — The Structural Basis of Enzyme Catalysis: Mutagenesis of β-lactamase at Ala 172, Glu 166, and Ala 237
• Herkenhoff, Kenneth Edward — Quantitative Studies of the Martian South Polar Region Using Spacecraft Images
• James, David Earl — Effects of Hydrazine and Other Toxicants on Early Life Stages of California Brown Algae
• Johnson, Matthew Bruce — Ultrafast Time-Resolved Photoluminescence Studies of GaAs
• Jones, Todd Jarrott — Radiation-Induced Conductivity in Amorphous Carbon
• Kanes, Katherine J. — Band 3 Structure and Function: ³⁵Cl NMR and Topographical Investigations
• Karas, Jennifer Lynn — Long-Range Electron Transfer in Ruthenium-Labelled Myoglobin
• Klavetter, Floyd L. — Polyacetylene and Novel Conjugated Derivatives through the Metathesis Polymerization of 1,3,5,7-Cyclooctatetraenes
• Kochanek, Christopher Sharpe — Studies in Gravitational Lensing and Numerical Hydrodynamics
• Kormann, Claudius — Synthesis and Characterization of Quantum Size Metal Oxide Colloidal Particles. Photocatalytic Peroxide Formation on ZnO and TiO₂
• Kreidenweis-Dandy, Sonia Maria — Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Binary Nucleation and Condensation
• Krishnaswamy, Sridhar — On the Domain of Dominance of the Asymptotic Elastodynamic Crack-Tip Fields
• Legros, Patrick — Efficiency and Stability in Partnerships
• Lindner, John Florian — Spectral Gaps from Ordered to Disordered Systems
• Lo, Davy — Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Sputtering
• Lu, Lun-Tseng — Dynamics, Noise Properties, and Spectral Characteristics of Semiconductor Lasers with External Coupling
• Ma, Doreen — Regulatory Elements in ColE1 DNA Replication in Escherichia coli. Mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA Polymerase I Resistant to Nucleotide Analogs: dNTP Binding Site Definition
• Maboudian, Roya — In-Situ Observation of Surface and Near-Surface Modification Using Scattering of Ballistic Phonons
• Maher, Kevin A. — Geology of the Jackson Mountains, Northwest Nevada
• Maher, Mary Ann Cecilia — A Charge-Controlled Model for MOS Transistors
• Maksimović, Dragan — Synthesis of PWM and Quasi-Resonant DC-to-DC Power Converters
• McChesney, Jon Mearns — Observations of Stochastic Ion Heating by Low Frequency Drift Waves
• McQueen, Anne T. — Ammonium Ion Effects on Hybridoma Cell Physiology
• Michelangeli, Diane Vera — I. Impact of Volcanic Aerosols on Stratospheric Chemistry. II. O₂(¹Σg⁺) and O₂(¹Δg⁺) in the H + O₂ Reaction System. III. Barotropic Instability of Zonal Jets on Mars, Earth and Venus
• Miles, Richard Henry — Structural and Optical Properties of Strained-Layer Superlattices
• Mittelstein, Michael — Theory and Experiments on Unstable-Resonator and Quantum Well GaAs/GaAlAs Lasers
• Mok, Fai Ho — Binary Correlators for Optical Computing and Pattern Recognition
• Morgan, Joel Edgar — Electron Transfer in Cytochrome c Oxidase: The Rate of Electron Equillibration Between Cytochrome a and Copper A
• Muldoon, Mark Raphael — Ghosts of Order on the Frontier of Chaos
• Munger, James William — The Chemical Composition of Fogs and Clouds in Southern California
• Nagler, Jonathan — An Examination of Strategic Opportunities Provided by the Conference Committee Procedure in the U.S. Congress
• Nakajima, Tadashi — Diffraction-Limited Imaging on the 200-Inch Telescope
• Nam, Suk Woo — Oxidative Chemisorption of SO₂ on γ-Al₂O₃ and Deposition of H₂-Permselective SiO₂ Films
• Navon, Oded — Chemical and Mineralogical Characterization of Micro-Inclusions in Diamonds
• Naylor, Adel Marie — Insights on Enzymes and Polymers from Molecular Dynamics Simulations: Applications to Dihydrofolate Reductase Complexes and Starburst Dendrimers
• Nazaroff, William W. — Mathematical Modeling and Control of Pollutant Dynamics in Indoor Air
• Ngai, John Yee-Keung — A Framework for Adaptive Routing in Multicomputer Networks
• Nguyen, Truong Quang — Design and Implementation of Linear-Phase and/or Pairwise-Symmetric Perfect-Reconstruction FIR Multirate Filter Banks
• Normanly, Jennifer — An in vivo Approach to tRNA Identity
• Nourse, Jonathan Alan — Geological Evolution of Two Crustal Scale Shear Zones. Part I: The Rand Thrust Complex, Northwestern Mojave Desert, California. Part II: The Magdalena Metamorphic Core Complex, North Central Sonora, Mexico
• Novak, Bruce Michael — Aqueous Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerizations
• Nowak, Paul Scott — Effect of Nonuniform Seismic Input on Arch Dams
• O'Callaghan-Hay, Bridget Mary Geraldine — A High Pressure Xenon Time Projection Chamber for Double Beta Decay
• Park, Joon Won — Reactivity of Titanocene Methylidene with Metal Halides, Alkene Sulfides, and Alkene Oxides
• Patrick, Valerie — Synthesis, Characterization, and Kinetics of Mixed Copper-Aluminum and Iron-Aluminum Oxides for High-Temperature Desulfurization
• Pegram, William Manson — The Federal Photovoltaics Commercialization Program
• Platt, John Carlton — Constraint Methods for Neural Networks and Computer Graphics
• Polanskey, Carol Ann — I. Impact Spallation Experiments: Fracture Patterns and Spall Velocities. II. Craters in Carbonate Rocks: An Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Analysis of Shock Damage
• Potterveld, David Henry — A Measurement of Inclusive Quasi-Elastic Electron Scattering Cross Sections at High Momentum Transfer
• Pranata, Julianto — Theoretical Studies of Novel Organic Systems: Biradicals, Polyradicals, and Conducting Polymers
• Prentice, Carol Seabury — Earthquake Geology of the Northern San Andreas Fault Near Point Arena, California
• Przybycien, Todd Michael — Structure, Function and Aggregation Kinetics in Salt-Induced Protein Precipitation
• Rasi, Marco — Mixing in Density-Stratified Conjugate Flows
• Renfranz, Patricia Jean — Molecular Neurogenetics of Eye Development in Drosophila
• Rom-Kedar, Vered — Part I. An Analytical Study of Transport, Mixing and Chaos in an Unsteady Vortical Flow. Part II. Transport in Two Dimensional Maps
• Rosakis, Phoebus — Ellipticity and Deformations with Discontinous Gradients in Finite Elastostatics
• Rotenberry, James Michael — Effect of Compliant Boundaries on Weakly Nonlinear Shear Waves in Channel Flow
• Rudolph, Henrik — Dynamics of Rotationally Resolved Multiphoton Ionization Processes in Molecules
• Salyards, Stephen Lowell — Dating and Characterizing Late Holocene Earthquakes Using Paleomagnetics
• Sánchez Peña, Ricardo Salvador — Robust Analysis of Feedback Systems with Parametric and Dynamic Structured Uncertainty
• Schalit, Mark Alan — Oscillating-Field Current-Drive Schemes for Tokamaks
• Scherer, Norbert Franz — Time-Resolved Studies of Molecular Reaction Dynamics and Development of Experimental Methodology
• Schneider, Steven Philip — Effects of Controlled Three-Dimensional Perturbations on Boundary Layer Transition
• Selman, Mary — Preparation and Characterization of and Intramolecular Electron Transfer in a Pentaammineruthenium Derivative of Candida krisei Cytochrome c
• Shanks, Jacqueline Vanni — Metabolic Engineering Applications of in vivo ³¹P and ¹³C NMR Studies of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
• Shin, Seung Koo — Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Silylenes, Silicenium Ions, and Organometallic Reactive Intermediates
• Sivertsen, Dave William — The Physiology of High-Order Visual Neurons in the Jumping Spider (Salticidae) and the Vocalizations of Free Ranging Owl Monkeys
• Smith, David Charles — Electronic Structure and Photochemical Reactivity of Binuclear Metal Complexes
• Soibelman, Israel — A Study of Finite Amplitude Bifurcations in Plane Poiseuille Flow
• Solomon, George Cleve — An ¹⁸O/¹⁶O Study of Mesozoic and Early Tertiary Granitic Batholiths of the Southwestern North American Cordillera
• St. Clair, Cynthia Strong — Electrochemical and Electron Transfer Investigations of Copper Proteins
• St. Clair, Martin A. — Synthetic and Structural Studies of Permethylscandocene and Permethyltantalocene Derivatives
• Stauffer, David Alan — The Ion-Dipole Effect is a Force for Molecular Recognition and Biomimetic Catalysis
• Sucov, Henry Michael — Characterization and Developmental Regulation of a Gene Expressed Specifically in the Skeletogenic Lineage of the Sea Urchin Embryo
• Sweder, Kevin Scot — Isolation and Characterization of Proteins that Bind to Yeast Origins of DNA Replication
• Thorp, H. Holden — The Photochemistry of Dioxorhenium(V)
• Ting, Francis Chi Kin — Interaction of Water Waves with a Density-Stratified Fluid in a Rectangular Trench
• Tomita, Yasuo — Modal Dispersal of Information and Wave Mixing in Photorefractive Crystals for Information Retrieval, Processing and Sensing
• Trimmer, Mark S. — Mechanistic and Reactivity Studies of Bent Metallocene Complexes of Niobium and Tantalum
• Verona, Maria Elena — Generic Differentiability of Convex Functions and Monotone Operators
• Vijayraghavan, Usha — A Genetic and Biochemical Analysis of pre-mRNA Splicing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
• Vogelaar, Nancy Swick — Structural and Mechanistic Motifs in Membrane Proteins: The Three-Dimensional Modelling of Rhodopsin, Band 3, and the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor
• Vogelaar, Robert Bruce — The ²⁶Al(p,γ)²⁷Si Reaction: Stellar Origins of Galactic ²⁶Al
• Von Herzen, Brian — Applications of Surface Networks to Sampling Problems in Computer Graphics
• Wade, Warren Stanfield — Sequence Specific Complexation of B DNA at Sites Containing G,C Base Pairs
• Walker, Robert Christian David — A Measurement of the Proton Elastic Form Factors for 1 ≤ Q² ≤ 3 (GeV/c)²
• Wang, Nam Sun — Mathematical and Experimental Studies of Microbial Processes with Lag Effects
• Watnick, Paula Ivonne — Cooperative Properties of Lipid Bilayers: Collective Director Fluctuations and the Effects of Hydrophobic Mismatch in Protein/Lipid Membrane Systems
• Weathers, Duncan Lee — Sputtering by Multiply-Charged Ions, and Preferential Sputtering of Isotopic Mixtures
• Williams, Wyman Lee — Computer-Aided Measurement of Microwave Circuits
• Winckelmans, Grégoire Stéphane — Topics in Vortex Methods for the Computation of Three- and Two-Dimensional Incompressible Unsteady Flows
• Wittrup, Karl Dane — Plasmid Propagation in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Flow Cytometry Studies and Segregated Modeling
• Xavier, Isaac de Melo, Jr. — Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy Study of Polyatomic Molecular Systems Under Pyrolytic Conditions
• Yurtsever, Ulvi Hamit — Singularities and Horizons in the Collisions of Gravitational Waves
• Zhu, Yanong — The Decay Properties of the ψ(3770)
• Zietlow, Miriam Heinrichs — Chemistry of Low-Valent Platinum Dimers
• Zucker, Michael Edward — Experiments with a Laser Interferometric Gravitational Wave Antenna