Dissertation (Ph.D.) — 1991

• Altman, Elliot Charles — Characterization of the SecB Protein, a Chaperone that Facilitates Protein Secretion in Escherichia coli
• Atiya, Amir — Learning algorithms for neural networks
• Bai, Gang — I. Heteroepitaxy on Si. II. Ion implantation in Si and heterostructures
• Beck, Robert Teran — Fundamental Problems in the Application of Structural Identification Procedures to Damage Detection
• Blauch, David N. — Part I. Improvements in the rotation-rate step experiment for the evaluation of diffusion coefficients at rotating disk electrodes. Part II. Ion-pairing and electric field effects on electron hopping in the Nafion-tris(2,2'-bipyridine)osmium(3+/2+) system
• Bonnecaze, Roger Temor — Macroscopic properties of electrically interacting suspensions
• Bowers, Clifford Russell — Parahydrogen and Synthesis Allow Dramatically Enhanced Nuclear Alignment
• Bowman, John L. — Molecular genetics of flower development in Arabidopsis thaliana
• Boyd, Charles Glenn — Aspects of heavy quark physics
• Boylan, Richard Thomas — The analysis of repeated games through evolution and learning
• Braunstein, Matthew — Photoionization dynamics and ion state distributions in single-photon and resonance enhanced multiphoton ionization of molecules
• Brewer, John C. — Syntheses, characterizations and reactivity of trans-dioxorhenium(V) and -(VI) complexes
• Brown, Timothy X. — Neural network design for switching network control
• Bucher, Martin — On the theory of non-Abelian vortices and cosmic strings
• Burns, Steven Morgan — Performance analysis and optimization of asynchronous circuits
• Carico, David Paul — Properties of infrared-luminous galaxies, or, how I spent seven summer vacations
• Chang, Thomas Kyu-Young — Gene synthesis, expression, and mutagenesis of azurin
• Chen, Yih-Yuh — Effects of boundaries on Rayleigh-Benard convection
• Claeys, Ivan Lode Andre Maria — Hydrodynamic Transport Properties of Suspensions of Non-Brownian Prolate Spheroids
• Coppi, Paolo Severo — Radiative processes in active galactic nuclei
• Croke, Edward Timothy, III — Growth and Characterization of Si-Based Electronic Materials for Novel Device Applications
• Cuccaro, Steven Andrew — Ab initio three-dimensional atom-diatom reaction cross sections using hyperspherical coordinates and variational surface functions
• Dantus, Marcos — Femtosecond transition-state spectroscopy of chemical reactions
• DeLatte, David A. — Nonstationary normal forms for anosov diffeomorphisms and hyperbolic skew products
• DeWeerth, Stephen Paul — Analog VLSI Circuits for Sensorimotor Feedback
• Dong, Dawei — Dynamic Properties of Neural Networks
• Doyle, Francis Joseph, III — Robustness properties of nonlinear process control and implications for the design and control of a packed bed reactor
• Dumas, Guy — Study of spherical couette flow via 3-D spectral simulations: large and narrow-gap flows and their transitions
• Dyer, Lounette M. — An Object-Oriented Real-Time Simulation of Music Performance Using Interactive Control
• Elliott, Alexander H. — Transfer of solutes into and out of streambeds
• Emerling, Michael Roy — Enzymatic hydrolysis of the amide bond : mutagenic studies of the mechanisms of [alpha]-lytic protease and [beta]-lactamase
• Erel, Yigal — Transport of Natural Lead and Cadmium in Rivers: Global Flux Implications
• Erlanson, Ruth A. — Soft-decision decoding of a family of nonlinear codes using a neural network
• Fahnestock, Mark Allen — Hydrologic control of sliding velocity in two Alaskan glaciers : observation and theory
• Farid, Ramy Samir — Electron transfer in rigid and semi-rigid iridium d8-d8 donor-spacer-acceptor complexes
• Fried, Eliot — Aspects of the morphological character and stability of two-phase states in non-elliptic solids
• Gilbrech, Richard Joseph — An experimental investigation of chemically-reacting, gas-phase turbulent jets
• Ginsburg, Eric Jay — Soluble polyacetylenes by the ring-opening methathesis polymerization of substituted cyclooctatetraenes
• Graves, Robert Wilson — Modeling seismic wave propagation using paraxial extrapolators
• Gupta, Rajiv — Compiler Optimization of Data Storage
• Gursky, Matthew J. — Compactness of Conformal Metrics with Integral Bounds on Curvature
• Hall, Jeffery Lawrence — An experimental investigation of structure, mixing and combustion in compressible turbulent shear layers
• Han, Mingsheng — The I-band Tully-Fisher relation and large-scale motions in the universe
• Harris, John Gregory — Analog Models for Early Vision
• Hart, Roger A. — Characterization of Vitreoscilla hemoglobin inclusion bodies produced in Escherichia coli
• Herman, Paul Kenneth — Protein Sorting in the Eukaryotic Secretory Pathway: An Essential Role for a Novel Yeast Protein Kinase
• Hill, Larry Glenn — An experimental study of evaporation waves in a superheated liquid
• Hobson, Dana Daniel — Point Vortex Models for Modon Dynamics
• Hoh, Jan Hakan — Studies on the structure and molecular diversity of the gap junction
• Hollenbaugh, Diane — Specificity determinants of the class A [beta]-lactamase RTEM-1
• Horrell, Robin Scott — Aspects of atmospheric transport and dispersion within an air basin
• Huang, David Da-Teh — Aerosol coagulation and nucleation
• Hudson, Raymond Scott — Radar imaging for aircraft identification and planetary astronomy
• Hwang, Lorraine Joyce — Teleseismically determined source parameters of several large collision-zone earthquakes
• Ihinger, Phillip Dean — An experimental study of the interaction of water with granitic melt
• Irikura, Karl Kensuke Mason — Gas-Phase Chemistry of Organotransition Metal Ions
• Jackson, Michael Kevin — Optical studies of semiconductor heterostructures: measurements of tunneling times, and studies of strained superlattices
• Jacobs, Bradley Anson — Preparation, characterization, and intramolecular electron transfer in pentaammineruthenium-modified derivatives of cytochrome b5 and azurin
• Kan, Sidney Chunping — Physics and applications of resonant tunneling devices
• Kantor, Shawn Everett — Property Rights and Dynamics of Institutional Change: The Closing of the Georgia Open Range, 1870-1900
• Katafygiotis, Lambros Solon — Treatment of Model Uncertainties in Structural Dynamics
• Kaufman, James Morris — Frequencies and amplitudes of high-degree solar oscillations
• Kiefer, Walter Scott — Models for the formation of highland regions on Venus
• Kim, Kihong — Quantum critical phenomena in superfluids and superconductors
• King, Scott David — The interaction of subducting slabs and the 670 kilometer discontinuity
• Kittl, Jorge A. — Growth and characterization of Y-BA-CU-O high-Tc superconductor thin films
• Knierim, James Julius — Neural Responses to Texture Patterns in Area V1 of the Alert Monkey
• Koh, Christopher James — Experimental and theoretical studies on two-phase flows
• Koh, Jong Sung — Design of novel bases for recognition of GC base pairs by oligonucleotide-directed triple helix formation
• Koilpillai, Ravinder David — Design issues in multirate digital filter banks, including transmultiplexers
• Kosinski, Michael J. — Degradation kinetics of an abnormal beta-galactosidase in Escherichia coli
• Kramer, Kathleen A. — Large operand division and an asynchrous approach to fault detection
• Krueger, Barry Robert — Shock-wave processing of powder mixtures
• Labgold, Marc Robert — Novel Biological Catalysts: Mutagenesis of RTEM β-Lactamase to Alter Substrate and Catalytic Specificity
• Laroche, Lionel — Homogeneous Azeotropic Distillation: Entrainer Selection
• Larsen, Shawn Christian — Geodetic measurement of deformation in southern California
• Lee, Jay Hyung — Robust Inferential Control: A Methodology for Control Structure Selection and Inferential Control System Design in the Presence of Model/Plant Mismatch
• Leyva, Victor — Investigations of the photorefractive effect in potassium tantalum niobate
• Lochrie, Michael Alan — Molecular biology of G protein alpha subunits from bovine photoreceptors and the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans
• Long, David M. — Structure and mechanism of RTEM-1 [beta]-lactamase : the role of lysine 234
• Lupia, Arthur William — The effect of political information on direct democracy strategies and outcomes
• Mack, David Phillip — Design and chemical synthesis of sequence specific DNA cleaving metalloproteins
• Mahanthappa, Nagesh Kalyana — Functional and biochemical studies on neuronal Thy-1
• Makivic, Miloje S. — Monte Carlo studies of two dimensional quantum spin systems
• Mazorow, Moya Michelle — Extremal problems in codes, finite sets and geometries
• McCormack, Ken — Structure-function studies of Drosophila shaker potassium channels
• Miller, Jonathan — Statistical mechanics of two-dimensional Euler equations and Jupiter's great red spot
• Miller, Paul Lewis — Mixing in high Schmidt number turbulent jets
• Miner, Jeffrey H. — Factors regulating skeletal muscle development : cell culture and transgenic mouse studies
• Molloy, Sean S. — A study of the type II CA2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase on hippocampal neurons
• Mooney, Richard Daniel — The Development of Connectivity and the Nature of Synaptic Transmission between Avian Song Control Nuclei
• Morehart, James Henry — Species Produced in Fires Burning in Two-Layered and Homogenous Vitiated Environments
• Moses, Julianne Ives — I. Phase Transformations and the Spectral Reflectance of Solid Sulfur: Possible Metastable Sulfur Allotropes on Io's Surface. II. Photochemistry and Aerosol Formation in Neptune's Atmosphere
• Mudkavi, Vidyadhar Yogeshwar — Numerical studies of nonlinear axisymmetric waves on vortex filaments
• Mutz, Andrew Howard — Heterogeneous shock energy deposition in shock wave consolidation of metal powders
• Neifeld, Mark A. — Optical memory disks in optical pattern recognition systems
• Nelson, Janet Elizabeth — Synthetic, Structural, and Mechanistic Studies in Early Transition Metal and Actinide Chemistry
• Newkirk, Michael Avery — Investigations of semiconductor laser modulation dynamics and field fluctuations
• Olson, Mark Allen — The Assignment Problem: Theory and Experiments
• Pandis, Spyros N. — Studies of physicochemical processes in atmospheric particles and acid deposition
• Papadimitriou, Konstantinos — Stochastic Characterization of Strong Ground Motion and Applications to Structural Response
• Patton, Bruce Lowell — Autophosphorylation Sites of the Type II Ca²⁺/Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase: Identification, Regulation of Kinase Activity, and Site-Specific Antibodies
• Paulson, Suzanne Elizabeth — Contributions of biogenic and anthropogenic hydrocarbons to photochemical smog formation
• Peng, Lawrence Weiman — Reactions in small clusters studied by time-resolved laser spectroscopy
• Peng, Zhengwei — Quantum study of the H3 system
• Pfaff, Richard D. — Three-dimensional effects in nonlinear fracture explored with interferometry
• Pham, Thu — Numerical studies of incompressible Richtmyer-Meshkov instability in a stratified fluid
• Picard, Alain — The large scale structure of the universe
• Pickett, David Alan — An isotopic and petrologic study of an exposure of the deep Sierra Nevada batholith, Tehachapi Mountains, California
• Raiten, Eric J. — Applications of current algebra in conformal field theory
• Rajakarunanayake, Yasantha Nirmal — Optical properties of Si-Ge superlattices and wide band gap II-VI superlattices
• Rand, Richard J. — The relationship between the density wave, molecular gas and star formation in M51
• Rao, Mahendra S. — Comparison of the properties of cholinergic differentiation factors and examination of their possible role in vivo
• Rivlis, Gil — Two topics in 2D quantum field theory
• Robinson, Jane Suzanna — Genetic, Molecular and Biochemical Studies of Vacuole Biogenesis and Maintenance in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
• Rogak, Steven Nicholas — Aerosol dynamics of agglomerates
• Rose, Kenneth — Deterministic annealing, clustering, and optimization
• Rubin, Charles Martin — Structural, stratigraphic, and geochronologic analysis of the Alexander-Taku terrane boundary and the overlapping upper Jurassic to lower Cretaceous gravina sequence, southeast Alaska
• Salmon, John K. — Parallel hierarchical N-body methods
• Sathe, Vinay Padmakar — Multirate adaptive filtering algorithms : analysis and applications
• Schultheisz, Carl R. — Comparison of experimental and computational crack-tip deformations using Moire interferometry and finite elements
• Schweizer, David Lawrence — Combinatorial design of fault-tolerant communication structures, with applications to non-blocking switches
• Scott, Michael James — Kinetics of adsorption and redox processes on iron and manganese oxides : reactions of As(III) and Se(IV) at goethite and birnessite surfaces
• Shaller, Philip John — Analysis and implications of large Martian and terrestrial landslides
• Shapiro, Pamela Joy — Part I. Scandium Hydride and Alkyl Complexes with a Linked Monocyclopentadienyl-Amido Ligand-Framework: Single Component Catalysts for the Polymerization of α-Olefins. Part II. Hydrazido(1-) and 2,2-Dimethylhydrazido(1-) Derivatives of Permethylscandocene. Preparation and Structural Characterization of their Products from Reactions with Acetonitrile
• Shih, Tanchu — Bounds of fixed point ratios of permutation representations of GL_n(q) and groups of genus zero
• Shimabukuro, Sy Ross — Stress Assisted Diffusion in Polymers
• Sivilotti, Massimo Antonio — Wiring Considerations in Analog VLSI Systems, with Application to Field-Programmable Networks
• Smedley, Keyue Ma — Control art of switching converters
• Snyder, John Michael — Generative Modeling: An Approach to High Level Shape Design for Computer Graphics and CAD
• Soderstrom, Eric — A search for heavy stable charged particles produced in pairs in the decay of the neutral intermediate vector boson z
• Springer, Roxanne Patricia — QCD Effects in Weak Radiative β-Meson Decays
• Stapelfeldt, Karl Roald — A multiwavelength observational investigation of Herbig-Haro objects and their exciting stars
• Stern, Jeffrey Aaron — Fabrication and testing of NbN/MgO/NbN tunnel junctions for use as high-frequency heterodyne detectors
• Strathmann, Michael Paul — G protein diversity
• Sugioka, Ichiro — Particle Transport by Rapid Vaporization of Superheated Liquid
• Tokumaru, Phillip Takeo — Active control of the flow past a cylinder executing rotary motions
• Tufts, Bruce John — Electrochemical and surface chemical studies of n-GaAs photoanodes
• Vakakis, Alexander F. — Analysis and identification of linear and nonlinear normal modes in vibrating systems
• Waitz, Ian Anton — An Investigation of Contoured Wall Injectors for Hypervelocity Mixing Augmentation
• Wang, Kang-Sheng — Molecular characterization of a receptor for the Togavirus Sindbis virus
• Wang, Shih-Chen — Aerosol formation and growth in atmospheric organic/NOx systems
• Webb, Francis H. — Geodetic measurement of deformation in the offshore of southern California
• Wedge, Scott William — Computer-aided design of low noise microwave circuits
• Wexler, Anthony Stein — Inorganic Components of Atmospheric Aerosols
• Whinnery, Leroy L. — Synthesis, characterization and reactivity of some permethyltantalocene alkylidenes and unusually stable metallaoxetanes
• Wilson, Matthew A. — An analysis of olfactory cortical behavior and function using computer simulation techniques
• Wong, Brian Alan — The oxidation of individually levitated char particles
• Wong, Henry Tsz-king — A search for double beta decay in ^(136)XE with a time projection chamber
• Yang, Joseph T. — An Analytical and Computational Investigation of Shock-Induced Vortical Flows with Applications to Supersonic Combustion
• Yen, Tinju Tim — Strings, two-dimensional gravity, and matrix models
• Yu, Edward Tsu-Wei — Physics and applications of semiconductor heterostructures : I. Measurement of band offsets in semiconductor heterojunctions. II. Theoretical and experimental studies of tunneling in semiconductor heterostructure devices
• Yue, Chengbo — Rigidity of three measure classes on the ideal boundary of mainifolds with negative curvature
• Zhang, Xiao-Dong — On spectral properties of positive operators