Dissertation (Ph.D.) — 1993

• Abe, Yoshio — Formation and stability of nanocrystalline alloys synthesized by mechanical milling
• Adolphs, Ralph — Processing of Interaural Level Differences in the Auditory Brainstem of the Barn Owl
• Anderson, Brooke P. — Various algorithms for optimization and learning in adaptive systems
• Anderson, Stuart Bruce — A study of recycled pulsars in globular clusters
• Anthony, Lawrence — Kinetics of disorder -> order transformations in highly nonequilibrium materials
• Bailey, Andrew Dewey — Drift wave ion fluid velocity field measured by planar laser induced fluorescence
• Balazs, Gabriel Bryan — Mechanistic and electrochemical studies of the reduction of carbon dioxide as catalyzed by Ni(I)CYCLAM+
• Barrans, Richard E., Jr. — Investigations in molecular recognition: statistical tools and experimental studies
• Baselt, David Randall — The Tip-Sample Interaction in Atomic Force Microscopy and its Implications for Biological Applications
• Beigie, Darin — Transport, stretching, and mixing in classes of chaotic tangles
• Belanger, Jacques — Studies of Mixing and Combustion in Hypervelocity Flows with Hot hydrogen injection
• Bell, David Ronald — Hydroxyl in mantle minerals
• Bernander, Jan Ӧjvind — Synaptic Integration and its Control in Neocortical Pyramidal Cells
• Bhalla, Upinder Singh — Information processing in the mammalian olfactory bulb
• Biehle, Garrett T. — Studies of stars with neutron cores and of x-ray binaries displaying quasi-periodic oscillations
• Blanchard, Alan-Philippe — Sequence specific effects on the incorporation of dideoxynucleotides by a modified T7 polymerase
• Blank, Jennifer Glee — An experimental investigation of the behavior of carbon dioxide in rhyolitic melt
• Boden, Nanette Jackson — Runtime systems for fine-grain multicomputers
• Bourzutschky, Marc S. — Complex dynamics in systems with many degrees of freedom
• Braatz, Richard Dean — Robust Loopshaping for Process Control
• Bridges, David Henry — Tip effects on the vortex wake of an axisymmetric body at angle of attack
• Buratto, Steven Keith — Time-sequenced optical nuclear magnetic resonance of gallium arsenide
• Burns, Elizabeth G. — Functional polymers via ring-opening metathesis polymerization
• Burt, Emelia Anna — Oxygen isotope studies of some sedimentary and metasedimentary rocks of the central and northern Appalachian Mountains, the Colorado Plateau, and the Ouachita Mountains
• Büttgenbach, Thomas H. — Quasi-optical sis receivers and astrophysical observations at submillimeter wavelengths
• Cardell, Gregory Scott — Flow past a circular cylinder with a permeable wake splitter plate
• Chan, Wingsiu Richard — Experimental and numerical studies on two-dimensional gravity currents in a horizontal channel
• Chen, Tsuhan — Multidimensional multirate filters and filter banks : theory, design, and implementation
• Chen, Wei-Feng — Birkhoff periodic orbits, Aubry-Mather sets, minimal geodesics and Lyapunov exponents
• Chen, Wilfred — Molecular expression system design : theoretical and experimental characterization of a novel cross-regulation system and its application as a metabolic switch
• Chiang, Dar-Yun — Parsimonious modeling of inelastic systems
• Choi, Wooyoung — Forced Generation of Solitary Waves in a Rotating Fluid and Their Stability
• Clark, Steven Manning — Advances in scanning force microscopy of biological structures
• Cleaver, Gerald B. — Kac-Moody algebras and string theory
• Coley, Terry Ronald — Prediction of scanning tunneling microscope images by computational quantum chemistry: chemical models and software design
• Cortelezzi, Luca — A Theoretical and Computational Study on Active Wake Control
• Cotter, W. Donald — Organoscandium complexes as mechanistic probes in the Ziegler-Natta polymerization of α-olefins and dienes
• Coutu, Stéphane — A study of the ultrahigh-energy cosmic ray mass composition with the MACRO and EAS-TOP experiments
• Cramer, Edith Karina Schimmerling — Motor Neuron Projection Patterns and Maturation of Motor Unit Types in the Rabbit Soleus Muscle
• Cull, Robert Joseph — A comparative study of capital market failure and institutional innovation
• Dawson, Jay W. — Single and multiple frequency fiber lasers
• Day, Peter Kenneth — On the transition from two- to three-dimensional behavior in adsorbed films
• Delbruck, Tobias — Investigations of analog VLSI visual transduction and motion processing
• Ding, Dali — Localization of Maternal RNAs in the Early Embryo of Drosophila
• Dragovich, Peter S. — Synthesis and study of chemically activated biradical precursors
• Dreger, Douglas S. — Modeling earthquakes with local and regional broadband data
• Driscoll, Robert James — Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy: I. Semimetals and Semiconductors. II. Atom-Resolved Imaging of DNA
• Dugan, Regina E. — Axisymmetric Buoyant Jets in a Cross Flow with Shear: Transition and Mixing
• Echeverria, Fernando — Topics in general relativity theory : gravitational-wave measurements of black-hole parameters; gravitational collapse of a cylindrical body; and classical-particle evolution in the presence of closed, timelike curves
• Eluszkiewicz, Janusz B. — I. Microphysics of frost metamorphism : applications to Triton and Mars. II. A global analysis of the ozone deficit in the upper stratosphere and lower mesosphere. III. The diabatic circulation in the stratosphere as diagnosed from microwave limb sounder data
• Eng, Lars E. — Low threshold current strained InGaAs/AlGaAs quantum well lasers
• Evans, John Spencer — NMR and Computational Studies on the Conformational Folding of the Biomineralization Template, Posphophoryn
• Fu, Zezhong — The mechanical alloying of aluminum and zirconium
• Fujiwara, Mitsuko — Characterization of pH-Dependent Poly(Acrylic Acid)-Vesicle Interaction and its Application in Cellular Drug Delivery
• Garrity, Paul Allen — The in vivo examination of transcriptional control mechanisms in mammalian cells
• Geubelle, Philippe H. — Nonlinear effects in interfacial fracture
• Ghez, Andrea Mia — The Multiplicity of T Tauri Stars in the Star Forming Regions Taurus-Auriga and Ophiucus-Scorpius: A 2.2 µm Speckle Imaging Survey
• Gin, Douglas L. — A new route to poly(p-phenylene): stereoregular precursors via transition-metal-catalyzed polymerization
• Graham, Kenneth Scott — Design and chemical synthesis of a sequence-specific DNA-cleaving metalloprotein: NI (II) GGH-γδ(141-183)
• Grant, Lisa Baugh — Characterization of Large Earthquakes on the San Andreas Fault in the Carrizo Plain: Implications for Fault Mechanics and Seismic Hazard
• Grave, Ilan — GaAs quantum well devices for detection and nonlinear optics in the mid-infrared
• Grünewald, Martin Werner — Measurement of the Tau-pair cross section and charge asymmetry at the Z° resonance
• Haas, George D. A. — Perturbative corrections to the ratio Γ(B → D ρ^-)/ Γ(B → D π^-).
• Hamilton, Bruce A. — Assessing molecular function in the Drosophila nervous system: a reverse genetic approach
• Hammer, Jay A. — Lifted turbulent jet flames
• Harley, Robert Adam — Mathematical Modeling of Gas-Phase Organic Air Pollutants
• Hart, Douglas P. — Cavitation and wake structure of unsteady tip vortex flows
• Higgins, Charles Marion — Classification and Approximation with Rule-Based Networks
• Hoffman, Amy Jo — Photocatalytic reactions on quantum-sized semiconductor colloids : photoinitiated polymerization of vinylic monomers, formation of hydrogen peroxide and organic peroxides, oxidation of carboxylic acids, and synthesis of humic-like material
• Hofmeister, Rudolf — Growth and applications of photorefractive potassium lithium tantalate niobate (KLTN)
• Holcomb, Tyler Reed — Improved linear regression with process applications
• Hong, Jiangtao — Search for GUT magnetic monopoles and other supermassive particles with the MACRO detector
• Hsiau, Shu-San — Shear-induced transport properties of granular material flows
• Hsu, Hsiaolan S. — Properties of the first genetically engineered neuron.
• Hsueh, Wen-Jean — High-resolution optoelectronic and photogrammetic 3-D surface geometry acquisition and analysis
• Hunkapiller, Tim — Diversity and Evolution of the Immunoglobulin Gene Superfamily
• Iinoya, Fujio — Pulsed expansion of plasma in a magnetic thruster
• Jones, Daniel Hall — Quantum-mechanical chemical exchange. Stochastic averaging in magnetic resonance
• Jongeward, Gregg D. — Negative regulators of the let-23 EGF receptor in Caenorhabditis elegans vulval differentiation
• Kerns, Douglas A. — Experiments in Very Large-Scale Analog Computation
• Kim, Jongsun — Crystallographic structures and functional implications of nitrogenase molybdenum-iron proteins from Azotobacter vinelandii and Clostridium pasteurianum
• Kim, Moonil — Grid amplifiers
• Kirk, David B. — Accurate and Precise Computation Using Analog VLSI, with Applications to Computer Graphics and Neural Networks
• Ko, Tsz-Mei — On the VLSI decompositions for complete graphs, DeBruijn graphs, hypercubes, hyperplanes, meshes, and shuffle-exchange graphs
• Komatsoulis, George A. — Recognition of tRNA^(Cys) by the E. coli cysteinyl-tRNA synthetase: in vivo and in vitro studies
• Koumoutsakos, Petros D. — Direct numerical simulations of unsteady separated flows using vortex methods
• Kuo, Elaine Y. — I. Thermal cyclization of (Z)-1,2,4-heptatrien-6-yne. II. Studies directed toward the synthesis of neocarzinostatin chromophore
• Lang, Gladys Hau-Wan — Auxiliary-field Monte Carlo methods for interacting fermions : application to the nuclear shell model
• Lappas, Tasso — An adaptive Lagrangian method for computing 1-D reacting flows, and, The theory of Riemann invariant manifolds for the compressible Euler equations
• LaTourrette, Thomas — Experimental Determination of U and Th Partitioning Between Clinopyroxene, Garnet, Olivine, and Natural and Synthetic Silicate Melt
• Lee, David Soong-Hua — Thermodynamic and structural aspects of equilibrium and mechanically milled YBa2Cu3O6+delta powder
• Lian, Peng — Fiscal policies, optimal growth, and elections under different economic systems
• Lisoski, Derek Lee Ashton — Nominally 2-Dimensional Flow About a Normal Flat Plate
• Looper, Mark Dixon — Energetic Protons in the Magnetosphere of Neptune
• Lovalenti, Philip Michael — Inertial effects on particle dynamics
• Ma, Kuo-Fong — The origin of tsunamis excited by local earthquakes. Broadband waveform observation of local earthquakes
• Male, Roxanne — Development of an Effective Drug Delivery System Using Loaded Platelets
• Mandell, Michael I. — A comparison of CDMA and frequency hopping in a cellular environment
• Mason, James Joseph — Mechanisms and effects of heat generation at the tips of dynamic cracks and notches in metals
• Mathiowetz, Alan Martin — Dynamic and Stochastic Protein Simulations: from Peptides to Viruses
• Matthews, Christopher Gerald — Inclusive Weak Decays of Charmed Mesons
• Meier, Joseph Thomas — A Biological Arms Race: Site Specific DNA Recombination in Competing Immunofunctional Proteins
• Miller, Ann Elizabeth — Ab initio calculations in heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis : I. Methanol to gasoline with ZSM-5. II. Carbonyl ligand effects on metal-metal bonds
• Miller, John W. — Building probalistic models from databases
• Mou, Chung-Yu — Spherical Model for Turbulence
• Mouchtaris, Petros N. — Analysis of an interactive video architecture
• Murthy, Srihari — The Gas-Phase Ion Chemistry of Substituted Silanes
• Navin, Robert Lloyd — Global Analogue of the Aharonov-Bohm Effect
• Neugebauer, Charles F. — Parallel Analog Computation with Charge Coupled Devices
• Noussair, Charles Nabih — A theoretical and experimental investigation of auctions in multi-unit demand environments
• Okamoto, James Kozo — Temperature-dependent extended electron energy loss fine structure measurements from K, L23, and M45 edges in metals, intermetallic alloys, and nanocrystalline materials
• Ouyang, Hao — Grain boundaries of nanophase materials
• Park, Changmoon — Protein design and simulation. Part I. Protein design. Part II. Protein simulation
• Petroff, Catherine M. — The interaction of breaking solitary waves with an armored bed
• Phillips, Mark C. — Graded Injection: A New Approach to Wide-Bandgap Light Emitters
• Phung, Thanh Ngoc — Behavior of concentrated colloidal suspensions by Stokesian dynamics simulation
• Polk, Charles William — The Organization of Production: Moral Hazard and R&D
• Potter, Earl Douglas — Ultrafast control and dynamics of chemical reactions
• Prisbrey, Jeffrey Emig — Cooperation in Reciprocity Games and in the Voluntary Contributions Mechanism
• Pulos, Guillermo C. — Nonsteady crack propagation and craze behavior in PMMA
• Pylkki, Russell John — Probing Chemical Dynamics Near Electrode Surfaces with U1tramicroelectrodes
• Quillen, Alice C. — The Kinematics of Molecular Gas and Dust in the Nearby Galaxies Centaurus A and M82
• Ramsden, Jerald Day — Tsunamis : forces on a vertical wall caused by long waves, bores, and surges on a dry bed
• Reisenegger, Tassilo Andreas — Hydrodynamics of neutron star interiors and laboratory superfluids
• Restuccio, Jim M. — Continuum modeling of materials that can undergo martensitic phase transformations
• Rock, Michael M., Jr. — The design and synthesis of electroactive and magnetic polymers
• Rogge, Wolfgang F. — Molecular tracers for sources of atmospheric carbon particles : measurements and model predictions
• Rosenthal, Philip J. — The dimension of spacetime
• Rotstein, Hector P. — Constrained H[infinity]-optimization for discrete-time control systems
• Rowan, Linda Rose — Equation of state of molten mid-ocean ridge basalt. Structure of Kilauea volcano.
• Ruoff, Carl F. — Robotic hand-eye motor learning
• Ryan, Barry James — Lie-Poisson integrators in Hamiltonian fluid mechanics
• Ryba, Gail Naomi — Time-resolved photoluminescence studies of metal ion treated n-GaAs in electrolytes
• Santee, Michelle — The thermal structure, dust loading, and meridional transport in the Martian atmosphere during late southern summer
• Schmidhuber, Christof — Extending the theory of random surfaces
• Sercel, Joel Christopher — An experimental and theoretical study of the ECR plasma engine
• Sharma, Murali — Renormalization corrections in heavy colored scalar effective field theory
• Sheehy, Finbar T. — Antenna-coupled mm-wave electro-optic modulators and linearized electro-optic modulators
• Sheiman, Arthur E. — A new method for solving irises in waveguides
• Sitlani, Ayesha — Sequence specific recognition and photocleavage of DNA by phenanthrenequinone diimine complexes of rhodium(III)
• Socrates, Jude Thaddeus U. — The quaternionic bridge between elliptic curves and Hilbert modular forms
• Softky, William Russell — Irregularity in the cortical spike code : noise or information?
• Soman, Anand — New results on paraunitary filter banks : energy compaction properties, linear phase factorizations and relation to wavelets
• Stemple, Derek Lyle — Isolation of a mammalian neural crest stem cell and environmental control of cell fate choices
• Tinney, Christopher G. — The faintest stars
• Todd, Robert J. — Designing protein separations based on metal-affinity interactions
• Wald, David Jay — Rupture characteristics of California earthquakes
• Wang, Wensheng — Carleman inequalities and unique continuation for higher order elliptic differential operators
• Wang, Yukang — Transcriptional Regulation of T Cell Receptor Genes by a Novel CACCC Box Binding Protein
• Watts, Donald Lloyd — Cochlear Mechanics: Analysis and Analog VLSI
• Werner, Margat Hoppe — NMR imaging of solids with multiple-pulse line narrowing and radiofrequency gradients
• Westaway, Shawn Kathleen — Structure and function of yeast tRNA ligase
• Young, Peter Michael — Robustness with Parametric and Dynamic Uncertainty
• Youngquist, Michael George — Atomic-Scale Imaging and Spectroscopy Using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
• Zeng, Langche — Individual choice in political economy
• Zhang, Yongfang — Coupled array of CO2 waveguide lasers
• Zhu, Xiaotian — Structure-function studies of fibroblast growth factors (FGFS)
• Zsak, Thomas William — An investigation of the reacting vortex structures associated with pulse combustion