Theses — 1979

• Abe, Amy — I. Structural Analysis Using ¹⁵N NMR Spectroscopy II. An Investigation of the Interaction of Grignard Reagents with Mesityl Ketones (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Abeyaratne, Rohan Chandra — Discontinuous Deformation Gradients in Plane Finite Elastostatics of Incompressible Materials. (I) General Considerations. (II) An Example (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Allison, Judith Lee — An Investigation into the Bonding of Copper(I) Macrocycles to Fifth Ligands (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Armstrong, David Lee — The Kinetics of Curare Action and Restricted Diffusion within the Synaptic Cleft of Motor Nerve Terminals on Frog Skeletal Muscle (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Au Yeung, John Chen Wei — Phase Conjugate Optics and Nonlinear Optical Phenomena in Optical Fibers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ayres, Ronald Frederick — A Language Processor and a Sample Language (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Baillargeon, David Joseph — Oxy Anion-Accelerated Rearrangements (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Baldridge, Warren Scott — Petrology and Petrogenesis of Basaltic Rocks and Their Inclusions: Studies from the Rio Grande Rift, the Roman Comagmatic Province, and Oceanus Procellarum (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Barrois, Bertrand C. — Non-Perturbative Effects in Dense Quark Matter (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Beck, James Leslie — Determining Models of Structures from Earthquake Records (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bencala, Kenneth Edward — I. Linear Distributed Parameter Filtering: Observation Processes and Boundary Conditions for Engineering Systems. II. Statistical Analysis of Air Pollutant Observations and Model Predictions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Berg, Beckie E. — Carbon Monoxide Reduction by Sixteen Electron d-Zero Tantalum Complexes. Acrylonitrile Cyclodimerization by Tris(triphenylphosphine) Tetramethylene Ni(II) (Master's thesis)
• Best, John Stewart — Schottky Barriers on Compound Semiconductors: I. HgSe Highly Electronegative Contacts. II. Au Schottky Barriers on n-Ga₁₋ₓA1ₓAs (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Binger, Brian Robert — Essays in Forward Markets and the Uranium Industry (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Blankenhorn, Elizabeth Peters — Immunogenetic Studies of the Mouse and the Rat (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bond, John Richard — Neutrino Production and Transport during Gravitational Collapse (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Breidenthal, Robert Edward — A Chemically Reacting, Turbulent Shear Layer (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Burum, Douglas Peter — Nuclear Spin Dynamics and Thermodynamics of Pulsed NMR in Solids (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Butler, Rhett Giffen — Seismological Studies Using Observed and Synthetic Waveforms (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Campbell, Neville Ray — Pushing up in Finite Groups (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Carter, Boyd Jay — The Substitution Kinetics and Electronic Absorption Spectroscopy of Some Molybdenum and Tungsten Bis-Dinitrogen Complexes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Caves, Carlton Morris — Theoretical Investigations of Experimental Gravitation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chan, Chi Ming — A Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of Surface Structures and Gas-Surface Interactions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen Charpentier, Benito Miguel — Steady Capillary-Gravity Waves on Deep Water (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chomyn, Anne — Studies on Protein Synthesis after Heat Shock in Drosophila melanogaster (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chung, Wai-Ying — Part I: Variation of Seismic Source Parameters and Stress Drop within a Descending Slab as Revealed from Body-Wave Pulse-Width and Amplitude Analysis. Part II: A Seismological Investigation of the Subduction Mechanism of Aseismic Ridges (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Claudio, Antonia R. — The Acetylcholine Receptor and its Role in Induction of Experimental Autoimmune Myasthenia Gravis (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cohen, Linda Rachel — Essays on the Economics of Licensing Nuclear Power Plants (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Conrad, Susan Ellen — I. Sequence Organization of Drosophila melanogaster 5S rRNA and 4S RNA Genes. II. In Vitro Studies on Replication of Plasmid DNAs (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cooper, Michael Lee — Studies in the Visual System of the Cat. I. The Retinothalamic Pathway in Normal and Siamese Cats. II. The Vertical Horopter (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cordova, France Anne-Dominic de — X-Ray Observations of Dwarf Novae (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Darcey, Terrance Michael — Methods for Localization of Electrical Sources in the Human Brain and Applications to the Visual System (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dobrovolskis, Anthony Robert — The Rotation of Venus: Part I. Atmospheric Tides. Part II. Obliquity and Evolution (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dooley, David Marlin — Spectroscopic and Magnetic Studies of the Coordination Environment and Electronic Structure of Copper Sites in Blue Copper Oxidases (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dvorak, John Joseph — Analysis of Small Scale Lunar Gravity Anomalies: Implications for Crater Formation and Crustal History (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ellerbroek, Brent Lee — Three Theorems of Paley and Wiener for Locally Compact Abelian Groups (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Everson, Joel Earl — Regional Variations in the Lead Isotopic Characteristics of Late Cenozoic Basalts from the Southwestern United States (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fokas, Athanassios S. — Invariants, Lie-Bäcklund Operators and Bäcklund Transformations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fox, George — Charge Symmetry in ¹³N and ¹³C: a Coupled-Channel Model (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Furst, Marian Judith — The Use of Boron Concentrations in Fossil Materials as a Paleosalinity Indicator (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gartrell, Gregory Jr. — Studies on the Mixing in a Density-Stratified Shear Flow (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gelbard, Fred — The General Dynamic Equation for Aerosols (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Goring, Derek Garard — Tsunamis -- The Propagation of Long Waves onto a Shelf (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Griffith, Joseph Edward — Sputtering of Insulators in the Electronic Stopping Region (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gromet, L. Peter — Rare Earths Abundances and Fractionations and their Implications for Batholithic Petrogenesis in the Peninsular Ranges Batholith, California, USA, and Baja California, Mexico (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Grossman, William Mark — Combustion of CS₂/O₂ in a laminar mixing layer and processes in the CO chemical laser (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hagan, Patrick Shawn — The Stability of Traveling Wave Solutions of Parabolic Equations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Harding, Lawrence Brook — Ab Initio Studies of Excited States and Reactions of Organic Molecules (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hartman, Steward Russell — Observations of 1-6 MeV Jovian Electrons at 1 AU and a Study of Their Propogation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Heaton, Thomas Harrison — Generalized Ray Models of Strong Ground Motion (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hill, Alvin Joseph — Investigations of "Spatial" Firing in Dorsal Hippocampus of the Rat (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hoffman, Elizabeth — Essays in Optimal Resource Allocation under Uncertainty with Capacity Constraints (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hong, Chi-Shain — New Optical Waveguide Devices Using Periodic and Chirped Surface Corrugations and Optical Waves in Periodic Layered Structures (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Houle, Frances Anne — Studies of Alkyl Free Radicals and Reaction Mechanisms by Photoelectron Spectroscopy (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hubbard, Bruce D. — Biochemical Studies on the 10 nm Filaments of Avian Muscle (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hwang, David Li-Shui Quek — Propagation of the Fast Magnetosonic Wave in a Tokamak Plasma (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Johnson, Carl Edward — I. CEDAR - An Approach to the Computer Automation of Short Period Local Seismic Networks. II. Seismotectonics of the Imperial Valley of Southern California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Johnson, Gilbert Collier — Approaches to the Elucidation of the Nature of 1,4-Dehyrobenzene (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jones, Carol Ruth — The Syntheses and Thermal Decompositions of Six-Membered Cyclic Diacyl Peroxides (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jones, William Davidson, II — Reactivity Patterns of Transition Metal Hydrides and Alkyls (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Koval, Carl Anthony — Synthesis, Electrochemistry, and Physical Studies of Graphite Electrodes with Chemically Modified surfaces and Copper Complexes with Macrocyclic Ligands (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kuehne, Donald L. — Selective Transport of Sulfur Dioxide through Polymer Membranes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kushner, Mark Jay — Electronic and Kinetic Processes in the Cu/CuCl Double Pulse Laser (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kwoh, Daniel S. W. — I. An Attempt to Produce both Thick and Thinned Flowing Superfluid Films. II. A Study of the Feasibility of Verifying Lifshitz's Theory of Van Der Waals Force for a Metallic Surface. III. The Electrohydrodynamic Instability of the Super-Thick Helium Film (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• LaBonte, Barry James — Studies of Chromospheric Activity Observed in Hα and D₃ (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Larkin, Ross Martin — Photopic Rapid Adaptation in the Electroretinogram: a White Noise Analysis (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lee, Tom Kwan-Yau — Microeconomic Foundations of Research and Development (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Levin, Deborah Ann — Ab Initio Calculations of Processes in Low Energy Electron-Molecule Scattering (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liau, Zong-Long — Ion Bombardment Effects on Material Compositions: Preferential Sputtering and Atomic Mixing (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Loh, Elwyn Yuan — Amino Acid Sequence Studies of Immunoglobulins: Implications for the Storage, Processing, and Expression of Genetic Information (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lowry, Michael Murdock — A Quest for Neutral-Current-Enhanced Parity Mixing in ¹⁸F (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lyon, Stephen Aplin — Optical Properties of Excited Silicon and Germanium at Low Temperatures (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• MacNeal, Bruce Edward — Horizontal Bloch Line Motion in Magnetic Bubble Materials (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mason, Alfred Barr — Some Observations on the Random Response of Linear and Nonlinear Dynamical Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mellman, George Robert — A Method for Waveform Inversion of Body-Wave Seismograms (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Moore, Kevin William — The Mechanism of Action of Adenosylcobalamin-Dependent Diol Dehydratase. I. Glycerol and other Substrate Analogs as Substrates and Inactivators of Diol Dehydratase: Kinetics, Stereospecificity, and Mechanism. II. Hydrogen Transfer in the Inactivation of Diol Dehydratase by Glycerol. III. Hydrogen Transfer in Catalysis by Diol Dehydratase (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Morse, Corinne Sue — I. On the Lifetime of 1,4-Diradicals. Attempted Trapping of Tetramethylene. II. Six-Membered Cyclic Diacyl Peroxides. Thermal Decomposition of 1,2,3,4-Tetrahydrophthaloyl Peroxide (Master's thesis)
• Nicholson, Philip David — 1. Tidal Synchronization of the Rotation of Early Main Sequence Stars in Close Binaries. 2. The Rings of Uranus: Results of the 1978 April 10 Occultation. 3. On the Resonance Theory of the Rings of Uranus (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nicol, Ann Tryon — Solid States NMR Studies of Metal Hydrides (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Novitski, Charles Edward — Aspects of Regulation of Mitochondrial DNA Replication and Transcription in Mammalian Cells (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Oey, Nicolaus Kiam Thian — Leading Edge Flutter of a Supercavitating Hydrofoil (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Oken, Carol Ann — The Partial Amino Acid Sequence of the Heavy Chain Variable Region of J558, a Dextran-Binding Myeloma Protein (Master's thesis)
• Olafson, Barry Duane — A Molecular Description of Oxygen Binding to Hemoglobin (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Orlowski, Thomas Edward — New Techniques in Coherent Optical Spectroscopy: Optical Dephasing and Radiationless Processes in Molecules (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Osbourn, Gordon Cecil — Theoretical Studies of Bound Exciton Decay and of Transport across Semiconductor Interfaces (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pankow, James Frederick — The Dissolution Rates and Mechanisms of Tetragonal Ferrous Sulfide (Mackinawite) in Anoxic Aqueous Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Parker, Richard Carl — I. Methods for Restriction Endonuclease Studies of DNA Structure. II. Restriction Endonucleolytic Characterization of Animal Mitochondrial DNAs and Human Globin Genes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Petersen, Stephen Vaughn — CARTAM : the Cartesian Access Method for Data Structures with n-Dimensional Keys (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pollard, David — Barotropic and Baroclinic Instabilities in Jupiter's Zonal Flow (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Potter, Russell Marsh — The Tetravalent Manganese Oxides: Clarification of their Structural Variations and Relationships and Characterization of their Occurrence in the Terrestrial Weathering Environment as Desert Varnish and other Manganese Oxide Concentrations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Powers, Robert Lewis — Iontophoretic Studies of Visual Neurons in Drosophila melanogaster (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Presti, David Eugene — Studies of the Blue Light Receptor in Phycomyces (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rial M., José Antonio — I. The Caracas, Venezuela Earthquake of 1967: A Multiple Source Event. II. Seismic Waves at the Epicenter's Antipode (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Roberts, Daryl Lynn — Sulfur Dioxide Transport through Aqueous Solutions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rogers, Christopher Bruce — Biosynthetic studies of human fetal hemoglobin (Master's thesis)
• Rogers, Philip Louis — Experimental Investigation of Second Sound Shock Waves in Liquid Helium II (Engineer's thesis)
• Romney, Jonathan Daniel MacLeish — Fine-Scale Structure of the Neutral Hydrogen Absorption in NGC1275 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Russell, William A. — Studies of Calcium Isotope Fractionation Found in Nature and Produced during Ion Sputtering (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sadhal, Satwindar Singh — Analysis of Heat Transfer in Several Media (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Savaş, Ömer — Some Measurements in Synthetic Turbulent Boundary Layers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schulman, Joel Nathan — Electronic Structure of AlAs/GaAs and CdTe/HgTe Superlattices and Interfaces (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shapiro, Helene Marian — Unitary Block Diagonalization and the Characteristic Polynomial of a Pencil Generated by Hermitian Matrices (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sheard, Sarah A. — Angle Resolved Photoemission Calculations (Master's thesis)
• Shure, Mavis — I. Studies of Closed Circular DNA : Physical and Biological Implications of Heterogeneity in the Topological Winding Number, α. II. The Structure of Virion SV40 DNA in Situ Examined by Chemical Modification with Dimethylsulfate (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Simpson, Henry Clark — Periodic Solutions of Integro-Differential Equations Which Arise in Population Dynamics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Siskind, Eric Jonathan — Production of the Ψ(3100) in 400 GeV Proton - Iron Interactions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Slutz, Stephen Avery — Three Problems in Astrophysical Dynamics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Smith, Stephen Pritchard — Studies of Noble Gases in Meteorites and in the Earth (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Spitzer, Matthew Laurence — Axiomatic Analysis of Legal/Institutional Issues (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Stumph, William Edward — Gene Enrichment Using Antibodies to DNA/RNA Hybrids: Mapping the Ribosomal DNA of Slime Mold and Rat (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Thomas, Glenn E. — The Chemisorption of Carbon Monoxide, Oxygen and Nitric Oxide on the Ruthenium (001) Surface (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tyler, David Ralph — The Photochemistry and Electronic Structures of Metal Carbonyl Cluster Complexes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Van Alstine, David Ralph — Apparent Polar Wandering with Respect to North America Since the Late Precambrian (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Vinkler, Aharon P. — Optimal Controller Design Methods for linear Systems with Uncertain Parameters: Development, Evaluation and Comparison (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Keh-Chung — Experimental Determination of the Relativistic Fine-Structure Splitting in a Pionic Atom and Dependence of K X-Ray Energy upon the Mode of Excitation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Weller, Martha Carroll Riherd — The Solar System Boron Abundance: a Measurement of Boron Concentration in Carbonaceous Chondritic Meteorites (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Williams, Roger Macauley — Crystallographic Order and Disorder in Quasi-One-Dimensional Conductors (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wise, Jack LeRoy, III — Experimental Investigation of First- and Second-Sound Shock Waves in liquid Helium II (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wong Wooi Yee, Vincent Sydney — Computational Structures for Extracting Edge Features from Digital Images for Real-Time Control Applications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Woodin, Richard Lawrence — Ion Cyclotron Resonance Studies of Vibrationally Excited Ions. I. Low Intensity Multiphoton Dissociation of Gas Phase Ions Using CW CO₂ Laser Radiation. II. Infrared Radiative Stabilization of Energized Species in the Gas Phase (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yortsos, Yanis Christos — Analytical Modelling of Oil Recovery by Steam Injection (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Young, Peter John — Supermassive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zachos, Cosmas K. — Extended Supergravity with a Gauged Central Charge (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zyskind, John Lehrer — Competition Effects in Charged Particle Induced Reactions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))