Theses — 1983

• Abu-Mostafa, Yaser Said — Complexity of Information Extraction (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Allen, David Thomas — Modeling the Reactions of Coal Liquids (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Anderson, Julie Ann — A Total Synthesis of Spiro[Bis(2,3-Diazabicyclo[2.2.1]-Hept-2-Ene-7,7'] (Master's thesis)
• Athas, William C. — A VLSI Combinator Reduction Engine (Master's thesis)
• Awad, Elias A. — Nonlinear Acoustics Instabilities in Combustion Chambers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Barger, Paul Theron — The Reactivity of Zirconium Hydrides with Transition Metal Carbonyls (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Barzegar, Farhad, Farhad — Problems in Switched-Mode DC and AC Power Conversion (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Becker, Nancy Newton — ¹⁵N Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of the Liver Alcohol Dehydrogenase-NAD⁺-Pyrazole Complex (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Begley, Tadhg Pulcarious — Bispecific, Cleavable, Protein DNA Crosslinker, Psoralen-Diol-Nitroveratrole. A Probe of Bacteriophage Structure (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Berriman, Graham Bruce — Visible and Infrared Studies of Cataclysmic Variable Stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Blauvelt, Henry A. — New Structures for AlGaAs Lasers and Avalanche Photodetectors (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Block, Steven Michael — Chemotactic Responses of Tethered Bacteria (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bobroff, Norman — Sounding Rocket XUV Observations of Capella (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Borne, Kirk Daniel — The Structure and Evolution of Interacting Binary Galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Botelho, Dirceu Luiz Rodrigues — An Empirical Model for Vortex-Induced Vibrations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bowick, Mark John — Radiative Mass Structure in Unified Models and Fermions in the Desert (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bowman, Robert Clark, Jr. — Solid-State Proton Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Hydrogen Site Occupancies, Electronic Structure Properties, and Diffusion Behavior in Transition Metal Hydrides (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chael, Eric Paul — Constraints on the Earth's Anelastic and Aspherical Structure from Antipodal Surface Waves (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chamieh, Dimitri Suhayl — Forces on a Whirling Centrifugal Pump-Impeller (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Marina Chien-mei — Space-time Algorithms: Semantics and Methodology (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chiou, Arthur Er-Terg — I. Parametric Study of Optically Pumped Far-Infrared Waveguide Lasers. II. Theory and Experiment of Folded Fabry-Perot Quasi-Optical Ring Resonator Diplexer (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chiu, Liew-Chuang — III-V Semiconductor Lasers and Detectors (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Choo, Young-il — Hierarchical Nets: A Structured Petri Net Approach to Concurrency (Master's thesis)
• Clancy, Robert Todd — Carbon Monoxide in the Atmospheres of the Terrestrial Planets (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Clemens, Bruce Montgomery — Superconductivity as a Structural Characterization Tool in Amorphous Materials (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cohn, Stephen Norfleet — Holographic In-Situ Stress Measurement in Geophysics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Connolly, Jeremiah Finbarr — Two Problems in Plane Finite Elastostatics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cox, Gary Walter — Party and Constituency in Victorian Britain (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Crews, Stephen Thomas — The Structure of Mammalian Genes: (1) Antibody Heavy Chain Variable Region Genes: Organization, Diversity, and Somatic Mutation. (2) Structure and Transcription of the DNA Encompassing the Origin of Replication of Human Mitochondrial DNA (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cronin-Golomb, Mark — Large Nonlinearities in Four-Wave Mixing in Photorefractive Crystals and Applications in Passive Optical Phase Conjugation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Crump, James Gleason, III — Aerosol Deposition, Growth, and Dynamics in the Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Daub, John Powell — The Total Synthesis of Macrolide Antibiotics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• DeBenedictis, Erik Penn — Techniques for Testing Integrated Circuits (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dodge, John Austin — The Synthesis and Characterization of Binuclear Copper(I) Complexes as Models for Protein Active Sites (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dolson, Mark Barry — A Tracking Phase Vocoder and its Use in the Analysis of Ensemble Sounds (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Doxsee, Kenneth Martin — Homogeneous Carbon Monoxide Reduction – Catalyst Design Strategies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Duan, Daniel C. — Evidence for a Stereospecific 1,2-Elimination Reaction in a 1,1-Diazene. Synthesis and Decomposition of [N-Phenyl-(Threo-(and Erythro)-2-Deuterio-1-Methylpropl)Amino]Nitrene (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Echelmeyer, Keith Alan — Response of Blue Glacier to a Perturbation in Ice Thickness: Theory and Observation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ellison, Jay William — Structure and Evolution of Human Immunoglobulin Cγ Genes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ennis, Michael Dalton — I. Asymmetric Alkylation Reactions of Chiral Imide Enolates. II. Efforts Directed Toward the Total Synthesis of (+)-Macbecin I (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Erickson, Robert Warren, Jr. — Large Signals in Switching Converters (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fawcett, John Alan — I. Three Dimensional Ray-Tracing and Ray-Inversion in Layered Media. II. Inverse Scattering and Curved Ray Tomography with Applications to Seismology (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fryxell, Karl Joseph — Biochemical and Genetic Studies of Peripheral Myelination in Normal Development and in the Mouse Mutant Trembler (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gharib, Morteza (Mory) — The Effect of Flow Oscillations on Cavity Drag, and a Technique for their Control (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gladstone, George Randall — Radiative Transfer and Photochemistry in the Upper Atmosphere of Jupiter (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Goh, Chuen Jin — Analysis and Control of Quasi Distributed Parameter Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Goldberg, Aaron Henry — Physical and Theoretical Studies of Localized Organic Biradicals (Master's thesis)
• Gomer, Richard Hans — The Role of Filamin in the Morphogenesis of the Skeletal Muscle Sarcomere (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gürsel, Halis Yekta — Stability of Spherically Symmetric, Charged Black Holes and Multipole Moments for Stationary Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hagstrom, Thomas Michael — Reduction of Unbounded Domains to Bounded Domains for Partial Differential Equation Problems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Halle, Linda F. — Studies of the Energetics and Mechanisms of Organometallic Reactions in the Gas Phase (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hamilton, Jeffrey John — A Thermodynamic Study of Methane Multilayers Adsorbed on Graphite (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Harder, Christoph S. — Bistability, High Speed Modulation, Noise and Pulsations in GaAlAs Semiconductor Lasers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hart, Dean Robert — Disjointness Preserving Operators (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Heckendorn, Debra Kay — Experiments Directed Towards the Total Synthesis of Chlorothricolide (Master's thesis)
• Heymans, Luc J. — An Engineering Analysis of Polymer Film Adhesion to Rigid Substrates (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Holstege, Eric John — Type Inference in a Declarationless, Object-Oriented Language (Master's thesis)
• Hopkins, Stuart Thomas — Low Temperature Specific Heat Studies of Molybdenum-Ruthenium Based Superconducting Metallic Glasses (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Horne, Keith Douglas — Eclipse Mapping of Accretion Disks in Cataclysmic Binaries (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jain, Sudhir Kumar — Analytical Models for the Dynamics of Buildings (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jakosky, Bruce Martin — The Seasonal Behavior of Water Vapor in the Mars Atmosphere (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jewitt, David Clifford — I. Physical Studies of Distant Comets. II. Morphologies of Planetary Nebulae (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kanne, Robert McNamara — Studies of the Enzyme Laccase (Master's thesis)
• Kanwal, Sarbmeet Singh — A Leading Order QCD Computation of ππ Elastic Scattering (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Krauss, Eric Martin — Conformation and Function of Gramicidin S, a Peptide Antibiotic which Mediates Phase Transfer of Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Krombel, Keith E. — The Relative Abundances of Sn, Te, Xe, Ba, and Ce in the Cosmic Radiation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kronenberg, Mitchell — Gene Expression in B and T Lymphocytes: (1) Evolution of Rat Cκ Alleles (2) The T-cell Receptor Problem (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kuppermann, Baruch Davidson — Studies on the Role of Afferent Activity in the Visual Pathways of the Cat: I. Mechanisms Involved in the Control of Geniculate Cell Size. II. Control of the Critical Period After Dark-Rearing (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kwong, Nai-Hang — Realistic Calculations of Excitations in Nuclear Matter (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lam, Jimmy Kwok-Ching — RTsim: A Register Transfer Simulator (Master's thesis)
• Lambert, William Roger — Picosecond Excitation and Quantum Beats of Molecules in Supersonic Molecular Beams (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lay, Thorne — Analysis of Upper and Lower Mantle Structure Using Shear Waves (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lemke, Greg Erwin — Identification and Characterization of Glial Growth Factor (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Levit, Itzhak — A General Solution Strategy for Large Scale Static and Dynamic Nonlinear Finite Element Problems Employing the Element-by-Element Factorization Concept (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lewis, Richard Edwin — Geology of the Hackberry Mountain Volcanic Center, Yavapai County, Arizona (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Hsui-Lin — Interpretation of Near-Source Ground Motion and Implications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Magaldi, Anthony — Low Velocity Impact Damage and its Propagation Under Compressive Load in Curved, Graphite/Epoxy Panels (Engineer's thesis)
• Malkan, Matthew Arnold — The Physical Nature of the Continuum in Active Galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Marritt, William Alan — The Syntheses and Characterization of Binuclear Clathrochelate Complexes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Martin, Olivier — Large N Gauge Theory at Strong Coupling with Chiral Fermion (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mayer, James Moers — Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity of New Hydride Compounds of Tantalum (V) (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• McCasland, James Stacy — Neuronal Control of Bird Song Production (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• McCubbins, Mathew Daniel — Rational Individual Behavior and Collective Irrationality: The Legislative Choice of Regulatory Form (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• McGee, Dennis Emmett — Diol Dehydratase: Purification, Structural Characterization, and Mechanism of Action (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• McIntyre, Daniel Keith — Synthesis and Characterization of 1,1-Di-Tert-Butyldiazene (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Megdal, Barry Bruce — VLSI Computational Structures Applied to Fingerprint Image Analysis (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mendenhall, Marcus Holden — High Energy Heavy Ion Induced Enhanced Adhesion (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mitchell, Mark Allen — Interhelical DNA-DNA Crosslinking of Bacteriophage Lambda: Bis(monoazidomethidium)octaoxahexacosanediamine and Bis(psoralen)nonaethyleneoxy ether, Probes of Packaged Nucleic Acid (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Moll, David Jerry — One- and Two-Color Laser Spectroscopy with Photoacoustic and Multiphoton Ionization Detection (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Moody, Douglas Marion, Jr. — I. Numerical Solution of the Superfluid Shock Jump Conditions. II. Experimental Investigation of the Liquid Helium II-Vapor Interface (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mungal, Mark Godfrey — Experiments on Mixing and Combustion with Low Heat Release in a Turbulent Shear Flow (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Neches, Philip Malcolm — Hardware Support for Advanced Data Management Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ng, Charles Hok-Bun — FIFO Buffering Transceiver: A Communication Chip Set for Multiprocessor Systems (Master's thesis)
• Nicholson, Bruce John — Biochemistry and Diversity of the Gap Junction Protein: A Study of Liver, Heart and Lens (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Norton, Olin Perry — The Effects of a Vortex Field on Flames with Finite Reaction Rates (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nugent, John Joseph, Jr. — Non-Equilibrium X-Ray Emission from Young Supernova Remnants (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• O'Sullivan, Timothy Christopher — The Propagation and Arrest of an Edge Crack in an Elastic Half-Space Under Conditions of Anti-Plane Shear: Analytical and Numerical Results (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Olson, Wendy Ann — The Synthesis and Reactivity of New Niobium (V) Polyhydrides (Master's thesis)
• Osborne, John Lawrence — The ³He(α,γ)⁷Be Reaction at Low Energies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ott, Kevin Curtis — Some Mechanistic and Synthetic Aspects of the Interaction of Lewis Acids with Bis-Cyclopentadienyltitanium(IV) Alkyls and Bis-Cyclopentadienyltitanacyclobutanes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Otto, Steve William — Monte Carlo Methods in Lattice Gauge Theories (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Paffett, Mark Thomas — Electrochemistry of Molybdenum Aquo Ions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pechmann, James Christopher — The Relationship of Small Earthquakes to Strain Accumulation Along Major Faults in Southern California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pechmann, Judith Burt — Thermal Tides in the Atmosphere of Venus (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pence, Thomas James — The Emergence and Propagation of a Phase Boundary in an Elastic Bar (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pesthy, Andrew John — Aerosol Formation and Growth in Laminar Flow (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pier, Jeffrey Ross — A Study of A- and B-Type Stars in the Southern Galactic Halo (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Porco, Carolyn C. — Voyager Observations of Saturn's Rings. 1. The Eccentric Rings at 1.29, 1.45, 1.95 and 2.27 Rₛ. 2. The Periodic Variation of Spokes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Prendergast, Michael David — Linear Programming Methods for the Numerical Solution of Parabolic Equations Backwards in Time (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rashed, Ahmed Atef — Dynamic Analyses of Fluid-Structure Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Reyna, Luis Guillermo Maria — I. Stability of Tchebyshev Collocation. II. Interpolation for Surfaces with 1-D Discontinuities. III. On Composite Meshes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Runnels, John Hulett — Investigation of Coriolis Mixing in Benzene (Master's thesis)
• Ryskin, Gregory — A Numerical Study of Bubble Deformation in Steady Axisymmetric Flows (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sadanand, Venkatraman — Imperfect Information and Oligopoly with Endogenous Market Power (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sagnotti, Augusto — Topics in Supersymmetry Theory: 1. A Superspace Action for Ten-Dimensional Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory in Terms of Four-Dimensional Superfields; 2. Gauge Groups for Type-I Superstrings (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sargent, William Stapf — Natural Convection Flows and Associated Heat Transfer Processes in Room Fires (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sathiapalan, Balachandran — Topics in Grand Unified Theories: i) The Naturalness Problem. ii) Monopoles and Fermion Number Violation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sellgren, Kristen — Near Infrared Studies of Reflection Nebulae (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Siders, Paul David — Theory of Outer-Sphere Electron-Transfer Reactions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Simon, Richard Stanley — Nuclear Structure of Quasars at 329 Megahertz (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Snyder, Michael Paul — Organization and Expression of a Cluster of Drosophila Cuticle Genes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Spalding, John David — The Isotopic Composition of Energetic Particles Emitted from a Large Solar Flare (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Speriosu, Virgil Simon — X-ray Rocking Curve and Ferromagnetic Resonance Investigations of Ion-Implanted Crystals (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sridhar, Srinivas — Microwave Dynamics of Quasiparticles and Critical Fields in Superconducting Films (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Stone, Alan Thomas — The Reduction and Dissolution of Manganese(III) and (IV) Oxides by Organics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Strader, David John — Studies on the Mechanism of Complement Activation by Murine Immunoglobulin G (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Straus, Daniel Albert — Synthesis and Reactivity of Bis(cyclopentadienyl)titanacyclobutanes and Ketene Complexes of Bis(cyclopentadienyl)titanium and Bis(cyclopentadienyl)zirconium (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Suobank, David Walter — A Quantitative, Comparative Study of Sound Produced in vitro by Pulsatile Flow in and Around Prosthetic, Aortic Heart-Valves (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tatoian, James Zareh — An Analytical Study of Electromagnetic Vector Field Propagation in a Nonlinear Electron Plasma (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Torczynski, John Robert — Second Sound Shock Waves in Rotating Superfluid Helium (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Trawick, David James — Robust Sentence Analysis and Habitability (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Trentalange, Stephen — Carbon Isotope Fusion (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Trimberger, Stephen Mathias — Automated Performance Optimization of Custom Integrated Circuits (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ullner, Michael K. — Parallel Machines for Computer Graphics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ungar, Jeffrey Eugene — Double Charge Exchange of Pions on Helium-4 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Valainis, John Reinhold — Second Order Corrections to the Variational Approximation to Frolich's Polaron Model (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Valioulis, Iraklis Anestis — Particle Collisions and Coalescence in Fluids (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Vassiliou, Marios Simou — The Energy Release in Earthquakes, and Subduction Zone Seismicity and Stress in Slabs (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Voter, Arthur Ford — The Resonating Valence Bond Model of Molecules and Reactions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wallace, Terry Charles, Jr. — Long Period Regional Body Waves (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Chung — Induction and Methylation of Heat Shock Proteins in Cultured Vertebrate Cells (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Willett, Brian Christopher — Electron Transfer Rates and Adsorption in the Electrochemistry of Cobalt-2,2'-Bipyridine, Ruthenium Ammine Thiocyanate Complexes and cis-[(C₅H₅)Fe(CO)P(C₆H₅)₂]₂ (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Williams, Roy David — Semiclassical Quantization in Many Dimensions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zee, Layne — Ordinary and Strong Ellipticity in the Equilibrium Theory of Incompressible Hyperelastic Solids (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zondervan, Keith Peter — Optimal Low Thrust, Three Burn Orbit Transfers with Large Plane Changes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zwiebach, Barton — Use of Superspace Geometry to Find All Supergravity Theories: Case of N = 4 and SO(4) Symmetry (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zwillinger, Daniel Ian — Long Distance Energy Correlations in Random Media (Dissertation (Ph.D.))