Theses — 1987

• Arakeri, Jaywant H. — Structure Measurements in a Synthetic Turbulent Boundary Layer (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Arnold, Robert Glenn — Dissimilative Fe(III) Reduction by Pseudomonas sp. 200 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Asselt, Allan van — Reactions of Oxygen Containing Ligands in the Coordination Sphere of Permethylhafnocene and Permethyltantalocene (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Astiz Delgado, Luciana Maria de Los Angeles — I. Source Analysis of Large Earthquakes in Mexico. II. Study of Intermediate-Depth Earthquakes and Interplate Seismic Coupling (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Athas, William C., Jr. — Fine Grain Concurrent Computations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Axup, Andrew William — Laser Flash Spectroscopy of Zinc/Ruthenium Myoglobins: An Investigation of Distance and Medium Effects on Photoinduced Long-Range Intraprotein Electron Transfers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bassiri, Sassan — Electromagnetic Wave Propagation and Radiation in Chiral Media (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bonnefoi, Alice Renée — Electronic Properties and Device Applications of GaAs/AlₓGa₁₋ₓAs Quantum Barrier and Quantum Well Heterostructures (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Boothroyd, Arnold Ian — Low Mass Stars with Mass Loss and Low-Luminosity Carbon Star Formation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Brewster, Mary Elizabeth — Asymptotic Analysis of Thin Plates Under Normal Load and Horizontal Edge Thrust (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Brugman, Melinda Mary — Water Flow at the Base of a Surging Glacier (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Burger, Barbara J. — Olefin Insertion and β-Elimination Reactions of Permethylniobocene Olefin Hydride and Permethylscandocene Alkyl Complexes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Burns, Steven Morgan — Automated compilation of concurrent programs into self-timed circuits (Master's thesis)
• Burridge, Paul Brian — Failure of Slopes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Campos, Jose Edgardo L. — The Political Economy of Price Supports (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Carroll, Steven S. — The Construction and Kinetic Analysis of Specific Mutants of β-Lactamase (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Carter, Emily Ann — Finesse in Quantum Chemistry: Accurate Energetics Relevant for Reaction Mechanisms (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chang, Yie-Hwa — Studies of the Roles of Residues 71 and 72 of RTEM-1 Beta-Lactamase and the Structure-Function Relationships between Beta-Lactamases and D,D-Carboxypeptidases by Mutagenesis (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cheng, Yang-Tse — Ion-Beam Mixing and the Formation of Amorphous Alloys (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cheung, Kar-Ming — Error-Correction Coding in Data Storage Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cheung, Kwok-wai — An Acousto-Optical Correlation Spectrometer for Radio Astronomy (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chiang, Huey-jenn — Studies of the Thermodynamics of Some Native and Ruthenated Metalloproteins by Spectroelectrochemistry (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chobotov, Michael V. — Gravity Currents with Heat Transfer Effects (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Choo, Young-il — Logic from Programming Language Semantics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chou, Dean-Yi — Development and Evolution of Magnetic Fields in Active Regions on the Sun (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chow, Christopher Vincent — The Flow of a Liquid Jet in a Homogenous Suspension (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chu, Ming-chung — Hydrodynamics of Ultra-Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Coffman, Daniel Mark — The Properties of Semileptonic Decays of Charmed D Mesons (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cohen, Mark Daniel — Studies of Concentrated Electrolyte Solutions Using the Electrodynamic Balance (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Compton, Richard C. — Analysis of Millimeter and Microwave Integrated Circuits (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• d'Agostino, Luca — Experimental and Theoretical Study on Cavitation Inception and Bubbly Flow Dynamics: I. Design, Development and Operation of a Cavitation Susceptibility Meter. II. Linearized Dynamics of Bubbly and Cavitating Flows with Bubble Dynamics Effects (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dailey, Russell Lane — Conic Sector Analysis for Digital Control Systems with Structured Uncertainty (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dandy, David Stewart — Intermediate Reynolds Number Free-Surface Flows (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Doğanata, Yurdaer Nezihi — Analysis of Traffic Problems of Integrated Networks (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dussault, Patrick H. — Approaches to the Total Synthesis of Aplysiatoxin (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Edelson, Richard Allen — Broadband Properties of Active Galactic Nuclei (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Edelstein, Sergio — Adsorption of Sulphur Dioxide and Reduction of Sulphate on Alumina and Alkali-Alumina at High Temperatures (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Engstrom, James Robert — The Influence of Surface Structure and Adlayer Composition on the Kinetics and Mechanisms of Gas-Surface Reactions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Erondu, Ngozi Emmanuel — Regional Distribution and Subcellular Associations of Type II Calcium and Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase in Rat Brain (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fanson, James L. — An Experimental Investigation of Vibration Suppression in Large Space Structures Using Positive Position Feedback (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Finn, Lee Samuel — Relativistic Stellar Pulsations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Flower, Jonathan William — Lattice Gauge Theory on a Parallel Computer (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Friedson, Andrew James — I. Meridional Energy Balance of Uranus. II. Viscosity of Rock-Ice Mixtures. III. The Thermosphere of Titan (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Grosz, Ron — Biochemical and Mathematical Modeling of Microaerobic Continuous Ethanol Production by Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hamidi, Shahram — Interactions of Strings Compactified on Orbifolds (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hannoun, Imad A. — Turbulent Mixing in Stably-Stratified Fluids Subjected to Zero-Mean Shear (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hauenstein, Robert Joseph — Investigations of Single-Crystal Silicide/Silicon Structures (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hills, Malina Manon — Characterization of Reaction Intermediates and Adsorbate Interactions on the Ru(001) Surface (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Holden, Peter James — Extension Theorems for Functions of Vanishing Mean Oscillation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hong, John Hyunchul — Optical Computing for Adaptive Signal Processing and Associative Memories (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Houston, Heidi Beth — Source Characteristics of Large Earthquakes at Short Periods (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Humphrey, Joseph William, III — Linear and Nonlinear Acoustics with Nonuniform Entropy in Combustion Chambers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jain, Rakesh — Direct Observation and Reactions of Organic Biradicals Generated from Novel Bicyclic Azoalkanes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jayakumar, Paramsothy — Modeling and Identification in Structural Dynamics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jery, Belgacem — Experimental Study of Unsteady Hydrodynamic Force Matrices on Whirling Centrifugal Pump Impellers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kamm, James Russell — Shape and Stability of Two-Dimensional Uniform Vorticity Regions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kasilingam, Dayalan P. — Topics in Millimeter-Wave Imaging Arrays (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Keech, John Tyler — High Valent Osmium Complexes Incorporating a Tetradentate Tetraanionic Chelating Ligand; Stabilization Modification Resulting from the Formation of Non-Planar Amides (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kirk, Randolph Livingstone — I. Thermal Evolution of Ganymede and Implications for Surface Features. II. Magnetohydrodynamic Constraints on Deep Zonal Flow in the Giant Planets. III. A Fast Finite-Element Algorithm for Two-Dimensional Photoclinometry (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kremer, Richard M. — ¹²C(α,γ)¹⁶O Reaction at Low Energies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kytömaa, Harri Kaarlo — Stability of the Structure in Multicomponent Flows (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lacerda, Nehemias Lima — On the Start Up of Supersonic Underexpanded Jets (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lam, Wayne W. — Millimeter-Wave Monolithic Schottky Diode-Grid Phase Shifter (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Landman, Michael J. — New Solutions of an Amplitude Equation Describing Transition in a Laminar Shear Flow (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lau, Billy Ying Bui — Small-Signal Frequency Response Theory for Ideal Dc-to-Dc Converter Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lee, Tai-yong — Estimation of Petroleum Reservoir Properties (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Leland, Burton Alan — Photoinduced Electron Transfer: Synthetic Models of the Primary Processes in Photosynthesis (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Leung, Ping-Sang Kenneth — Co-Phthalocyanine Catalyzed Autoxidation of Mercaptans (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lin, Jane Ming-Chin — Transient Gas Jets into Liquid (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lind, Kevin Robert — Observations and Gas Dynamics of Extragalactic Radio Jets (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lindsey, Christopher Paul — High Power Phased Array and Tailored Gain Semiconductor Lasers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Louie, John Nikolai — Seismic Reflection Experiments Imaging the Physical Nature of Crustal Structures in Southern California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lowe, Graeme — Rotation of Bacterial Flagella at High Frequency (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lutz, Jack Harold — Resource-Bounded Category and Measure in Exponential Complexity Classes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lyn, Dennis Anthony — Turbulence and Turbulent Transport in Sediment-Laden Open-Channel Flows (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lynch, Diane Lynn — Dynamics of Single and Multiphoton Ionization Processes in Molecules (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mahadevan, Ramaswamy — Problems in Analysis, Control, and Design of Switching Inverters and Rectifiers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mandler, Jorge Anibal — Robust Control System Design for a Fixed-Bed Catalytic Reactor (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Marshall, Janet Layne — Spectroscopy and Photochemistry of Pyrazolyl-Bridged Binuclear Iridium(I) Complexes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Masek, Brian B. — The Static and Dynamic Conformational Properties of Some (1,5)-Naphthalenophanes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Matthews, Beverley Bond — Structure and Expression of the Actin Gene Family of Drosophila melanogaster (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mattox, William Wayne — The Molecular Structure of the Beadex and Heldup-A Loci of Drosophila melanogaster (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Meinhart, James Douglas — Synthesis and Reactivity of Titanocene Methylene Complexes and Bis(η⁵-Cyclopentadienyl) Titanacyclobutenes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Meister, Markus — Studies on Flagellar Rotation: The Angular Symmetry, the Stall Torque, and the Proton Consumption of the Bacterial Flagellar Motor (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Meredith, Dawn Christine — Quantum Chaos: Spectral Fluctuations and Overlap Distributions of the Three Level Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick Model (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Middlemas, David S. — Topographical Studies of the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mijić, Milan B. — Quantum and Inflationary Cosmology with Higher Derivative Gravity (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Morris, Duncan Andrew — The Relativistic String in the Caltech-II Model of Hadronization and Electron-Positron Annihilation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Moser, Michael Anthony — The Response of Stick-Slip Systems to Random Seismic Excitation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Natsiavas, Sotirios — Response and Failure of Fluid-Filled Tanks under Base Excitation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Neitzel, James Joseph — The Expression, Stability, and Enzymatic Activity of Specific Beta-Lactamase Mutants (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Neuhauser, Daniel — Two Problems in Many Body Physics: I. Photon Production: A Probe of Heavy Ion Collisions. II. Structure of Matter in Strong Magnetic Fields (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ngai, John J. — Expression of the Genes Encoding the Cytoskeletal Proteins Vimentin and Protein 4.1 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ni, Ching-Long — Electrocatalytic Reduction of Dioxygen at Chemically Modified Electrodes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• O'Connor, Kim Claire — The Effects of Immobilization on Structure and Substrate Activation of Glutamate Dehydrogenase (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• O'Hern, Timothy John — Cavitation Inception Scale Effects: I. Nuclei Distributions in Natural Waters. II. Cavitation Inception in a Turbulent Shear Flow (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Odencrantz, Kristiana — Effects of a Magnetic Field on the Trace of the Heat Kernel for a Schrödinger Operator with a Potential Well (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Onuchic, José Nelson — New aspects of the theory of electron transfer reaction dynamics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Paciello, Rocco Angelo — Synthesis and Reactivity of Electron-Rich Ruthenium and Iron Half-Sandwich Complexes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Papamoschou, Dimitri — Experimental Investigation of Heterogeneous Compressible Shear Layers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Paparizos, Leonidas G. — Some Observations on the Random Response of Hysteretic Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Peake, Geoffrey Tower — Studies of the Donor Properties of New Polyanionic Chelating Ligands through the Synthesis and Characterization of Osmium Complexes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Peretti, Steven William — Theoretical Modeling and Experimental Investigation of Host-Plasmid Interactions in Recombinant Escherichia coli (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pjura, Philip — X-Ray Crystallographic Studies of DNA-Drug and DNA-Protein Interactions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Poh, Hean Lee — Incorporating Time in the New World of Computing Systems (Master's thesis)
• Polychronakos, Alexios P. — Anomalous Quantum Mumbers and Topological Properties of Field Theories (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Prairie, Michael Roland — Steady-State and Transient Methods for Modeling Chemical Reactions on Supported Catalysts (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rakuljic, George Anthony — Photorefractive Properties and Applications of Barium Titanate and Tungsten Bronze Ferroelectrics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ramarathnam, Narasimhan — Mode I, Plane Stress Crack Initiation and Growth in Elastic-Plastic Solids: A Finite Element Analysis (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Regan, Janice — Numerical Studies of Propagation of Lg Waves Across Ocean Continent Boundaries Using the Representation Theorem (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rivera, Daniel Eduardo — Modeling Requirements for Process Control (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Romani, Roger William — Neutron Stars Observations as Astrophysical Probes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rudin, Leonid Iakov — Images, Numerical Analysis of Singularities and Shock Filters (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rudy, Donald James — Mars: High Resolution VLA Observations at Wavelengths of 2 and 6 cm and Derived Properties (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sageev Grader, Gideon — Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy of a Single Aerosol Particle (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sanders, Christopher O'Neill — I. Seismotectonics of the San Jacinto Fault Zone and the Anza Seismic Gap. II. Imaging the Shallow Crust in Volcanic Areas with Earthquake Shear Waves (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schatzle, Paul Russell — An Experimental Study of Fusion of Vortex Rings (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schilling, Jerald Bruce — Experimental and Theoretical Aspects of Hydrocarbon Activation by Transition Metal Ions in the Gas Phase (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schmitt, Douglas Ray — I. Applications of Double-Exposure Holography to the Measurement of In Situ Stress and the Elastic Moduli of Rock from Boreholes. II. Shock Temperature Measurements in Fused Quartz and Crystalline NaCl to 35 GPa (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Scott, David Russell — Magmons: Solitary Waves Arising in the Buoyant Ascent of Magma by Porous Flow through a Viscously Deformable Matrix (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Siopsis, George — Some Aspects of the Quantization of Theories with a Gauge Invariance (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Skogestad, Sigurd — Studies on Robust Control of Distillation Columns (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sobota, Thomas Henry — An Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Swirling Flows in a Rectangular Nozzle (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sponsler, Michael Bradley — Synthesis, EPR Spectroscopy, and Matrix-Isolation Decay Kinetics of Triplet Cyclobutanediyls (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sterling, James David — Longitudinal Mode Combustion Instabilities in Air Breathing Engines (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Stolorz, Paul Ernest — Numerical Simulations of Lattice QCD (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Toby, Brian H. — Studies of Molecular Bonding, Interactions and Decomposition Reactions on the (001) Surface of Ruthenium (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Toner, Stephen James — Entrainment, Chemistry, and Structure of Fire Plumes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tsai, Wilman — Interactions of Ammonia with Platinum and Ruthenium Surfaces (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Vajo, John J. — Mechanistic Studies of Heterogeneously Catalyzed Reactions of Ammonia and Acetic Acid on Platinum Surfaces (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Venkatesh, Santosh Subramanyam — Linear Maps with Point Rules: Applications to Pattern Classification and Associative Memory (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Vidale, John Emilio — Application of Two-Dimensional Finite-Difference Wave Simulation to Earthquakes, Earth Structure, and Seismic Hazard (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Voth, Gregory Alan — Theoretical Studies of Intramolecular Dynamics and Energy Redistribution (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wagner, Kelvin H. — Time and Space Integrating Acousto-Optic Signal Processing (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Walzl, Kerry Neil — Variable-Angle Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy of Polyatomic Molecular Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Hsin — Mössbauer and Spectroscopic Studies of Yeast Cytochrome Oxidase (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wark, David Lee — The β Spectrum Following Fission from ²⁵²Cf (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Warr, Brian John — The Regularisation and Renormalisation of Gauge Theories (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wawrzynek, John Charles — VLSI Concurrent Computation for Music Synthesis (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Waymouth, Robert Mebane — Synthesis and Reactivity of Alkylaluminum Adducts of Zirconium Ketene and Ketone Complexes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Werner, Bradley T. — A Physical Model of Wind-Blown Sand Transport (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Williamson, Jack Marshall — Financial Equilibrium, Voting Procedures, and Coalition Structures in Allocational Mechanisms (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wu, Jin Jwang — Powder Synthesis in Aerosol Reactors (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yeh, Xian-Li — Reaction of Hydrogen with Crystalline and Amorphous Alloys — Crystal to Amorphous Transformation Induced by Hydrogen (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yu, Lei — The Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor: Gene Expression and Ion Channel Function (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zafiriou, Evanghelos — A Methodology for the Synthesis of Robust Control Systems for Multivariable Sampled-Data Processes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zehnder, Alan T. — Dynamic Fracture Initiation and Propagation in Metals: Experimental Results and Techniques (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhang, Zhe — Coupled-Inductor Magnetics in Power Electronics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zufiria, Juan Antonio — Part I: Symmetry Breaking of Water Waves. Part II: On the Superharmonic Instability of Surface Water Waves (Dissertation (Ph.D.))