Theses — 1990

• Adler, Mark — The Persistence of Charm in the Relentless Decay of Beauty (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Allard, Marie-Agnès — Soil Stress Field Around Driven Piles (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Anderson, William Wyatt — High Pressure States in Condensed Matter: I. High Pressure Behavior of the Iron-Sulfur System with Applications to the Earth's Core. II. Empirical Equation of State for Organic Compounds at High Pressures (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ashlock, Daniel Abram — A Theory of Permutation Polynomials Using Compositional Attractors (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Axe, Douglas D. — Kinetics of RNA Polymerase β Subunit Synthesis and Acid End Product Transport in Escherichia coli (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Balas, Gary John — Robust Control of Flexible Structures: Theory and Experiments (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Banta, Lois Margaret — Vacuolar Protein Sorting in Yeast: Characterization of Mutants and Identification of a Protein Required for Vacuole Biogenesis (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Barner, Claudia Jane — Part I. Coordination Chemistry of High-Valent Osmium Polyanionic Chelating Ligand Complexes with Imine, Imido and Nitrido Ligands. Part II. Asymmetric Hydrogenation Using a Resolved Chiral Scandium Hydride Complex (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Baskin, John Spencer — Real-Time Observation and Analysis of Coherence and Alignment in Molecular Systems: Isolated Molecules and Chemical Reactions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Battiti, Roberto — Multiscale Methods, Parallel Computation, and Neural Networks for Real-Time Computer Vision (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bent, Allison Lyn — Source Characteristics of Recent and Historic Earthquakes in Central and Southern California: Results from Forward Modeling (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Blum, Joel David — Geochemistry and Resonance Ionization of Platinum-Group Elements (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Brady, David Jones — Photorefractive Volume Holography in Artificial Neural Networks (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Brigham, Cheryl A. — Isotopic Heterogeneity in Calcium-Aluminum-Rich Meteoritic Inclusions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Brinson, Lynda Catherine — Time-Temperature Response of Multi-Phase Viscoelastic Solids Through Numerical Analysis (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Brorson, Kurt Andrew — Analysis of Expression, Structure and Evolution of Non-Classical Class I Major Histocompatibility Complex Genes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Budge, Kent Grimmett — A Non-LTE Analysis of a Sample of O Stars Selected from Galactic OB Associations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Camassa, Roberto Alfredo — Part I: Forced Generation and Stability of Nonlinear Waves. Part II: Chaotic Advection in a Rayleigh-Bénard Flow (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Campo, Peter John — Studies in Robust Control of Systems Subject to Constraints (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Canzian, Blaise J. — Molecular Gas and Star Formation in the Central Regions of Virgo Spiral Galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Carman, George John — Mappings of the Cerebral Cortex (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Carraro, Carlo — A Path Integral Monte Carlo Method for the Quasielastic Response (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ceccio, Steven Louis — Observations of the Dynamics and Acoustics of Travelling Bubble Cavitation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Howard ZeHua — GaAs/AlₓGa₁₋ₓAs Quantum Well Lasers Grown on GaAs and Si by Molecular Beam Epitaxy (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chien, Chi-Bin — Voltage-Sensitive Dye Recording from Networks of Cultured Neurons (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chua, Kiat — Vortex Simulation of Separated Flows in Two and Three Dimensions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Davies, John Huw — Some Problems in Mantle Structure and Dynamics. Part 1. Inversion for Depth Variation of Spectra of Mantle Compressional and Shear Velocity Heterogeneity. Part 2. Physical Model of Source Region of Subduction Zone Volcanism (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• DeJongh, Don Frederic — Resonant Substructure in Kπππ Decays of D Mesons (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Deng, Xiaomin — Dynamic Crack Propagation in Elastic-Plastic Solids (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Doğanata, Zinnur — General Structural Representations for Multi-Input Multi-Output Discrete-Time FIR and IIR Lossless Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Espinosa, Olivier R. — Non-Conservation of Baryon Number at High Energy in the Standard Model (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Feng, Jiyu — Some Aspects of Open String Field Theories (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fors, Lance — Analysis of the Structure, Expression and Evolution of the Shark Myelin Proteins and Genes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fric, Thomas Frank — Structure in the Near Field of the Transverse Jet (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fujikawa, Brian Kurt — A Search for νₑ Appearance from Stopped π⁺ and µ⁺ Decay at LAMPF (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Geffroy Aguilar, Enrique — Birefringence of Polymer Solutions in Time Dependent Flows (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Goldstein, David Benjamin — Investigations of a Discrete Velocity Gas (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Goodrich, Raymond Paul, Jr. — Modification of Membrane Surfaces with Carbohydrates: An Approach for Stabilization During Freezing and Drying (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Griffin, John Hampton — Structure-, stereochemistry-, and metal-regulated DNA binding/cleaving molecules (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Griffin, Linda Chu-Li — Oligonucleotide-Directed Cleavage of Single- and Double-Stranded DNA by Double and Triple Helix Formation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Grossman, Arie William — Microwave imaging of Saturn's deep atmosphere and rings (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gu, Claire Xiang-Guang — Optical Neural Networks Using Volume Holograms (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gudmundsson, Olafur — Some problems in global tomography: modeling the core-mantle boundary and statistical analysis of travel-time data (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Guler, Kemal — Pre-auction investment and equivalence of auctions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gupta, Arun Kumar — Quantum Aspects of Gravity (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Guske, Christopher James — Metabolic modeling of growth and poly-[beta]-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) production in Alcaligenes eutrophus H16 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hanson, James Edward — I. Matrix Isolation of 1,1-Diazenes. II. Distance, Temperature, and Dynamic Solvent Effects on Electron Transfer Reactions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hardy, Winters Reef — The characterization and processing of the nonstructural proteins of Sindbis virus (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Harvey, Erica Lyn — Photochemical hydrogen atom transfer reactions of binuclear platinum complexes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Haubert, Philip Charles — Heavy ion Rutherford backscattering with a time of flight detector system (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hayes, Catherine Kent — Diffusion and stress driven flow in polymers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Heben, Michael Joseph — Scanning tunneling microscopy in electrochemical environments (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hildemann, Lynn Mary — A study of the origin of atmospheric organic aerosols (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hoenk, Michael Eugene — Orientation selective effects in III-V heterostructure systems with application to nanostructure fabrication (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hou, Zhikun — Nonstationary Response of Structures and its Application to Earthquake Engineering (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hsu, Ken Yuh — Optical neural computing for associative memories (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ide, Kayo — Regular and chaotic motion of uniform elliptical vortices in external linear time dependent velocity fields (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Imel, David A. — High density noble gas detectors and search for massive neutrinos in the [beta]-decay of [superscript 35] S (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jahnke, Craig C. — Application of Dynamical Systems Theory to Nonlinear Aircraft Dynamics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jensen, Hector A. — Dynamic Response of Structures with Uncertain Parameters (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jiang, Qing — A continuum model for phase transformation in thermoelastic solids (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kafkoulis, George — Homogeneous sequences of cardinals for ordinal definable partition relations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kaisaki, David A. — Part I. 3,4-diazabenzvalene, the azoalkane precursor to tetrahedrane. Part II. Magnetic properties of polaronic polymers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kalra, Devendra — A unified framework for constraint-based modeling (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kang, Hway-Chuan — Model studies of adsorbate ordering, adsorption and reaction using Monte-Carlo simulations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kavranoglu, Davut — Elementary solutions for the H infinity- general distance problem- equivalence of H2 and H infinity optimization problems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Khosla, Chaitan — Vitreoscilla hemoglobin: gene structure and regulation functions, and applications to aerobic bioprocesses (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kibbe, Warren Alden — A Detailed Analysis of Transcriptional Regulators Affecting the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Heat-shock Gene SSA1 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kovacic, Gregor — Chaos in a model of the forced and damped sine-Gordon equation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kramar, John Adam — Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy of Molybdenum Disulfide (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lazzaro, John P. — Silicon Models of Early Audition (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• LeFevre, L. Victoria — I. A seismotectonic study of the Middle America Subduction Zone. II. Lithosphere and upper mantle structure of the Canadian Shield and Eastern North America (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Levine, Marie-Bernard P. — Accelerogram Processing Using Reliability Bounds and Optimal Correction Methods (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Peter Mark — The role of CuA in the cytochrome c oxidase proton pump (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Zhaoping — A model of the olfactory bulb and beyond (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Vincent Cheng-Teh — One and two-dimensional digital mutirate systems with applications in sub-sampling and bandlimited signal reconstruction (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Wei — Paleomagnetism of miocene sedimentary rocks in the Transverse ranges: the implications for tectonic history (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Losi, Giancarlo Umberto Maria — Nonlinear thermoviscoelastic behavior of polymers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Magaard, Kay — The maximal subgroups of the Chevalley groups F4(F) where F is a finite or algebraically closed field of characteristic not equal to 2,3 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Magistrale, Harold William — I. The Superstition Hills, California, earthquakes of 24 November 1987. II. Three-dimensional velocity structure of southern California. (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Makhlouf, Eliana Mary — Estimation of absolute permeability in multilayered petroleum reservoirs with two- and three-phase flow (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Makur, Anamitra — Low rate image coding using vector quantization (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mathers, Peter Hiram — Developmental regulation and chromosomal decondensation of the 68C glue gene cluster in Drosophila melanogaster (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• McLachlan, Robert Iain — Separated viscous flows via multigrid (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mehuys, David Glenn — Linear, nonlinear, and tunable guided wave modes for high-power (GaAl)As semiconductor lasers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mendel, David — Chemical and Enzymatic Footprinting of Quinoxaline Antibiotics on DNA (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Miller, Gregory Hale — The Equation of State and Petrogenesis of Komatiite (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Miller, Michael Coleman — Radiative transfer in very strong magnetic fields (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Montgomery, Donald David — Part I. Influence of membrane morphology on ion-exchange and charge propagation in composite polyelectrolyte electrode coatings. Part II. Dynamic surface tension measurements of polarization relaxation at mercury pool electrodes by the method of Wilhelmy. (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Morlet, Anne Chantal — Part I. Numerical experiments for the computation of invariant curves in dynamical systems. Part II. Numerical convergence results for a one-dimensional Stefan problem (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mueller, Paul R. — In vivo analysis of interactions between trans-acting factors and their target genes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mullins, Charles Buddie — Molecular Beam Investigations of Surface Chemical Reactions and Dynamics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Myers, Steven Theodore — A Search for Anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background on Angular Scales of 1 to 30 Arcminutes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ng, Kit Yin — Thermal plumes from staged multiport diffusers in uniform quiescent environment (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ng, Ricky Chiu-Yin — Semi-dilute polymer solutions in strong flows. Part I: Birefringence and flow modification in extensional flows. Part II: Chaotic mixing in time-periodic flows (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nguyen, Hung Viet — Powder production in aerosol reactors : particle structure and reactor optimization (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nikzad, Shouleh — A Study of Ion Beam Sputtering of Compound Materials with Laser Spectroscopy (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Novak, Thomas John — Isolation of the murine interleukin 2 gene and characterization of its regulatory architecture (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Novick, Steven Louis — Chemical Studies of Viral Entry Mechanisms: I. Hydrophobic Protein-Lipid Interactions During Sendai Virus Membrane Fusion. II. Kinetics of Bacteriophage λ DNA Injection (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Onyszchuk, Ivan M. — On the Performance of Convolutional Codes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Park, Cheol Hoon — Optical computing and higher order associative memories (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Paslaski, Joel Stephen — High Speed Optoelectronics: Photodiodes, Q-Switched Laser Diode and Photoconductive Sampling (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pepin, Francois Michel — Simulation of the flow past an impulsively started cylinder using a discrete vortex method (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Popovic, Zoya Basta — Grid oscillators (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Preugschat, Frank — Proteolytic processing of the nonstructural proteins of dengue 2 virus (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Proteau, Philip Jerome — Neocarzinostatin chromophore: structural, mechanistic, and synthetic studies (Master's thesis)
• Ramaswami, Mani — Molecular genetic studies on voltage-gated ion channels (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ripperdan, Robert Lowell — Magnetostratigraphic investigations of the lower paleozoic system boundaries, and associated paleogeographic implications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Riza, Nabeel Agha — Novel acousto-optic systems for spectrum analysis and phased array radar signal processing (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Savage, Martin J. — Flavor SU(3) predictions for charmed baryon and B-meson decays (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sayano, Koichi — Photorefractive properties of ferroelectric materials for optical phase conjugation, two-beam coupling, and holographic storage (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Semmes, David Haynes — Picosecond studies of the vibrational predissociation of van der Waals complexes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shinn-Mendoza, Rachel — Shocks and instabilities in traffic (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sivarajan, Kumar N. — Spectrum efficient frequency assignment for cellular radio (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Skjellum, Anthony — Concurrent dynamic simulation: multicomputer algorithms research applied to ordinary differential-algebraic process systems in chemical engineering (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Smedley, Gregory Todd — A study of immiscible liquids, liquid behavior at zero gravity, and dynamic contact lines and angles (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Smith, Roy S.R. — Model Validation for Uncertain Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Spicklemire, Stephen James — Isotopic fractionation in sputtering (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Stead, Richard J. — Finite differences and a coupled analytic technique with applications to explosions and earthquakes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Steidel, Charles Colville — Spectroscopic Observations of High Redshift QSOs: Galaxies and the Intergalactic Medium at Early Epochs (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Su, Wen-King — Reactive-Process Programming and Distributed Discrete-Event Simulation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sun, Yongkui — Kinetic investigations of heterogeneously catalyzed reactions on the Ru(001) and Pt(110)-(1x2) surfaces (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sweeney, Robert Joseph — Hydrogen-Atom Transfer Photochemistry of Tetrakis(µ-pyrophosphito)diplatinate(II) (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tan, Guofu — Optimal procurement and contracting with research and development (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tan, Phalkun — Numerical simulations of two-dimensional saturated granular media (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Teng, Michelle Hsiao Tsing — Forced Emissions of Nonlinear Water Waves in Channels of Arbitrary Shape (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Thyagarajan, Ravi Shanker — Modeling and analysis of hysteretic structural behavior (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Topol, Joanne — Transcriptional control of the drosophila segmentation gene fushi tarazu (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Toth, James E. — Electrocatalytic activity of transition metal substituted heteropolytungstates (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Trivedi, Sandip Parimal — Topics in Quantum Gravity (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Uzcátegui, Carlos — Smooth sets for borel equivalence relations and the covering property for σ-ideals of compact sets (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Vu, Hoanh Xuan — Plasma Collection by an Obstacle (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Washabaugh, Peter D. — An experimental investigation of mode-I crack tip deformation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wasson, David Allan — Relativistic mean field theory: methods and applications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Webb, Christopher John — Robust Control Strategies for a Fixed Bed Chemical Reactor (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Weir, Andrew J. — A measurement of B0-B0 mixing in e+e- annihilation at 29 GeV (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wheeler, David Roger — Mechanism and applications of the photochemistry of Bis(η^5-cyclopentadienyl)titanacyclobutanes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wilson, Christine Diana — Star formation and the interstellar medium in M33 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wolfenbarger, J. Kenneth — Aerosol Data Inversion: Optimal Solutions and Information Content (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wood, Kristin Lee — A method for the representation and manipulation of uncertainties in preliminary engineering design (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wu, Dolly Yu-ting — Radiative tau production and decay (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wysong, Ernest Byron — Investigations of group IVA transition metal mediated carbon-carbon bond forming reactions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Xiong, Fulin — Characterization and application of MeV ion implanted layers in III-V compound semiconductors (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yin, Fangdong — Atmospheric photooxidation of organosulphur compounds (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zarem, Hal — Investigations of quantum wires, carrier diffusion lengths, and carrier lifetimes in GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zewert, Thomas Edward — Electron transfer in chemically and genetically modified myoglobins (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhang, Xiao-He — Multipole moments in general relativity and dynamical perturbations of black-hole magnetospheres (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhou, Hua-wei — Travel time tomographic studies of seismic structures around subducted lithospheric slabs (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhuang, Mei — An investigation of the inviscid spatial instability of compressible mixing layers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zimmerman, George Allan — Applications of frequency modulation interference cancellers to multiaccess communications systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))