Theses — 1992

• Achterberg, Richard Karl — Numerical Simulation of Baroclinic Jovian Vortices (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Allder, Anne — Calculations of quasielastic electron scattering from nuclei at high momentum transfers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ammons, Richard Lewis Martin — Mathematical control theory for liquid chromatography (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Aroian, Raffi V — The let-23 gene of the nematode C. elegans : genetics and molecular biology of a member of the EGF receptor tyrosine kinase family (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Askenazy, Philip Douglas — Deformation-induced amorphization of Cu-Ti intermetallics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Baker, Shenda Mary — Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy of Silicon and Carbon Surfaces (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Barzel, Ronen — A structured approach to physically-based modeling for computer graphics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bauer, John Edward — Hydrodynamic interactions in polymer dynamics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bonazza, Riccardo — X-ray measurements of shock-induced mixing at an air/xenon interface (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bowen, John Murray — An experimental investigation of fracture at a bimaterial interface (Engineer's thesis)
• Budzinski, John Michael — Planar Rayleigh Scattering Measurements of Shock Enhanced Mixing (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Challa, Venkata Ramana Murty — Nonlinear seismic behaviour of steel planar moment-resisting frames (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chan, Chak Keung — Studies of Levitated Single Droplets (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Guanhua — Superconductivities of high-T_c materials and alkali compounds of Buckminsterfullerene (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chirikjian, Gregory Scott — Theory and Applications of Hyper-Redundant Robotic Manipulators (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Choi, Moon Kyu — Particle Shape Effects on Gas-Solid Reactions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chow, Christine S. — Transition Metal Complexes as Probes for Higher-Order Structure in RNA (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cong, Peijun — Femtosecond photodissociation dynamics of alkali halides (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Di Simone, Christopher — The Membrane Fusion Activities of Native and Reconstituted Mumps and Sendai Viruses (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ditzen, Achim — Definable equivalence relations on Polish spaces (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dixon, Jacqueline Eaby — Water and carbon dioxide in basaltic magmas (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Donnellan, Andrea — A geodetic study of crustal deformation in the Ventura Basin region, Southern California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Donnelly, Robert Edward — Modeling and visualizing surfaces (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dubois, Gregory P. — Upper Limits on Inclusive Branching Fractions to Narrow States in Radiative J/ψ Decays (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Duffy, Thomas Sheehan — Elastic Properties of Metals and Minerals under Shock Compression (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Evasius, Dean M. — Carleman inequalities with convex weights (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fiala, Brenda L. — Ortho-chain-bridged polyacetylene via the ring-opening metathesis polymerization (Master's thesis)
• Frieler, Clifford Eugene — Mixing and reaction in the subsonic 2-D turbulent free shear layer (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Funkhouser, William Keith Jr. — Demyelinating autoimmunity: murine T cell epitopes of MBP and primate T cell receptor Vβ variation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fyfe, William John Andrew — Invariance hints and the VC dimension (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Galton, Ian — An analysis of quantization noise in delta sigma modulation and its application to parallel delta sigma modulation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Garyantes, Tina Kramer — The Effect of Electrical Stimulation on Neuronal Outgrowth and the Development of a New Method for Chronic Long-Term Stimulation and Recording from Groups of Neurons in Culture (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gibner, Peyton Stinson — Isotopic composition of galactic cosmic ray boron, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gilbert, John Richard — Soft x-ray microimaging of whole wet cells (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Giorgi, Maria Rebecca — Experimental and theoretical studies of the hydrogen exchange reaction (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gorman, Christopher B. — Highly conjugated, substituted polyacetylenes via the ring-opening metathesis polymerization of monosubstituted cyclooctatetraenes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gortsema, Steven Craig — An Experimental Investigation of the Failure of a Stepped Composite Plate (Engineer's thesis)
• Grant, Stanley Clement Baugh — Detection and partitioning of bacteriophage in fluid/solid systems: application to the ecology and mobility of viruses in the environment (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Guinzburg, Adiel — Rotordynamic forces generated by discharge-to-suction leakage flows in centrifugal pumps (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Guo, Yong — Millimeter-wave integrated-circuit horn-antenna imaging arrays (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Guo, Yuejin — I. Molecular simulations of buckyball fullerenes. II. Quantum chemistry studies on high-T_c superconductors. (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Guthart, Gary Steven — On the Existence and Stability of Standing Solitary Waves in Faraday Resonance (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Haney, Susan Elaine — Investigation of low-valent ruthenium aquo complexes (Master's thesis)
• Hazewindus, Pieter Johannes — Testing delay-insensitive circuits (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hofstadter, Mark David — Microwave observations of Uranus (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jaksic, Vojkan — Solutions to some problems in mathematical physics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ji, Chuanyi — Generalization capability of neural networks (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Johnson, Lynda K. — Methods for the Synthesis of Tungsten Alkylidenes: Ring-Opening of Cyclopropenes and Alkylidene Transfer from Phosphoranes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Johnston, Helen Margaret — Compact objects in the disk and globular clusters (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jones, Cathleen Elaine — A measurement of the spin-dependent asymmetry in quasielastic scattering of polarized electrons from polarized ^3He (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kaper, Tasso J. — Part I. On the structure in separatrix-swept regions of slowly-modulated Hamiltonian systems. Part II. On the quantification of mixing in chaotic Stokes' flows : the eccentric journal bearing (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Karasawa, Naoki — Simulations of polymer crystals : new methods and applications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kay, Timothy L. — From geometry to texture : experiments towards realism in computer graphics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kayyem, Jon Faiz — Bravo, a novel immunoglobulin superfamily member in the developing avian nervous system, is identified using a new method (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kim, Yong Pyo — Simulation of multicomponent aerosol dynamics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Klinkhammer, Gunnar Ulrich — Multiply connected spacetimes and closed timelike curves in semiclassical gravity (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Knott, Diane Clemens — Geologic and isotopic investigations of the early Cretaceous Sierra Nevada Batholith, Tulare Co., CA, and the Ivrea Zone, NW Italian Alps: examples of interaction between mantle-derived magma and continental crust (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kotronarou, Anastassia — Ultrasonic irradiation of chemical compounds in aqueous solutions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Krill, Carl Emil — Instabilities in nonequilibrium solid solutions with respect to amorphization and melting (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kumar, Amit — Charge transfer studies of semiconductor interfaces (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kumar, Sanjay — Some theoretical and experimental studies of cavitation noise (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kurur, Narayanan Damodaran — I. Quantum-mechanical chemical exchange. II. NMR of semiconductors (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Laidlaw, David H. — Material Classification of Magnetic Resonance Volume Data (Master's thesis)
• Lee, Ho-Hoon — Robust adaptive control of manipulators with application to joint flexibility (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Xiaoming — Experimental Studies of Char Oxidation and Fume Formation from Pyrite (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Zhuyin — Proton pumping in cytochrome c oxidase: the possible role of Cu_A in redox linkage (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Licari, Peter — An engineering analysis of the insect cell - baculovirus expression system (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lin, Steven H. — GaAs optoelectronic integrated circuits for optical neural network applications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lu, Lingyun — On the development and application of a modified boundary element method for the analysis of three-dimensional elastostatic problems in thick plates (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Luebke, Kevin J. — Sequence specific nonenzymatic ligation of single- and double-stranded DNA by triple helix formation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lui, Shiu-Hong — Part I: Multiple bifurcations. Part II: Parallel homotopy method for the real nonsymmetric eigenvalue problem (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lunt, Sharon Ruth — Electrochemical, photoluminescence, and surface studies of the passivation of surface recombination processes on chemically treated gallium arsenide surfaces (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lusk, Mark T. — Martensitic phase transitions with surface effects (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lysek, Mark Joseph — A thermodynamic study of layering and capillary condensation of methane adsorbed on graphite foam (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• MacKay, David J.C. — Bayesian methods for adaptive models (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mahowald, Michelle A. (Misha) — VLSI Analogs of Neuronal Visual Processing: A Synthesis of Form and Function (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Malhotra, Sunil K. — Nonlinear uncertainty propagation in space trajectories (Engineer's thesis)
• Mau, Russell Edgar — Particle transport in flow through porous media : advection, longitudinal dispersion, and filtration (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• McGill, Sara Hanley Fagerson — Paleoseismology and neotectonics of the central and eastern Garlock Fault, California (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• McGrath, Dominic V. — The organometallic chemistry of aqueous ruthenium(II) with functionalized olefins: complex formation, isomerization, and metathesis chain transfer (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Melman, Aharon — Complexity analysis for the Newton modified barrier function method (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Michelsohn, Arie M. — Sequential Steps in the Determination of Chromaffin Cell Fate by Glucocorticoids (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Minahen, Timothy M. — Structural instabilities involving time dependent materials : theory and experiment (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Minor, Joseph E. — Evolution of the sea urchin sperm protein bindin (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Moore, Andrew John — Spatial Filtering in Tone Reproduction and Vision (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Moser, Albert N. — An experimental investigation of modeling and optimal control of modified space structures (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nadiga, Balasubramanya T. — A study of multi-speed discrete-velocity gases (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Naimi, Ramin — Constructing Essential Laminations in Some 3-Manifolds (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Otto, Kevin N. — A formal representational theory for engineering design (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Padgett, Deborah Lynne — Photospheric abundance analysis of low mass pre-main sequence stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Palmer, David M. — Gamma-ray imaging observations of Supernova 1987A (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pearson, Douglas Harvey — Measurements of white lines in transition metals and alloys using electron energy loss spectrometry (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pendse, Girish J. — Influence of genetic factors on the productivity of recombinant Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Povsic, Thomas J. — Oligonucleotide directed sequence specific recognition and alkylation of double helical DNA by triple helix formation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Qian, Nantian — Rigidity Phenomena of Group Actions on a Class of Nilmanifolds and Anosov R^n Actions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ramesh, Rajaram — Efficient multichannel methods for high-rate data transmission with application to ISDN (or) pouring water to get more out of copper (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rico, Rudolph J. — Quantum-mechanical studies of vanadium oxides (Master's thesis)
• Ridgway, Stuart Alexander — Wormholes in Euclidean quantum gravity (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Robinson, Murray O. — Gene regulation during spermatogenesis: transcriptional and translational control of phosphoglycerate kinase 2 in transgenic mice (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rodgers, Mary Theresa — A theoretical and experimental investigation of the H_3 system (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rulison, Aaron John — Part 1. Synthesis of ceramic powders by electrospray pyrolysis. Part 2. An approach to interplanetary particle sampling (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sanders, Steven — Passive mode-locking and millimeter-wave modulation of quantum well lasers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sayano, Masahiro — Analyses of coding and compression strategies for data storage and transmission (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schlautman, Mark A. — Mineral Surfaces and Humic Substances: Partitioning of Hydrophobic Organic Pollutants (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sercel, Peter C. — Semiconductor structures in the quantum size regime (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shah, Kathryn Pierce — Interferometric observations of the J(0,1) CO line on Venus: upper Mesospheric winds and CO abundance (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shannon, Karen Lynn — Conformational and mechanistic studies of asparagine-linked glycosylation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sheng, Yuntai Jack — Origin of plagioclase-olivine inclusions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shera, Christopher A. — Listening to the Ear (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shi, Frank Guojun — Kinetics of Nucleation and Crystallization (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shin, Jumi Anne — Characterization of the DNA Binding Domains of Helix-Turn-Helix Proteins by Affinity Cleaving (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sigurdsson, Steinn — Dynamics of neutron stars and binaries in globular clusters or, Ménages à trois: revitalizing burnt out degenerates through partner swapping (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Smither, Catherine Louise — Stress-relief displacements induced by drilling and three-dimensional modeling of planetary impacts (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Steele, Craig Stanley — Affinity : a Concurrent Programming System for Multicomputers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Stewart, Edward G — I. The synthesis and spectroscopy of a series of 1,3-diaryl-1,3-cyclopentadiyls and 1,4-diarylbicyclo[2.1.0]pentanes. II. Progress toward the synthesis of non-Kekulé naphthalene, a series of tetramethyleneethanes, and bi(cyclobutadienyl) (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Strobel, Scott A. — Site specific cleavage of genomic DNA mediated by triple helix formation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sullivan, Gregory Daniel — An investigation of mixing and transport at a sheared density interface (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sun, Yun — NMR Studies of Protein-DNA Interactions: Determinations of DNA Structures Recognized by Bin Recombinase and Studies of Their Roles in Protein Binding Interactions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Svitek, Tomas — Martian water frost : control of global distribution by small-scale processes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tahir-Kheli, Jamil — The infinite range Heisenberg model and high temperature superconductivity (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tavtigian, Sean Vahram — The regulatory capacity of the protooncogene c-myc (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tsai, Cho-Jen — Low energy ion-surface interaction and epitaxial growth in the SiGe system (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Uffelman, Erich Stuart — Macrocylic tetraamido-N ligands that stabilize high valent complexes of chromium, manganese, iron, cobalt, nickel, and copper (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• van Putten, Maurice H. P. M. — MHD in divergence form : a computational method for astrophysical flow (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Vernooij, Bernardus Theodorus Maria — The Mouse T Cell Receptor Gamma Genes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Wen-Ching — Expression, structural and functional studies of fasciclin I (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Weikle, Robert M. — Quasi-optical planar grids for microwave and millimeter-wave power combining (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Widdowson, Katherine — Silicon-Directed Carbon-Carbon Bond Forming Reactions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wissler, John B. — Transmission of thin light beams through turbulent mixing layers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wolf, Michael Bennett — Amphibolite-tonalite relationships: Part I. Experimental investigation of the phase relationships and textural development of amphibolite dehydration-melting. Part II. The geology, petrology and geochronology of a tonalitic and mafic dike swarm (southwestern foothills terrane, California) (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wong, Yiu-fai Isaac — Towards a simple and fast learning and classification system (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Worden, Charles Bruce — Interactive seismic imaging on a multicomputer and application to the Hosgri fault (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Workman, Thomas Wilson — Analysis of collision cascades in titanium deuteride by D-D fusion (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wu, Shu-Wu — Semiconductor laser noise and linewidth reduction and Rayleigh scattering in optical fibers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wu, Yi-Shuen Mark — Quantum three-body reaction dynamics including the geometric phase effect. (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wyslouzil, Barbara Ellen — Aspects of homogeneous nucleation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yamamura, Alan Akihiro — Neural network control and an optoelectronic implementation of a multilayer feedforward neural network (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yan, Liping — Seismic deformation analysis of earth dams : a simplified method (Engineer's thesis)
• Yang, Maximillian Y. — Progress on the synthesis of 1,2,3,5,9-cyclodecapentaen-7-yne and supporting studies (Master's thesis)
• Yoon, Hye-Joo — The Saccharomyces cerevisiae CDC7 protein kinase, a potential link between START and the initiation of DNA replication (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhang, Yu-Shen — Three-dimensional modeling of upper mantle structure and its significance to tectonics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhao, Lian-She — Seismic waveform modeling of regional phases and wavefields from an off-center explosion (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zuo, Lin — QSO Absorption Lines and the Ionizing Field at High Redshifts (Dissertation (Ph.D.))