Skip to main content
Theses — 1993
- Abe, Yoshio — Formation and stability of nanocrystalline alloys synthesized by mechanical milling (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Adolphs, Ralph — Processing of Interaural Level Differences in the Auditory Brainstem of the Barn Owl (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Anderson, Brooke P. — Various algorithms for optimization and learning in adaptive systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Anderson, Stuart Bruce — A study of recycled pulsars in globular clusters (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Anthony, Lawrence — Kinetics of disorder -> order transformations in highly nonequilibrium materials (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Bailey, Andrew Dewey — Drift wave ion fluid velocity field measured by planar laser induced fluorescence (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Balazs, Gabriel Bryan — Mechanistic and electrochemical studies of the reduction of carbon dioxide as catalyzed by Ni(I)CYCLAM+ (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Barrans, Richard E., Jr. — Investigations in molecular recognition: statistical tools and experimental studies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Baselt, David Randall — The Tip-Sample Interaction in Atomic Force Microscopy and its Implications for Biological Applications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Beatty, Susan M. — Size segregation of binary granular materials in vertical channel flows (Engineer's thesis)
- Beigie, Darin — Transport, stretching, and mixing in classes of chaotic tangles (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Belanger, Jacques — Studies of Mixing and Combustion in Hypervelocity Flows with Hot hydrogen injection (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Bell, David Ronald — Hydroxyl in mantle minerals (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Bernander, Jan Ӧjvind — Synaptic Integration and its Control in Neocortical Pyramidal Cells (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Bhalla, Upinder Singh — Information processing in the mammalian olfactory bulb (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Biehle, Garrett T. — Studies of stars with neutron cores and of x-ray binaries displaying quasi-periodic oscillations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Blanchard, Alan-Philippe — Sequence specific effects on the incorporation of dideoxynucleotides by a modified T7 polymerase (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Blank, Jennifer Glee — An experimental investigation of the behavior of carbon dioxide in rhyolitic melt (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Boden, Nanette Jackson — Runtime systems for fine-grain multicomputers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Bourzutschky, Marc S. — Complex dynamics in systems with many degrees of freedom (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Braatz, Richard Dean — Robust Loopshaping for Process Control (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Bridges, David Henry — Tip effects on the vortex wake of an axisymmetric body at angle of attack (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Buratto, Steven Keith — Time-sequenced optical nuclear magnetic resonance of gallium arsenide (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Burns, Elizabeth G. — Functional polymers via ring-opening metathesis polymerization (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Burt, Emelia Anna — Oxygen isotope studies of some sedimentary and metasedimentary rocks of the central and northern Appalachian Mountains, the Colorado Plateau, and the Ouachita Mountains (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Büttgenbach, Thomas H. — Quasi-optical sis receivers and astrophysical observations at submillimeter wavelengths (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Cardell, Gregory Scott — Flow past a circular cylinder with a permeable wake splitter plate (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Chan, Wingsiu Richard — Experimental and numerical studies on two-dimensional gravity currents in a horizontal channel (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Chen, Tsuhan — Multidimensional multirate filters and filter banks : theory, design, and implementation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Chen, Wei-Feng — Birkhoff periodic orbits, Aubry-Mather sets, minimal geodesics and Lyapunov exponents (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Chen, Wilfred — Molecular expression system design : theoretical and experimental characterization of a novel cross-regulation system and its application as a metabolic switch (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Chiang, Dar-Yun — Parsimonious modeling of inelastic systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Choi, Wooyoung — Forced Generation of Solitary Waves in a Rotating Fluid and Their Stability (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Clark, Steven Manning — Advances in scanning force microscopy of biological structures (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Cleaver, Gerald B. — Kac-Moody algebras and string theory (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Coley, Terry Ronald — Prediction of scanning tunneling microscope images by computational quantum chemistry: chemical models and software design (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Cook, James N. — Production Rule Verification for Quasi-Delay-Insensitive Circuits (Master's thesis)
- Cortelezzi, Luca — A Theoretical and Computational Study on Active Wake Control (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Cotter, W. Donald — Organoscandium complexes as mechanistic probes in the Ziegler-Natta polymerization of α-olefins and dienes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Coutu, Stéphane — A study of the ultrahigh-energy cosmic ray mass composition with the MACRO and EAS-TOP experiments (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Cramer, Edith Karina Schimmerling — Motor Neuron Projection Patterns and Maturation of Motor Unit Types in the Rabbit Soleus Muscle (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Cull, Robert Joseph — A comparative study of capital market failure and institutional innovation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Dawn, Douglas David — Saving Stratospheric Ozone: Putting the Problem in Perspective and Evaluating Hydrohalocarbons and their Mixtures as Potential Solutions (Master's thesis)
- Dawson, Jay W. — Single and multiple frequency fiber lasers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Day, Peter Kenneth — On the transition from two- to three-dimensional behavior in adsorbed films (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Delbruck, Tobias — Investigations of analog VLSI visual transduction and motion processing (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Ding, Dali — Localization of Maternal RNAs in the Early Embryo of Drosophila (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Dragovich, Peter S. — Synthesis and study of chemically activated biradical precursors (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Dreger, Douglas S. — Modeling earthquakes with local and regional broadband data (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Driscoll, Robert James — Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy: I. Semimetals and Semiconductors. II. Atom-Resolved Imaging of DNA (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Dugan, Regina E. — Axisymmetric Buoyant Jets in a Cross Flow with Shear: Transition and Mixing (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Echeverria, Fernando — Topics in general relativity theory : gravitational-wave measurements of black-hole parameters; gravitational collapse of a cylindrical body; and classical-particle evolution in the presence of closed, timelike curves (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Eluszkiewicz, Janusz B. — I. Microphysics of frost metamorphism : applications to Triton and Mars. II. A global analysis of the ozone deficit in the upper stratosphere and lower mesosphere. III. The diabatic circulation in the stratosphere as diagnosed from microwave limb sounder data (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Eng, Lars E. — Low threshold current strained InGaAs/AlGaAs quantum well lasers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Evans, John Spencer — NMR and Computational Studies on the Conformational Folding of the Biomineralization Template, Posphophoryn (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Forstner, Hali Janine Lala — Molecular Speciation of Secondary Organic Aerosol from Various Anthropogenic Hydrocarbons (Master's thesis)
- Fu, Zezhong — The mechanical alloying of aluminum and zirconium (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Fujiwara, Mitsuko — Characterization of pH-Dependent Poly(Acrylic Acid)-Vesicle Interaction and its Application in Cellular Drug Delivery (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Garrity, Paul Allen — The in vivo examination of transcriptional control mechanisms in mammalian cells (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Geubelle, Philippe H. — Nonlinear effects in interfacial fracture (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Ghez, Andrea Mia — The Multiplicity of T Tauri Stars in the Star Forming Regions Taurus-Auriga and Ophiucus-Scorpius: A 2.2 µm Speckle Imaging Survey (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Gin, Douglas L. — A new route to poly(p-phenylene): stereoregular precursors via transition-metal-catalyzed polymerization (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Graham, Kenneth Scott — Design and chemical synthesis of a sequence-specific DNA-cleaving metalloprotein: NI (II) GGH-γδ(141-183) (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Grant, Lisa Baugh — Characterization of Large Earthquakes on the San Andreas Fault in the Carrizo Plain: Implications for Fault Mechanics and Seismic Hazard (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Grave, Ilan — GaAs quantum well devices for detection and nonlinear optics in the mid-infrared (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Grünewald, Martin Werner — Measurement of the Tau-pair cross section and charge asymmetry at the Z° resonance (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Haas, George D. A. — Perturbative corrections to the ratio Γ(B → D ρ^-)/ Γ(B → D π^-). (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Hamilton, Bruce A. — Assessing molecular function in the Drosophila nervous system: a reverse genetic approach (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Hammer, Jay A. — Lifted turbulent jet flames (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Harley, Robert Adam — Mathematical Modeling of Gas-Phase Organic Air Pollutants (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Hart, Douglas P. — Cavitation and wake structure of unsteady tip vortex flows (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Higgins, Charles Marion — Classification and Approximation with Rule-Based Networks (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Hoffman, Amy Jo — Photocatalytic reactions on quantum-sized semiconductor colloids : photoinitiated polymerization of vinylic monomers, formation of hydrogen peroxide and organic peroxides, oxidation of carboxylic acids, and synthesis of humic-like material (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Hofmeister, Rudolf — Growth and applications of photorefractive potassium lithium tantalate niobate (KLTN) (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Holcomb, Tyler Reed — Improved linear regression with process applications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Hong, Jiangtao — Search for GUT magnetic monopoles and other supermassive particles with the MACRO detector (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Hsiau, Shu-San — Shear-induced transport properties of granular material flows (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Hsu, Hsiaolan S. — Properties of the first genetically engineered neuron. (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Hsueh, Wen-Jean — High-resolution optoelectronic and photogrammetic 3-D surface geometry acquisition and analysis (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Hunkapiller, Tim — Diversity and Evolution of the Immunoglobulin Gene Superfamily (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Iinoya, Fujio — Pulsed expansion of plasma in a magnetic thruster (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Jones, Daniel Hall — Quantum-mechanical chemical exchange. Stochastic averaging in magnetic resonance (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Jongeward, Gregg D. — Negative regulators of the let-23 EGF receptor in Caenorhabditis elegans vulval differentiation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Kerns, Douglas A. — Experiments in Very Large-Scale Analog Computation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Kim, Jongsun — Crystallographic structures and functional implications of nitrogenase molybdenum-iron proteins from Azotobacter vinelandii and Clostridium pasteurianum (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Kim, Moonil — Grid amplifiers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Kirk, David B. — Accurate and Precise Computation Using Analog VLSI, with Applications to Computer Graphics and Neural Networks (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Ko, Tsz-Mei — On the VLSI decompositions for complete graphs, DeBruijn graphs, hypercubes, hyperplanes, meshes, and shuffle-exchange graphs (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Komatsoulis, George A. — Recognition of tRNA^(Cys) by the E. coli cysteinyl-tRNA synthetase: in vivo and in vitro studies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Koumoutsakos, Petros D. — Direct numerical simulations of unsteady separated flows using vortex methods (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Kuo, Elaine Y. — I. Thermal cyclization of (Z)-1,2,4-heptatrien-6-yne. II. Studies directed toward the synthesis of neocarzinostatin chromophore (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Lang, Gladys Hau-Wan — Auxiliary-field Monte Carlo methods for interacting fermions : application to the nuclear shell model (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Lappas, Tasso — An adaptive Lagrangian method for computing 1-D reacting flows, and, The theory of Riemann invariant manifolds for the compressible Euler equations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- LaTourrette, Thomas — Experimental Determination of U and Th Partitioning Between Clinopyroxene, Garnet, Olivine, and Natural and Synthetic Silicate Melt (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Lee, David Soong-Hua — Thermodynamic and structural aspects of equilibrium and mechanically milled YBa2Cu3O6+delta powder (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Lian, Peng — Fiscal policies, optimal growth, and elections under different economic systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Lisoski, Derek Lee Ashton — Nominally 2-Dimensional Flow About a Normal Flat Plate (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Looper, Mark Dixon — Energetic Protons in the Magnetosphere of Neptune (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Lovalenti, Philip Michael — Inertial effects on particle dynamics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Ma, Kuo-Fong — The origin of tsunamis excited by local earthquakes. Broadband waveform observation of local earthquakes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Male, Roxanne — Development of an Effective Drug Delivery System Using Loaded Platelets (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Mandell, Michael I. — A comparison of CDMA and frequency hopping in a cellular environment (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Mason, James Joseph — Mechanisms and effects of heat generation at the tips of dynamic cracks and notches in metals (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Massingill, Berna Linda — Integrating Task and Data Parallelism (Master's thesis)
- Mathiowetz, Alan Martin — Dynamic and Stochastic Protein Simulations: from Peptides to Viruses (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Matthews, Christopher Gerald — Inclusive Weak Decays of Charmed Mesons (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Meier, Joseph Thomas — A Biological Arms Race: Site Specific DNA Recombination in Competing Immunofunctional Proteins (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Miller, Ann Elizabeth — Ab initio calculations in heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis : I. Methanol to gasoline with ZSM-5. II. Carbonyl ligand effects on metal-metal bonds (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Miller, John W. — Building probalistic models from databases (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Mou, Chung-Yu — Spherical Model for Turbulence (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Mouchtaris, Petros N. — Analysis of an interactive video architecture (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Murthy, Srihari — The Gas-Phase Ion Chemistry of Substituted Silanes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Navin, Robert Lloyd — Global Analogue of the Aharonov-Bohm Effect (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Neugebauer, Charles F. — Parallel Analog Computation with Charge Coupled Devices (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Noussair, Charles Nabih — A theoretical and experimental investigation of auctions in multi-unit demand environments (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Okamoto, James Kozo — Temperature-dependent extended electron energy loss fine structure measurements from K, L23, and M45 edges in metals, intermetallic alloys, and nanocrystalline materials (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Ouyang, Hao — Grain boundaries of nanophase materials (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Park, Changmoon — Protein design and simulation. Part I. Protein design. Part II. Protein simulation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Petroff, Catherine M. — The interaction of breaking solitary waves with an armored bed (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Phillips, Mark C. — Graded Injection: A New Approach to Wide-Bandgap Light Emitters (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Phung, Thanh Ngoc — Behavior of concentrated colloidal suspensions by Stokesian dynamics simulation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Polk, Charles William — The Organization of Production: Moral Hazard and R&D (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Potter, Earl Douglas — Ultrafast control and dynamics of chemical reactions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Prisbrey, Jeffrey Emig — Cooperation in Reciprocity Games and in the Voluntary Contributions Mechanism (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Pulos, Guillermo C. — Nonsteady crack propagation and craze behavior in PMMA (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Pylkki, Russell John — Probing Chemical Dynamics Near Electrode Surfaces with U1tramicroelectrodes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Quillen, Alice C. — The Kinematics of Molecular Gas and Dust in the Nearby Galaxies Centaurus A and M82 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Ramsden, Jerald Day — Tsunamis : forces on a vertical wall caused by long waves, bores, and surges on a dry bed (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Reisenegger, Tassilo Andreas — Hydrodynamics of neutron star interiors and laboratory superfluids (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Restuccio, Jim M. — Continuum modeling of materials that can undergo martensitic phase transformations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Rock, Michael M., Jr. — The design and synthesis of electroactive and magnetic polymers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Rogge, Wolfgang F. — Molecular tracers for sources of atmospheric carbon particles : measurements and model predictions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Rosenthal, Philip J. — The dimension of spacetime (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Rotstein, Hector P. — Constrained H[infinity]-optimization for discrete-time control systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Rowan, Linda Rose — Equation of state of molten mid-ocean ridge basalt. Structure of Kilauea volcano. (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Ruoff, Carl F. — Robotic hand-eye motor learning (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Ryan, Barry James — Lie-Poisson integrators in Hamiltonian fluid mechanics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Ryba, Gail Naomi — Time-resolved photoluminescence studies of metal ion treated n-GaAs in electrolytes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Santee, Michelle — The thermal structure, dust loading, and meridional transport in the Martian atmosphere during late southern summer (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Schmidhuber, Christof — Extending the theory of random surfaces (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Sercel, Joel Christopher — An experimental and theoretical study of the ECR plasma engine (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Sharma, Murali — Renormalization corrections in heavy colored scalar effective field theory (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Sheehy, Finbar T. — Antenna-coupled mm-wave electro-optic modulators and linearized electro-optic modulators (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Sheiman, Arthur E. — A new method for solving irises in waveguides (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Sitlani, Ayesha — Sequence specific recognition and photocleavage of DNA by phenanthrenequinone diimine complexes of rhodium(III) (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Sivilotti, Paul — A Verified Integration of Imperative Parallel Programming Paradigms in an Object-Oriented Language (Master's thesis)
- Socrates, Jude Thaddeus U. — The quaternionic bridge between elliptic curves and Hilbert modular forms (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Softky, William Russell — Irregularity in the cortical spike code : noise or information? (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Soman, Anand — New results on paraunitary filter banks : energy compaction properties, linear phase factorizations and relation to wavelets (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Stemple, Derek Lyle — Isolation of a mammalian neural crest stem cell and environmental control of cell fate choices (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Tinney, Christopher G. — The faintest stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Todd, Robert J. — Designing protein separations based on metal-affinity interactions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Togami, Kenji — Hypervelocity dissociating flow over a spherically blunted cone (Engineer's thesis)
- Tsuyuki, Richard M. — Buckling of thermoviscoelastic structures under temporal and spatial temperature variation (Engineer's thesis)
- Wald, David Jay — Rupture characteristics of California earthquakes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Wang, Wensheng — Carleman inequalities and unique continuation for higher order elliptic differential operators (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Wang, Yukang — Transcriptional Regulation of T Cell Receptor Genes by a Novel CACCC Box Binding Protein (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Watts, Donald Lloyd — Cochlear Mechanics: Analysis and Analog VLSI (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Werner, Margat Hoppe — NMR imaging of solids with multiple-pulse line narrowing and radiofrequency gradients (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Westaway, Shawn Kathleen — Structure and function of yeast tRNA ligase (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Yeung, Moon-Tai — Chemical Reactions in a Scramjet Combustor and Two-Dimensional Nozzles (Engineer's thesis)
- Young, Peter Michael — Robustness with Parametric and Dynamic Uncertainty (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Youngquist, Michael George — Atomic-Scale Imaging and Spectroscopy Using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Zeng, Langche — Individual choice in political economy (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Zhang, Yongfang — Coupled array of CO2 waveguide lasers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Zhu, Xiaotian — Structure-function studies of fibroblast growth factors (FGFS) (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
- Zsak, Thomas William — An investigation of the reacting vortex structures associated with pulse combustion (Dissertation (Ph.D.))