Theses — 1994

• Al Juhany, Khalid Ahmed Bin Talal — Supersonic Film Cooling Including the Effect of Shock Wave Interaction (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Antsos, Dimitrios — Computer-aided modeling and analysis of passive microwave and millimeter-wave high-temperature superconductor circuits and components (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Apostolakis, John — Asymptotic scaling in the two-dimensional O(3) Nonlinear sigma model: a Monte Carlo study on parallel computers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Banfield, Donald J. — A dynamical history of the inner Neptunian satellites and Martian weather : Viking observations and M.O. data assimilation techniques (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Beal, Peter A. — Recognition of double helical DNA by purine oligonucleotides via triple helix formation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Belz, J. Eric — Two-body photodisintegration of the deuteron at intermediate energy (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Benson, Ronald Gary — Analog VLSI supervised learning system (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Betts, Bruce Harold — Thermal and visible studies of Mars using the Termoskan data set (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bhattacharyya, Abhijit — Internal flows and force matrices in axial flow inducers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Brkovic, Milivoje Slobodan — Switching converters with magnetic amplifiers as controllable switches : I: Soft-switching converters. II: Input current shaping (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Brun, Todd Andrew — Applications of the Decoherence Formalism (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Brune, Carl Richard — The ³H(α,γ)⁷Li reactions at low energies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Buntine, James D. — Part I: Inviscid, swirling flows and vortex breakdown. Part II: A numerical investigation of the Lundgren turbulence model (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Butler, Bryan Jay — 3.5-cm radar investigation of Mars and Mercury : planetological implications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cao, Yi-Bin — Vibrational predissociation spectroscopy of mass-selected ionic clusters (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Carlin, Peter — Distributed linear algebra on networks of workstations (Master's thesis)
• Casimiro, Danilo Riguera — Electron transfer in ruthenium-modified recombinant cytochromes and myoglobins (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Çataltepe, Zehra Kök — The Scheduling Problem in Learning from Hints (Master's thesis)
• Cauwenberghs, Gert — Analog VLSI Autonomous Systems for Learning and Optimization (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cetin, Bedri Cag — TRUST : a new global optimization methodology, application to artificial neural networks, and analog VLSI implementation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chamberlin, Helen Marie — Cell fate specification during Caenorhabditis elegans male tail development (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chamberlin, Laurinda Ann — Pd-oxide equilibration: a new experimental method for the direct determination of the activities of oxide components in melts and minerals (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Bing-Qing — Nuclear Hartree-Fock calculations on parallel computers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Dan — Molecular mechanisms of interleukin-2 gene inducibility: developmental control and combinatorial action of transcription factors (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, I-Ming — Theory and Applications of Modular Reconfigurable Robotic Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Kay-Yut — The Strategic Behavior of Rational Novices (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Mark C. — Experiments in Neutrino Mass and Mixing: Part I - New Limits on Heavy Neutrino Emission in Nuclear Beta Decay. Part II - Fast Neutron Backgrounds for the San Onofre Neutrino Detector (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Ruizhen — Metabolic and energetic studies of recombinant Escherichia coli strains : applications of NMR techniques (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Collins, Douglas — Growth and characterization of novel, III-V semiconductor heterostructures (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Condroski, Kevin Ronald — Synthesis of (±)-7,8-Epoxy-4-basmen-6-one by a Transannular Cyclization Strategy (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Conley, Andrew — New plane shear flows (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Coughlin, Edward Bryan, III — Iso-Specific Ziegler-Natta Polymerization of α-Olefins with a Single-Component Organoyttrium Catalyst (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Curtis, Kevin R. — 3-D photopolymer disks for correlation and data storage, and cross-talk in volume holographic memories (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Das, Kaustuv Mukul — Homotopy and homology of p-subgroup complexes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Duong, Cong N. — A nonlinear thermoviscoelastic stress and fracture analysis of an adhesive bond (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Edwards, David A. — A model for nonlinear diffusion in polymers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Eldering, Annmarie — Alternative Models for Air Pollutant Effects on Visibility (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Eylers, Hinrich — Transport of adsorbing metal ions between stream water and sediment bed in a laboratory flume (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fann, Ming-Ji — Cytokine control of neuronal phenotype (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Finney, Nathaniel S. — Structural and mechanistic study of monoalkyl diazenes. Synthesis, characterization, and reactivity of 1,6-didehydro[10]annulene (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fisher, Stewart L. — Unnatural amino acids in the synthesis and semisynthesis of metalloprotein motifs (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Flanagan, Eanna E. — Topics in general relativity : the hoop conjecture and theoretical aspects of gravitational wave detection (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gao, Haiyan — Measurement of the neutron magnetic form factor from inclusive quasielastic scattering of polarized electrons from polarized 3HE (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gao, Zheng-Quiang — The kinetics of ordering, grain growth and chemical segregation in nonequilibrium Fe3X alloys (X=Al, Si and Ge) (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Garnero, Edward James — Seismic structure above and below the core-mantle boundary (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Germain, Patrick — The boundary layer on a sharp cone in high-enthalpy flow (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ghosh, Shubhro — The role of various geometrical structures in scalar advection-diffusion (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gin, David Y. — A Convergent Synthetic Route to the Tunicamycin Antiobiotics. Synthesis of (+)-Tunicamycin V (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Glumac, Nick — Diamond growth in low pressure flames (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Goldsmith, Jeff — Optimized Computer-Generated Motions for Animation (Master's thesis)
• Greenspan, Hayit — Multi-resolution image processing and learning for texture recognition and image enhancement (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Grot, Annette C. — Analog GAAS optoelectronic integrated circuits for large scale arrays (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hacker, Jonathan Bruce — Grid mixers and power grid oscillators (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Haller, Gyorgy — Multi-pulse homoclinic phenomena in resonant Hamiltonian systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hashim, Imran — Microstructural and magnetic properties of polycrystalline and epitaxial permalloy (Ni80Fe20) multilayered thin films (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Heindl, William Adams — Multiwavelength observations of the black hole candidate 1E 1740.7-2942 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Herbig, Thomas — A measurement of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect in the coma cluster of galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hill, Russell James — The LIN-3 gene of the nematode C. elegans is the vulval-inducing signal (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Horowitz, Irwin Kenneth — Evolution of emission line galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Huang, Mei-Jiau — Theoretical and computational studies of isotropic homogeneous turbulence (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hubbard, Ted J. — MEMS design : the geometry of silicon micromachining (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Huber, Andrew Henry — A biochemical and structural characterization of Drosophila neuroglian (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hwang, Jack Yanchai — NMR of dilute sites in GaAs (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jacobs, Simon Joshua — One-dimensional models for organic magnetic materials (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Johnson, Dale Fredrick — Mechanistic and kinetic studies of the surface chemistry of iridium and ruthenium (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kearney, Patrick C. — Studies of Organic Molecule Recognition by Synthetic Cyclophane Receptors in Aqueous Media (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kelson, Eric P. — The electrocatalytic and stoichiometric oxidation chemistry of binuclear ruthenium complexes incorporating the anionic tripod ligand {(η5-C5H5)Co[P(OCH3)2(=O)]3}- (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Keszthelyi, László P. — On the Thermal Budget of Pahoehoe Lava Flows (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kim, Soojin — Chemical vapor deposition of permselective oxide membranes for hydrogen separation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kirby, Shaun K. — Three-dimensional supercell simulation of novel semiconductor nanostructures (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kolasa, Lawrence A. — Oscillatory integral operators related to pointwise convergence of Schrödinger operators (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kovačević, Nataša — Möbius-like groups of homeomorphisms of the circle (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kuhn de Chizelle, Yan P. — Hydrodynamics, acoustics and scaling of traveling bubble cavitation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kuo, Eugenia Y. — Dynamic states in rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lambros, John — Dynamic decohesion of bimaterial interfaces (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Langlois, Jean-Marc — New methods for ab initio quantum mechanical calculations in molecular and crystalline systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Larson, Wayne E. — Synthesis, structure, and photophysics of polypyridophenazine transition-metal complexes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Law, David Richard — An Abstract Condensation Property (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lee, Clarence L. Y. — Quantum effective field theories in heavy quark physics and phase transitions in cosmology (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lee, Inho — Distinct intron DNA structures in simian virus 40 T-antigen and adenovirus 2 E1A genes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lee, Jeongwoo — Study of solar microwave radiation using multifrequency data (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lee, Junho — Negative regulators of a growth factor-mediated signaling pathway in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lee, Kai-Ming — Non-Abelian discrete gauge theory (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lee, Ming-Chieh — Still and Moving Image Compression Systems Using Multiscale Techniques (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Leiserson, William M. — Molecular genetics of the Drosophila eyes absent gene (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Leroy, Stephen Sylvain — Convectively generated internal gravity waves in Venus's middle atmosphere : momentum transport and radio scintillations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lesin, Alexander Abraham — On the Mumford-Tate Conjecture for Abelian Varieties with Reduction Conditions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Hsin-Yu Sidney — Photorefractive 3-D disks for optical data storage and artificial neural networks (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Mo — Crystal to Glass Transition and its Relation to Melting (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Cheng — Dynamic fracture problems involving highly transient crack growth histories : an investigation of dynamic failure in homgeneous and bimaterial systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Wen-Shu — Oxidation of GeSi and applications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lo, Hoi-Kwong — Exotic phenomena in non-Abelian gauge theories (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Manohar, Rajit — Mach-Based Channel Library (Master's thesis)
• Marković, Dragoljub — Black holes in the early universe, in compact binaries, and as energy sources inside solar-type stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Maskit, Daniel — A Message-Driven Programming System for Fine-Grain Multicomputers (Master's thesis)
• McCleskey, T. Mark — Design and applications of luminescent inorganic complexes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• McDonough, Stefan I. — Pharmacology and pore-forming domains of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mezic, Igor — On the geometrical and statistical properties of dynamical systems : theory and applications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mrksich, Milan — Design of peptides for sequence-specific recognition of the minor groove of DNA (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Muller, Richard P. — Development and implementation of ab initio methods for application to large molecules (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Navarro, Jose — A wide bandwidth pulsar timing machine (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nelson, Christine Marie — Photodissociation and reaction dynamics of chlorine-containing species important in stratospheric ozone chemistry (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• O'Neill, Thomas Germano — Search for Color Transparency in A(e,e'p) at High Momentum Transfer (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Oakley, Martha G. — Design, synthesis and characterization of sequence-specific DNA-cleaving metalloproteins (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Oh, Kyoung Joon — Exploration of New Drug Delivery Pathways: I. Mechanism of Folate Uptake in Cultured Human Cells. II. Role of Nuclear Localization Signal Peptides in the Delivery of Oligonucleotide into Reconstituted Nuclei (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Olshausen, Bruno Adolphus — Neural Routing Circuits for Forming Invariant Representations of Visual Objects (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Park, Namkyoo — Application of fiber amplifiers to fiber lasers and terahertz spectroscopy (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Peker, Atakan — Formation and characterization of bulk metallic glasses (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Perry, Jason Kendrick — Alkane activation by first, second, and third row transition metal ions : organometallic chemistry in the gas plate (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pizarro, Pedro José — Trapped ion magnetic resonance: concepts and designs (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Plaxco, Kevin W. — Protein-DNA interactions : molecular modeling and energetics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pritchard, Howard P. — Application of the Schwinger multichannel method to multichannel studies of electronically inelastic electron-molecule collisions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Qiao, Yong — Learning dynamics of photorefractive neural networks (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Quan, Roger Weihong — Oxo, imido, and borollide complexes of tantalum and zirconium (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rakshit, Subrata — Analysis of image sequences using redundant representations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ramamoorthi, Roopa — Genetics and Regulation of Pyrroloquinoline Quinone (PQQ) Biosynthesis in the Methylotrophic Bacterium Methylobacterium extorquens AM1 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Raphaeli, Dan — Noncoherent Coded Modulation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rasnow, Brian K. — The electric field of a weakly electric fish (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Richmond, Todd Alan — Structural requirements for catalysis: studies on RTEM-1 β-lactamase (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ross, Scott Alan — Insights into the Mechanism of Human Erythrocyte Hexose Transport: a Transferred NOE Study of Glucose Binding to GLUT1 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Roth, Joshua — Constraints upon the cosmological density parameter from Tully-Fisher observations of IRAS galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ryckebusch, Sylvie Adrienne — The Central Nervous Control of Walking in the Locust Schistocerca americana (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Salam, Gamze Erten — An analog VLSI architecture for stereo correspondence (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sanouillet, Remy D. — Computer mediated communication (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Santi, Enrico — Magnetics and control in power electronics : I. Modeling of coupled inductors. II. One-cycle control of switching converters (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schmidt, David Russell — Equilibrium in dynamic economic models (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schrans, Thomas — Part 1: Longitudinal static and dynamic effects in semiconductor lasers. Part II: Spectral characteristics of passively mode-locked quantum well lasers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Seizovic, Jakov N. — The architecture and programming of a fine-grain multicomputer (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shih, Angela Chao-Hsuan — The study of Taylor-Couette flows with superimposed isothermal and heated axial flows at high Taylor numbers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shin, Jung Hoon — Defects in amorphous silicon : dynamics and role on crystallization (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Singleton, Jennifer Wales — Affinity Cleavage of Double-Stranded DNA Directed by a RecA Nucleoprotein Filament Containing an Oligonucleotide-EDTA•Fe(II) (Master's thesis)
• Sitaraman, Sankar — Arithmetic of cyclotomic fields and Fermat-type equations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Song, Xiaodong — Structure of the earth's core and lowermost mantle from seismic PKP waves (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Srinivas, Mullahalli V. — Time dependent failure of thin films (Engineer's thesis)
• Stroud, Carrie Kim — Collinear Reaction Dynamics and Hydrodynamic Analysis of the Vibrationally Excited Cl + HCl → ClH + Cl, Cl + DCl → ClD + Cl and Cl + TCl → ClT + Cl Reactions on Two Leps Surfaces (Master's thesis)
• Sugawara, Satoshi — An experimental investigation of fracture at an interface between two epoxies (Engineer's thesis)
• Sun, James Te — Chemical Sensing with Surface Acoustic Wave Devices (Master's thesis)
• Suzuki, Hideyuki — Scintillation mechanisms of cerium-doped rare earth oxyorthosilicates (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Szakaly, Kristin Erica — The political econmoy of state government debt : an analysis of constitutional limitations (1961-1990) (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tackley, Paul James — Three-dimensional models of mantle convection : influence of phase transitions and temperature-dependent viscosity (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tan, Fang Dong — Modeling and control of switching converters : I. Unified modeling and measurement of current-programmed converters. II. A generic averaged model for switches in dc-to-dc converters (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tole, Shubha — Surface markers of regionalization in the vertebrate nervous system (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tsapatsis, Michael — Composite inorganic membranes for gas separations : chemical vapor deposition of hydrogen permselective oxide membranes and preparation of supported zeolite NaA films (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Vendroux, Guillaume — Scanning tunneling microscopy in micromechanics investigations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Vollin, Jeffrey Lance — Resonant power processing at a fixed frequency using a controllable inductance (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Von Sosen, Harald — Part I: Folds and bifurcations in the solutions of semi-explicit differential-algebraic equations. Part II: The recursive projection method applied to differential-algebraic equations and incompressible fluid mechanics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wan, Kam To — The Design and Synthesis of a True, Heterogeneous, Asymmetric Catalyst (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wells, Andrew B. — Grammars for engineering design (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wen, Chihyung — Hypervelocity flow over spheres (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Willberg, Dean Michael — Picosecond spectroscopy of van der Waals clusters (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Willette, Gregory Thomas — Stochastic excitation of the solar oscillations by turbulent convection (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Woods, Bradley Brett — Regional surface wave magnitude and moment determination methods applied to nuclear explosions at the Nevada test site : implications for yield estimation and seismic discrimination (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wu, Zhe — Transition metal carbenes : controlled ring-opening metathesis polymerizations and metathetical reactions with acyclic olefins (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wuttke, Deborah Sharon — Preparation, characterization and intramolecular electron-transfer studies of ruthenium-modified cytochromes c (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yang-Snyder, Julia Ann — Anatomical and developmental patterns of interleukin-2 gene expression in the mouse: analysis of IL-2 expressing cells and partial characterization of interactions involved in mediating IL-2 gene expression in vivo (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yi, Piljin — On quantum fluctuations and black holes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Young, Kenneth Harbour — Submillimeter and infrared studies of mass lost by asymptotic giant branch stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yvon, Pascal — Metastable phases in the aluminum-germanium alloy system. Synthesis by mechanical alloying and pressure induced transformations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zeng, Zheng — Recurrent neural networks for grammatical inference (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhao, Bin — Threshold and Dynamics in Semiconductor Quantum Well Lasers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhu, Jian — Indentification and characterization of a novel CA^(2+)-binding protein in avian erythrocytes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))