Theses — 1995

• Almogy, Gilad — Quantum Well Intersubband Transitions: Nonlinear Optics, Refractive Index and Infrared Modulation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Apostolatos, Theocaris A. — Topics in general relativity : naked singularities, and theoretical aspects of gravitational waves from merging compact binaries (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bart, John C. — Electrochemical investigations of ruthenium-substituted heteropolytungstate anions : catalytic studies of an inorganic oxometalloporphyrin analog (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bekiaris, Nikolaos — Multiple steady states in distillation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Benedicto, Alto D. — Rational Approaches to Regulating Polymer Properties in Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Best, George C. — Sequence composition and mismatch effects on triple helix formation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bierwagen, Erik Paul — Computational Studies of Ziegler-Natta Catalysis and Concurrent Resonance Computations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Birnbaum, Eva Rachel — The mechanism of catalytic hydrocarbon oxidation by molecular oxygen and halogenated ruthenium and iron porphyrins (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Biyanov, Andrey Y. — Evolution equations and semigroups of operators with the disjoint support property (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bodenheimer, Robert Edward — The Whirling Blade and the Steaming Cauldron (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Breton, Fabienne Anne — A large deformation analysis of plates or membranes for the determination of Young's modulus and Poisson's ratio (Engineer's thesis)
• Brewer, Paul J. — Allocation and computation in rail networks : a binary conflicts ascending price mechanism (BICAP) for the decentralized allocation of the right to use railroad tracks (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Broughton, Wayne Jeremy — Symmetric designs, difference sets, and autocorrelations of finite binary sequences (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bruck, Hugh Alan — Quasi-static and dynamic constitutive characterization of beryllium bearing bulk metallic glasses (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Burkett, Sandra Louise — Mechanisms of structure direction in zeolite synthesis (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Campbell, Sherrie A. — FT-ICR studies of the structures, energetics and reaction dynamics of biological molecules in the gas phase (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Jen-Sue — Ohmic contacts to beta silicon carbide : electrical and metallurgical characterizations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Weinong — Dynamic failure behavior of ceramics under multiaxial compression (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Xiaodong — Near-Field Ground Motion from the Landers Earthquake (Engineer's thesis)
• Chen, Yan — A theoretical study of political institutions and economic policies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Choi, Jong-Ho — Infrared spectroscopy of molecular ions and ion-solvent clusters (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chow, Chi-Keung — Heavy hadrons in the large Nc limit (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Christoforou, Christos S. — Control of air exchange and particle deposition within the Buddhist cave temples at Yungang, China (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chung, Geun-Chang — Segmental dynamics of individual species in a miscible polymer blend (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cohen, Scott B. — Mechanistic studies of the natural DNA-cleaving agents neocarzinostatin chromophore, calicheamicin [gamma]1, and dynemicin A (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cortese, John Anthony — Stochastic Computation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cummings, Eric Bryant — Laser-Induced Thermal Ccoustics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dedhia, Neilay N. — Metabolic engineering of central carbon metabolism in Escherichia coli : improving the production of biomass and metabolites (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Deora, Sanjeev K. — Channel assignment algorithms in cellular radio networks (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dissly, Richard William — Laboratory Studies of Astrophysical Ices (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Djokovic, Igor — Optimization issues in wavelets and filter banks (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Duggan, John R. — Bayesian Implementation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fey, Mark — Three aspects of multicandidate competition in plurality rule elections (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Flanagan, Michael J. — Reduced-complexity digital sinusoid generators and oversampled data converters (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Flatt, Brenton T. — Transition metal alkylidene complexes via the ring-opening of cyclopropenes (Master's thesis)
• Fleischer, Kurt W. — A multiple-mechanism developmental model for defining self-organizing geometric structures (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fraley, Mark E. — Synthesis of (+)-dynemicin A and analogs of wide structural variability. Establishment of the absolute configuration of natural dynemicin A (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• France, Marcia Beth — Olefin metathesis with group VIII transition metal complexes : mechanism, reactivity, and catalyst development (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gazis, Carey Alice — An isotopic study of the fluid flow and thermal history of the 2.8 Ma Chegem ash-flow caldera and related intrusive rocks (Caucasus Mountains, Russia) (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gerstell, Marguerite F. — Part 1. Two radiative transfer models with terrestial applications. Part 2. Testing the porcupine plate hypothesis (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gillespie, Aaron D. — Thermal noise in the initial LIGO interferometers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Groesbeck, Todd Dickson — The Contribution of Molecular Line Emission to Broadband Flux Measurements at Millimeter and Submillimeter Wavelengths (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hacia, Joseph Gerard — The use of modified oligonucleotides to investigate biological applications for triple helix formation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hajela, Sharad — Synthetic, structural, and mechanistic studies of homogeneous Ziegler-Natta catalysis (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Halling, Marvin Wilford — Investigation of Base-Isolated Structures During Recent Earthquakes and Computer Simulations Utilizing Near-Source Long-Period Ground Motions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Halsell, Susan Richardson — Expression and localization of Hsp83 RNA in the early Drosophila embryo (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Han, Hogyu — Study of RNA structure by affinity cleaving (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hattori, Masayuki — Subspace Subcodes of Reed-Solomon Codes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• He, Qizhi — Cytochrome c oxidase : studies of electron input and intramolecular electron transfer (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hillmyer, Marc Andrew — The Preparation of Functionalized Polymers by Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hodge, Julia A. — Properties of distorted tetraphenylporphyrins (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hofstee, H. Peter — Synchronizing processes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hu, Zhen — Quantum optics with cold atoms--nonlinear spectroscopy and road toward single-atom trap (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Huang, Linda S. — The Caenorhabditis elegans lin-15 locus (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Huang, Liping — Mode-Like Properties and Identification of Nonlinear Vibrating Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Huang, Weishi — Seismic Strain Rates and the State of Tectonic Stress in the Southern California Region (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Iannelli, John M. — Coherence and spectral properties of composite-cavity semiconductor lasers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jain, Mohit Kumar — Processing and mechanical behavior of ultrafine grain materials (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ji, Shujuan — Arithmetic and geometry on triangular Shimura curves (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jiang, Wen — Effects of Controlled Disorder on the Vortex Phases of High-Temperature Superconductors (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jin, Yonggang — Box codes and convolutional coding of block codes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Johnson, Robert David — Multivalent Protein Binding to Metal-Complexing Materials: Applications to Synthetic Receptors and Affinity Chromatography (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jones, Laura Ellen — Part I. Broadband modeling of aftershocks from the Joshua Tree, Landers, and Big Bear sequences, southern California. Part II. Characteristics of the June 28, 1992, Big Bear mainshock from TERRAscope data: evidence for a multiple-event source (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jones, Lawrence Aston — A measurement of the mass of the tau lepton (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kannan, Rangaramanujam Mudumbai — Flow-induced alignment in intrinsically anisotropic polymeric materials (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Karp, Christoph D. — Photoelectrochemistry of Si/polymer and Si/metal/solution interfaces (Master's thesis)
• Kaufman, David A. — Investigation of an ECR plasma thruster and plasma beam interactions with a magnetic nozzle (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kendrick, Donald William — An experimental and numerical investigation into reacting vortex structures associated with unstable combustion (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kephart, Susan E. — Synthetic and mechanistic studies on a silicon-mediated aldol reaction (Master's thesis)
• Kewitsch, Anthony S. — Part I. Optically induced, ferroelectric domain gratings in photorefractive crystals and applications to nonlinear optics. Part II. Self-focusing and self-trapping of optical beams upon photopolymerization and applications to microfabrication (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Khare, Chandrashekhar B. — Congruences between cusp forms (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Khouw, Charles B. — Partial oxidation of hydrocarbons using titanium containing molecular sieves (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ki, Haseo — Topics in descriptive set theory related to number theory and analysis (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kiang, Ching-Hwa — Physics and chemistry of advanced nanoscale materials : experiment, simulation, and theory (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kim, Kyoung-Hee — Crystallographic structure determination of neocarzinostatin, an antitumor protein-chromophore complex (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kitching, John E. — Quantum noise reduction in semiconductor lasers using dispersive optical feedback (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Koerner, David — The kinematics of circumstellar disks around T Tauri stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kohler, Monica Diane — Three-Dimensional Seismic Velocity Structure of the Earth's Outermost Core and Mantle (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kryukova, Svetlana A. — Parallel Programming Archetypes in Combinatorics and Optimization (Master's thesis)
• Laidlaw, David H. — Geometric model extraction from magnetic resonance volume data (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Langen, Ralf — Electron transfer in proteins : theory and experiment (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lee, Hee-Won — Polarization of resonantly scattered lines in active galactic nuclei (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lee, Kelvin H. — The effects of the deregulated expression of the cloned transcription factor E2F-1 on Chinese hamster ovary cells (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lee, Tak Kwan — A General Approach to Performance Analysis and Optimization of Asynchronous Circuits (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Leifer, Stephanie D. — Characterization of fullerenes for electrostatic propulsion applications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Leino, K. Rustan M. — Toward reliable modular programs (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Leshin, Laurie Ann — The Abundance and Hydrogen Isotopic Composition of Water in SNC Meteorites: Implications for Water on Mars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Levy, Harold — Application and integration of quantum-effect devices for cellular VLSI (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lewis, Andrew David — Aspects of geometric mechanics and control of mechanical systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lim, Kian-Tat — Mega-molecular dynamics on highly parallel computers : methods and applications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lin, Jian — ATP modulation of the electron transfer between cytochrome c and cytochrome c oxidase (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Jianqiang — Integrated micro devices for small scale gaseous flow study (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Katharine S. — Male Mating Behavior in Caenorhabditis elegans (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Rongzhi — A Search for Fast Moving Magnetic Monopoles with the MACRO Detector (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Yixin — Quantum tunneling, field induced injecting contact, and excitons (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Zhenhuan — Nuclei population dynamics and cavitation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lobo, Raul Francisco — The Synthesis and Characterization of Novel High-Silica Zeolites (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Longin, Teresa L. — Measurements of solvent effects on local barrier heights in scanning tunneling microscopy (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lough, Michael F. — The motion of thin-cored vortex filaments : the equations of motion and their solution for some special cases (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lu, Ming — Applications of heavy quark symmetry and long distance contributions to weak decays (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lu, Wei-Min — Control of Uncertain Systems: State-Space Characterizations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lunden, Melissa Mae — Sintering of aerosol agglomerates (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• M'Closkey, Robert Thomas — Exponential stabilization of driftless nonlinear control systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Marquardt, Ronald R. — Quantum magnetotransport studies of semiconductor heterostructure devices (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Marzluff, Elaine M. — Fundamental studies of the structures, energetics and collision dynamics of large molecules in the gas phase (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Maurer, Barry James — Dihydrofolate reductase gene amplification in human cell lines VA2-B and hela BU25 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mazer, James Allan — Integration of Parallel Processing Streams in the Inferior Colliculus of the Barn Owl (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• McCurdy, Alison — Cation-pi and polarizability effects in biomimetic catalysis and the design of a photoactive donor-cyclophane-acceptor triad (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• McGuire, Gary M. — Absolutely irreducible curves with applications to combinatorics and coding theory (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• McKenney, Elizabeth Anne — A Study of Tip Vortices and Cavitation on a Propeller in a Non-Uniform Flow Field (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• McMuldroch, Stuart — The Circumstellar Environments of FU Orionis Stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Miles, Robert J. — Microprobe investigations of semiconductor structures (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Min, Inki A. — Transport, stirring and mixing in two-dimensional vortex flows (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mizoue, Laura S. — Investigations of cation-pi binding by cyclophane receptors in aqueous media (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Murty, M. V. Ramana — Ion-surface interactions and limits to silicon epitaxy at low temperatures (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Musgrave, Charles Bruce — Molecular Mechanics and Ab Initio Simulations of Silicon (111) Surface Reconstructions, Semiconductors and Semiconductor Superlattices, H Abstraction for Nanotechnology, Polysilane, and Growth of CVD Diamond (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nguyen, SonBinh TheBao — The designs, syntheses, and applications of well-defined, single component group VIII olefin metathesis catalysts (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• O'Connor, Stephen D. — Studying Material Properties on the Nanometer Scale: Instrumental Development and Applications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pedroni, Volnei Antonio — VLSI Systems for Analog and Hamming Parallel Computation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pehkonen, Simo Olavi — Redox chemistry of iron in multiphase atmosphere (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Perez, Frank Allen — Hue Segmentation, Color Circuitry, and the Mantis Shrimp (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Peri, Michal Leah — Asteroseismological observations of eta Cassiopeiae A with the Palomar east arm echelle spectrograph (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pich, Peter — Nonlinear rigid block dynamics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pillai, N. Sateesh — Non-Dissipative Decay of Linear Quasimodes in a Pure Electron Plasma (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Poltoratski, Alexei G. — Boundary behavior of Cauchy integrals and rank one perturbations of operators (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Prabhakar, Ernest N. — Doubly-tagged Ds decays at 4.03 GeV (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Proctor, Larry P. — Characterization of the Auditory Thalamic Nucleus of the Barn Owl (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pustilnik, Michael Morris — The construction and application of metal complexes for DNA strand scission (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rauch, Kevin Patrick — Black holes and accretion disks in active galactic nuclei : microlensing, caustics, and collisional stellar dynamics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ray, Paul Shelton — High-sensitivity searches for radio pulsars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ray, Terrill Wylie — Remote monitoring of land degradation in arid/semiarid regions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Reed, Daniel Seymour — Frequency Dependent Investigation of the Vortex Dynamics in High Temperature Superconductors (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Regehr, Martin W. — Signal extraction and control for an interferometric gravitational wave detector (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Reid, Jason S. — Amorphous ternary diffusion barriers for silicon metallizations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rousset, Bernard — Calibration and Study of the Contoured Nozzle of the T5 Free-Piston Hypervelocity Shock Tunnel (Engineer's thesis)
• Sanderson, Simon Ralph — Shock wave interaction in hypervelocity flow (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sardesai, Niranjan Y. — Rhodium intercalators as novel peptide delivery systems to the major groove of DNA : towards the design of artificial repressors (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schoelkopf, Robert J. — Studies of noise in Josephson-effect mixers and their potential for submillimeter heterodyne detection (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Semrau, Jeremy D. — Kinetic, biochemical, and genetic analysis of the particulate methane monooxygenase (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sherstyuk, Katerina — The formation of teams under incomplete information (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shields, Thomas P. — DNA recognition by the enantiomers of Rh(en)2phi3+ : recognition through hydrogen bonding and van der Waals contacts (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shreve, Gary A. — Electron transfer at n-silicon-methanol junctions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shvetsova, Olga V. — Electoral institutional design (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Singleton, Scott F. — The thermodynamics of oligonucleotide-directed triple helix formation at single DNA sites (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Solecki, Slawomir J. — Applications of descriptive set theory to topology and analysis (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Stack, Jeffrey Herman — Protein and Phosphatidylinositol Kinases in Yeast Protein Sorting (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Stephens, Stuart Keller — Carbonate formation on Mars : experiments and models (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Stevanovic, Ljubisa D. — Switching converters for input current shaping and regulation of multiple outputs (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Su, Zheng-Yao — The Hierarchical Algorithms - Theory and Applications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Suarez, Humbert H. — Modeling motion detection in striate visual cortex using massive excitatory feedback (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Swenberg, Johanes F. N. — Development of wide-bandgap II-VI semiconductor light-emitting device technology based on the graded injector design (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Takata, Toshiko — Three-dimensional analysis of impact processes on planets (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tan, Ming X. — Photoelectrochemistry of GaAs and Si liquid junctions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tatic-Lucic, Svetlana — Silicon micromachined devices for in vitro and in vivo studies of neural networks (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Thompson, David — Surveys for primeval galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tierney, C. Michael — Plume characteristics of a multiple ion source thruster (Engineer's thesis)
• Tierno, Jose Andres — An energy-complexity model for VLSI computations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tryka, Kimberly A. — Nitrogen on Triton and Pluto (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tsai, Philip S. — Understanding the physiological consequences of Vitreoscilla hemoglobin (VHb) expression in Escherichia coli (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Udell, Michael Alan — Essays in applied economics : new techniques in aggregate data analysis (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Van der Goot, Marcel Rene — Semantics of VLSI synthesis (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, David Guo-Wei — Identification and characterization of a negative regulator required for spatial control of the territory-specific CyIIIa gene in the sea urchin embryo (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Michael Wei-Ching — Graded injector, wide bandgap light emitters and XPS studies of the InAs/GaSb heterointerface (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Neng E. — Studies in dynamics (Master's thesis)
• Wang, Youqi — Electron energy loss spectroscopic study of small molecules on transition metal surfaces (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Watada, Shingo — Part I. Near-source acoustic coupling between the atmosphere and the solid earth during volcanic eruptions. Part II. Nearfield normal mode amplitude anomalies of the Landers earthquake (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Watts, Jerrell — A Practical Approach to Dynamic Load Balancing (Master's thesis)
• Weir, William Nicholas — Automated analysis of the Digitized Second Palomar Sky Survey : system design, implementation, and initial results (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Witelski, Thomas P. — Problems in nonlinear diffusion (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Xu, Wenge — The first Caltech-Jodrell Bank VLBI survey (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yip, Man Lun Richard — Molecular genetic analysis of morphogenesis in Drosophila : functions of the hindsight locus (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zeller, Robert Werner — Transcriptional control of spatially regulated genes in the early sea urchin embryo (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zheng, Zhi Qiang (Alex) — Robust control of systems subject to constraints (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhong, Xiaoguang Allan — Continuum dynamics of solid-solid phase transitions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhou, Jianhui — Four-wave mixing in semiconductor optical amplifiers for terahertz spectroscopy and wavelength conversion (Dissertation (Ph.D.))