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PhD Graduates

1996-1997 : Dedman College of Humanities & Sciences

Name Date Dissertation Program Advisor(s)
Bollong, Charles DEC 1996 "Later Stone Age Ceramic Chronology and Production in Central South America" Anthropology Dr. Garth Sampson
Caldwell, Josephine DEC 1996 "Changing Foodways in Parakou, Benin: A Study of the Dietary Behavior of Urban Bariba and Dendi Women" Anthropology Dr. Carolyn F. Sargent
Hamdi, Nedal DEC 1996 "Cultural Responses to Childhood Diarrhea Among Palestinians in Jordan: The Water Crisis and Its Impact on Child Health" Anthropology Dr. Carolyn F. Sargent
Mobasher, Mohsen DEC 1996 "Class Ethnicity, Gender and the Ethnic Economy: The Case of Iranian Immigrants in Dallas" Anthropology Dr. Caroline Brettell
Johnson, Amber MAY 1997 "Explaining Variability in the Pace and Pattern of Southwestern Cultural Evolution: An Exercise in Theory Building" Anthropology Dr. Lewis Binford
Ridgley, Evelyn DEC 1996 "Elongation Factor - 1Alpha Gene Organization and Expression in Trysanosome brucei" Biological Sciences Dr. Larry Ruben
Walker, Gaston AUG 1996 "A Theoretical and Empirical Model of the Demand for Local Public Education Services Recognizing the Effects of Capitalization and Closed-End Matching Grants" Economics Dr. Kathy Hayes
Ibarra Salazar, Jorge Aurelio DEC 1996 "Models of the Firm Under Uncertainty, Price Regulations and Product Quality" Economics Dr. Kun Seo
Lahiri, Radhika MAY 1997 "Three Essays in Monetary Economics" Economics Dr. Greg Huffman
Oliver, Douglas DEC 1996 "Structural Kinematic and Thermochronometric Studies of the Teslin Suture Zone, South-Central Yukon Territory" Geological Sciences Dr. Vicki Hansen
Yang, Xiaoning MAY 1997 "Mining Explosion and Collapse Source Characterization and Modeling with Near-source Seismic Data" Geological Sciences Dr. Brian Stump
Napierala, Malgorzata DEC 1997 "Univariate and Multivariate, Sequential and Parallel Integration on Finite Ranges" Mathematics Dr. Ian Gladwell
Xitco, Mark AUG 1996 "Referential Pointing by Bottlenose Dolphins" Psychology Dr. Stan Kuczaj
Ames, Laurie MAY 1997 "Assessment and Remediation of Learning Disabled Children's Social Skills" Psychology Dr. Curt McIntyre
Davison, Kathryn MAY 1997 "Who Talks? The Culture of Support in the Experience of Illness" Psychology Dr. Jamie Pennebaker
Lancaster, Sarah DEC 1996 "The Authority of Biblical Narrative: Feminist Reflections on the Work of Hans Frei" Religious Studies Graduate Advsisor: Dr. Charles Wood
Wang, Jinping AUG 1996 "Experimental Design and Statistical Analysis in Serial Dilution Assays" Statistical Science Dr. S. Basu
Ying, Wan AUG 1996 "Significance Testing for the Robust Sib Pair Linkage Method" Statistical Science Dr. Rudy Guerra
Ernst, Michael MAY 1997 "Permutation Tests of Bivariate Interchangeability" Statistical Science Dr. William Schucany
Tang, Liangjun MAY 1997 "Censored Data: A Large Sample Study of Cost Estimates Under Constraints" Statistical Science Dr. Yuly Koshevnik

1996-1997 : School of Engineering & Applied Science

Name Date Dissertation Program Advisor(s)
Khalili, Bahram AUG 1996 "A Protocol Design Methodology for Data Communication within Heterogeneous Distributed Systems" Computer Science & Engineering Dr. Murat Tanik
Nascimento, Mario A. AUG 1996 "Efficient Indexing of Temporal Databases via B+- Trees" Computer Science & Engineering Dr. Margaret Dunham
Yih, Swu AUG 1996 "Hazard Analysis and Prevention Techniques for Safety-Critical Computing Systems" Computer Science & Engineering Dr. Weidong Chen
Evers, John H. DEC 1996 "Neurophysiological Applications of Mathematical Algorithms" Computer Science & Engineering Dr. Richard Barr
Wu, Yi Te DEC 1996 "New Benchmarking Scoring Models for Downsizing Decisions: An Empirical Analysis" Computer Science & Engineering Dr. Richard Barr
Apte, Aruna MAY 1997 "Disjunctive Programming Methods for Interval-Flow Networks" Computer Science & Engineering Dr. Richard Barr
Fisher, James MAY 1997 "An Integrated Methodology for Assessing Medical Waste Treatment Technologies" Computer Science & Engineering Dr. E. Douglas Harris
Jastaniah, Yasir Rashad MAY 1997 "Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking of Construction Industry Projects Using Data Development Analysis" Computer Science & Engineering Dr. Richard Barr
Liu, Yu-Chih MAY 1997 "Query Processing in Nonmonotonic Reasoning" Computer Science & Engineering Dr. Weidong Chen
Mills, Stephen F. MAY 1997 "A Resource-focused Framework for Process Engineering" Computer Science & Engineering Dr. Weidong Chen
Whitler, Jason E. MAY 1997 "Telecommunications Network Design: Optimization Models and Efficient Algorithms" Computer Science & Engineering Dr. Jeff Kennington
Young, Darrell L. MAY 1997 "Robust Emitter Location for Application Within an Information Fusion Architecture" Computer Science & Engineering Dr. Richard Barr
Lin, Yung-Jen DEC 1996 "Leaky-Wave Propagation in a Grounded Dielectric Slab with a Periodic Metal Grating" Electrical Engineering Dr. Choon Sae Lee
Mendlovitz, Mark Alan DEC 1996 "An Eigenvector Saddle-Point Theory and its Application to Recursive Hankel Approximation-Based System Identification" Electrical Engineering Dr. Carlos Davila
Ashfaq, Muhammad MAY 1997 "Performance Modeling of Automatic Target Recognition Systems" Electrical Engineering Dr. Mandyam Srinath
Bennett, Jesse W. MAY 1997 "Modeling and Analysis of Gray Tone, Color, and Multispectral Texture Images by Random Field Models and Their Generalizations" Electrical Engineering Dr. Alireza Khotanzad
Doyle, Colin L. MAY 1997 "Modified Texture Units for Shape Classification" Electrical Engineering Dr. Mandyam Srinath
Romanenko, Alexei MAY 1997 "Storage Times of DRAM Memory Cells Incorporating Ultra-Thin Dielectrics" Electrical Engineering Dr. W. Milton Gosney
Shaheen, Kamel Mostafa MAY 1997 "Co-channel Interference Cancellation for DS-SS CDMA Mobile Communication System" Electrical Engineering Dr. Someshwar Gupta
Sun, Nai-Hsiang MAY 1997 "Improved Grating-Assisted Directional Coupler Analysis Using a New Ploquet-Bloch Approach" Electrical Engineering Dr. Jerome Butler
Bellott, Louis E. AUG 1996 "A Fatigue and Durability Model for Printed Circuit Boards Subject to Random Loading" Mechanical Engineering Dr. Paul Packman
Fadda, Dani Z. AUG 1996 "Free Surface Flow with Heat Transfer in Clear and Porous Media" Mechanical Engineering Dr. Peter Raad
Sadek, Fahim H. DEC 1996 "A Study of Active and Passive Structural Control for Seismic Applications" Mechanical Engineering Dr. Bijan Mohraz