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PhD Graduates

1997-1998 : Dedman College of Humanities & Sciences

Name Date Dissertation Program Advisor(s)
Staso Forenbaher August1997 "Production and Exchange of Bifacial Flaked Stone Artifacts During the Portuguese Chalcolithic" Anthropology Dr. Anthony Marks
Randall Warren Moir DEC 1997 "The Burleson Site's Dispersed Midden: A Case Study in New Methods for Interpreting Unstratified Archaeological Deposits" Anthropology Dr. David Freidel
Jay Newman DEC 1997 "Patterns of Lithic Procurement and Utility in the Rio Grande Del Rancho Valley of the Northern Rio Grande Region, New Mexico" Anthropology Dr. David Meltzer
Ruth J. Krochock MAY 1998 "The Development of Political Rhetoric at Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico" Anthropology Dr. David Freidel
Justine Marie Shaw MAY 1998 "The Community Settlement Patterns and Residential Architecture of Yaxuna" Anthropology Dr. David Freidel
Clark Jones DEC 1997 "Characterization of Protein-Protein Interactions Involving the Drosophila E(Z) Protein: Evidence for Multiple Functional Domains" Biological Sciences Dr. Richard Jones
Anthony Valance Washington MAY 1998 "The Cloning and Characterization of Dre4, A Gene Import in Ecdysone Synthesis" Biological Sciences Dr. Tim Sliter
Susan Dadres MAY 1998 "An Empirical Examination of Regional Variation in Earnings and Income Inequality" Economics Dr. Donna Ginther
Arundhati Sen Nandy MAY 1998 "Essays on the Effects of Environmental Regulation: Theory and Evidence" Economics Dr. Thomas Osang
Jong Nam Oh MAY 1998 "The Role of Planning and Countercyclical Macroeconomic Policy: Korea as a Case Study" Economics Dr. Thomas B. Fomby
Amitabh Singh MAY 1998 "Essays on the Relationship Between International Trade and Productivity" Economics Dr. Thomas Osang
Jessie Bonner DEC 1997 "Surface-Wave Studies of the Sierra Madre Occidental of Northern Mexico and Other Geophysical Studies" Geological Sciences Dr. Eugene Herrin, Jr.
Christopher Hayward DEC 1997 "Three Papers in Seismology" Geological Sciences Dr. Eugene Herrin, Jr.
German Gonzales Santos MAY 1998 "A Numerical Study of Simple Shearing Flow of Foams" Mathematics Dr. Douglas Reinelt
Julie Lee Kamm MAY 1998 "Singular Value Decomposition-Based Methods for Signal and Image Processing" Mathematics Dr. James Nagy
Richard Allen Beck AUG 1997 "The Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Anger: Meta-Analysis, Comparative Treatment Efficacy, and Process Variables" Psychology Dr. Ephrem Fernandez
Monte Davenport AUG 1997 "The Efficacy of Multisensory and Structured Techniques in the Remediation of Reading Disorders" Psychology Dr. Curtis McIntyre
Daisha Jane Cipher MAY 1998 "Factors Affecting Treatment Outcome and Cost Effectiveness of Multidisciplinary Pain Management" Psychology Dr. Ephrem Fernandez
Christy Anne Engle MAY 1998 "Dimensions of Female Juvenile Offenders" Psychology Dr. Curtis McIntyre
Virginia Phillips Hale MAY 1998 "Development of an Assessment of Personal Effectiveness" Psychology Dr. Curtis McIntyre
Vasilii Shelkov AUG 1997 "Decays of Tau Lepton into Three Charged Hadrons, Neutral Pi or Eta Mesons and a Neutrino" Physics Dr. Ryszard Stroynowski
Igor Volobouev AUG 1997 "Rare and Forbidden Decays of Tau Lepton" Physics Dr. Ryszard Stroynowski
Donald Binder DEC 1997 "Into the Temple Courts: The Place of the Synagogues in the Second Temple Period" Religious Studies Dr. Victor Furnish
Nancy Pittman DEC 1997 "The Slain Lamb and the Slaying Warrior: Reading the Images of Christ in the Book of Revelation" Religious Studies Dr. Victor Furnish
Don Smith DEC 1997 "John Locke's Concept of a Reasonable Christianity" Religious Studies Dr. William Babcock
Heung Gyu Kim MAY 1998 "Prolegomena to a Christian Theology of Religions" Religious Studies Dr. Charles M. Wood
Molly Hartfield DEC 1997 "Characterizing Changes in Time Across a Geographical Region" Statistical Science Dr. Richard Gunst
Stephen Wiechecki Vergara MAY 1998 "Semiparametric Estimation for Long Memory Parameters via Wavelet Packets" Statistical Science Dr. Henry Gray

1997-1998 : School of Engineering & Applied Science

Name Date Dissertation Program Advisor(s)
Jun-Lin Lin AUG 1997 "On Low-Cost Checkpointing Approaches for Main Memory Databases and Distributed Databases" Computer Science & Engineering Dr. Margaret Dunham
Kenneth R. Vollmar AUG 1997 "SIMD Implementations of the 8x8 Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform on Image Data" Computer Science & Engineering Dr. Yanjun Zhang
Carmo Avelino D'Cruz AUG 1997 "Managing Technology and Innovation in Electronics Wafer Fabrication with a TQM Perspective" Computer Science & Engineering Dr. Richard Helgason
Nattapol Rangsitpol DEC 1997 "A Strategic Planning Model for a Thai High-Speed Rail Transportation System" Computer Science & Engineering Dr. Richard Barr
Chian Chiunn P. Chang MAY 1998 "Challenges and Strategies in the Globalization of the Machine Tools Industry" Computer Science & Engineering Dr. Ray McMahon
Theodore D. Pederson MAY 1998 "Learning Probabilistic Models of Word Sense Disambiguation" Computer Science & Engineering Dr. Dan Moldovan
Krishnakumar Pillai MAY 1998 "Software Development Effort and Cost Estimation" Computer Science & Engineering Dr. Sukumaran Nair
Yuh-Shane Hwu DEC 1997 "Cyclostationary Signal Extraction Using Cross Correlation Neural Network Models" Electrical Engineering Dr. Mandyam Srinath
Agha Jahanzeb DEC 1997 "Uncooled Infrared Bolometers and Pyroelectric Detectors Using Semiconducting YBaCuO" Electrical Engineering Dr. Donald Butler
Songjian Wu DEC 1997 "Fabrication and Characterization of Nb-Si and NbN-SI Schottky Diodes" Electrical Engineering Dr. Donald Butler
Reza Afkhami-Rohani MAY 1998 "Dual Artificial Neural Network Load Forecaster" Electrical Engineering Dr. Alireza Khotanzad
Ibrahim Adel Ghaleb MAY 1998 "Detection of Low Level Steady State Visual Evoked Potentials" Electrical Engineering Dr. Carlos Davila
Tsun-Liang Lu MAY 1998 "Forecasting with Artificial Neural Network and Genetic Algorithm" Electrical Engineering Dr. Alireza Khotanzad
Hisham Awad Mageed MAY 1998 "Spread Aloha as a Multiple Access Protocol for Personal Communications in Satellite Data Networks" Electrical Engineering Dr. André Vacroux
Edmund Dawes Zink MAY 1998 "Image Analysis Techniques for Three-Dimensional Visualization of Topographic Paper Maps" Electrical Engineering Dr. Alireza Khotanzad
Anton V. Ephanov AUG 1997 "Sensory Feedback for Haptic Interfaces: Implementation and Evaluation" Mechanical Engineering Dr. Yildirim Hurmuzlu
Afshin Amini DEC 1997 "Absorption and Desorption of Heavy Metals on a Granular Iron Material" Mechanical Engineering Dr. Edward Smith
James Stewart Wilson DEC 1997 "Self-Adaptive Dynamic Thermal Simulation of Microwave Integrated Circuits" Mechanical Engineering Dr. Peter Raad
Donatus Iboro Anyanwu MAY 1998 "Bioresorbable Microporous Intravascular Stent in the Presence of Pulsatile Non-Newtonian Flow" Mechanical Engineering Dr. Jose Lagé