Dissertations and Theses of 2003 Rice Graduate Students As the following list of dissertations and theses shows, Rice graduate students, some of whom receive fellowship support, are conducting important research that advances their respective fields. School of Architecture Kenneth Alfred Andrews, "CATALYSIS - A Paradigmatic Shift in the Production of Architectural Morphologies." Director: Keith Krumwiede, Architecture Lauren Nicole Benech, "Revealing the Trace; or How Mr. Grant Mows His Lawn." Director: Fares el-Dahdah, Architecture Daniel Stephen Brueggert, "Issues in the Development of a Formal Theme: How to Make a Building Look Good." Director: David Brown, Architecture Liliana Marcela Garcia, "Temporal and Permanent Structures." Director: Fares el-Dahdah, Architecture Christopher Joseph Gerrick, "Fear of the In-Between: Interstitial Space in Edgar Allen Poe's "William Wilson." Director: Nana Last, Architecture Adele Birdsall Houghton, "Spatializing Alice, en passant." Director: John Biln, Architecture Philip Lee, "Living with Topography." Director: Keith Krumwiede, Architecture John Dominic Montag, "Buy the Sea." Director: Nana Last, Architecture Victor Manuel Murillo, "Hybrid Sponges." Director: Keith Krumwiede, Architecture Karim Khalil Nader, "The End of a Lighthouse." Director: John Biln, Architecture Benjamin Thomas Reavis, "Garaging the House." Director: David Brown, Architecture Paul Edward Schuette, "The Baytown Museum of Network Archaeology." Director: Nana Last, Architecture Kristin Akkerman Schuster, "Sea Change, or impending dune." Director: Nana Last, Architecture David William Stockwell, "Chapter 43: Un-steady states for Houston." Director: Keith Krumwiede, Architecture Adam J. Weiss, "Traffic: The Commute." Director: Albert Pope, Architecture Christi Kayte Young, "Debbie Dreschsler's Daddy's Girl and the Crisis of the House." Director: John Biln, Architecture Sven Eric Zbinden, "Architecture and Impermanence: The Re-Thinking of Territories." Director: John Biln, Architecture Ozge Zoralioglu, "Vittoria says." Director: Fares el-Dahdah, Architecture George R. Brown School of Engineering Mark A Abramson, "Pattern Search Algorithms for Mixed Variable General Constrained Optimization Problems." Directors: John E. Dennis and Charles Audet, Computer and Applied Mathematics Musaed Muhammed Al-Thubaiti, "New Acidic Ferrous and Calcium Phosphonate Crystal Phases in Oilfield Brine." Director: Mason Tomson, Civil and Environmental Engineering Eric Ethan Allen, "A First-Class Approach to Genericity." Director: Robert Cartwright, Computer Science Cristiana Amza, "Conflict-Aware Replication for Dynamic Content Web Sites." Director: Willy Zwaenepoel, Computer Science Jinhua Bai, "Dissolution Rates of Surfactants and Granules." Director: Clarence A. Miller, Chemical Engineering Esfandiar Behravesh, "Synthesis of an Injectable Biodegradable Biomimetic Macroporous Hydrogel Scaffold for Bone Tissue Engineering." Director: Antonios Mikos, Bioengineering Keith Lee Berrier, "Improving the Electrocardiographic Inverse Solution by Kalman Filtering." Director: Danny C. Sorensen, Computer and Applied Mathematics Eric M. Brey, "Quantitative 3D Analysis of Vascular Microstructure in Tissue Engineering." Director: Larry V. McIntire, Bioengineering Coskun Cetinkaya, "Scalable Quality of Service Provisioning." Director: Edward Knightly, Electrical and Computer Engineering Vikram Chandrasekhar, "Reducing dynamic power consumption in next generation DS-CDMA mobile communication receivers." Director: Joseph Cavallaro, Electrical and Computer Engineering William Anderson Christian, "Linear-Time Algorithms for Graphs with Bounded Branchwidth." Director: Nathaniel Dean, Computer and Applied Mathematics Hala Nazih Dajani, "Client-Server Component Architecture for Scientific Computing." Director: William Symes, Computer and Applied Mathematics Aditya Dhar, "A Dynamic Distributed Transmission Power Control MAC Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks." Director: David Johnson, Computer Science Alexander Y. Dobrinsky, "Adjoint Analysis for Receptivity Prediction." Director: Scott Collis, Mechanical Engineering and Matierals Science Wafa Elbjeirami, "Genetic Modification of Smooth Muscle Cells to Enhance the Performance of Tissue Engineered Vascular Grafts." Director: Jennifer West, Bioengineering John Patrick Fisher, "The Development of a Photocrosslinked Biomaterial for Bone Tissue Engineering Applications." Thesis: Antonios Mikos, Bioengineering Stacie Renee Frye, "Effects of Cyclic Strain on the Gene Expression of Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells as Determined Through Microarray Technology." Director: Larry V. McIntire, Bioengineering Stephanie Michelle Glenn, "Ground Water Modeling using NEXRAD-Generated Data and MODFLOW: Evaluating the Parameters of Rainfall and Recharge in a GIS Framework." Director: Philip Bedient, Civil and Environmental Engineering Serkan Gugercin, "Model Validation and Consistency." Director: A. C. Antoulas, Electrical and Computer Engineering Oguzhan Guven, "Radiative Transfer Solution with Discrete Wavelets in the Angular Domain." Director: Yildiz Bayazitoglu, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Sciences Timothy John Harvey, "Reducing the Impact of Spill Code." Director: Keith Cooper, Computer Science Erik Heller Hughes, "Metabolic Engineering of Catharanthus roseus Hairy Roots Using an Inducible Promoter System." Director: Ka-Yiu San, Bioengineering Andy Chun Lee, "Robust Momentum Manager Controller for Space Station Applications." Director: Pol Spanos, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Dennis Iee Lu, "Dr. C#: A Pedagogic IDE for C# Featuring a Read-Eval-Print Loop." Director: Robert Cartwright, Computer Science Joshua Scott McCune, "Web-based Control of the Rice SPENDULAP: A Web-enabled Telemechatronic System." Director: Fathi Ghorbel, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Luis Adolfo Melara, "Computational Modeling of Internal Surfaces in Austenite-Martensite System." Director: Petr Kloucek, Computer and Applied Mathematics John Michael Miller, "Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, and Long-run Performance Prediction: An Application of Data Mining." Director: James R. Thompson, Statistics Heather Ann Myler, "Heparanase and Platelet Factor-4 Induce Smooth Muscle Cell Proliferation and Migration via Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor Release from the Extracellular Matrix: Implications in the Restenosis Process." Director: Jennifer West, Bioengineering Jesse Allen Pietz, "Pseudospectral Collocation Methods for the Direct Transcription of Optimal Control Problems." Director: Matthias Heinkenschloss, Computer and Applied Mathematics Junhui Qian, "A Closed-Loop Model of the Ovine Cardiovascular System." Director: John Clark, Jr., Electrical and Computer Engineering Michael G. Rabbat, "Multiple Source Network Tomography." Director: Robert Nowak, Electrical and Computer Engineering Charles Skinner Reis, "A Pedagogic Programming Environment for Java that Scales to Production Programming." Director: Robert Cartwright, Computer Science Daniel Ryan Reynolds, "A Nonlinear Thermodynamic Model for Phase Transitions in Shape Memory Alloys Wires." Director: Petr Kloucek, Computer and Applied Mathematics Shahab Sanayei, "Congestion Control and Complexity Reduction of Large-Scale Networks." Director: A.C. Antoulas, Electrical and Computer Engineering Albert Kang Shung, "Synthesis and Characterization of an Injectable Copolymer Hydrogel for Cardiovascular Applications." Director: Antonios G. Mikos, Bioengineering Arun Kumar Srinivasan, "Integrating Document Control in Design Drawings." Director: Michael Terk, Civil and Environmental Engineering Heidi Marie Spratt, "A Comparison of Three Methods Used to determine Functionally Important Protein Residues." Director: Marek Kimmel, Statistics Liang Sun, "Motion Corrected Treadmill Nuclear Angiography." Director: John W. Clark, Electrical and Computer Engineering Richard John Swartz, "Applications of Bayesian Sequential Decision Theory to Medical Decision Making." Director: Dennis Cox, Statistics Pei-lun David Ting, "Thermodynamic Stability and Phase Behavior of Asphaltenes in Oil and of Other Highly Asymmetric Mixtures." Director: Walter Chapman, Chemical Engineering Spiridon Tsavachidis, "Deterministic and Stochastic Analysis of Nonlinear Systems with Biot Hysteretic Damping." Director: Pol D. Spanos, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Sciences James William Tunnell, "Selective Vascular Injury during Cutaneous Laser Therapy." Director: Bahman Anvari, Bioengineering Mani Bhadra Vaya, "VITURBO: A Reconfigurable Architecture for Ubiquitous Wireless Networks." Director: Joe Cavallaro, Electrical and Computer Engineering Yi Wan, "Wavelet-based Signal Modeling and Processing Algorithms with Applications." Director: Robert Nowak, Electrical and Computer Engineering Mary Margaret Watrous, "2,4,6-Trinitrotoluene Reduction by Hydrogenase in Clostridium acetobutylicum." Director: Joseph B. Hughes, Civil and Environmental Engineering Li Xu, "Program Redundancy Analysis and Optimization to Improve Memory Performance." Director: Keith Cooper, Computer Science School of Humanities Randi Lynn Clary, "'Sikhing' A Husband: Bridal Imagery and Gender in Sikh Scripture." Director: Jeff Kripal, Religious Studies Eugenia Zoltanovna Ershova, "L'adaptation cinematographique des oeuvres litteraires (l'exemple de Dostoievski)." Director: Benard Aresu, French Studies David W Fleck, "A Grammar of Matses." Director: Philip Davis, Linguistics Desrey Clementine Fox, "Zauro'nodok Agawayo yau: Variants of Akawaio Spoken at Waramadong." Director: Spike Gildea, Linguistics Ana Lucia Iltis, "A Philosophical Exploration of the Possibility and Implications of Institutional Moral Responsibility." Director: H.T. Engelhardt, Philosophy Julie E Kutac, "Gray Matters: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Experience of Alzheimer's Disease." Director: Edith Wyschogrod, Religious Studies Dejan Kuzmanovic, "Seduction Rhetoric, Masculinity, and Homoeroticism in Wilde, Gide, Stoker, and Forster." Director: Colleen Lamos, English Huey-Ling Lee, "Eat, Drink, Man, Woman: Food, Eating, and Social Formations in Renaissance Culture and Drama." Director: Meredith Skura, English Joseph Clinton Parker, "Moral Complicity: An Expressivist Account." Director: Baruch Brody, Philosophy Jason Kyle Phillips, "Peculiar Defeat: Warfare and the Confederate Culture of Invincibility." Director: John Boles, History Lisa Marie Rasmussen, "Clinical Bioethics: Analysis of a Practice." Director: H. Tristram Engelhardt, Philosophy Dylon Lamar Robbins, "Elegua's Surrealist Shroud: Surrealism and Afro-Cubanism in the Negrista works of Alejo Carpentier and Wilfredo Lam." Director: Beatriz Gonzalez-Stephan, Hispanic Studies Virginia Elaine Thompson, "Southern Small Towns: Society, Politics, and Race Relations in Clinton, Louisiana, 1824-1880." Director: John Boles, History Yi-Jia Tsai, "The Reformative Visions of Mediumship in Contemporary Taiwan." Director: Edith Wyschogrod, Relgious Studies Andrew Corey Yerkes, "Revolutionary Symbolism: Identity and Ideology in Depression-Era Leftist Literature." Director: Colleen Lamos, English Shepherd School of Music Elizabeth Y. Buck, "The Orchestral Flute Audition: An Examination of Preparation Methods and Techniques." Director: W. B. Bailey Kirstin Anne Eade, "The Influence of Maori Music Traditions in the Flute Compositions of Gillian Whitehead." Director: Marcia Citron Michael Galaganov, "The Viola Class of Yuri Kramarov: Students, Pedagogy, and Influences." Director: Richard Lavenda Julia Michele Grenfell, "The Influences of Traditional Asian Music on an Australian Composer: A Study of Three Works for Flute and Piano by Anne Boyd." Director: Richard Lavenda Jimmy Louis Haisler, "The Compositional Art of Clara Schumann: Perspectives on Selected Lieder as Informed by Text-to-Music and Music-to-Text Approaches." Director: Marcia Citron Phillip David Kloeckner, "Nineteenth-Century Organs in Peru and the Special Case of Innocente Fogia." Director: Anne Schnoebelen Brady Keith Knapp, "Charles Villiers Stanford's Sacred Repertoire for Solo Voice, Choir, and Organ: An Analysis of Six Bible Songs and Hymns, Opus 113." Director: Marcia Citron Milton Ruben Laufer, "Isaac Albeniz and La Vega: A Publication History and New Edition." Director: Walter B. Bailey Richard Johnston Noel Jr, "The Figures de resonances and 3 preludes of Henri Dutilleux: Analysis and Context." Director: Walter B. Bailey Joseph Timothy Patrick, "Sarshaothar." Director: Anthony Brandt William Curt Thompson, "The Fourth Sonata for Violin and Piano, "Children's Day at the Camp Meeting" by Charles Ives: Contextual, Strucural, and Stylistic Considerations." Director: Walter B. Bailey Jonathan Ward, "Perspectives of Violin Pedagogy: A Study of the Treatises of Francesco Geminiani, Pierre Baillot, and Ivan Galamian, and a Working Manual by Jonathan Swartz." Director: Gregory Barnett Michael Zuraw, "From Ideology into Sound: Frederic Rzewski's North American Ballads and Other Piano Music from the 1970s." Director: Richard Lavenda Wiess School of Natural Sciences Joyce Lynn Almaguer-Reisdorf, "Carbon Sequestration in the Forests of East Texas." Director: Paul Harcombe, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Antonios Antonopoulos, "Inclusion of Triples Correction in the Coupled Cluster Method." Director: Gustavo Scuseria, Chemistry Aron Azaria, "Three Dimensional Traveltime Tomography at a Shallow Groundwater Contamination Site." Director: Colin Zelt, Earth Sciences Angela Maria Bellavance, "Search for the Lepton-Flavor-Number Violoating Decay KL (mathematical equation) in the Full E799II KteV Data Set." Director: Marjorie Corcoran, Physics and Astronomy Jane Frances Bertone, "TheSynthesis and High Pressure Behaivor of Nanoquartz." Director: Vicki Colvin, Chemistry Brent Alan Buckalew, "Comparison of Clusters with and without Detectable Wolf-Rayet Stars in Starburst Galaxies Using Optical, Near-Infrared Imagery and Spectroscopy." Director: Reginald Dufour, Physics and Astronomy Yue Chen, "Effects of the Charge Exchange of Solar Wind with the Martian Exosphere." Director: P. A. Cloutier, Physics and Astronomy Shawn M. Dirk, "Design, Synthesis, and Testing of Molecular Scale Electronic Components." Director: James M. Tour, Chemistry Christopher Michael Earles, "Partial Umbilics of Hypersurfaces and Repeated Eigenvalue Currents." Director: Reese Harvey, Mathematics Andrea Samantha Gobin, "Cell Migration Through Biomimetic Hydrogel Scaffolds." Director: Jennifer West, Bioengineering Zhenning Gu, "Chemistry of Nanostructured Carbon: I. Fluorination, Cutting and Derivatization of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes; II. Fluorination and Characterization of Polymeric C ." Director: John Margrave, Chemistry Vance Karl Henize, "High Latitude Electron Density Observations from the IMAGE Radio Plasma Imager." Director: Patricia H. Reiff, Physics and Astronomy Robert Alan Huff, "Flat Structures, Soap Films, and Capillary Surfaces." Director: Michael Wolf, Mathematics Chad Bryant Huffman, "Magnetic Purification and Spectral Dependence on pH of Surfactant Suspended Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes." Director: Richard Smalley, Chemistry Juanita Jaramillo, "Development of a Local Hybrid Functional for Density Functional Theory." Director: Gustavo E. Scuseria, Chemistry Katherine Anne Keilty, "Modeling of Laser-Generated Radiative Blast Waves, with Applications to Late-Term Supernova Remnants." Director: Edison Liang, Physics and Astronomy Monica Landi, "Reproductive conflicts in the social wasp, Eustenogaster fraterna, and in the social amoeba, Dictyostelium discoideum." Director: David Queller, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Wei Lu, "Single-Electron Transistor: Effects of the Environment and Detecting Electron Motion in Real Time." Director: Alex Rimberg, Physics and Astronomy Regina Margaret Lundrigan, "Research Towards the Synthesis of the Furanosteroid Class of Natural Products." Director: Victor Behar, Chemistry Tatiana Marinenko, "High Distance Splittings of 3-manifolds." Director: John Hempel, Mathematics Clyde Steven Miller, "An Analysis of an Optomotor Reflex Using Methods from Control Theory, Cross-Correlation Analysis, and Information Theory." Director: Raymon Glantz, Biochemistry and Cell Biology Markos Moraitis, "Polyelectrolyte and Hydrophobic Effects in Protein-DNA Interactions: PurR, LacI, and Human p53 Proteins." Director: Kathleen Matthews, Natural Sciences Michael John O'Connell, "SWNTs in the Aqueous Phase." Director: R. E. Smalley, Chemistry Thomas Gene Platt, "Conflict and Cooperation in the Tropical Wasp, Parachartergus colobopterus, and the Chimeric Multicellular Organism, Dictyostelium discoideum." Director: Joan Strassmann, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology David Wilson Price, "Advances in Molecular Electronics: Synthesis and Testing of Potential Molecular Electronic Devices." Director: James M. Tour, Chemistry Emil Vasile Prodan, "Theoretical Investigations of the Electronic Structure and Optical Properties of Metallic Nanoshells." Director: Peter Nordlander, Physics and Astronomy Angela DeHart Rabuck, "The Implementation and Optimization of Fractional Orbital Occupations in Density Functional Theory." Director: Gustavo E. Scuseria, Chemistry Michael Joseph Robert Segura, "Directed Evolution and Structure-Function Studies of Oxidosqualene Cyclases." Director: Seiichi Matsuda, Chemistry Lucian Paul Smith, "The Effects of Amino Acid Substitution on Apomyoglobin Stability, Folding Intermediates, and Holoprotein Expression." Director: John Olson, Biochemistry and Cell Biology Christopher Lee Stokely, "Design, Construction, and Commissioning of the Time-of-Flight Detector for BNL-AGS Experiment 896." Director: Wiliam J. Llope, Physics and Astronomy David Richard Streutker, "A Study of the Urban Heat Island of Houston, Texas." Director: Arthur A. Few, Jr, Physics and Astronomy Mary Ellen Turner, "Protein Crystals as Templates for Materials Chemistry." Director: Vicki Colvin, Chemistry Breanna Diane Ullmann, "Identification and Characterization of Yeast Genes Involved in Defense against Oxidative Stress Induced by Macrophages." Director: K. Beckingham, Biochemistry and Cell Biology Bo Wang, "Analysis of physiological roles of Drosophila calmodulin through in vivo genetic and in vitro structure/function studies." Director: Mike Stern, Biochemistry and Cell Biology Thomas Weiss, "Effects of Membrane Inclusions on Lipid Bilayer Structure and Dynamics Studied by Elastic and Inelastic X-ray Scattering." Director: Huey Huang, Physics and Astronomy Thomas Donovan Welton, "Progress Toward the Total Synthesis of y-Rubromycin and Heliquinomycin." Director: Victor Behar, Chemistry Jie Xiao, "Structural Characterization and Kinetic Evaluation of RecA-Mediated Strand Exchange." Director: Scott F. Singleton, Chemistry Ran Xu, "Molecular Biological Approaches to Biomedical problems in Sterol and Terpene Biosynthesis." Director: Seiichi Matsuda, Chemistry James Christopher Yager, "Control of Perineurial Glial Growth in Drosophila melanogaster." Director: Michael Stern, Biochemistry and Cell Biology School of Social Sciences Kevin Timothy Arceneaux, "The Federal Face of Democratic Representation: The Effects of Responsibility Attribution on Cross-Level Voting Behavior and Government Responsiveness in the United States." Director: John R. Alford, Political Science Andrea Bruno Aureli, "A Nation's Demons: The Legacy of the 70's in Contemporary Italy." Director: George E. Marcus, Anthropology Carolyn Jean Babula, "(Re)Collecting the Past: Fashion, Wardrobe, and Memory." Director: James D. Faubion, Anthropology Lisa Catherine Breglia, "Docile Descendants and Illegitimate Heirs: Privatization of Cultural Patrimony in Mexico." Director: George Marcus, Anthropology Stanford Wayne Carpenter, "Imagining Identity: Ethnographic Investigations into the Work of Creating Images of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in Comic Books." Director: Benjamin Lee, Anthropology Jae Aileen Chung, "The Cultural Tempo of Korean Modernity: Celerity in Venture Industry." Director: George Marcus, Anthropology Jessica Bigazzi Foster, "Child Care Disruptions and Working Mothers: An Experience Sampling Method Approach." Director: Michelle Hebl, Psychology Lullit Getachew, "Parametric and Nonparametric Measures of Productive Performance: The Case of Private Manufacturing in Egypt." Director: Robin Sickles, Economics Raul Sergio Gonzalez, "Essays in Structural Parametric and Semiparametric Estimation of Auction and Agency Models." Director: Robin C. Sickles, Economics Joshua Lawrence Kilroy, "Risk, Reform, and Vocation in the Illinois Child Welfare System." Director: James D. Faubion, Anthropology Eduardo Martinez-Chombo, "Essays in Energy Economics: The Electricity Industry." Director: Peter R. Hartley, Economics Beverly Lynn Miller, "Relativism and Rage: Representations of Female Circumcision and Female Genital Mutilation." Director: Eugenia Georges, Anthropology Haifa Nancy Nouaime, "The Impact of Liquidity Shocks on Capital." Director: Peter Hartley, Economics Nohsook Park, "Semantic and Phonological Representations in Immediate Sentence Repetition." Director: Randi C. Martin, Psychology Andrea Warren Pound, "Static Flowers: Following William Bartram." Director: Stephen A. Tyler, Anthropology Karin Dudziak Quinones, "How Users Determine the Quality of a Web Page." Director: Daniel N. Osherson, Psychology Hsien Wu, "Separate Short-Term Memory Buffers for Input and Output Phonology." Director: Randi Martin, Psychology