The Graduate School
Other Dissertations Nominated for Outstanding
Dissertation
1995
| Nominee | Department | Supervising Professor(s) | Title of Dissertation | Degree Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stephen Charles Allison | Kinesiology and Health Education | Lawrence D. Abraham | Qualitative and Quantitative Measurement of Plantarflexor Muscle Spasticity in Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury: Reliability, Prediction and Sensitivity to Cryotherapy | August, 1994 |
| Indranil Roy Bardhan | Management Science and Information Systems | William W. Cooper and Victor L. Arnold | Data Envelopment Analysis and Frontier Regression Approaches for Evaluatng the Efficiency of Public Sector Activities: Application to Public School Education in Texas | May, 1995 |
| David Mallory Barnett | Physics | Toshiki Tajima | Lyapunov Exponents of Many-body Systems | May, 1995 |
| Michael Joseph Barrett | Curriculum and Instruction | Elaine L. Fowler Danielson and Barbara G. Dodd | Predictive Validity of Direct and Indirect Methods of Writing Assessment: A Comparison Using Classical Test Theory and Item Response Theory | August, 1994 |
| David Perkins Billington, Jr. | History | William Roger Louis | Lothian: Philip Kerr and the Quest for World Order | May, 1995 |
| Charles Frederick Claver | Astronomy | R. Edward Nather | The Age of the Milky Way Galaxy from White Dwarf Chronometry | May, 1995 |
| Matthew Thomas Cottrell | Marine Science | Curtis A. Suttle | Ecology of Viruses Which Lyse the Photosynthetic Marine Picoflagellate Micromonas pusilla | May, 1995 |
| Cambria Denison-Reinsborough | Geological Sciences | William D. Carlson | Three-dimensional Quantitative Textural Analysis of Metamorphic Rocks Using High-resolution Computed X-Ray Tomography: Methods, Techniques, and Application to Natural Samples | May, 1995 |
| Jaime Luis Diaz-Granados | Psychology | Abram Amsel | Fetal and Early Postnatal Exposure to Ethanol and Its Effect on Memory-based Learning and NMDA Receptor Functon | December, 1994 |
| Janis Kay Guerrero | Educational Administration | V. R. Cardozier and Rodolfo O. de la Garza | Faculty Professional Roles and Research Productivity: A Comparative Study of Latino and European American Faculty at Research Institutions in the Southwestern United States | May, 1995 |
| Rex Ashley Koontz | Art History | Linda D. Schele | The Iconography of El Tahin, Veracruz, Mexico | December, 1994 |
| Azza Salama Layton | Government | Walter Dean Burnham and F. Ray Marshall | The International Context of the United States Civil Rights Movement: The Dynamics Between Racial Policies and International Politics, 1941-1960 | May, 1995 |
| Jehee Lee | Microbiology | Makkuni Jayaram | Mechanism of Strand Cleavage and Strand Joining During Site-specific Recombination by the Yeast Flp Recombinase | May, 1995 |
| Rosemary Cecelia LoDato | Spanish and Portuguese | Lily Litvak | Beyond the Glitter. Towards a Decodification of the Language of Gems, Gemstones, and Jewelry in Modernismo Writers: Ruben Dario, Ramon del Valle-Inclan, and Jose Asuncion Silva (Nicaragua, Spain, Colombia) | December, 1994 |
| Susan Renee Loepp | Mathematics | Raymond C. Heitmann | Making the General Formal Fiber Local | August, 1994 |
| Norman Edward Madden, Jr. | English | Elizabeth Butler Culllingford | Lyrical Transvestism: Gendered Voice in Modernist Literature | August, 1994 |
| Basim Behnam Mekha | Civil Engineering | Jose M. Roesset and C. Philip Johnson | Non-linear Dynamic Response of Tension Leg Platforms | December, 1994 |
| Lynn Trent Mellor | Educational Psychology | Barbara G. Dodd | A Comparison of Four Differential Item Functioning (DIF) Methods for Polytomously Scored Items | May, 1995 |
| Wanda Krystyna Mohr | Nursing | Beverly A. Hall | The Nature of Nurses' Experiences in For-profit Psychiatric Hospital Settings |
May, 1995 |
| Najib Mokhtari | Comparative Literature | Dina M. Sherzer and Elizabeth W. Fernea | Towards a Hybridization of Culture: The "Dialectics of Deliverance" of a "Pensee-autre" in the Moroccan Francophone Novel | December, 1994 |
| Shujia Pan | Pharmacy | Alan B. Combs | The Mechanism of Emetine Cardiotoxicity: Glycolysis as a Subcellular Target for Emetine Cardiotoxicity | August, 1994 |
| Christopher Alphonsus Patrick Quinn | Chemical Engineering | Adam Heller and Jeffrey A. Hubbell | Development and Clinical Application of Subcutaneous Amperometric Glucose Sensors | May, 1995 |
| Young-Jin Son | Zoology | Wesley J. Thompson | Induction and Guidance of Axonal Outgrowth from Injured and Intact Neurons by Schwann Cells in the Peripheral Nervous System of the Rat | December, 1994 |
| Della Hurlbut Sprager | Anthropology | James A. Neely | An Investigation of Ancient Weights and Weighing in the Complex Societies of Mesoamerica and the Andes | December, 1994 |
| Daniel Gene Streible | Radio-TV-Film | Janet K. Staiger and Thomas G. Schatz | A History of the Prizefight Film, 1894-1915 | August, 1994 |
| Janice Suffolk Todd | American Civilization | William H. Goetzmann | Physical Culture and the Body Beautiful: An Examination of the Role of Purposive Exercise in the Lives of American Women, 1800-1870 | May, 1995 |
| Barry Dean Vacker | Advertising | Jeffrey I. Richards | Beauty and Anarchy: An Inquiry into Aesthetic-order and Freedom of Expression | May, 1995 |
| Jerry Randolph Valentine | Linguistics | Anthony C. Woodbury | Ojibwe Dialect Relationships | August, 1994 |
| Mary Joette Waller | Management | Janet M. Dukerich and Robert L. Helmreich | Multitasking in Work Groups: Coordination Processes in Work Groups with Multiple Tasks | May, 1995 |