Doctoral Dissertations
This collection contains dissertations written in partial fulfillment of the doctoral degree, from 1937 to the present.
The first doctoral degree was in Chemistry, awarded to Frank Joseph Zvanut; his dissertation was titled Pyrochemical changes in Missouri halloysite.. Zvanut had earned his Bachelor of Science in Ceramic Engineering in 1932. Most recently, popular Ph.D. disciplines have included Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Geological Engineering and Petroleum Engineering.
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Dissertations from 1980
Algorithms for fixed points of nonexpansive operators, Michael Donald Humphries
Cold load pick up: the electrical space heating component, Walter William Lang
Interactive vehicle dispatching: a hybrid approach, Jackie L. Lawrence
Application of the chirped Z-transform to processing frequency hopping spread spectrum signals, Sultan Mahmood
An alternate high pressure injection system for pressurized-water reactors, Gary Edward Mueller
The effect of availability improvement of a nuclear power plant on the cost of generating electricity, Seyyed Mohammad Reza Nejat
Amorphous-damage depth distributions and the amorphization of silicon by ion bombardment, Joseph Sadowski
Development of a coupled areal to cross-sectional model for the simulation of stratified reservoirs, Andrew Dorsey Simon
Geochemistry of lead, zinc, copper, cobalt, nickel, cadmium, iron and manganese in surface waters and stream sediments, St. Francis River drainage basin, Southeastern, Missouri, Bhudeo Narayan Sinha
The barium titanate-lanthanum titanate system, James Milton Stubbs Jr.
Interface states in GaAs-oxide-metal Schottky diodes, Yen Chang Wu
Dissertations from 1979
Energy transfer collision studies in atomic and molecular beams: excited state polarization and reaction cross section measurements, David William Fahey
Hybrid simulation of underground trackless equipment, Louis Pierre Gignac
Development, modification, and comparison of execution times of algorithms which create or modify shortest path matrices for road networks, Juanita Kaye Shukers Grau
Negative ion charge transfer of the reaction of S⁻ and O⁻ with atomic hydrogen producing H⁻ ions from 1500 to 10 kev, George F. Hagner
Adaptive multilevel integration receivers for impulsive interference, Youngyearl Han
Magnetic structures of the R₆T₂₃ compounds of rare earth-transition metal intermetallics, V. Kay Hardman
Some extensions of Oguchi's method for magnetic systems, Mark Jursich
Effective potential function models of the water-surface interaction: Ice and AgI, Jerry Kiefer
Behavior of elastic and inelastic three-dimensional building systems for static loads and multicomponent earthquakes, Prasert Kitipitayangkul
Effect of pelletization on the sintering of a lead charge, John Robert Knoepke
The chitin synthetase enzyme of Schizophyllum commune "wild-type" and the mutant "streak", Gary Clifford Magruder
A penalty function technique for solving geometric programs with equality constraints, Don Harold Rountree
Parametric integer linear programming: a synthesis of branch and bound with cutting planes, Suzanne Lynn Knauer Rountree
Electric utility peak load shaving by load management and remote load control, Larry Lawayne Rushing
The zero order watershed, Melvin G. Schaefer
The biological conversion of corn residue into ethyl alcohol using an immobilized-cell reactor, Oliver C. Sitton
A finite element fracture propagation study, Herbert George Smith Jr.
A comparative evaluation of geologic factors influencing floor stability in two Illinois coal mines, Robert Charles Speck
Phase equilibria in aqueous magnesium chloride, sulfate, chromate and phosphate systems, Ladawan Urwongse
The swap algorithm to further refine the vehicle dispatch and school bus problem, Tawsak Urwongse
Sequential selection of integer quadratic programs: an approach to parametric integer quadratic programming, Lowell Ray Watson
Dissertations from 1978
The hydrogenation of ethylene over lanthanum transition metal perovskites, Dennis Ray Anderson
Parametric integer programming using cutting planes, Mason Gene Bailey
Iodine-129 in thyroids and tellurium isotopes in meteorites by neutron activation analysis, Robert V. Ballad
An investigation of reactions at a platinum-gallium arsenide interface, David Lawrence Begley
Recursive estimation of two-dimensional signal registration, Charles M. Benoit
The kinetic and economic effects of separating the stages of the anaerobic digestion process, Edgar Clemens Clausen
4,5-dimethoxybenzyne and 4,5-methylenedioxybenzyne, Charles Fisher Cooper
Two-dimensional multiple scattering in a cylindrical medium, R. L. Dougherty
The effects of certain impurities and their interactions on zinc electrowinning, Donald R. Fosnacht
A nonlinear regression algorithm based on predictions generated by an eigensystem, Charles Lester Friese
Absolute angular differential cross sections for excitation of atomic hydrogen to its n=2 state by impact of 15-145 keV protons, Jerome Milton George
Adaptive control of a cloud simulation chamber expansion system, Katiya Greigarn
Some results on inferences for the gamma and double exponential distributions, John Victor Grice
Web crippling strength and a combination of bending and web crippling of cold-formed steel beams, Nipon Hetrakul
Economic fuel dispatching in power systems, Nittaya Hokierti
Locally quasi-uniform structures and strongly complete quasi-uniform structures, Shirley Carpenter Huffman
Fast breeder reactor blanket management: Comparison of LMFBR and GCFR blankets, Mohammad Hossein Jankhah
Cellulase production by fermentation with trichoderma viride on cellulose and wood wastes, Nguyen Huu Kho
Some selection and ranking procedures for the two parameter weibull distribution, Joseph Victor Kingston
A study of the iron (II) halide and pseudohalide complexes of pyridine, Billy Frank Little
Optimization of wood truss designs, Francis Ermon Little
The physics of braided-shield coaxial cable, Charles Mancel McDowell
Effects of precise arrays of pits on the nucleate boiling of freon 113 from flat copper surfaces at one atmosphere pressure, Anthony Dominick Messina
A total cost approach to mine roof support selection, Wesley Clare Patrick
Strength of cold-formed steel reinforced beam webs in bending, shear, and web crippling, Nguyen Phung
A finite-difference study of subterranean cavity detection and seismic tomography, Roger L. Reagan
Shallow foundations on dense silty loessial soil, Charles Orrick Riggs
Development of a design procedure for forged bevel gears with a web, Ebraheem Mohammed Shareedah
Development of a dynamic flood routing model for small meandering rivers, Roger Haden Smith
Optimum design of plane tall steel structures for simultaneous multicomponent static, dynamic, and seismic inputs, Dhiraphorn Srifuengfung
The paleontology and biostratigraphy of the lower ordovician Gasconade formation of Missouri, Bruce L. Stinchcomb
A three-dimensional analysis of extrusion and metal forming by the finite element method, William Donald Webster
Inferences on the shape parameter of the gamma distribution and Cramer-Rao lower bounds from censored data, James Wyckoff
Dissertations from 1977
Systems engineering as applied to Public Works Engineering Administration Educational Training Program, Seid Hossein Abtahi
Numerical solution of the complete Navier-Stokes and energy equations for developing channel flow including thermal radiation, free convection and variable viscosity, Russell Ralph Beckmeyer
Inverses of transfer function matrices, James Theodore Bruening
Thermochemical investigations of nearly ideal binary solvents, Thomas E. Burchfield
Anomalous pretransformation diffusion behavior of carbon in a F.C.C. iron-nickel invar, Lloyd Rollan Chapman
Nucleate boiling of refrigerants and refrigerant-oil mixtures, Somsri Chongrungreong
Theoretical and experimental investigation of oil recovery by the electrothermic technique, Samy Abdel-Hakeem El-Feky
Convergent solutions of difference equations, W. J. Fitzpatrick
Probabilistic foundations of general quantum theories and characterizations of representation space, Salvadore J. Guccione Jr.
Computer-aided network synthesis, James H. Hahn
Lower Mississippian sedimentation in northwestern Montana, Forest E. Haines
A laboratory study of CO₂ and H₂S miscible injection in an oil-filled porous medium, Richard Lee Henry
Strict convexity in locally convex spaces and fixed point theorems in generalized Hilbert spaces, Ed Wilburn Huffman
An optimal control law using eigenvalue assignment for linear systems and its application to improve the dynamic stability of power systems, Atluri Bhima Ranjit Kumar
Strength of cold-formed steel beam webs in bending, shear, and a combination of bending and shear, Roger A. LaBoube
A study of the effectiveness of FRTDAP, a CAI drill-and-practice system, used in conjunction with video-tapes in teaching Fortran, Joseph Kieran McAdams Sister
Heat transfer and wave instability of mixed forced and free convection flow, Aleksandros Mucoglu
Anodic dissolution of zinc and lead sulfides, Ramagouda Appugouda Narasagoudar
Geology of the southern half of the Stoutland, Missouri Quadrangle, Chester Encell Nichols
Glass formation, structure and electrical properties of glasses in the Ag-As-Se System, Pradip Dhirajlal Patel
Anomalous pretransformation diffusion behavior of carbon in iron-vanadium alloys, Dale Alan Powers
Prediction models for commuter rail services, Suppamas Prachakvej
Investigation of rock slotting by high pressure water jet for use in tunneling, Ahmed Awaad Saie
Geology of the Al-Khums area northwestern Libya with emphasis on the stratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Al-Khums formation, Mostafa Juma Salem
A study of the carbon auger spectra of graphite, TiC, VC and Cr₃C₂, Mark Alan Smith
Measurements of the mobilities of small aqueous ions in argon saturated with water vapor using an expansion cloud chamber, Larry Eugene Stoddard
The mobility spectra of positive ion hydrates in a mixture of argon and water vapor, Robert Ellis Thurman
Aerobic digestion of sewage lime sludge, Kuo-Chun Tsai
Signal-to-noise ratio estimation in digital computer simulation of lowpass and bandpass systems with applications to analog and digital communications, Michael David Turner
An investigation into the scavenging and coagulation of fine particles, James E. Wegrzyn
Coordination chemistry studies of pyridoxal and sparteine, James T. Wrobleski
A study of mechanical degradation of high molecular weight polymers in dilute solution under controlled hydrodynamic shear, Feng-Shing Yu
Dissertations from 1976
Analyzing the digital magnetic recorder for group-coded and NRZ recording, Curtis B. Abshier
