Reporter 21/4/99: Approved for degrees and diplomas

Approved for degrees and diplomas

The Board of Graduate Studies have approved the following persons for the award of degrees. In the case of degrees where dissertations are required to be deposited in the University Library, the title of the dissertation is shown after the name of the person by whom it was submitted.

Doctor of Science

D. Field, Ph.D., Q

Doctor of Philosophy

(under the regulations for the Ph.D., M.Sc., and M.Litt. Degrees)

C. J. Adams, CC. The chemistry of some heavy transition metal organometallics

M. Afshar, K. An open parallel architecture for data-intensive applications

H. L. Alderson, DOW. Neural and psychological mechanisms underlying heroin self-administration

M. O. F. M. Allagi, M. Variational processing of Monte Carlo solutions in neutron transport theory

P. J. Baldwin, CL. Solutions of Dirac equations on certain non-compact manifolds

D. C. Barnaby, W. Kant and the problem of action-at-a-distance

A. B. Barron, F. Influences of the chemical environment on the behaviour of adult Drosophila melanogaster

D. M. Beckles, TH. The subcellular location of ADPglucose pyrophosphorylase in starch-storing cells

A. M. T. Bell, W. Structural studies using synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction and other techniques

J. A. Brenton, G. Beckett's 'classics'

P. D. Bright, DAR. The control of action: an exploration of Spearman's general factor

B. Brosh, PEM. Transport properties of electron and hole gases in weakly 1D modulated potentials

R. E. Brown, G. Studies towards the synthesis of lophotoxin and structural analogues

M. Brüggen, T. Physics from the Sun

S. L. Bunn-Altham, JE. Juricultural pluralism vis-á-vis treaty law: State practice and attitudes

M. R. Burton, Q. Remote sensing of the atmosphere using Fourier transform spectroscopy

M-C. Chen, DAR. The determination of house prices in Taiwan: long-run equilibrium and short-run dynamics

E. C. L. Chesneau, G. A. C. losses and magnetic flux distributions in Ag/Bi-2223 tapes carrying transport currents

G. Chih, TH. Creating the transcultural workplace in China

S. Chivasa, W. The mechanism of salicylic acid-induced resistance to tobacco mosaic virus

M. S. Clemens, EM. The interstellar medium and star formation in interacting galaxies

F. V. Comim, ED. Common sense economics: essays on the role of common sense in the history of economic thought

P. Connell, DAR. Theorising woman abuse through identity: the experience of Black British women

N. M. J. Conway, R. Hydrogenated tetrahedrally bonded amorphous carbon for electronic applications

S. C. Davis, T. Microphysics of cosmic strings in supersymmetric and grand unified theories

M. A. Demian, CHU. Persistence of vision: time and knowledge in Suau adoption

P. Dwivedi, DOW. Carbohydrate starvation and plant respiration

E. S. Eger, K. The Nine Living Muses of Great Britain (1779): women, reason and literary community in eighteenth-century Britain

R. M. H. Entress, Q. The binding of cell-wall analogues to vancomycin group antibiotics

J. Evans, DAR. Late Weichselian and Holocene glacimarine sedimentation and environments in Kejser Franz Josephs Fjord and on the adjacent continental margin, East Greenland

C. F. Foster, M. Studies directed towards the synthesis of (-)-ebelactone-a

A. C. Fox, N. Gas permeation through plasma sprayed ceramic coatings

H. J. Fraser, JE. Tunable far infrared (TuFIR) spectroscopy

S. J. Freeland, CAI. Natural selection and the genetic code

P. J. W. Fryer, SE. Elites, language and education in the Komi ethnic revival

B. M. Galloway, T. The reformation of religion in Freebridge Marshland, Norfolk with special reference to Tilney All Saints, circa 1500-1580

F. Gathorne-Hardy, N. Just design? A US-UK comparative study of community design in the field of affordable housing provision

N. A. F. Glaisyer, DAR. The culture of commerce in England, 1660-1720

T. A. Harding, G. The normative value orientations of collaborative entrepreneurs

A. J. Henderson, DOW. Studies towards solid-phase nitrone cycloaddition reactions

A. A. Hindle, SE. The detection of bacterial spores

D. R. W. Hodgson, CAI. The design of model systems for biocatalysis

S. P. Isaac, HH. Grain boundary perovskite devices

K. N. Keavey, DAR. Novel methodology for the preparation of medium ring heterocycles

A. Kochhar, DOW. Assimilate partitioning and sucrose synthesis in Lamium album L.

R. Kose, DOW. New frontiers in single crystal adsorption calorimetry

D. W. Lake, EM. Institutional entrepreneurship in organizational fields in Hong Kong: a grounded theory approach

D. W. MacLachlan, PEM. High temperature creep and fatigue of Ni-base blade alloy CMSX4

C. J. Macpherson, PEM. Plasmid-mediated regulation of the E. coli cell cycle

L. Madhuku, F. Legal aspects of bank financing for companies in Zimbabwe

A. D. Mason, T. Mathematical models of road traffic, and related problems

D. G. Melis, ED. The executive role of the European Commission in the external relations of the European Union

A. Mesny, T. The appropriation of social science knowledge by 'lay people': the development of a lay sociological imagination?

K. J. Miller, CAI. Characterisation of P2X receptor subtypes

J. E. Moriarty, CAI. The interaction between media law and the child, child law and the media

E. R. Myers, N. Al/Si ordering in silicate minerals

J. W. Ndieyira, DAR. X-ray diffraction studies of electrode surfaces

C. U. Niesler, JN. A study of preadipocyte apoptosis in relation to the regulation of adipose tissue mass

K. G. Nustad, W. Community leadership and development administration in a Durban squatter settlement

K. Odagiri, T. On searching for supersymmetry at current and future particle colliders

M. Ortega Perrier, N. By reason or by force: Islugueño identity and Chilean nationalism

A. R. Pape, DAR. Studies towards the total synthesis of azadirachtin

B. C. Parry, N. The fate of the collections: revealing the social and spatial dynamics of genetic resource use

C. A. Pattichis, ED. Cyprus and the Common Agricultural Policy: a quantitative analysis, with special reference to arable crops, livestock and dairy products

C. S. Pedersen, T. Four essays on risk in finance

D. R. Pederzolli, JE. The roles of oxygen excess and deficiency in some single layer high temperature superconducting copper oxides

L. M. N. Peiris, JN. Seismic modelling of rock-fill embankments on deep loose saturated sand deposits

L. E. Piper, W. The politics of Zuluness in the transition to a democratic South Africa

J. O. Reiners, Q. Stability and potential of chemiluminescent acridinium esters for oxidase-based assays

M. H. Reisemann, CTH. Ultrasonic transmission properties of sea ice

M. L. Roberts, M. Expression of putative cell death and survival genes in rat sympathetic neurones using the Adenovirus type-5 vector

C. J. Robinson, K. Mantle melting and crustal generation at the very slow spreading Southwest Indian Ridge

C. L. Roper, TH. Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance investigations of the odd-even effect

T. M. G. Sampson, M. An investigation of Bacillus thuringiensis delta-endotoxin binding proteins in insects

A. J. Sansum, R. Characterisation and localisation of receptors for ATP in the peripheral and central nervous system

M. J. J. Scott, SID. Parcel: feature subset selection in variable cost domains

B. J. Seligman, PEM. Key factors influencing the reliability of trunk gas pipelines in the West Siberian North

L. A. Sheerman, JE. Language writing and space in the 20^th century

I. Singh, W. Immune recognition of antigens on maedi-visna virus-infected cells

I. G. Stewart, JN. Isaac Barrow: authorised reason and reasonable authority of a scholar-priest

D. R. Syme, TH. Declarative theorem proving for operational semantics

L. Tain, PET. Compressor leading edges in incompressible and compressible flows

J. E. Tateson, CL. The simulation of biomolecules using distributed multipole moments

L. Tay, ED. Antecedents and consequences of marketing organisation in professional property services (PPS) firms

M. H. Todd, Q. Novel encoding stategies for combinatorial chemistry

M. Tselepi, DAR. Atomic scale structure in ultrathin magnetic films

S. F. Turner, CC. Adsorption of ionic surfactants and gelatin at aqueous interfaces

R. A. Tyszczuk, JN. In spem melioris aevi: the architecture and writings of Stanislaw Leszczynski, roi bienfaisant, 1737-1766

J-P. J. Vidal, CHU. Essays on international factor mobility

J. D. Wasserman, T. Pattern formation in Drosophila: roles of the EGF receptor pathway

C. E. Watanabe, T. Aspects of animal symbolism in Mesopotamia

P. J. White, K. T. S. Eliot as literary journalist, 1916-1921

S. P. Wilcox, Q. Synthesis of asynchronous circuits

K. K. Wren, K. Constrained quantization of Yang-Mills theory via Rieffel induction

J. H. Yiend, N. Anxiety and attention to threatening pictures

D. Zimmermann, EM. The Jacobite movement in Scotland and in exile, 1746-1759

C. L. Zincone, NH. First attempts to reform the Soviet system: the Malenkov era (1953-1955)

Master of Philosophy (one-year course)

Examination in Archaeology

P. R. Preston, DAR

Examination in Biological Science

K. Jarrett, Q

Examination in Chemistry

A. D. Karmazyn, F

Examination in European Studies

B. E. Orczykowska, Q

Examination in Musicology

M. R. Duncumb, CL T. J. Horton, JE

Examination in Physics

C. Guertler, SE

Master of Studies

Examination in Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment

P. A. Akhurst, PET M-Y. G. Tsui, W

A. K. Passingham, PET

Diploma in Legal Studies

The Degree Committee for the Faculty of Law have awarded a Diploma in Legal Studies to the following:

A. Luciani, F

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