Selected Presentations

Edgar Bering
Bering, III, E. A., C. Wang, T. S. Huang, and R. E. Hartle. "Development of an Ionospheric Thermal Plasma Moment Analyzer Based on a Superconducting 2-D Dipole or Racetrack Electromagnet," IEEE Int'l Conf. on Plasma Science, Boston, MA, June 3-5, 1996.

G. Ron Chen
Chen, G. R. "Fuzzy Control and its Industrial Applications," South China Univ. of Technology, June 13, 1995.
Malki, H. A. and G. R. Chen. "Design of a Fuzzy PID Integrated Boiler Control System for Power Plants," Houston Lighting & Power Company, Sept. 5, 1995.
Malki H. A. and G. R. Chen. "A Fuzzy Logic Controller for Boiler Systems in Power Plants," IEEE Int'l Symp. on Circuits and Systems, Atlanta, GA, May, 1996.
Misir, D., H. A. Malki, and G. R. Chen. "A Heuristic Approach to Tune the Control Gains of Fuzzy Proportional-Derivative Controller," ACM Symp. on Applied Computing, Philadelphia, PA, March 1996.

David R. Criswell
Criswell, D. R. "Lunar Solar Power System: Scale and Cost versus Technology Level, Boot-Strapping, and Cost of Earth-to-Orbit Transport," 46th Congress of the Int'l Astronautical Federation (IAF). Oslo, Norway Oct. 2-6, 1995.
Criswell, D. R. "World and Lunar Solar Power System Costs," SPACE 96, 5th Int'l Conf. and Exposition on Engineering, Construction, and Operations in Space, Am. Soc. Mechanical Engineers, Albuquerque, NM, June 1-6, 1996.
Criswell, D. R. "Lunar Solar Power System: Review of the Technology Base of an Operational LSP System," 47th Congress of the Int'l Astronautical Federation (IAF), Beijing, China, Oct. 5-11, 1996.

Ben H. Jansen
Mavrofrides, D. C., and B. H. Jansen. "Gait Analysis of Astronauts," 13th Annual Conf. on Biomed. Eng. Res. in Houston, Feb. 16-17, 1995.
Mavrofrides, D. C., B. H. Jansen, C. S. Layne, A. Mulavara, and J. J. Bloomberg. "Trajectory Based Analysis of Pre- and Post-Spaceflight EMG," 14th Annual Conf. on Biomed. Eng. Res. in Houston, Feb. 8-9, 1996.

Heidar A. Malki
Malki, H. A. and G. R. Chen. "A Fuzzy Logic Controller for Boiler Systems in Power Plants," IEEE Int'l Symp. on Circuits and Systems, Atlanta, GA, May 1996.
Malki, H. A. and G. R. Chen. "Design of a Fuzzy PID Integrated Boiler Control System for Power Plants," Houston Lighting & Power Company, Sept. 5, 1995.
Misir, D., H. A. Malki, and G. R. Chen. "A Heuristic Approach to Tune the Control Gains of Fuzzy Proportional-Derivative Controller," ACM Symp. on Applied Computing, Philadelphia, PA, March 1996.

Wajiha Shireen
Shireen, W., W. A. Ganesh, and P. Enjeti. "Improved Active power factor Correction Circuit Using a Zero Voltage Switching Boost Converter," Power Electronics Specialists Conf., Atlanta, GA, 1995.

Russell G. Thompson
Thompson, R. G. "Linked-Cone Profit Ratio Estimates of Total Factor Productivity Growth," Georgia Productivity Conf. Announcement, Athens, 1994; Nat'l ORSA/TIMS Meetings, Washington, D.C., 1996.
Thompson, R. G. and D. R. Criswell. "Economic Impact of Lunar Solar Power Initiative," Seminar Announcement, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, Aug. 1996.

William R. Widger
Widger, W. R. "Evolutionary Origins of Chloroplasts Synechococcus PCC 7002: A Model System for Cyanobacterial Genome Mapping and Light Regulated Transcription," 96th General Meeting Am. Soc. of Microbiology, New Orleans, LA, May 19-23, 1996.
Widger, W. R. "The mode of Action of the Antibiotic Bicyclomycin," Dept. of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Univ. of Texas Medical School at Houston (1995).
Samartzidou, H., F. Abdi, G. E. Fox, K. Martin, and W. R. Widger. "Sampled Sequencing: A Rapid Method for Developing a Genetic Map of Synechococcus PCC 7002," 96th General Meeting Am. Soc. of Microbiology New Orleans, LA, May 19-23, 1996.
Fox, G. E., K. A. Martin, W. R. Widger, F. Abdi, and J. L. Seifert. "Bacterial Operons Containing Components of the Translation Machinery are of Great Antiquity," 11th Int'l Conf. on the Origin of Life, Orleans, France, July 5-12, 1996.

Richard C. Willson
Willson, R. C. and N. Singh. "RNA Separations using Boronate Affinity Adsorbents," 8th Int'l Conf. on Recovery of Biological Product, Tucson, AZ, Oct. 20-25, 1996.

Larry C. Witte
Fore, L. B. and L. C. Witte. "Roll Wave Effects on the Heating of Viscous Liquid Films," Nat'l Heat Transfer Conf., Portland, OR, Aug. 1995; ASME HTD 314 (1995): 23-30.
Fore, L. B. and L. C. Witte. "Two-Phase Heat Transfer in Microgravity," Int'l Conf. on Heat Transfer with Change of Phase, Kielce, Poland, Dec. 1996.
Fore, L. B., L. C. Witte, and J. B. McQuillen. "Microgravity Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop in Gas-Liquid Mixtures: Slug and Annular Flow," Nat'l Heat Transfer Conf., Houston, TX. 1996.
Fore, L. B., W. S. Bousman, and L. C. Witte. "Two-Phase Flow Dynamics and Heat Transfer in Microgravity," Energy Week Conf. and Exhibit, Houston, TX, Jan. 1996.

David C. Zimmerman
James, G. H. "Application of Real-Time Data Acquisition to Wind Energy Model Correlation Activities," National Renewable Energy Laboratory Code Validation Workshop, Boulder, CO, Aug. 9, 1996.
James, G. H. "Health Monitoring Studies on Composite Structures for Aerospace Applications," 5th ASCE Int'l Conf. on Engineering, Construction, and Operations in Space, Albuquerque, NM, June 1-6, 1996.
Zimmerman, D. C. Hardware demonstrations of a laser-based systems, Aug. 16, 1996; Sept. 9, 1996.
Zimmerman, D. C. Int'l Space Station, Aug. 7, 1996.