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Arda is an instrumental chamber work scored for cello, percussion, and multiple keyboards with a total duration of approximately thirteen minutes. The work is structured in an arch form whose divisions are based on instrumental and textual groupings. The pitch organization utilizes prominent intervals, improvised passages on certain passages on certain pitches, and the double harmonic mode, which is derived from an Indian raga. Various instrumental techniques are also used throughout the work to alter timbres as well as to create more interesting vertical sonorities.

Nightdreams, a single-movement work for orchestra, is approximately nine and one-half minutes in duration. The concept for Nightdreams evolves from sketching three types of sounds as photographs: melodically oriented sounds, sound-mass texture, and vertical sonorities. A twelve-note set is used to construct the pitch content of the melodically oriented sounds. This set includes the intervals of a m2, M2, m6, and T. Sound-mass textures are constructed from the same intervals that are contained in the twelve-note set plus the addition of a m3 and a P5. Vertical sonorities use the linear aspect of the twelve-note set mapped onto a set of twelve different rhythms which alternate between non-retrogradable and retrogradable. Although the piece is contained in a single move-ment, there are twelve sections, each with its own characteristics.

...for the time is at hand : An Original Musical Composition, for orchestra and tape, is a single movement work in five overlapping sections with a total duration of approximately twenty minutes. Using a stochastic composition program written in Hewlett-Packard BASIC, the final chord of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps serves as a "seed" to generate the "pitch density" (vertical pitch distribution), "timbre density"(vertical instrument distribution), and dynamics of the work.

The Wind Was There is a setting for soprano voice and orchestra of two poems by Bravig Imbs (1904-46). Imbs was an American writer active in France for most of his career. He was also a violinist and amateur composer. The piece is in two movements, with a total duration of approximately twenty-five minutes. Each movement represents a different stylistic approach to the musical material. Movement one represents the spirit, though not the harmonic language, of the early twentieth century. The second movement shows the influence of Lutoslawski and Lugeti. This eclectic approach was chosen due to the quite different moods imparted to me by the two poems.The relationship between the soprano and the orchestra is not one between soloist and accompaniment, but is more in the nature of a symphonic dialogue.

Makropterosuus, a single movement composition for full orchestra, is approximately sixteen minutes in duration. The work is scored for piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets in B-flat, two tenor trombones, bass trombone, tuba, percussion, and strings. The composition of Makropterosuus involved the development of specialized computational procedures for the generation of melodic and rhythmic data.

The Contest is a ballet scored for orchestra and tape. It was composed in the tradition of dramatic orchestral ballets and sets the biblical story from 1 Kings, chapter 18, verses 20-40. Certain portions of the work were written using computer assisted compositional programs developed by the composer. These programs were written in the BASIC programming language. Other sections of the score were composed intuitively, using no computer programs. The tape for the last movement was prepared on the Synclavier II digital syntesizer using the Script system and the Synclavier II keyboard instrument.

A new potent competitive inhibitor of glyoxalase II, S-carbobenzoxglutathione (CBG) (Ki=0.065mM) was synthesized. The homogenous enzyme was obtained by a simple two-step CBG-affinity column chromatographic procedure.

Bimodal resprometry was conducted on reedfish, Calamoichthys caabricus, acclimated to 25C and 33C. The relative proportion of aerial respiration to the total oxygen consumption increased with acclimation temperature (p<0.05), directly correlated to activity (p<0.01) and was inversely correlated with dissolved oxygen (p<0.01). Reedfish survived aquatic hypoxia (<1 ppm) for days solely using aerial respiration. Not surprisingly, reedfish exhibited no behavioral avoidance of aquatic hypoxia when given access to air.

This paper discusses historically and musically significant insights into how the Mozart clarinet Concerto, K. 622, should be performed. The clarinet Concerto was the last wind concerto composed by Mazart and was completed around November 15, 1791, less than a month before his death. Mozart's original manuscript was probably lost. The only extant autograph of the Concerto is a fragmentary one of an earlier sketch dating from 1789.

Silicon-on-insulator formed by high dose oxygen ion implantation and subsequent epitaxially grown silicon layers were studied and compared with silicon on sapphire materials. Czochralski grown, (100) silicon wafers were implanted with molecular oxygen ions, 0+2, to a total dose of 2.12 x 10^18 0+/cm^2 at an energy of 150 keV/atom.