All ODU theses and dissertations since Fall 2016 are available in this collection. Backfiles to 1976 of dissertations (and some theses) have also been added.
To browse dissertations and theses by academic department or program, please go to the Research by College, Department, Center page.
At some point, backfiles for all master's theses will be scanned and added. In the meantime, consult the library guide for "Dissertations & Theses" to find older items in print.
See the Graduate School site for information on submitting your ETD.
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Thesis: Spectral Shape as an Indicator of Molecular Weight in Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter, John Robert Helms
Dissertation: Estimating Familial Correlations Using a Kotz Type Density, Amal Helu
Dissertation: Evaluating Work Keys Profiling as a Pre-Employment Assessment Tool to Increase Employee Retention, Ruth Zimmer Hendrick
Dissertation: Automatic Speech Recognition Using LP-DCTC/DCS Analysis Followed by Morphological Filtering, Penny Hix
Dissertation: The Good Governance Agenda of International Development Institutions, Kerry L. Hofheimer
Thesis: "Does It Take One to Know One?" A Comparison of Police Recruits' and Sergeants' Perceptions of a Good Police Officer, Kara K. Hoofnagle
Dissertation: An Implicit Level Set Model for Firespread, Pallop Huabsomboon
Dissertation: Examining Retention and Academic Success Among Community College Developmental Algebra I Students, Patricia B. Huber
Dissertation: An Adaptive Algorithm to Identify Ambiguous Prostate Capsule Boundary Lines for Three-Dimensional Reconstruction and Quantitation, Rania Yousry Hussein
Dissertation: Chemical Evidence for Dietary Toxin Sequestration in the Asian Snake Rhabdophis tigrinus, Deborah A. Hutchinson
Dissertation: The ²H(e, e'p)n Reaction at High Four-Momentum Transfer, Hassan F. Ibrahim
Thesis: Personal Responsibility Versus Government Responsibility Welfare Attitudes Post-1996, Emily C. Ing
Dissertation: A Structural Model of Relationships Between Employee Characteristics, Supervisory Mentoring Behaviors and Job Satisfaction, Florence R. Jinadu
Dissertation: A Dyadic Composition to Foster Virtual Team Effectiveness: An Experimental Study, Gamze Karayaz
Dissertation: Service With Friends: The Influence of Peer Interactions and Emotions in Community Service Experiences, Jennifer Jill Kidd
Thesis: In Vitro Evaluation of the Reciprocating Disposable Prophylaxis Angle Versus the Rotating Disposable Prophylaxis Angle in Extrinsic Stain Removal Effectiveness, Inma LaCross
Dissertation: An Examination of Differences Between Occupational-Technical Student and Transfer Student Engagement at Small Community Colleges in Virginia, Janet T. Laughlin
Dissertation: Teamwork in Chinese Organizations: A New Concept and Framework, Ying Liu
Thesis: The Floating Population and Crime in Contemporary China, Jonathan Wade Lopez
Dissertation: Perceptions and Factors Influencing Success in Professional Preparation Physical Therapy Education, Mira H. Mariano
Thesis: Self-Reported Attitudes, Concerns, and Behaviors Related to Global Environmentalism: Can a Mandatory Class Make a Difference?, Erin Mehalic
Dissertation: Whole Word Phonetic Displays for Speech Articulation Training, Fansheng Meng
Dissertation: Investigation of Ultracold Rubidium Atoms in a Pulsed Far off Resonance Trap, Minarni Minarni
Dissertation: Group Key Management in Wireless Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks, Mohammed A. Moharrum
Dissertation: Boundary Interference Assessment and Correction for Open Jet Wind Tunnels Using Panel Methods, Wael Ahmed Mokhtar
Dissertation: Structure-Function Studies of the cAMP-Dependent Protein Kinase In Vitro and in Intact Cells, Gary Z. Morris
Thesis: The Reflective Mariner An Approach for ECDIS Training and Operational Usage, Scott W. Muller
Dissertation: A Study of Literacy Efficacy and Student Achievement Among Beginning Middle School Teachers in an Urban Context, Michael J. Mustain
Thesis: Exchange Hydrodynamics Between a Subestuary and Its Adjacent Estuary, Diego A. Narváez
Thesis: Crisis Management in Projects, Senol Nazikkol
Dissertation: Robustness and Control of a Magnetically Levitated Transportation System, Grzegorz Oleszczuk
Dissertation: Modulation of TGFβ-Induced PAI -1 Expression by Changes in Actin Polymerization in Human Mesangial Cells, Keyur Patel
Dissertation: Balanced Literacy Versus Basal Reading Instruction for Urban African-American, Title I Third-Grade Students, Julie Ann Perkins
Dissertation: Passive and Active Nonlinear Control of Ship Roll Motions Using U-Tube Tanks, Thongchai Phairoh
Thesis: Tidally Induced Variability at the Chesapeake Bay Entrance, María Andrea Piñones
Dissertation: Cellular Mechanism of Arglabin-Dimethylaminohydrochloride Cytotoxicity, Xiaofei Qin
Dissertation: The Study of Nitric Oxide Synthase Expression, Function, and Regulation in the Renal Vasculature During Postnatal Renal Development, Brian Blake Ratliff
Dissertation: A Cross-Cultural Study of Epistemological Beliefs and Moral Reasoning Between American and Chinese College Students, Zhongtang Ren
Dissertation: The Use of the Tripartite Model of Attitudes to Explain EMS Providers' Attitudes About the EMS Agenda for the Future, Carolyn Angela Rinaca
Thesis: Age Validation and Reproductive Biology of Bluefish, Pomatomus saltatrix, Along the East Coast of United States, Eric Robillard
Dissertation: Stability Analysis of Hybrid Jump Linear Systems With Markov Inputs, Arturo Tejada Ruiz
Thesis: Reverse Decision Making and Goal Attainment A Proof of Concept as a New Approach to the Decision Making Process Under Uncertainty, Shitalkumar S. Sabne
Dissertation: Brain Drain or Gain: Migration of Knowledge Workers From India to the United States, Anjali Sahay
Dissertation: Continuously Stratified Flow Dynamics Over a Hollow, David Salas-Monreal
Dissertation: Hessian Matrix-Free Lagrange-Newton-Krylov-Schur-Schwarz Methods for Elliptic Inverse Problems, Widodo Samyono
Thesis: Biochemical Profiling of Gout Patients, Tamera Fayre Schlitt
Dissertation: Development of a Nonlinear Estimator-Based Model of Pilot Performance During Brownout Conditions, Karl Ulrich Schultz
Dissertation: The Use of Proteomic Technologies to Identify Serum Glycoproteins for the Early Detection of Liver and Prostate Cancers, Elizabeth Ellen Schwegler
Thesis: Correlating Late Pleistocene Deposits on the Coastal Plain of Virginia with the Glacial-Eustatic Sea-Level Curve, Timothy Wullschleger Scott
Thesis: Vital Tooth Whitening: Effects on Tooth Color Satisfaction, Beliefs About Dentofacial Appearance, and Self-Esteem in Older Adults, Kelly Marie Seeber
Dissertation: Learning as a Nonlinear Line of Attraction for Pattern Association, Classification and Recognition, Ming-Jung Seow
Thesis: Pre-Tipping Point Operations as a Strategy for Maritime Security in the Global War on Terror, John W. Snedeker Jr.
Dissertation: Predictors of Persistence Among Community College Adult and Traditional-Aged Students, Kellie Crawford Sorey
Thesis: A Comparative Analysis of Air-To-Ground Engagement Outcomes in the Joint Warfare System (JWARS) and the JWARS-Joint Semi-Automated Forces Federation, Melissa Anne St. Peter
Dissertation: Template-Based Metadata Extraction for Heterogeneous Collection, Jianfeng Tang
Thesis: The Analytic Hierarchy & the Analytic Network Processes in Multicriteria Decision Making: A Comparative Study, Ali K. Taslicali
Thesis: Defensin Transcript Distribution in Tissues and Life Stages of the Ixodid Ticks Amblyomma americanum and Ixodes scapularis, Stephanie M. Todd
Thesis: Effectiveness of Chlorhexidine-Coating in Controlling Bacterial Quantity on Toothbrush Filaments, Lisa A. Turner
Dissertation: Workforce Investment Act services: Effect on Dislocated Worker Reemployment, Martha A. Walker
Dissertation: A Framework for the Representation of Cohesion in Small Combat Units, William Eugene Warner
Dissertation: Development of a Theoretical Framework of Distributed Cognition Phenomena in Control Centers During Crisis Conditions, Christopher J. West
Thesis: Nature and Norfolk: The History of the Norfolk Botanical Garden, Cheryl S. White
Dissertation: Diverse Effects of Nanosecond Pulsed Electric Fields on Mammalian Cells, Jody Anne White
Dissertation: The Politics and Economics of Health: A Cross-National Comparison of Civic Engagement and Health Status, Suzanne J. Wood
Thesis: Processing and Characterization of High Performance Structural Nanocomposites, Dennis C. Working
Dissertation: Atmospheric-Pressure Plasma Sources for Polymer Surface Modification, Shujun Yang
Dissertation: Performance Analysis of Recoverable Flight Control Systems Subject to Neutron-Induced Upsets Using Hybrid Dynamical Models, Hong Zhang
Dissertation: High Performance Queueing and Scheduling in Support of Multicasting in Input-Queued Switches, Weiying Zhu
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Thesis: Design and Implementation of One and Two-Degree-of-Freedom Magnetic Suspension and Balance Systems, Mark W. Adams
Dissertation: Mechanisms of Cell Death Initiated in Herpes Simplex Virus Thymidine Kinase Expressing Colon Tumor Cells Treated with Ganciclovir and UCN-01, Christina Elizabeth Ahn
Dissertation: A Conceptual Framework for Analysis of System Safety Interoperability of United States Navy's Combat Systems, Showkat Shanaz Alborzi
Dissertation: Overreaction, Seasonality and Relationship Among Middle East and North Africa National Stock Markets, Yaser A. Al-Kulaib
Dissertation: Collaborative Caching for efficient and Robust Certificate Authority Services in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks, Laith Abdulaziz Al-Sulaiman
Thesis: Predictors of Student Success in an Entry-Level Baccalaureate Dental Hygiene Program, Mohammad J. Alzahrani
Dissertation: Nonlinear Flutter of Curved Panels Under Yawed Supersonic Flow Using Finite Elements, Mohamed Salim Azzouz
Thesis: Citizen's Satisfaction With the Police, Kim Barshanet Baskerville
Thesis: Socioeconomic Attainments of Africans Versus African-Americans in the United States, Azeb Berhane
Thesis: An Examination Into the Effects of Social Positioning and Capitalist Immersion on Gendered Attitudes Towards Homosexuality in the United States, Fiona J. Blee
Dissertation: Regulation of SPARC Gene Expression by the Activator Protein 1 Transcription Factor, Joseph William Briggs
Dissertation: An Exploratory Analysis of Post Strategic Plan Implementation Fidelity in Two Urban-Based, Nonprofit Health Education/Advocacy Organizations, Theodore N. Burke
Thesis: Comparing Domestic Assaults in Military and Non-Military Populations: A Test of Social Learning Theory, Crystal S. Carey
Dissertation: Defensin in the Ticks Dermacentor variabilis and Ixodes scapularis, Shane Michael Ceraul
Dissertation: p-Version Time-Discontinuous Galerkin's Method for Nonlinear Transient Heat transfer Analysis and Sensitivity Analysis, Ta-Cheng Chien
Dissertation: Investigation of the Superconducting Properties of Niobium Radio-Frequency Cavities, Gianluigi Ciovati
Dissertation: Halonitromethane Treatment Using Advanced Oxidation Process: Rates, Mechanisms and Kinetic Modeling, Stuart Kirkham Cole
Dissertation: The Role of Inferential Accuracy in Performance Rating Accuracy: A Field Study of Teacher Performance Appraisal, Cynthia L. Cooper
Dissertation: A Systems Methodology for Measuring Operational Organization Effectiveness: A Study of the Original Equipment Computer Manufacturing Industry, 1948 to 2001, Teddy Steven Cotter
Dissertation: Complex System Contextual Framework (CSCF): A Grounded-Theory Construction for the Articulation of System Context in Addressing Complex Systems Problems, W. B. Max Crownover
Dissertation: Landscape Ecology of Birds on Mount Leconte, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Andreas P. Damalas
Dissertation: Effect of Instructional Styles and the Duration of Class Time on the Sense of Classroom Community of Military Urban Graduate Students, William J. Davis Jr.
Dissertation: An Empirical Investigation of the Link Between Market Orientation and New Product Performance: The Mediating Effects of Organizational Capabilities, Turkan Dursun-Kilic
Dissertation: The Effects of Local and Global Risk Factors on Industry Stock Returns: Across Country Analysis, Mahdy Farag Elhossiny
Dissertation: Essays on Currency Risk Management, Nehad Elsawaf
Dissertation: Quantifying Vulnerability to Critical Infrastructure, Barry Charles Ezell
Dissertation: Operating Measures, IPO Valuation, and After Market Performance-Perspective From Internet Bubble Period, Yuhong Fan
Dissertation: The Effects of Parcels and Latent Variable Scores on the Detection of Interactions in Structural Equation Modeling, Thomas D. Fletcher
Thesis: What Is Positive Disclosure and to Whom Do We Disclose? The Role of Topics, Gender and Type of Relationship in Positive Self-Disclosure, Elizabeth Landers Ford
Thesis: Fine-Tuning of Mass-Spring Model Properties for Simulating Realistic Soft Body Deformation, Sylva A. Girtelschmid
Dissertation: Developing and Optimizing Conditions for Single Cell Genetic Analysis, Susan Adele Gitlin
Dissertation: The Role of Interfunctional Market Orientation in New Product Program Success: An Exploratory Empirical Analysis, George Grady Gresham