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: Running Coupling Constant and Transition From Low to High Energies in Quantum Chromodynamics, Alexander Babansky
Dissertation: Assimilating Non-Probabilistic Assessments of the Estimation of Uncertainty Bias in Expert Judgment Elicitation Using an Evidence Based Approach in High Consequence Conceptual Designs, Colin K. S. Barrows
Dissertation: Effects of Elevated Atmospheric CO₂ on Scrub-Oak Root Carbon Pools and Soil Microbial Processes, Alisha Lea Pagel Brown
Thesis: Development of Single Nanoparticle Optical Assays for Imaging Single Living Cells, William John Brownlow
Thesis: A Macro-Level Analysis of Divorce Rates and Juvenile Violent Crime and Drug Abuse in Virginia, Bianca Maria Conn
Thesis: Traumatic Experiences Contributing to Juvenile Delinquency: A Look at Gender Differences, Alexis L. Correia
Thesis: The Interaction of Domestic Politics and English Naval Operations During the Civil War and Interregnum, 1642-1660, Don P. Crowson
Thesis: An Empirical Investigation into the Relationships Between Emotional Intelligence, Use of Knowledge Transfer Methods, and Project Performance, Brent Michael Decker
Dissertation: Efficient Unbiased Estimating Equations for Analyzing Structured Correlation Matrices, Yihao Deng
Thesis: Implementing Model Based Data Engineering Using Web Services, Saikou Yaya Diallo
Dissertation: Evaluating Collaboration Constructs: An Analysis of the Paradise Creek Restoration Plan, Pamela Trump Dunning
Thesis: Information Visualization Methods and Techniques Using Web Services, Kevin Dupigny
Dissertation: Isolation and Functional Mapping of Human T-Cell Leukemia Virus Type 1 Tax Oncoprotein DNA-Damage Complexes, Sarah Saionz Durkin
Thesis: Testing Social Disorganization as It Pertains to Prostitution, Wynter Leighanne Edwards
Dissertation: Femtosecond Laser Ablation with Single and Two-Photon Excitation for MEMS, Mohamed Abdelfattah Kottb Ahmad Elbandrawy
Thesis: Fortnightly Variability at the Transition Between Two Sub-Estuaries, Mayra Lorena Riveron Enzastiga
Dissertation: Micron-Level Actuator for Thermal-Fluid Control in Microchannels, Nurhak Erbas
Thesis: Improving Efficiency in Engineering Design Using Augmented D-Optimal Designs 'Synthetic Jet' Design Optimization Study, Fatih Erdogan
Thesis: An Analysis of Indicator Organism Suitability for Lower James and York Rivers, Rhonda Ashonti Ford
Thesis: Characterization of β-Lactam Resistant Pandemic Serotypes of Vibrio cholerae Isolated from Ships' Ballast Tanks and Coastal Waters, Amanda Lynn Goodrich
Thesis: An Examination of Seasonal Growth and Survivorship of Sigmodon hispidus in Southeastern Virginia, Heather Alyssa Green
Dissertation: Mechanical Properties and Durability of a Composite Material at Cryogenic Temperatures, Ray Walton Grenoble
Dissertation: Nanosecond Pulsed Electric Field Effects on Cell Cycle and Apoptosis, Emily H. Hall
Dissertation: Understanding the Nature of Surgical Excellence Using a Competency Modeling Approach, Hope S. Hanner-Bailey
Thesis: Teacher Factors That Influence Student Achievement: A Study of Third and Fifth Grade Teachers, Jewelle L. Harmon
Dissertation: Nicaragua's Survival: Choices in a Neoliberal World, Stanley G. Hash Jr.
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
Thesis: Collegiate Employers Preferred Characteristics in Potential Job Candidates, Amber S. Landis
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