ODU theses and dissertations since 1965 are available in this collection.
Theses and dissertations completed at Eastern Virginia Medical School prior to integration with ODU on July 1, 2024 are not included in Digital Commons unless they were completed as part of a cross-institutional program with ODU. Works completed after July 1, 2024 are being added but are incomplete.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Thesis: The Effect of Maturation on Hip and Knee Kinetics and Kinematics During an Unanticipated Sidestep Cutting Task in Male Youth Lacrosse Players, Crystal M. Sullivan
Thesis: A Year and a Day, Peter Surran
Dissertation: Judging Credence Service Based on Experience Service Evaluation: Moderating Effect of Ease of Assessing and Extrinsic Cues, Kungpo Tao
Dissertation: Synthesis of ALD Zinc Oxide and Thin Film Materials Optimization for UV Photodetector Applications, Kandabara Nouhoum Tapily
Thesis: Performance Analysis for WiMAX Wireless Systems with Multiple Receive Antennas, Selcuk Taskin
Dissertation: On the Radius of Convergence of Interconnected Analytic Nonlinear Systems, Makhin Thitsa
Thesis: Model-Based Analyses of Nitrogen on the Mid-Atlantic Bight Continental Shelf, Tian Tian
Dissertation: Efficacy of Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) Certifications, Daniel L. Trent
Thesis: Effect of Body Mass and Added Mass on Treadmill Performance, Rachel Elizabeth Walker
Thesis: A Collection of Reportage, Lynn Marie Waltz
Dissertation: Automatic High-Fidelity 3D Road Network Modeling, Jie Wang
Dissertation: Interface Circuit for a Multiple-Beam Tuning-Fork Gyroscope with High Quality Factors, Ren Wang
Dissertation: The Tracking Performance of Distributed Recoverable Flight Control Systems Subject to High Intensity Radiated Fields, Rui Wang
Thesis: The Disappearing Disease, Heather M. Weddington
Dissertation: The Relationship Between International Migration and Regional Integration, Christopher C. White
Dissertation: The Factors That Are Related to Native American Community College Students' Intent to Persist, Garnet Laureen Williams
Dissertation: Ethically Speaking: Academic Librarians' Perceptions of Information Privacy, Intellectual Freedom, and the USA PATRIOT Act, Alicia Carol Willson-Metzger
Dissertation: Financial Aid as Retention Predictor: The Relationship of Financial Aid to Retention at a Virginia Community College, Eunice Rohrer Wine
Thesis: The Transfer of Laser-Machined Micro-Structured Patterns from Silicon to Polymethyl Methacrylate, Warren E. Withrow
Dissertation: The Impact of Computer-Assisted Sight Word Instruction on the Reading Skills of Students with Significant Intellectual Disabilities, Colleen Frances Wood-Fields
Dissertation: Towards an Organizational Strategic Vitality Theory: A Study of a Public Sector Board of Directors, Keith L. Woodman
Dissertation: Manipulating Particles for Micro- and Nano-Fluidics Via Floating Electrodes and Diffusiophoresis, Sinan Eren Yalcin
Dissertation: Altering Nitric Oxide Bioavailability and Lipid Profiles in Endothelial Cells By Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Particulate Matter, Liang Yu
Dissertation: A Hybrid Lehmer Code Genetic Algorithm and Its Application on Traveling Salesman Problems, Jun Zhang
Dissertation: What Drives U.S. Banking Mergers: Misvaluation, Gambling or Envy?, Wenjia Zhang
Thesis: Video Stabilization Based on Speeded-Up Robust Features, Minqi Zhou
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Dissertation: A Virtual Infrastructure for Mitigating Typical Challenges in Sensor Networks, Hady S. Abdel Salam
Dissertation: Spectroscopic Study of Ultracold Rubidium Atoms in an Optical Dipole Force Trap, Eman Mohammed Ahmed
Thesis: Expression Invariant Face Recognition Using Shifted Phase-Encoded Joint Transform Correlation Technique, Trisha Ahmed
Dissertation: Post-Project Risk Perception and Systems Management Reaction, Baqer Alali
Thesis: Plain and Steel-Reinforced Concrete Shear Walls With and Without CFRP Retrofitting, Ali Mohammed Salih Al Aloosi
Thesis: Untangling Fear of Crime: A Multi-Theoretical Approach to Examining the Causes of Crime-Specific Fear, Mariel Alper
Dissertation: Persistence of Community College Transfer Students in a Private Liberal Arts University Nursing Program, Rita M. Amerio
Thesis: Optimization and Oscillation of a Two-Dimensional Bump to Enhance Airfoil Performance, Dinesh Atchala
Thesis: Laser Scribing of ITO and ITO/Ag Coated Glass Substrates Comparison of Back and Front Side Ablation, Oguzhan Balki
Dissertation: Cultural Intelligence: An Examination of Predictive Relationships in a Study Abroad Population, Bryan James Banning
Dissertation: Experimental Investigation of a Non-Thermal Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jet, Asma Begum
Thesis: Body Size and Growth Patterns of Microtus Pennsylvanicus (Ord.) in Chesapeake, Virginia, Sara E. Bell
Dissertation: Effect of High School Completion of the Agricultural Education Program on the Rate of Return on Investment for the Commonwealth of Virginia, Phillip Scott Bevins
Thesis: Inter-Island Variability in Above and Belowground Plant Biomass in Interior Marshes on the Virginia Barrier Islands, Staci B. Blecha
Thesis: Development of Sustainability Indicators for Products and Processes, Sundeep Bodapati
Thesis: Closing the Greenland-Iceland Atlantic Air-Gap: 1939 to 1943, James F. Boland
Dissertation: Interannual Differences in Nutrient Dynamics During a Brown Tide Bloom (Aureococcus anophagefferens) and the Interaction of A. anophagefferens with Heterotrophic Bacteria, George Eric Boneillo
Thesis: Examining the Dual Process Model of Decision Making in Visual Threat Detection and Human-Automation Interaction, Patricia Chin Brennan
Dissertation: A Decision Making Construct for Complex Situations, Van Edward Brewer
Dissertation: A Solution of the Heat Equation with the Discontinuous Galerkin Method Using a Multilivel Calculation Method That Utilizes a Multiresolution Wavelet Basis, Robert Gregory Brown
Thesis: The Impeding Role of Initial Unrealistic Goal-Setting on Training Performance: Identifying Underpinning Self-Regulatory Processes and Solutions, Robert C. Brusso
Dissertation: Critical Components of Community College Enrollment Management Planning, Karen Hart Bucher
Dissertation: Evaluating the Effects of a Safe Space Training on Professional School Counselors and School Counseling Trainees, Rebekah Byrd
Thesis: Estimation and Management of Observation Time for Low Earth Orbit Satellite, Serdar Cagirdar
Thesis: Embedding GPS Data into Speech Signal, Kagan Can
Thesis: Human Osteoblast Proliferation in Culture Following a Nanosecond Pulsed Electric Field (nsPEF), Leonard Joseph Carinci Jr.
Dissertation: Concentrations, Distributions and Chemical Speciation of Zinc and Cadmium in the Equatorial and South Atlantic Ocean, Gonzalo G. Carrasco
Dissertation: Energy Crises and Cooperation: Do International Institutions Matter?, Vessela P. Chakarova
Dissertation: The Attraction of Adjunct Faculty to Rural Community Colleges, Hara Dracon Charlier
Dissertation: Analysis of Jump Linear Systems Driven by Lumped Processes, Jorge R. Chavez Fuentes
Dissertation: Graduate Students' Self Assessment of competency in Grief Education and Training in Core Accredited Rehabilitation Counseling Programs, Richard Jude Cicchetti
Thesis: Weight Stigma Consciousness and the Effects on Attitudes and Behaviors: The Stigma of Obesity in America, Eric J. Clayton
Thesis: Bonfire Night and Other Stories, Leslie Clements
Dissertation: Urban School Counselors' Perceptions of Low-Income Families, Rebekah F. Cole
Dissertation: A Conceptual Model of Career Development to Enhance Academic Motivation, Nancy Creighton Collins
Dissertation: Women's Compliance in Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment: The Role of Children and Mental Health, Cathy Gertrude Cooke
Dissertation: Neuromechanical Analysis of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Risk Factors in Female Collegiate Soccer Athletes, Nelson Cortes
Dissertation: Elementary Principals' Literacy Practices and Their Relationship to Student Achievement in Reading, Sandra Carper Cox
Thesis: Managing Complexity and Change in International Relations: The Case of Yemen, Michael J. Culton
Dissertation: Noncognitive Predictors of Academic Performance and Persistence in Horizontal and Vertical Transfer Students By Academic Level, Christopher A. Davis
Thesis: Optimization of the ODU Maglev System Ridership Performance, Eric Salvador M. De Leon
Thesis: Diasporas from States in Crisis: A Case Study of the Zimbabwean Diaspora and Its Role in the Homeland, Leigh Ann Detwiler
Dissertation: Towards a Formal Theory of Interoperability, Saikou Y. Diallo
Dissertation: The Effective Use of Confrontation in Family Therapy: A Process Study, Timothy Michael DiGiacomo
Thesis: Determining the Utility of Technology for Education, Brian Spencer Dillon
Dissertation: The Applicability of the Megargee Classification System for the MMPI-A, Joel Andrew Dillon
Thesis: Religion on Divorce, Erik B. Doherty
Dissertation: Group II Metabolic Glutamate Receptors in the Basal Amygdala Regulate Sleep and Fear-Induced Alterations in Sleep, Enheng Dong
Thesis: I Have to Tell You Something, Edmund E. Dowe
Thesis: What Ties Me to Blue Mountains, Deborah Lynne Downs
Thesis: Predicting Speeding in Young Adults: Expanding the Focus of Problem-Behavior Theory, Jenny E. Dozier
Thesis: A Novel Digital Audio Watermarking Approach by Embedding Coefficients in Discrete Cosine Transform Domain, Erol Duymaz
Dissertation: A Utilization-Focused Evaluation of a Community College Adjunct Faculty Professional Development Program, Gordon Edenfield
Dissertation: Return to Unfinished Business: Re-Energizing U.S. Nuclear Arms Policy, William T. Eliason
Dissertation: The Initial Development and Validation of the Teen Screen for Dating Violence, Kelly M. Emelianchik-Key
Dissertation: The Influence of Mechanical Circulation on Water Column Stability and Dissolved Oxygen in Stratified Lakes, Paal Engebrigtsen
Dissertation: The Influence of Network Factors on Network Centric Operations, Mehmet Fidanci
Dissertation: Where is the Learning in Smaller Learning Communities? Academic Press, Social Support for Learning, and Academic Engagement in Smaller Learning Community Classrooms, Christopher Michael Fischer
Dissertation: The Influence of Rape Empathy and Demographic Variables on Counselor Rape Myth Acceptance, Julia M. Forman
Dissertation: Implementer Perceptions of Washington State's Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training (I-BEST) Program, Robert W. Fox
Dissertation: Optimization Models and Algorithms for Spatial Scheduling, Christopher J. Garcia
Dissertation: Parent Interventionists in Phonodialogic Emergent Reading with Preschool Children, Sabra B. Gear
Dissertation: Analytic Construction of Periodic Orbits in the Restricted Three-Body Problem, Mohammed A. Ghazy
Dissertation: Feasibility and Conceptual Design of a C.W. Positron Source at CEBAF, Serkan Golge
Dissertation: Using the Andersen Behavioral Model of Health Services Use to Examine Adult Uninsured Patient Health Services Use at a Community Health Center, Jewel Shonette Goodman
Dissertation: The Effectiveness of Counselors as Care Managers in Improving Self-Management and Medical Outcomes in Persons with Poorly Controlled Diabetes, Ularisi Rebecca Green
Thesis: The Mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) Fauna of the Blackwater Ecological Preserve: Effects of Prescribed Burns and Habitat Type on Mosquito Abundance and Distribution, Norman A. Grefe lll
Dissertation: Methodology to Quantify Vertical Accelerations of Planing Craft in Irregular Waves, Jennifer Suzanne Grimsley
Thesis: A Genetic Algorithm Approach for Optimized Routing, Pavithra Gudur
Thesis: Repeating Ground Track Design for Low Earth Orbit Satellite, Gurkan Gurdal
Dissertation: College Student Adjustment and Health Behaviors, Lisa Anne Hall
Dissertation: Adjustment Experiences and Ethnic Identity Attitudes Among High School Students in Advanced Academic Programs, Tiffany Michelle Hall
Dissertation: Internationalization Efforts in United States Community Colleges: A Comparative Analysis of Urban, Suburban, and Rural Institutions, Natalie Jean Harder
Thesis: A Predictive Game Theoretic Model to Assess US - Russian Response to an Islamic Safe-Haven in the Caucasus Region, Christopher Wayne Hartline