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 2004
Dissertation: Parallel Decomposition Procedures for Large-scale Linear Programming Problems, Yusong Hu
Dissertation: The Effect of Submarine Canyon Width and Stratification on Coastal Circulation and Across Shelf Exchange, Kyung-Hoon Hyun
Dissertation: Computation of Shock Induced Noise in Imperfectly Expanded Supersonic Jets, Bulent Imamoglu
Dissertation: An Investigation of the Antecedents and Consequences of Individual-Level Customer Orientation: A Comprehensive Approach, Ceyhan Kilic
Dissertation: Estimation of Primary Production and Carbon Flux in Antarctic Coastal Waters: A Modeling Study, Hae-Cheol Kim
Dissertation: Electron Scattering From a High Momentum Neutron in Deuterium, Alexei V. Klimenko
Dissertation: Some Aspects of Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering, Elena Kuchina
Dissertation: The Effects of an Autobiographical Dialogue Journaling Activity on Student Teachers' Levels of Cultural Sensitivity and Reflective Skills, Wanda G. Lastrapes
Thesis: Strong Interactions Between Juvenile Caribbean Spiny Lobster (Panulirus Argus) and Caribbean Reef Octopus (Octopus Briareus) in the Florida Keys, Jennifer Anne Lear
Dissertation: Synchronous Text-Based Chat Vis-à-Vis Asynchronous Threaded Discussion: An Instructional Strategy for Providing an Option in Two Course Delivery Schemes, Shin Yi Lin
Dissertation: Three Essays on Real Estate Investment Trusts, Yan Lin
Dissertation: Choice and Support: An Individualized Approach to Student Empowerment and Involvement in Combating Procrastination in the Internet Learning Environment, Han Liu
Dissertation: Generating Series for Interconnected Nonlinear Systems and the Formal Laplace-Borel Transform, Yaqin Li
Dissertation: Space Cooperation Under Anarchy: Commercialization of Outer Space and Space Security in the Post-Cold War Era, Irina V. Louts
Dissertation: The Psychological Contract of Multiple Agency Relationships: Understanding the Attitudes and Behaviors of Contractors, Cynthia J. Maahs
Dissertation: First-Mover Advantage: A Cross-National Comparison of Mature and Emerging Market Consumers' Attitudes Toward Pioneer and Follower Brands, Tarek T. Mady
Dissertation: An Empirical Examination of the Moderators of the Service Recovery Paradox, Vincent P. Magnini
Dissertation: The Smugglers' Landscape: Geography, Route Selection and the Global Heroin Trade, James Dallis Medler
Dissertation: Scaling and Characterization of Direct Current Glow Discharge Plasma in Atmospheric Air, Abdel-Aleam Hefney Mohamed
Dissertation: The Relationship of Project Team Attributes to Project Interim Performance, Vickie S. Parsons
Dissertation: Stability Analysis of Jump-Linear Systems Driven by Finite-State Machines with Markovian Inputs, Sudarshan S. Patilkulkarni
Dissertation: Uncertainty Propagation and Robust Design in CFD Using Sensitivity Derivatives, Michele M. Putko
Thesis: Idiomatic Expressions and Marital Relationships Over Three Stages of the Family Lifespan, Meredith T. Raynor
Dissertation: Acknowledgement Response and Interference Timing During the Processing of Voice and Datalink ATC Commands, Matthew R. Risser
Thesis: A Staging Sequence and Analysis of Growth in Postovipositional Embryos of Lamprophis Fulignosus, Angela Renee Vogel Rivera
Dissertation: QoS Provisioning for Multi-Class Traffic in Wireless Networks, Mona El-Kadi Rizvi
Thesis: A Cross-National Analysis of the Impact of Conscription on Crime Rates, Nicolette G. Rose
Dissertation: Comparative Systematics of Subterranean Amphipod Crustaceans (Hadzioidea), Thomas R. Sawicki
Dissertation: A Comparison Between First-Year Alternative Certified Teachers and First-Year Traditional Certified Teachers Based on Students' Academic achievement: The Case of a High-Need Urban Southeast District in Virginia, Abdou Maty Sene
Dissertation: Inner Shelf Circulation in Coastal Virginia: A Data Assimilation Approach, Hector Hito Sepulveda
Dissertation: Microdischarge Arrays, Wenhui Shi
Thesis: Anthropogenic Lead Deposition and Four National Parks in Poland as Determined by Lead Isotope Ratios, Shannon Simcoe
Dissertation: An Investigation of Dissolved Organic Matter in a Shallow Coastal Bay Subject to Aureococcus anophagefferens Blooms, Jean-Paul Simjouw
Thesis: A Phylogeny of Genera of the Fish Family Nemipteridae (Percoidei) Based on the Cytochrome B Gene, Denise R. Sliter
Thesis: Social Capital and Religion: A Quantitative Analysis of the Relationship Between Religious Participation and Social Capital, Kyshawn Smith
Dissertation: Creating Individual Behavior Change Through 360-Degree Feedback: A Development Pipeline Perspective, Victoria Cole Stage
Dissertation: Pilot Performance and Eye Movement Activity with Varying Levels of Display Integration in a Synthetic Vision Cockpit, Julie Michele Stark
Thesis: The New Deal in Art: The Fine Arts Project and the Evolution of Abstract Expressionism, Sarah Coon Stoops
Thesis: Institutionalizing Gender and Sexuality in a Call-In Radio Advice Program: A Characterization of Loveline, Meagan P. Storey
Thesis: Neutron Star Electromagnetic Field Structure, Hugh O. Thurman III
Dissertation: A Comparative Study of American-Born Chinese and Non American-Born Chinese Students' Language Learning Motivation, Language Acquisition, and Ethnic Identity Development in Chinese Language Schools, Sarah C. Tsai
Thesis: Application of Queuing Theory and Procedure Time Estimation in a Local Healthcare System, Galina Tsoy
Dissertation: Comparisons Among Parent Reports and Self-Reports of Sleep in ADHD and Normal School-Aged Children, Diana M. Turner-Eadie
Dissertation: Instructional Technology Experiences of Student Teachers: A Case Study of Participants in the STAT Internship Program, Lee B. Vartanian
Dissertation: The Influence of Teacher Preparation Programs on Student Achievement and the Use of NCTM Standards and Principles in Middle School and High School Algebra I Classrooms, Denelle L. Wallace
Dissertation: Bio-Optical Properties of the Arctic Waters: Empirical and Theoretical Observations, Jian Wang
Dissertation: Models, Composability, and Validity, Eric Werner Weisel
Thesis: Source Identification of Ammonia Inputs to the Wastewater Treatment Holding Pond at International Paper Franklin Mill, Melissa Riddick Wolford
Thesis: An Examination of Relationships of Reading and Writing Self-Efficacy Beliefs, Standardized Placement Test Scores, and Diverse Community College Students' Perceptions of Those Relationships, Ann Woolford-Singh
Dissertation: Electrical Breakdown in Polar Liquids, Shu Xiao
Dissertation: Field Effect Control of Electrokinetic Transport Phenomena in Nanofluidics, Song Xue
Thesis: Performance of Constraint-Handling Techniques Applied to a Genetic Algorithm-Based Watershed Management Model, Kwisun Park Yu
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Dissertation: Optimization-Based Architecture for Managing Complex Integrated Product Development Projects, Hisham Mohamed El-Sayed AbdelSalam
Dissertation: Numerical Studies on Supersonic Mixing and Combustion Phenomena, Tarek M. Abdel-Salam
Dissertation: Overreaction, Heteroscedasticity, and Spillovers in Stock Returns: Evidence From the Kuwait Stock Exchange, Mohammad Yousef Al-Hashel
Dissertation: Developing a Methodology to Detect Partial Failures for Dynamic Systems, Anwar A. Al-jowder
Dissertation: Geographic Variation in the Morphology of Crotalus horridus (Serpentes: Viperidae), John Robert Allsteadt
Dissertation: Generalized Predictive Control of Ship Coupling Motions Using Active Flume Tanks, Abdulkarim Mohammed Alotaiwi
Dissertation: Optimal Feedback Control for Ship Roll Motion Under Sea States, Anusit Anmanatarkul
Dissertation: The Ecological Ramifications of Disease and Density in the Caribbean Spiny Lobster, Panulirus argus, Donald C. Behringer Jr.
Thesis: Characterization of SPY1600 A Putative Hyaluronidase Gene in Group A Streptococci, Karin M. Berling
Thesis: It Does Take a Village to Raise a Child, Rebecca J. Boyd
Dissertation: Measurement of Proton Transfer Reaction Rates in a Microwave Cavity Discharge Flowing Afterglow, George M. Brooke IV
Dissertation: Market Valuation of Corporate Diversification in the Presence of Internal Capital Markets in Emerging Countries, Supannee Buasook
Thesis: “A Midsummer Night's Dream”: A Director's Notebook, Natasha Bunnell
Thesis: A Longitudinal Metric Study of PostgreSQL Software Archeology in Open Source, Terry Franklin Byrum
Dissertation: Predictors of Oral Health Behaviors: Examining the Effect of Patient Perceived Humanistic Attitude in the Context of the Health Belief Model, Linda Leigh Hawkins Carroll
Dissertation: An Examination of Personality as a Predictor of Guard Behavior in a Virtual Environment, Jean M. Catanzaro
Thesis: Sibling Death in Childhood: An Evaluation of the Literature Regarding Inclusion of Minority Cultures, 1990–2002, Joyce Kay L. Cherry
Dissertation: Development of an Aggregation Methodology for Risk Analysis in Aerospace Conceptual Vehicle Design, Trina Marsh Chytka
Thesis: Numerical Study of Two-Dimensional Secondary Injection Into a Mach 3.5 Freestream, Stephen C. Coghill
Dissertation: Calibrating Expert Assessments of Advanced Aerospace Technology Adoption Impact, Bruce A. Conway
Dissertation: A Statistical Evaluation of Risk Priority Numbers in Failure Modes and Effects Analysis Applied to the Prediction of Complex Systems, Anthony W. Dean
Thesis: Dissolved Humic Substances: Characterization of their Sorption onto Iron Hydroxide Aluminum Hydroxide Kaolinite and Smectite, Sarah E. Diebel
Dissertation: Field Emission Based Sensors Using Carbon Nanotubes, Changkun Dong
Dissertation: A Forward-Backward Fluence Model for the Low-Energy Neutron Boltzmann Equation, Gary Alan Feldman
Dissertation: The Contribution of Enactments to Structural Family Therapy: A Process Study, Stephanie Fellenberg
Dissertation: Examining the Equivalence of Rater Groups in 360-Degree Feedback for Use in Leadership Development, Amy Fitzgibbons
Dissertation: Nucleon-Nucleon Spin Dependent Scattering Amplitudes to Describe Final State Interactions in Electromagnetic and Electroweak Nuclear Processes, William P. Ford
Thesis: Population Mobility High-Risk Environments and the Diffusion of HIV/STDS: A Community Based Study in Southwest China, Hongyun Fu
Thesis: War at Home Spouse Abuse in Military Families, Carrie L. Gray
Dissertation: Identifying the Dimensions of Integrity: A Confirmatory and Discriminant Validity Analysis, Arlene Pace Green
Dissertation: United States Diplomacy in the Age of the Internet, Allison S. Greene
Dissertation: Photonic Crystals: Modeling and Simulation, Shangping Guo
Dissertation: A Framework of Cooperating Agents Hierarchies for Local-Area Mobility Support, Ayman Adel Abdel Hamid
Thesis: Social Disorganization Theory: Examining the Mediating Effects of Social Ties and Disorder on Crime, Matasha L. Harris
Thesis: Male Reproductive Dynamics in the Caribbean Spiny Lobster Panulirus Argus, Jamie S. Heisig
Dissertation: Characterization of Mouse Prostate Tumor-Infiltrating Leukocytes, Daniel Alan Holterman
Dissertation: The Quantitative Assessment of Osteoinductivity of Human Demineralized Bone Matrix and cDNA Array Analysis of Osteogenic Differentiation in Human Periosteal Cells, Sittisak Honsawek
Thesis: The Effects of a Modified Gantt Chart Depicting Schedule Risk, Joseph Allen Hope
Dissertation: Two Dimensional Numerical Simulation of Highly-Strained Hydrogen-Air Opposed Jet Laminar Diffusion Flames, Kyu C. Hwang
Dissertation: Corporate Diversification and Stock Returns, Tatiana Isakovski
Dissertation: Multi-Symplectic Integrators for Nonlinear Wave Equations, Alvaro Lucas Islas
Dissertation: New Approaches to Gortler and Tollmien-Schlichting Boundary-Layer Instabilities, Vijay Kalburgi
Dissertation: Shock Wave Dispersion in Weakly Ionized Gas, Prasong Kessaratikoon
Dissertation: Event Based Retrieval From Digital Libraries Containing Data Streams, Mohamed Hamed Kholief
Dissertation: Coherent Backscattering of Light From an Ultra Cold Gas of Rubidium-85 Atoms, Pasad B. Kulatunga
Thesis: Real-Time Study of Multidrug Resistance Mechanism in Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Using Nanoparticle Optics and Single Live Cell Imaging, Sophia Vasou Kyriacou
Dissertation: Dynamics of Phase Transitions on Low-Index Metal Surfaces, Bo Lin
Dissertation: The Relationship Between Non-Completers' Decisions to Leave Certificate Programs Before Earning Certificates and Their Career Goals, Elizabeth M. Lohman