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 2010
Dissertation: Exploring Entrepreneurialism in Community Colleges in the Appalachian Region, Sharon Lynn Hatfield
Dissertation: Perceptions of Virginia Community College System Faculty and Administrators on the Purposes for and Composition of a Comprehensive Evaluation System for Teaching Faculty Members, William H. Hightower Jr.
Dissertation: Academic Engagement: The Impact of Personal, Cultural, and School Factors on African American Student Academic Effort, Ruth Alisha Jenkins Hill
Thesis: User-Generated Video Sites Effects on Aggression and Interpersonal Relations of Old Dominion Undergraduate Students, Christopher R. Hodge
Thesis: Understanding the Relationship Between Peer Mentoring and Undergraduate Capitalization, Jonathan M. Holland
Thesis: Understanding the Relationship Between Peer Mentoring and Undergraduate Capitalization, Jonathan M. Holland
Dissertation: Urban Elementary Students' Views of Environmental Scientists, Environmental Caretakers and Environmentally Responsible Behaviors, Patricia Lynne Horne
Thesis: Multi-Element Airfoil Optimization Using Computational Fluid Dynamics, Mustafa Kubilay Ictuzer
Dissertation: Semi-Parametric Likelihood Functions for Bivariate Survival Data, S. H. Sathish Indika
Dissertation: A GIS Analysis of the Environmental Variables Related to Rift Valley Fever Outbreaks, Jacqueline Florette Jackson
Thesis: A Novel Piezoelectric Device with Dual Functions of Studying Biological Soft Tissues, Avin A. Jamadagni
Thesis: Electric Field Analysis in Insulating Films for Complex Electrode Systems, Anusha Jambula
Dissertation: Multi-Scale Edge Detection Algorithms and Their Information-Theoretic Analysis in the Context of Visual Communication, Bo Jiang
Dissertation: Organization of Human Sperm Chromosomes During Pronuclei Formation, Estella Jones
Thesis: Development and Validation of a Measure: Preventive Coping with Work-Family Conflict, Meghan P. Jones
Thesis: Dispersion of Cytotoxic Properties of Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Suspended in Biological Solutions with Tween 80: Their Role in Enhancing Killing Effects of Nanosecond Pulse Electric Fields on Tumor Cell Lines, Bhargava S. Kalluri
Dissertation: Factors That Influence Learning Satisfaction Delivered by Video Streaming Technology, Daniel Stephen Keenan
Thesis: The Gender Representation of Ph.D. Departments in Sociology: A Comparative Analysis of Top 30 Ranked and Bottom 30 Ranked Departments in 1992 and 2002, Green Kim
Dissertation: Impacts of the Spotted Spiny Lobster (Panulirus guttatus) on the Long-Spined Sea Urchin (Diadema antillarum) and Patch Reef Communities in the Florida Keys, Meredith D. Kintzing
Dissertation: A Phenomenological Exploration of School Counselors' Conceptualization and Implementation of Multicultural Competence, Jasmine Knight
Thesis: Modeling and Analysis of Low Earth Orbit Satellite and Ground Station Data Exchange Topology, Ersin Kocoglu
Dissertation: Relationship Between Membership in DECA, An Association of Marketing Students, and Grade Point Average as an Indicator of Academic Success, Michael Frederick Kosloski Jr.
Thesis: How to Improve Project Management for Agile Federation Development, Priyanka Kotikalpudi
Dissertation: Doubling NATO: Functional and Geographical Enlargement of the Alliance, Ergodan Kurt
Dissertation: Counselor Attitudes Toward the Harm Reduction Approach in Substance Abuse Treatment, Nicole Marie Kyser
Thesis: Coping with Work-Life Conflict: Antecedents to Seeking Policy-Based and Individually Negotiated Accommodations, Heather M. Lauzun
Dissertation: Questions of Transfer: Writers' Perspective on Familiar/Unfamiliar Writing tasks in a Capstone Writing Course, Heather G. Lettner-Rust
Thesis: The Executable Command in Support of Scheduled Subroutine Calls, Andrew Scott Lewis
Dissertation: Mathematical Models and Stability Analysis of Cholera Dynamics, Shu Liao
Dissertation: Patient Centered Care Approach to Adherence with Cardiovascular Medications: Self-Determination Theory Integration, David S. Li
Thesis: Merging Schemas in a Collaborative Faceted Classification System, Jianxiang Li
Dissertation: An Examination of the Reading First Program at a Southeastern Virginia Elementary School and the Impact on K–2 Student Reading Achievement, Leslie Ford Lippard
Thesis: American and Chinese Personality Traits and Task Load in Simulated Flight Crews: Individual and Team Level Effects, Matthew Edward Loesch
Thesis: American and Chinese Personality Traits and Task Load in Simulated Flight Crews: Individual and Team Level Effects, Matthew Edward Loesch
Dissertation: A Phenomenological Study of Children's Experiences While Families Receive Services From a Homeless Agency, Sonya Lorelle
Thesis: The Effects of Two Types of Fatigue on an Unanticipated Side-Step Cutting Task as Measured by Kinematic and Kinetic Variables, Shawn E. Lucci
Thesis: Using Micro-Simulation to Evaluate Transit Signal Priority for LRT Operations in A Downtown Environment, Faisal Mahmud
Thesis: Prediction of Shock Diamonds and Mach Disk in an Under-Expanded Air Jet, Praveen D. Malali
Dissertation: Evidence-Based Practice in Undergraduate Athletic Training Education, Sarah A. Manspeaker
Thesis: Comparison of Ice Core Dissolved Organic Matter from a Greenland Ice Core by Nanospray Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry, Joshua Jeremiah Shiloh Marsh
Dissertation: Oxygen Isotopes as a Tracer of DOM Processes in River-Estuary Systems, Joy Ashley Matthews
Dissertation: The Relationship Among Counselor Demographic, Training, and Employment Variables and Self-Reported Multicultural and Gerontological Counseling Competence, Rebecca G. McBride
Thesis: The Effects of an Anterior Cruciate Ligament Prevention Program and Retention Period on Lower Extremity Biomechanics, Ryan S. McCann
Dissertation: Canonical Correlation Analysis for Longitudinal Data, Raymond McCollum
Dissertation: Maturing International Cooperation to Address the Cyberspace Attack Attribution Problem, Jeff J. McNeil
Dissertation: Adjunct Faculty Organizational Sense of Belonging and Affective Organizational Commitment, Constance L. Merriman
Dissertation: Ecological Interactions Between Spiders and the Purple Pitcher Plant, Sarracenia purpurea, Marc Aaron Milne
Dissertation: Simultaneous Higher Harmonic Detection and Extraction of Information From Oxygen Spectra, Karan Dineshchandra Mohan
Thesis: Selective Phase-Based De-Weathering (SPDW), Christopher Morris
Dissertation: Trace Metal Biogeochemistry in the Western North Pacific, Peter Lynn Morton
Dissertation: A Study of Passive Earth Pressure in Anisotropic Sand with Various Wall Movement Modes, Achmad Bakri Muhiddin
Dissertation: What Is Influencing Financially-Driven Shareholder Activism in the US and UK—Principal-Agent or Principal-Principal Problems?, Maureen I. Muller-Kahle
Thesis: XPath-Based Template Language for Describing the Placement of Metadata within a Document, Vijay Kumar Musham
Dissertation: Analysis of Helicopter Downwash/Frigate Airwake Interaction Using Statistically Designed Experiments, Yavuz Nacakli
Thesis: Simulation of Temperature Distributions in Tissue Upon Laser Pulse Irradiation Including Water Mass Transfer, Deepthi Nagulapally
Thesis: Action Recognition Based on Multi-Level Representation of 3D Shape, Binu M. Nair
Thesis: Economic Optimization of Offshore Wind Farms Using the Geometric Algorithm, Mahidhar Nandigam
Dissertation: Post-Processing Techniques and Wavelet Applications for Hammerstein Integral Equations, Khomsan Neamprem
Thesis: Cooperative Strategies on Parallel Tracks: The NEPAD and AGOA Initiatives, Guelmbaye Ngarsandje
Thesis: Electroencephalogram Artifact Removal Using a Wavelet Neural Network, Hoang-Anh T. Nguyen
Dissertation: Intergenerational Conflict Between Emerging Adults and Their Parents in Asian American Families, Kathy Nguyen
Dissertation: The Effects of Cooperative and Collaborative Strategies on Student Achievement and Satisfaction in Blended and Online Learning Environments, Christine E. Nickel
Dissertation: Beyond the Born Approximation: A Precise Comparison of e+p and e-p Elastic Scattering in the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS), Megh Raj Niroula
Dissertation: The Relationship Between Leader Behaviors and Subordinate Performance: Examining the Moderating Influence of Leader-Member Exchange, Kurt L. Oborn
Thesis: Domestic Violence and Recidivism: Does Stake in Conformity Matter?, Sara R. Olson
Dissertation: Solution Approximation for Atmospheric Flight Dynamics Using Volterra Theory, Ashraf Mohammed Kandeel Omran
Dissertation: Towards a Theory of Understanding within Problem Situations, Jose J. Padilla
Thesis: Phosphorus Uptake in Rhodomonas salina (Wislouch) and Its Effect on Allocation and Elimination in Acartia tonsa (Dana), Danna Palladino
Thesis: Dog Parks: An Application of Place Attachment Theory, Andrew Pariser
Thesis: Freight Transportation Analysis Comparison of Short Sea Shipping to Conventional Transportation Modes, Vishwesh Vilas Parkhi
Dissertation: Nuclear Electromagnetic Currents in Chiral Effective Field Theory, Saori Pastore
Thesis: A Neighborhood Dependent Nonlinear Technique for Enhancement of Color Images Captured Under Non-Uniform Lighting Conditions, Rupal Patel
Dissertation: Student Perceptions of Campus Safety Within the Virginia Community College System, Robert Chad Patton
Thesis: Analysis of FEMA Guidelines for Coastal Dunes Using a Numerical Model, Brenton Edward Payne
Dissertation: Hybrid Intelligent Optimization Methods for Engineering Problems, Yasin Volkan Pehlivanoglu
Dissertation: The Utilization of a Computer Assisted Guidance System in Academic Advising, Charles Van Vleck Pfautz
Thesis: Nanoindentation Creep Analysis for A Spherical Indenter, Phani K. Praturi
Dissertation: The Association Between Parental Perceptions of Children's Residential Mental Health Treatment and the Parent-Child Relationship, Susanne Elizabeth Preston
Thesis: Molecular Characterization of The Soluble Fraction of Atmospheric Particulate Matter Obtained by Chemical Oxidation With Nitric Acid, Amanda Susan Priest
Thesis: The Correlation Between Visual Observations and Inclinometric Measurements for Special Tests Related to Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome, Erin Quada
Thesis: The Effects of Two Different Fatigue Protocols on Lower Extremity Kinematics and Kinetics During an Unanticipated Running Stop-Jump, David L. Quammen
Dissertation: Predictors of Developmental Screenings for Young Children, Janice Chandler Ranne
Dissertation: Transmitter Optimization in Multiuser Wireless Systems with Quality of Service Constraints, Danda B. Rawat
Dissertation: Modeling Decision Making Related to Incident Delays During Hurricane Evacuations, Robert Michael Robinson
Dissertation: Examining the Impact of Leadership Style and School Climate on Student Achievement, Tina Robinson
Dissertation: Fat Talk Between Friends: Co-Rumination About Physical Appearance, Jonathan A. Rudiger
Dissertation: The Tale of Two Narratives: NATO as a Collective Defense and a Collective Security Institution, Anna M. Rulska
Dissertation: Analysis of Wake Vortices of a Medium Range Twin-Propeller Military Cargo Aircraft Using Statistically Designed Experiments, Burhan Sahin
Thesis: A Test of the Area of Refuge Hypothesis in Indo-Pacific Marine Biogeography, Jonnell C. Sanciangco
Thesis: Electric Field Computation of Wet Insulating Surfaces, Bhargavi Sarang
Thesis: Shelter: Stories of the Tragic and Joyful Young Men of a South African Shelter, Jesse Scaccia
Dissertation: Integrated Water Resources Management: A Theoretical Exploration of the Implementation Gap Between the Developed and Developing Worlds, Jennifer S. Schiff
Dissertation: Experience and Regulation of Positive Emotions as Predictors of Anxiety and Depression in Adolescents and Children, Ann Schlegelmilch
Dissertation: Turbulent Flow Studies of a Scaled Model of a Large Mining Truck - Computations and Experiment, Wayne Randolph Sexton
Thesis: Interisland Variability of Dune Plant Community Structure on Virginia's Barrier Islands, Justin K. Shafer
Thesis: A Differential Absorption Model for Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Pressure, Shivam J. Shah
Dissertation: Austerity, Abundance, and the Investor States: The Political Economy of Sovereign Wealth Funds, Manda Shemirani
Dissertation: Ecological and Genetic Status of the Purple Pitcher Plant, Sarracenia purpurea L., in Maryland and Virginia, Philip M. Sheridan
Dissertation: Inpatient Group Psychotherapy: Predicting Attendance and Participation, Sharon E. Silverberg
Dissertation: A Hierarchical Examination of the Immigrant Achievement Gap: The Additional Explanatory Power of Nationality and Educational Selectivity Over Traditional Explorations of Race and Socioeconomic Status, Kathryn A. Simms