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: Dr. Thomas Walker's Influence on Thomas Jefferson's Lewis and Clark Expedition, Kari Kemper Tudor
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
Thesis: Differences in VO2 Between Kickboxing and Treadmill Exercise at Similar Heart Rates, Lisa Dawn Wingfield
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
Thesis: The Reliability of the Computer Communication Networks Including Mobile Nodes, Sahin Yasar
Thesis: Reversing Ticket Based Probing (RTBP) Routing for MANET, Turgut Yucel
Thesis: TUQR: A Topology Unaware QOS Routing Protocol for Manets, Ibrahim Zagli
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
Thesis: Applying a Simulation-Based Real-Time Decision Making Method to Mass Casualty Scenarios in Hospital Emergency Departments, Fatemah Al-Douli
Thesis: Modeling and Simulation of Silicon Photonic Crystals Effect of Oxidation and Etching, G. M. Haider Ali
Dissertation: Overreaction, Seasonality and Relationship Among Middle East and North Africa National Stock Markets, Yaser A. Al-Kulaib
Thesis: Mobility-Pattern Based Localization Update Algorithm for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks, Mohammad Yacoub Al-laho
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: Downward Comparison as an Intervention to Lower Self-Reported Risk-Taking Behaviors, John P. Barile
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
Thesis: Monte Carlo Simulation Analysis of Electron Bombardment of Gallium Nitride for Particle Detector Applications, James Gibson Bolitho
Thesis: Image Compression by Vector Quantization of DCT Coefficients Using a Self-Organizing Neural Network, Kirankumar Boyapati
Thesis: Support for A Delivery Train Based Material Handling Mechanism, Sai P. Boyedapu
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: Using Signal Detection Theory to Examine the Effects of Workload and Likelihood Displays on Human Responses to Alarms, Ernesto A. Bustamante
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
Thesis: Lower Extremity Motion Analysis Patterns During Various Foot-Landing Styles, Nelson Cortes
Dissertation: A Systems Methodology for Measuring Operational Organization Effectiveness: A Study of the Original Equipment Computer Manufacturing Industry, 1948 to 2001, Teddy Steven Cotter
Thesis: Child Psychological Abuse Sexual Attitudes and Sexual Satisfaction: An Examination of Disclosure Gender and Perpetrator Relationship Differences, Natasha Coy
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
Thesis: Programmable Process Flow Networks, Filip D. Cuckov
Thesis: A Family Systems Approach to Substance Misuse: An Examination of Risk and Protective Factors, Jennifer Anne Cutchin
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
Thesis: Feeding Behavior and Conditioning in Two Heterotrophic Dinoflagellates, Todd A. Egerton
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
Thesis: The Sharper Image: Bringing Irish Nationalist Identity Into Focus, 1880-1923, Meghan M. Ferriter
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: 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
Dissertation: Shape Memory Alloy Applications on Control of Thermal Buckling, Panel Flutter and Random Vibration of Composite Panels, Xinyun Guo
Dissertation: Tumor Response TCF-4/β-Catenin Regulatory Elements for Enhancing Cancer Gene Therapies, Saurabh Kumar Gupta
Thesis: The Link Between Corporal Punishment and Teen Pregnancy, Jennifer M. Hagberg
Thesis: Lost in Translation: Decoding Rabelais, E. Ashley Hall
Thesis: The Determinants of Academic Performance of African American Males, Marvin K. Hall
Thesis: Electromagnetic Propagation Prediction Inside Aircraft Cabins, Genevieve Hankins
Thesis: Electromagnetic Propagation Prediction Inside Aircraft Cabins, Genevieve Hankins
Thesis: Factors Influencing the Decision to Disclose After Sexual Assault, Courtney A. Hanley
Thesis: Opal: In Vivo Based Preservation Framework for Locating Lost Web Pages, Terry L. Harrison
Thesis: Creating Software [Sic] Environments on an M-Node Beowulf Cluster to Execute Discrete-Event Simulations, Jermaine Fitz-Gerald Headley
Dissertation: Multi-National Project Team Communications and Cultural Influences, Morgan E. Henrie
Thesis: Development and Application of a GG-IRMS Reductive Pyrolysis Reactor Interface for the δ34S Determination of Sulfur in Individual Organic Compounds, N. Deborah Hewlett
Thesis: Availability of Emotional Support, Conflictual Interactions, and Coping as Predictors of Adherence and Affect in Individuals with Diabetes, Misty D. Hixon
Dissertation: The Application of a System of Systems Analysis to Assessments of National Power, George T. Hodermarsky
Thesis: Coping and Depressive Symptoms in Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis, Scott W. Huffman
Thesis: Implementation of Problem-Based Learning in Senior Engineering Design-I (ECE 485W), Fawaz Muzaffer Hussain
Dissertation: Cultural Competence and Curricula in Physical Therapist Professional Education, Beth Ernst Jamali
Dissertation: Correlation and Causes of Fifth Order Cycles Within the Upper Cretaceous Eagle Formation, Bighorn Basin of Wyoming, Kimberly Ann Johnson
Thesis: Effects of a Wilderness Orientation Program on Student Expectations of Adjustment to College, Emily Anne Joyner
Thesis: Interannual Variation of Stratification in Lower Chesapeake Bay, Christopher S. Katzenmiller
Thesis: Robust and Efficient Localization Techniques for Cellular and Wireless Sensor Networks, Haseebulla M. Khan
Dissertation: Factors That Influence Mammography Use of Community Health Workers, Cynthia M. Kratzke
Thesis: Corporal Punishment and Its Relation to Race Psychological Well-Being and Parental Relationship, Michelle P. Kravitz
Thesis: Corporal Punishment and Its Relation to Race, Psychological Well-Being, and Parental Relationship, Michelle P. Kravitz
Thesis: Rapid Prototyping for the Design of Virtual Worlds, Prabhu V. Krishnan
Dissertation: The Antitumor Agent, Arglabin-DMA, Preferentially Induces Apoptosis in Human Colon Tumor Cells, Sung Wook Kwon
Dissertation: Factors Predicting Teacher Satisfaction and Retention in the Hampton City Schools Teacher Induction Program, Gale A. Lee
Thesis: Morphological and Molecular Defects in Zebrafish Embryos (Danio rerio) After Chromated Copper Arsenate Exposure, Kerry Jean Lee
Thesis: Variation in the Fluorescence of Green Fluorescent Protein in Various Strains of Escherichia Coli, Paul R. LeTellier Jr.
Thesis: Active Control of Large Amplitude Nonlinear Free Vibrations and Nonlinear Supersonic Panel Flutter of Beams and Composite Plates Using Piezoelectric Self-Sensing Actuators, Qinqin Li
Dissertation: The Great Pestilence: Yellow Fever in Portsmouth, Virginia, 1855, Burden Susan Lundgren
Dissertation: A Comparison of Anonymous E-Peer Review Versus Identifiable E-Peer Review on College Student Writing Performance and Learning Satisfaction, Ruiling Lu
Dissertation: Grand Strategy Analysis: A Proto-Theoretical Approach, Patrick Magee
Dissertation: Statistical Analysis of Longitudinal and Multivariate Discrete Data, Deepak Mav
Thesis: Natural and Synthetic Viniferins Associated with the Grapevine Disease Young Vine Decline, David Michael McGinnis
Thesis: The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Growth, Unemployment, and Poverty in Bangladesh, Maha Z. Mirza
Thesis: Theta Activity During Navigation in Virtual Environments, Colleen Margaret Moore