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 1999
Dissertation: Factors Which Affect Post-Hospital Resource Use and Patient Health Outcomes Among Taiwanese Older Adults, Chouh-Jiaun Lin
Dissertation: First Mover Advantage: An Industrial Buyer Behavioral Perspective, Howard G. Ling
Thesis: Two Approaches to Critical Path Scheduling for a Heterogeneous Environment, Guangxia Liu
Thesis: The Effects of Offshore Mining of Beach Quality Sediments on Nearshore Wave Climate, Frank R. Lonza
Thesis: Henri IV as Military Commander, Terence W. Loveridge
Dissertation: Efficient Dynamic Unstructured Methods and Applications for Transonic Flows and Hypersonic Stage Separation, Xiaobing Luo
Thesis: Cultural Adaptability of Students Attending Culturally Diverse and Non-Culturally Diverse Dental Hygiene Programs, Katrina White Magee
Dissertation: African American Community Mental Health Center Service Utilization: A Test of the Cultural Compatibility Hypothesis, Alicia Michelle Marsh
Dissertation: An Empirical Investigation Into Significant Factors of Moral Reasoning and Their Influences on Ethical Judgment and Intentions, Janet K. Mullen Marta
Dissertation: The Effects of School Uniforms on Student Behavior and Perceptions in an Urban Middle School, Jacqueline M. McCarty
Thesis: Daughters of Charity: Catholic Women and Their Communities in Antebellum America, Linda Merritt McCubbins
Dissertation: Stratal Architecture in a Prograding Shoreface Deposit, Eastern Shore, VA: Relationship to Grain Size, Permeability, and Facies Distribution, Andrew C. Miller
Dissertation: Work-Life Role Integration: A Construct Validation Study, Tonya Alicia Miller
Thesis: Television, Low Self-Control, and Deviance: Examining Basic Elements of Gottfredson and Hirschi's General Theory of Crime, Moises O. Mina Jr.
Dissertation: The Effects of Group Counseling on the Self-Esteem, Anxiety, and Behavior of Children with Deployed Parents, Nancy Taylor Mitchum
Dissertation: Needle Localization for Breast Biopsy: The Patient's Experience, Marian De Walt Morgan
Dissertation: Virtual Compton Scattering Processes in Quantum Chromodynamics, Igor V. Musatov
Thesis: Development of Baseline Water Quality Stormwater Detention Pond Model for Chesapeake Bay Catchments, William J. Musico
Thesis: An Exploratory Study of the Correlates of Drug Use Among Juveniles: Analysis of Regional Variations in the United States, Denise D. Nation
Thesis: When Officers Get the "Blues": Factors That May Determine Which Officer Is More Inclined to Feel Job Stress, Olivia Poppy Nelson
Dissertation: A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Multicultural Education on the Racial Attitudes of Pre-K Through Grade 12 Students: A Comparison of Curricular Intervention and Reinforcement Dimensions in Suburban and Urban Educational Settings, Ogochukwu Nkeiruka N. Okoye-Johnson
Thesis: Factors That Affect Recidivism of Offenders on Electronic Monitoring in Norfolk, Virginia, Michael P. O'Toole
Dissertation: Jet Stability and Noise Computations Using Direct Numerical Simulation, Farouk Owis
Thesis: Sexual Harassment in the Virginia Dental Hygiene Profession, Anne Pennington
Dissertation: Growth and Yield-Per-Recruit Modeling of Spot (Leiostomus xanthurus) in the Chesapeake Bay, and a Comparison of Biological Reference Points, Kevin Ray Piner
Thesis: Gender Roles Presented in Children's Literature: A Random Selection and Analysis of Non-Award Winning Books, Renae M. Poarch
Dissertation: Organizational Change Theory and the Factors for Sustaining Change: A Case Study of Three Public Sector Organizations Winners of the Virginia Award for Continuing Excellence, Mary Redd-Clay
Thesis: The Middle East in World Affairs Understanding Iran's Changing Transnational and International Role, Marla Renfro
Dissertation: An Evaluation of an Urban Community College Single Parent and Displaced Homemaker Program, Linda Myers Rice
Dissertation: Multidisciplinary Sensitivity Analysis and Design Optimization of Flexible Wings Using the Euler Equations on Unstructured Grids, Arunkumar Satyanarayana
Dissertation: Factors Which Contribute to Successful Schools for Disadvantaged Students: An Exploratory Case Study of Two Urban Elementary Schools in Norfolk, Virginia, Lula Saunders Sawyer
Thesis: The Impact of Resident and Transient Predators on the Popultation Dynamics of Juvenile Caribbean Spiny Lobster (Panulirus Argus) in Florida Bay, Florida, Jason Edward Schratwieser
Dissertation: Ocean Surface Maps From Blending Disparate Data Through Normal Mode Analysis, William John Schulz Jr.
Dissertation: A Family of Hierarchical Encoding Techniques for Image and Video Communications, Samah A. Senbel
Dissertation: Psychological Influencers of a Consumer's Innovative Propensity: A Cross-Cultural Examination, Angela D' Auria Stanton
Dissertation: An Analysis of Practicum Student Attitudes in Urban Professional Development School and Urban Traditional School Programs, Ira Carroll Starling
Thesis: Computer Crime: Software Piracy Among College Students, Stephanie E. Stockdale
Thesis: Humic Substances as Interferences in the Analysis of Nitrite in Water, Stephanie Ann Tebault
Thesis: Benchmarking Financial Operations Using the Premier Operations Outlook Database, Margaret M. Thompson
Dissertation: Factors That Affect African-American Enrollment in Urban Agricultural Degree Programs in the Commonwealth of Virginia, Thomas Earl Tracy
Thesis: Comparative study of Economic Adjustment and Housing Quality of Migrants and Natives in the State of Virginia, Bayram Unal
Thesis: The Influence of Extra-Legal Factors on the Sentencing of Drug Offenders in a Determinant Sentencing State, Ramonsa D. White
Thesis: A Study of the Seasonal Composition and Abundance of Phytoplankton and Autotrophic Picoplankton in a Brackish Water Lake in Portsmouth Virginia, Jennifer Leigh Wolny
Dissertation: Identification and Characterization of Determinants of Head and Neck Tumor Cell Invasion, Yangguan Wu
Dissertation: Exploring Participation Processes for Technology Development: Case studies of Biotechnology Research and Development Projects in Thailand, Omjai Yuktavetya
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
Dissertation: Effect of Pulsed Electric Fields on Aquatic Nuisance Species, Amr Abou-Ghazala
Thesis: Why Do Not All Separatist Movements Aim for Secession? The Cases of Chechnia and Tatarstan, Mesut Acar
Dissertation: Vortex Wake and Exhaust Plume Interaction, Including Ground Effect, Ihab Gaber Adam
Dissertation: Market Reaction to Seasoned Equity Offerings: The Relevance of Leverage, Growth Opportunities, and Corporate Structure, Mojib U. Ahmed
Dissertation: Studies on the Biology of Striga aspera (Scrophulariaceae) in Nigeria, Emmanuel Izaka Aigbokhan
Thesis: The Effect of Floor Sitting Posture on Low-back Pain, Knee Pain and Hip Pain Among Kuwaiti Men, Sameera H. Al-Jedi
Dissertation: Field Emission and Breakdown Processes in Vacuum Gaps with SiO(X)-Coated Cathodes, Raymond Jack Allen III
Thesis: Explosive Vapor Generation and Sampling in Conjunction with Ion Mobility Spectrometry, Saeed H. Almeer
Thesis: Patellofemoral Joint Compressive Forces During Backward and Forward Running at the Same Speed, Hesham N. Alrowayeh
Thesis: Oral Health Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors of Qatari People, Najat Abdrabbo J. Saleh Al-Salahi
Dissertation: A Hierarchical Filtering-Based Monitoring Architecture for Large-scale Distributed Systems, Ehab Salem Al-Shaer
Thesis: Shoreline Change Modeling as a Tool in Coastal Environmental Management, Jorge Espinoza Amaguana
Dissertation: Measurement of Hospital Performance: Environmental and Organizational Factors Associated with Cost, Debra Kay Dierksmeier Anderson
Dissertation: Measuring and Evaluating Sales Force Training Effectiveness: A Proposed and an Empirically Tested Model, Ashraf Magdy Attia
Dissertation: Retracing Gender Bias and the Validity of Believed Differences Between Male and Female Coaches of Women's Basketball, Melissa Baile
Dissertation: Analyzing the Effects of Display Characteristics and Cognitive Variables on Performance Using Keystroke and Eye Movement Data, Orhan E. Beckman
Dissertation: Mathematical Models of Tumors and Their Remote Metastases, Carryn Bellomo
Dissertation: The Influence of Model Features on Goodness-of-Fit Indices: Choosing Indices to Evaluate Your Model, Andrea E. Berndt
Thesis: Architectural Optimization of Digital Libraries, Aileen O. Biser
Dissertation: Three Essays on European Union Advances Toward a Single Currency and Its Implications for Business and Investors, Charlotte Anne Bond
Dissertation: Thermodynamic Modeling and Analysis of Human Stress Responses, Satish C. Boregowda
Thesis: The Effect of Jogging on Anterior Knee Laxity After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction, Fawzi F. Bouzubar
Dissertation: Non-Volatile Dissolved Organic Iodine in Marine Water, Xianhao Cheng
Dissertation: Expression, Isolation and Purification of Human Zona Pellucida Protein 3, Ting-Fung Chi
Dissertation: Predicting Academic Success of Entering Freshmen at an Urban University Through the Assessment of Oral and Written Language Competency, Karen D. Cobbs
Thesis: Determination of the N-Terminal Amino Acid Residues on Polypeptides in Secondary Wastewaters, Edward L. Creecy
Dissertation: Ecology of the Eastern Cottonmouth (Agkistrodon p. piscivorus) at Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge: A Comparative Study of Natural and Anthropogenic Marsh Habitats, Chad Lee Cross
Thesis: Evaluation of Airport Operating Efficiencies Using Data Envelopment Analysis, Scott Andrew Cummings
Thesis: A Two Dimensional Distributed Hydrological Model for Infiltrating Watersheds with Channel Networks, Donald Lee Currey
Dissertation: Relative Gains Problem and Case Studies of Economic Cooperation in East Asia, Ping Deng
Thesis: Changes in Small Mammal Community Attributes Associated with Increasing Pine Stand Age in Managed Pine Plantations in Southeastern Virginia, James Douglas Dolan
Thesis: Effect of Sampling Errors on Estimates of Recruitment and Fishing Mortality from Separable Virtual Population Analysis, Emmanis Dorval
Thesis: Developmental and Hormonal Regulation of the Expression of Cytosolic Phospholipase A2 Protein Levels in Baboon Placenta, Kathleen Elizabeth Dunstan
Dissertation: An Alternative Method for Determining Adjusted Function Points as the Basis for Software Cost Estimating, William Alexander Eldred
Dissertation: Microhollow Cathode Discharge Excimer Lamps, Ahmed El-Habachi
Thesis: A Needs Assessment for a Distance Education Baccalaureate Degree Completion Program for Associate Degree Level Dental Hygienist, Joan Gugino Ellison
Thesis: A Study of Child Abuse: Race Gender and Family Structure, Linda Wyatt Faircloth
Dissertation: A Discovery-Oriented Process Study of Enactment in Family Therapy: Development of the Family Therapy Enactment Rating Scale, Elizabeth Ong-Mythuan Fong
Dissertation: Meta-Ethnographic Development of a Dialogue Methodology Applied to Organization Discourse, Shelley P. Gallup
Thesis: Communication to Reduce Embarrassment Between Individualistic and Collectivistic Cultures, Puvana Ganesan
Dissertation: Study of Human Factors Variables in Battle Outcome Prediction Models, David Andrew Glovier
Thesis: Assessing Levels of Cooperation Between PACE and Patrol Officers in the City of Norfolk Virginia Police Department, Michael G. Goldsmith
Dissertation: Urban University Adjunct Faculty Perceptions of Professional Development Needs, Merodie Anne Hancock
Thesis: Difficulties in Diplomacy: A Case Study of Relations Between the United States and the Republic of Congo, 1960-1965, James R. Hawn Jr.
Dissertation: Error-Correcting Codes Associated With Generalized Hadamard Matrices Over Groups, Iem H. Heng
Dissertation: Municipal Involvement in International Relations, John Jack William Hilgers
Thesis: The United States and the Netherlands: A Study of Early Cold War Cooperation, Michael R. Hirman
Dissertation: Studies of Warm-Core Rings Using a Particle-in-Cell Method, John James Holdzkom II
Thesis: Development of Fluorescent Techniques in the Kinetic Characterization of Reverse Transcriptase, Kevin Kevin Howerton
Dissertation: Public Journalism, the Second Level of Agenda-Setting and Public Policy: The Role of the Daily Press Newspaper in Creating, Framing and Fostering the Issues of Regionalism and Consolidation on the Virginia Peninsula, 1944-1996, Shannon O'Bier Jackson
Thesis: Understanding Juror Decisions: The Influence of Other Jurors' Votes, Unanimous Versus Majority Decision Rule, and Juror Gender, La Donna Flanagan James
Dissertation: Nonlinear Stability and Control of Three-Dimensional Boundary Layers, Erik Janke
Thesis: Chemical Modification of CVD Diamond Electrodes, Robert Matthew Johnson
Dissertation: Characterization of the Biological Functions of Human Recombinant Zona Pellucida Protein 3, Yu Wen Juan
Dissertation: Approximate Analytical Relationships for Linear Optimal Aeroelastic Flight Control Laws, Ayman Hamdy Kassem