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 2006
Thesis: In Vitro Evaluation of the Reciprocating Disposable Prophylaxis Angle Versus the Rotating Disposable Prophylaxis Angle in Extrinsic Stain Removal Effectiveness, Inma LaCross
Thesis: A Markovian Statistical Analysis of Single-Event Upsets on Closed-Loop Flight Control Systems, Anushka Vishnukumar Lakdawaia
Thesis: Collegiate Employers Preferred Characteristics in Potential Job Candidates, Amber S. Landis
Dissertation: An Examination of Differences Between Occupational-Technical Student and Transfer Student Engagement at Small Community Colleges in Virginia, Janet T. Laughlin
Dissertation: Teamwork in Chinese Organizations: A New Concept and Framework, Ying Liu
Thesis: A Multilane Pipelined Architecture for Real Time Enhancement of Color Video Streams, Adam Redd Livingston
Thesis: The Floating Population and Crime in Contemporary China, Jonathan Wade Lopez
Thesis: Unsteady Numerical Analysis of a 2-Dimensional, Hydrogen Fueled, Air-Breathing Dual Mode Scramjet Engine, Nathan John Luetke
Dissertation: Perceptions and Factors Influencing Success in Professional Preparation Physical Therapy Education, Mira H. Mariano
Thesis: Self-Reported Attitudes, Concerns, and Behaviors Related to Global Environmentalism: Can a Mandatory Class Make a Difference?, Erin Mehalic
Dissertation: Whole Word Phonetic Displays for Speech Articulation Training, Fansheng Meng
Thesis: Mobius: An Omnidirectional Robotic Platform and Software Architecture for Network Teleoperation, Samuel Aaron Miller
Dissertation: Investigation of Ultracold Rubidium Atoms in a Pulsed Far off Resonance Trap, Minarni Minarni
Thesis: Examination of Clinical and Laboratory Measures of Postural Stability During Static and Dynamic Testing Between Stable and Unstable Ankles, Jason C. Mitchell
Thesis: In Cowboy America, Michelle Mizal-Archer
Thesis: Mary Stuart and the English Sonnet Tradition: A Reassessment, Megan K. Mize
Dissertation: Group Key Management in Wireless Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks, Mohammed A. Moharrum
Dissertation: Boundary Interference Assessment and Correction for Open Jet Wind Tunnels Using Panel Methods, Wael Ahmed Mokhtar
Thesis: Statistical Interpretation of Mohr-Coulomb Theory as Applied to Fracture in Brittle Materials Containing Cracks, Mudit J. Monsi
Thesis: The Effect of Protonic Device on Hip Flexibility and Pelvic Alignment, Jessica Lealand Moore
Thesis: Mentoring Experiences of Sport Management Doctoral Students: A Comparative Study of Men and Women, Tracy L. Morin
Dissertation: Structure-Function Studies of the cAMP-Dependent Protein Kinase In Vitro and in Intact Cells, Gary Z. Morris
Thesis: The Reflective Mariner An Approach for ECDIS Training and Operational Usage, Scott W. Muller
Thesis: Life Cycle Impact Assessment Method for Early Design Phase of Industrial Products, Harpreet Singh Multani
Thesis: Understanding PowerPoint Through Rhetoric, Andrea K. Murphy
Dissertation: A Study of Literacy Efficacy and Student Achievement Among Beginning Middle School Teachers in an Urban Context, Michael J. Mustain
Thesis: Exchange Hydrodynamics Between a Subestuary and Its Adjacent Estuary, Diego A. Narváez
Thesis: Crisis Management in Projects, Senol Nazikkol
Thesis: The Effectiveness of a Four-Hour Challenge Course on Leadership Efficacy and Work Efficacy, Theresa J. Odella
Thesis: A Non-Linear Technique for the Enhancement of Extremely Non-Uniform Lighting Images, Ender Oguslu
Dissertation: Robustness and Control of a Magnetically Levitated Transportation System, Grzegorz Oleszczuk
Dissertation: Modulation of TGFβ-Induced PAI -1 Expression by Changes in Actin Polymerization in Human Mesangial Cells, Keyur Patel
Thesis: Intelligent System Applications Based on Genetic Algorithms, Yasin Volkan Pehlivanoglu
Dissertation: Balanced Literacy Versus Basal Reading Instruction for Urban African-American, Title I Third-Grade Students, Julie Ann Perkins
Dissertation: Passive and Active Nonlinear Control of Ship Roll Motions Using U-Tube Tanks, Thongchai Phairoh
Thesis: Tidally Induced Variability at the Chesapeake Bay Entrance, María Andrea Piñones
Thesis: Social Trust Benefits and Sense of Identification at Dog Parks: An Exploratory Study, Kelly E. Price
Dissertation: Cellular Mechanism of Arglabin-Dimethylaminohydrochloride Cytotoxicity, Xiaofei Qin
Dissertation: The Study of Nitric Oxide Synthase Expression, Function, and Regulation in the Renal Vasculature During Postnatal Renal Development, Brian Blake Ratliff
Dissertation: A Cross-Cultural Study of Epistemological Beliefs and Moral Reasoning Between American and Chinese College Students, Zhongtang Ren
Dissertation: The Use of the Tripartite Model of Attitudes to Explain EMS Providers' Attitudes About the EMS Agenda for the Future, Carolyn Angela Rinaca
Thesis: Age Validation and Reproductive Biology of Bluefish, Pomatomus saltatrix, Along the East Coast of United States, Eric Robillard
Dissertation: Stability Analysis of Hybrid Jump Linear Systems With Markov Inputs, Arturo Tejada Ruiz
Thesis: Reverse Decision Making and Goal Attainment A Proof of Concept as a New Approach to the Decision Making Process Under Uncertainty, Shitalkumar S. Sabne
Dissertation: Brain Drain or Gain: Migration of Knowledge Workers From India to the United States, Anjali Sahay
Dissertation: Continuously Stratified Flow Dynamics Over a Hollow, David Salas-Monreal
Dissertation: Hessian Matrix-Free Lagrange-Newton-Krylov-Schur-Schwarz Methods for Elliptic Inverse Problems, Widodo Samyono
Thesis: Psychometric Controversy Involving Job Performance Ratings, Anne Scaduto
Thesis: Temporal Calcium Response of Jurkat Cells to Nanosecond Pulsed Electric Fields, Shaka Shakar Scarlett
Thesis: Biochemical Profiling of Gout Patients, Tamera Fayre Schlitt
Thesis: Breathing Space: Memories and Stories, Kathleen E. Schuck
Dissertation: Development of a Nonlinear Estimator-Based Model of Pilot Performance During Brownout Conditions, Karl Ulrich Schultz
Dissertation: The Use of Proteomic Technologies to Identify Serum Glycoproteins for the Early Detection of Liver and Prostate Cancers, Elizabeth Ellen Schwegler
Thesis: Correlating Late Pleistocene Deposits on the Coastal Plain of Virginia with the Glacial-Eustatic Sea-Level Curve, Timothy Wullschleger Scott
Thesis: Vital Tooth Whitening: Effects on Tooth Color Satisfaction, Beliefs About Dentofacial Appearance, and Self-Esteem in Older Adults, Kelly Marie Seeber
Dissertation: Learning as a Nonlinear Line of Attraction for Pattern Association, Classification and Recognition, Ming-Jung Seow
Thesis: The Effects of Ultrashort Pulsed Electric Fields on the Fluorescent Molecule Bodipy FL C5 Ceramide, Rachael Sara Shevin
Thesis: Dimensionality Reduction Using Non-Linear Principal Components Analysis, Tara Singh
Thesis: An Examination of the Social and Political Attitudes of College Student-Athletes, Melissa Cotter Smasal
Thesis: Pre-Tipping Point Operations as a Strategy for Maritime Security in the Global War on Terror, John W. Snedeker Jr.
Thesis: Russification in the Soviet East: Education in Uzbekistan and the Emancipation of Uzbek Women, 1938-1956, Anna Sochnikova
Thesis: Process and Product Optimization Techniques - A Comparative Analysis Using Optimization of Surface Roughness, Amol Suresh Sonje
Dissertation: Predictors of Persistence Among Community College Adult and Traditional-Aged Students, Kellie Crawford Sorey
Thesis: The Effect of Sonification Pulse Rate and System Reliability on Perceived Workload Urgency Trust and Monitoring Performance, Randal D. Spain
Thesis: A Study Correlating Entropy Generation to Parameters Characterizing Thermal Comfort in A Conditioned Room, Sai Shrinivas Sreedharan
Thesis: A Comparative Analysis of Air-To-Ground Engagement Outcomes in the Joint Warfare System (JWARS) and the JWARS-Joint Semi-Automated Forces Federation, Melissa Anne St. Peter
Dissertation: Template-Based Metadata Extraction for Heterogeneous Collection, Jianfeng Tang
Thesis: The Analytic Hierarchy & the Analytic Network Processes in Multicriteria Decision Making: A Comparative Study, Ali K. Taslicali
Thesis: Most Probable Point-Based Design Optimization, Akhil R. Tipnis
Thesis: Defensin Transcript Distribution in Tissues and Life Stages of the Ixodid Ticks Amblyomma americanum and Ixodes scapularis, Stephanie M. Todd
Thesis: Computational Aerodynamics Study of Ahmed Body Car Model, Rajat Trehan
Thesis: Dr. Thomas Walker's Influence on Thomas Jefferson's Lewis and Clark Expedition, Kari Kemper Tudor
Thesis: A Component Based Formal Ontology Model, a Method for Evaluating Such a Model, and the Results of an Application of That Method, Charles Tumitsa
Thesis: Effectiveness of Chlorhexidine-Coating in Controlling Bacterial Quantity on Toothbrush Filaments, Lisa A. Turner
Thesis: Strategy for Product Reusability Based on Technical and Economic Model, Srikanth Uppuluri
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: Inside the Fairy Ring: Jane Eyre and the Victorian Fairy Tale, Kimberly Alford
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