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
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
Thesis: A Pressure Transducer Using Field Emitter Arrays, Mark David Richmond
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: Field Enhancement in Silicon Nanotip Field Emitter Arrays, Ajith Varghese
Thesis: Dynamic and Interactive 3D Simulation Over the World Wide Web, Rajesh Vennam
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
Thesis: The Relationship Between Upper Body Strength and Standard Fitness Assessments in Elementary School Children, Nina G. Carter
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: Does Personality Indicate a Proclivity Toward Negative Job Behaviors?, Victoria Leigh Cole
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
Thesis: Variability Analysis of Discrete Cosine Transform Coefficient (DCTC) Features for Speech Processing, Bingjun Dai
Dissertation: Relative Gains Problem and Case Studies of Economic Cooperation in East Asia, Ping Deng
Thesis: Reactions of Oxygen and Nitric Oxide in a Microhollow Electrode Discharge, Joseph L. Desormeaux Jr.
Thesis: Building LMS Adaptive Filters with Register-Based FPGAs, Li Ding
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
Thesis: Cross-Racial Facial Identification: Black and White Oriented Elaborative Processing, Tonika E. Duren
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: Does Wisdom Really Come with Age?: Cognitive Differences Between Traditional and Nontraditional Aged College Women, Kelli Jean England
Thesis: A Study of Child Abuse: Race Gender and Family Structure, Linda Wyatt Faircloth
Thesis: The Influence of Personality Cultural Values Social Support and Pre-Departure Training on Adjustment and Performance on International Students, Amy A. Fitzgibbons
Dissertation: A Discovery-Oriented Process Study of Enactment in Family Therapy: Development of the Family Therapy Enactment Rating Scale, Elizabeth Ong-Mythuan Fong
Thesis: The Effect of Ethanol and Hypoglycemia on Rat Performance in the Radial Arm Maze, Monica Ann Gaffney
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
Thesis: Machiavellianism Achievement and Gender Roles, Kathleen M. Gibson
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: An Injection Modelocked Titanium-Sapphire Laser, James C. Hovater
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
Thesis: Effects of Chronic Cocaine Abuse on Verbal Learning and Memory, Elizabeth A. Kamin
Dissertation: Approximate Analytical Relationships for Linear Optimal Aeroelastic Flight Control Laws, Ayman Hamdy Kassem
Thesis: Two Dimensional, Time Dependent Modeling and Simulation of Semi-Insulating GaAs High-Power Photoconductive Switches, Prakasit Kayasit
Thesis: Elements Affecting Disclosure of Abusive Dating Relationships: Attachment Style Sex of Research Participant and Importance of Disclosure Target, Michael Alexander Keefer
Thesis: Wei Jingsheng and the Democracy Movement in Post-Mao China, Merle David Kellerhals Jr.
Dissertation: The Effects of Corporate Diversification and Control on Division Risk-Taking Strategy and Performance, Hae Ryong Kim
Dissertation: System Identification and Control of Cavity Noise Reduction, Chien-Hsun Kuo
Dissertation: Experimental Geometry Optimization Techniques for Multi-Element Airfoils, Drew Landman
Dissertation: Inversion and Analysis of Remotely Sensed Atmospheric Water Vapor Measurements at 940nm, Jack Cutler Larsen
Thesis: Physiological Effects of Varying Power Output in a Cycling Time Trial, Mark Alan Liedl
Thesis: Coupled Electrodynamic-Monte Carlo Simulations of Nanoscale GaAs Terahertz Optical Mixers, Jiang Li
Thesis: Comparison of the EMG Activity of the Supraspinatus and Infraspinatus Muscles During Various Closed Chain Exercises, I-Chen Lin