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 1993
Dissertation: The Use of a Factory Simulation to Evaluate a Flexible Control Structure for Integrated Manufacturing, Ling Ling Pan
Dissertation: Improving Team Performance By Identifying and Targeting Back-Up Behaviors: A Training Strategy, Rosalynn M. Peron
Dissertation: Population Dynamics in Response to Fire in Quercus laevis - Pinus palustris Barrens and Related Communities in Southeast Virginia, Allen E. Plocher
Thesis: Pheromonal Composition of Two Species of African Amblyomma Ticks: Similarities, Differences and Possible Species Specific Components, Thomas Lem Price Jr.
Dissertation: The Biogeochemistry of Hydrogen Sulfide in the Open Ocean, Joël Radford-Knoery
Thesis: Towards a Universal Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, T. P. Radhakrishnan
Thesis: The Isolation and Identification of Polyphenolics from Grape Seeds and Their Activity Towards Specific Cell Lines, Joseph A. Reddy
Thesis: Sexual Orientation, Attachment, and Adult Relationship Quality, Earl Calvin Riggins III
Thesis: Petrology of a Large Granophyre-Rich Mesozoic Diabase Dike Near Farmville, Virginia, Philip Thomas Rogan
Dissertation: Managerial Roles and Entrepreneurship in Non-Profit Urban Arts Agencies in Virginia, Beth Joan Novitch Rossheim
Dissertation: Grid Sensitivity for Aerodynamic Optimization and Flow Analysis, Ideen Sadrehaghighi
Dissertation: Attributions for Change in Attitude Among Urban Elementary Parochial School Teachers Toward Children Who Speak Nonstandard English, Charles A. Saglio Jr.
Thesis: Separation and Quantification of Queuine-Modified and Unmodified Transfer RNA Isoacceptors, Jorge Miguel Pereira de Oliveira da Silva Santos
Dissertation: A Construct Validity Study of the Cynicism Scale of the MMPI-2, Jeffrey Shelton
Dissertation: Analysis of the Proteoglycan Content in Fresh and Cryopreserved Porcine Cardiovascular Tissues, Yun Hee Shon
Thesis: Tobacco and Its Role in the Life of the Confederacy, D. T. Smith
Dissertation: A Meta-Analysis of the Relative Effectiveness of Two Cooperative Learning Models in Increasing Mathematics Achievement, Frances Burton Spuler
Dissertation: An Evaluation of the Implementation of Total Quality Management in a Service Organization, Charles Stanford Stevens
Dissertation: The Influence of Cohesive Groups on the Ethical Behavior of Public Employees: An Analysis of an Urban University, Patricia Bellin Strait
Dissertation: Cultural Transposition: Exploring Meanings of and Strategies for Cross-Cultural Transfer of Organizational Practices, Yongming Tang
Dissertation: Influence of Processing Techniques on Copper Deep Levels Formation and on Photoconductivity in Silicon Doped Gallium Arsenide, Lucy M. Thomas
Thesis: Cross-Cultural Issues in the Management of German-Owned Business Subsidiaries in Hampton Roads, Teja Ulrich
Thesis: A Sociotechnical Approach to the Study of Semiautonomous Work group Communication in Technical Organizations, Elizabeth B. Varnes
Dissertation: The Relationship of Locus-of-Control and Altruism to Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Providers Universal Precaution Practices, Joanne L. Wakeham
Thesis: Elasto-Plastic Analysis of Buried Pipelines Subjected to the Large Fault Movement, Luo-Jia Wang
Dissertation: Competitive Enzyme Immunoassay by Polyclonal Antibodies Against Organophosphorus Pesticides, Kuo-Lan Wen
Thesis: Phytoplankton Assemblages Associated with a Bloom of Ptychodiscus brevis off the North Carolina Coast, Traycie Lea West
Thesis: Evaluation of the Gross Anatomy Seasonal Changes Function and Histology of the Perineal Gland in the Hispid Cotton Rat, Sigmodon hispidus, Julie Anne Winchell
Thesis: A Study of the Chlorination Products of Methionine in Model Solutions and in Wastewater, D. Scott Winters
Dissertation: The Effects of Educational Programs About Rape on the Attitudes of First Year Urban University Students, Mary Jodine Wolford
Dissertation: Fiber Enhanced Viscoelastic Damping Polymers and Their Application to Passive Vibration Control, Houchun Xia
Dissertation: The Biogeochemistry of Iodine in Seawater, Lingsu Zhang
Dissertation: Diffusion of Total Quality Management: An Organizational Self-Production Perspective, Baizhong Zhao
Dissertation: The Influence of Reynolds Number and Atmospheric Effects on Aircraft Wake Vortices Near the Ground, Zhongquan Charlie Zheng
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
Thesis: The Riga Mission: The Reports of the First American Outpost on the Soviet Border, 1924-1933, Jeffrey Acosta
Dissertation: Materially Nonlinear Finite Element Analyses of Trusses and Slab-on-Grade Problems, Moayyad Moh'd Al-Nasra
Dissertation: Elementary Guidance Services in Urban and Rural Schools in Tidewater, Virginia, Berkley Edgerton Ashby
Thesis: Biochemical Analysis of Human Seminal Plasma, Jamshed Ayub
Dissertation: A Comparison of Self-Efficacy and Informational Career Counseling With Undecided High School Seniors, Beth Beddingfield Bangley
Thesis: Ground Water Investigation of the Petersburg Granite in Chesterfield County, Virginia, Michael W. Bennett
Dissertation: A Comparison of Two Theories of Resistance to Innovation in Medical Record Administration Baccalaureate Degree Programs, Joyce Brown-Harvey
Thesis: France and NATO: A Case of Misunderstanding, Servane Burel
Thesis: Increasing International Military Interdependence: Defense Cooperation in the New World Order, Sheila Callaham-Gay
Dissertation: Runge-Kutta Upwind Multigrid Multi-Block Three-Dimensional Thin Layer Navier-Stokes Solver, Frank E. Cannizzaro
Dissertation: The Impact of an Employee Involvement Program on Service Quality in a Nursing Home Organization, Diane Catanzaro
Dissertation: Topics in Nonlinear Stochastic Control, Estimation, and Decision, Using a Measure Transformation Approach, Charalambos Demetriou Charalambous
Thesis: Single Object Detection Using Multiple Sensors with Unknown Noise Distributions, Shaofen Chen
Dissertation: Laminar and Turbulent Natural Convection Heat Transfer in Trombe Wall Channels, Tony D. T. Chen
Dissertation: Shape Sensitivity Analysis and Optimization of Skeletal Structures and Geometrically Nonlinear Solids, Ching-Hung Chuang
Dissertation: Developmental Changes in Predictors of Job Satisfaction for Female Elementary School Teachers, Donna Owens Collier
Thesis: Seasonal Changes in Brown Adipose Tissue and Pelage of the Southern Short-Tailed Shrew Blarina carolinensis, Elisa Michelle Dew
Thesis: Biodegradation of Crude Oil by Marine Higher Fungi, Brian J. Dyer
Dissertation: Inelastic Stability of Nonproportionally Loaded Steel Sway Beam-Columns and Space Frames, Saleh Ali Eidan
Dissertation: A Computational Aerodynamic Design Optimization Method Using Sensitivity Analysis, Mohamed E. Eleshaky
Dissertation: Explicit Multistage Schemes for the Solution of the Three-Dimensional Compressible Euler/Navier-Stokes Equations, Alaa Ahmed Elmiligui
Dissertation: A Comparison of Alphanumeric, Direct Manipulation Graphic, and Equivalent Interface Design for a Production Scheduling Task, Ann C. Fulop
Thesis: Interferences of N-Chloroorganic Compounds in Free Chlorine Determination, Sushma H. Gandhi
Thesis: Retention of Cellular Viability and Growth Potential in Cryopreserved Bovine Arterial Tissue: Implications for Clinical Use of Cryopreserved Vascular Allografts, Kip G. Gardner
Dissertation: Magnesium Regulation of Calcium in Essential Hypertension, Elaine Pringle Gordon
Thesis: Evaluation of Late Mesozoic and Cenozoic Tectonism: Atlantic Inner Coastal Plain Margin Near Richmond, Virginia, Andrew A. Gremos
Dissertation: Factors Affecting the Kinetics of Light Intensity Adaptation in Marine Phytoplankton, Chunzhi Guo
Dissertation: Multigrid Algorithms for Massively Parallel Machines, Satyanarayan Gupta
Dissertation: The Relative Effectiveness of Programmed Instruction Versus the Lecture and Discussion Method on the Assessment Skills and Reporting Patterns of Child Abuse and Neglect Among Undergraduate Nursing Students, Pamela Valleria Wilson Hammond
Dissertation: A Genetic and Physiological Study of the Role of Extracellular Copper-Binding Proteins in Copper Detoxification by the Marine Bacterium Vibrio alginolyticus, Valerie J. Harwood
Thesis: Kinetic Characterization of a Recombinant C-Terminal Mutant of Reverse Transcriptase from the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Thomas S. Heard
Dissertation: A Responsive Evaluation in Two Hampton Roads Museums: The Development of a Performance Assessment System for Museum Volunteers, Joan Fishman Hecht
Dissertation: Development and Standardization of a Short-Term Assay for Evaluating Polluted Estuarine and Coastal Environments: The Medaka Embryo-Larval Assay, Michael Frederick Helmstetter
Thesis: Plankton Transport Patterns and Residence Times Around a Tall Seamount: Simulation Results, Dorlisa Louise Hommel
Thesis: Biochemical Investigation of Gout and Its Familial Incidences, Chin-Ling Hsu
Dissertation: Visual Graphic Knowledge Management Methodology, Jih-shih Hsu
Dissertation: The Relationships Between Metacognitive Strategies and Learning Outcomes in an Adult Basic Skills Program, Bert Huggins
Dissertation: Optimization of Cryopreservation Protocols for Cardiovascular Tissue, Jianfei Hu
Thesis: Port Visits as a Component of Soviet Naval Diplomacy in the Mediterranean Sea 1967-1986, John Mark Ickes
Dissertation: Ring Dynamics in the Western Gulf of Mexico, Adolphe W. Indest
Dissertation: Reasoning by Analogy in a Multi-Level System Architecture for the Design of Mechanisms, Ghassan F. Issa
Dissertation: The Perceived Role of High-Level Black Urban Managers in Virginia, Karen Ann Johnson
Thesis: F Response Frequency for the Median and Ulnar Nerves in a Normal Population, Patricia J. Killea
Thesis: The Effects of Orthopaedic Surgery and Dorsal Rhizotomy on Selected Gait Characteristics of Cerebral Palsy Children, Danielle M. Lanoue
Dissertation: Control of Low-Speed Turbulent Separated Flow Over a Backward-Facing Ramp, John C. Lin
Dissertation: Characterization of a Novel Prostate Tumor-Associated Antigen, Grayson B. Lipford
Dissertation: Some Solutions to a Lens Model With Applications to Warm-Core Eddies, Juping Liu
Dissertation: Diapycnal Mixing and Mass Transfer in Western Boundary Currents, Jose Luis Pelegri Llopart
Thesis: A Paleoenvironmental Analysis Based on Ostracode Assemblages from the Late Pliocene Tuapaktushak and Middle Pleistocene Karmuk Members of the Gubik Formation of the Arctic Coastal Plain, Western Alaska, D. E. Loehrke
Dissertation: High Performance Issues on Parallel Architectures, Peter J. Looges
Thesis: Relation of Groundwater Fluoride Concentrations to Sediment Mineralogy, Potomac Formation (Cretaceous), Southeastern Virginia, Paul Anthony Maciuika
Dissertation: The Relationship of Educational Attainment and Socioeconomic Factors in the Health Behaviors of an Urban Population, George C. Maihafer
Dissertation: Differential Utilization of Allochthonous and Autochthonous Carbon By Aquatic Insects of Two Shrub-Steppe Desert Spring-Streams: A Stable Carbon Isotope Analysis and Critique of the Method, Alfred Lynn Mize
Thesis: Russophobia and Judophobia Backlash in Extremist Russian Nationalism, 1987-1990, Connie Moray
Dissertation: Investigation of Alignment Dynamics in Mg-Ne and Mg-Ar Two-Photon Fractional Collisions, David Allen Olsgaard
Thesis: An Experimental Study for the Effect of Specimen Size on Shear Behavior of Granular Materials, Clifton Linwood Parker IV
Dissertation: An Evaluation of the Performance of Retired Military Personnel Who Begin Teaching as a Second Career, Wendell Edgar Parker
Thesis: Structural Characterization of Fucoidan and Its Role in the Hemizona Assay, Manish S. Patankar
Dissertation: Evidence for the Sensory Receptor(s) of the Mounting Sex Pheromone in Two Species of Ixodid Ticks, Dermacentor variabilis (Say) and Dermacentor andersoni Stiles, James Stephen Phillips
Dissertation: The Growth and Bioenergetics of Callinectes sapidus Larvae and the Effects of Diet Quality on Larval Physiology, James J. Pletl
Dissertation: The Evaluation of Company-Sponsored Test-Preparation Courses: Training Different Aged Employees on General Test-Taking Skills and Basic Cognitive Skills, Kerrie D. Quinn
Dissertation: Search for the Mössbauer Effect in 109Ag, Shokrollah Rezaie-Serej
Thesis: SMIMD - A Synchronous Multiple Instruction Multiple Data Computer Architecture, Cathy C. Roberts
Thesis: U.S.S. New Ironsides: The Seagoing Ironclad in the Union Navy, William Howard Roberts
Dissertation: Text-Independent Automatic Speaker Identification Using Partitioned Neural Networks, Laszlo Rudasi
Dissertation: Unsteady Euler and Navier-Stokes Computations Around Oscillating Delta Wing Including Dynamics, Ahmed Abd-El-Bar Ahmed Salman