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 2002
Thesis: Reflection-High Energy Electron Diffraction Study of Si(100) Homoepitaxy by Femtosecond Pulsed Laser Deposition, Mohammed S. Hegazy
Thesis: Fine Root Vitality and Its Application in a Minirhizotron Study of a CO2 Enrichment in a Florida Scrub Oak Ecosystem, Brandon Todd Herbert
Thesis: Long Term Residual Effects of a Nutrient Addition on a Barrier Island Dune Ecosystem, Susan M. Heyel
Thesis: The Effects of a 10-Week Exercise Program on Physiological Variables and Quality of Life in Type 2 Diabetes, David Robb Holton
Thesis: Recruitment Variability of Atlantic Croaker, Micropogonia undulatus, With Observations on Environmental Factors, Sumalee Hoskin
Thesis: Crossing the Line: Juvenile Transfer and Prison Violence, Jessica M. Huffman
Thesis: The Effect of Temperature on the Optical Absorptive and Reflective Behavior of Metals, Thomas A. Hunyady
Thesis: Embedded Software Programming to Develop a Command Line User Interface for Monitoring and Debugging a Manually Driven Gas Regulator Control System, Syed N. Hyder
Dissertation: Study of Non-Equilibrium Electron Dynamics in Metals, Wael Mohamed Gomaa Ibrahim
Dissertation: Robust Face Representation and Recognition Under Low Resolution and Difficult Lighting Conditions, Mohammad Moinul Islam
Thesis: Vertical Distributions of Zooplankton at the Mouth of Chesapeake Bay and Calibration of Backscatter From an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler, Arthur Keith Jenkins
Thesis: The Effects of Test Validity Perceptions on Ethnic Group Differences in Cognitive Ability Test Performance, Florence R. Jinadu
Dissertation: Mass Transfer Reactions and Decay Sinks for Disinfectants in Water Distribution Systems, Jeremy B. Jones
Dissertation: Geometric Integrators for Hamiltonian PDEs, Dmitry Karpeev
Thesis: Yet Another Algorithm for Pitch Tracking (YAAPT), Kavita Kasi
Dissertation: Performance Modeling and Prediction for the Scalable Solution of Partial Differential Equations on Unstructured Grids, Dinesh Kumar Kaushik
Thesis: Approaching High Fidelity Human Tracking and Representation in Interactive Virtual Environments, Taimur K. Khan
Thesis: Invisible Men in Family Planning: Determinants of Men's Unmet Need in Bangladesh, Mahmuda Khatun
Dissertation: Generic Cost Estimation Framework for Design and Manufacturing Evaluation, Uday A. Kilkami
Thesis: Conspiracy Rhetoric in Cyberspace: Jim Condit and the 9/11 Attacks on America, an Analysis of the Voice and Appeals Used in Condit's Rhetoric, Kreg Allan Kinney
Thesis: Losing Cameron, Kerry D. Kisa
Thesis: Association of 3D Visualization with Discrete Event Simulation, Krishna Chaitanya Kunam
Dissertation: Institutional Investors and ADRs: Three Essays, Deqing Li
Dissertation: Federating Heterogeneous Digital Libraries by Metadata Harvesting, Xiaoming Liu
Dissertation: A Conceptual Design Tool for Engineers: An Amalgamation of Theory of Constraints, Theory of Inventive Problem Solving and Logic, Stephen R. Luke
Thesis: Bakhtin and the Rhetoric of the Modern Western Novel, Douglas J. Massey
Thesis: Object-Oriented Architecture for Concurrent Processes in a Port Simulation, Reejo Mathew
Thesis: Major Factors That Influence the Employment Decisions of Generation X Consulting Engineers, Robert William Mayfield
Thesis: Support for Statistical Analysis of the Configurable Port Simulation (CportS), Saurav Mazumdar
Dissertation: Modeling the Biogeochemical Cycle of Selenium in the San Francisco Bay, Shannon L. Meseck
Dissertation: Sources of Inter-State Alignments: Internal Threats and Economic Dependence in the Former Soviet Union, Eric A. Miller
Thesis: Styrene Monomer Solubility in Artificial and Natural Seawaters of the Lower Chesapeake Bay, Eric Joseph Miller
Dissertation: Deception in Advertising: A Content Analysis of the Legal Parameters of Deception, E. Carla Mitchell
Thesis: Sea Level Slopes and Volume Fluxes Produced by Atmosphere Forcing in Chesapeake Bay, David Salas Monreal
Dissertation: A Formal Object Model for Layered Networks to Support Verification and Simulation, Rasha M. B. E. Morsi
Dissertation: Excimer Emission From Pulsed Microhollow Cathode Discharges, Mohamed Moselhy
Dissertation: A Comparative Analysis of Two Course Delivery Models Through the Telequiz Protocol, a Study of Web-Based Distance Assessment Modalities, Patrick Michael O'Shea
Thesis: Phase-Sensitive Detection Electronics for Wavelength Modulation Spectroscopy Experiments, Tyrone Pate
Thesis: The Effect of Socioeconomic Status and Social Support on Work, Family, and Role Balance, April A. Perry
Thesis: A Comparison of the Learning Styles of Graduate Athletic Training Students and Their Demographic Characteristics, Jennifer Lynn Plant
Dissertation: Depression and Social Support as Moderators of Withon-Person Relationships Between Daily Events and Daily Adjustments During Adolescence, Rebecca M. Plesko
Thesis: A Multilevel Neural Network Architecture for Digital Implementation of a Face Recognition System Based on Eigenface Approach, Linda Rajan
Dissertation: Nearly Balanced and Resolvable Block Designs, Brian Henry Reck
Dissertation: Anting Behavior in Birds: Ant Selection and Effect of ant Chemistry on Feather Ectoparasites, Hannah Carrington Revis
Dissertation: Involvement of Platelet-Derived Growth Factor, PDGF Receptor Signaling, Focal Adhesion Kinase and SRC in Pressure-Induced Vascular Smooth Muscle Hypertrophy, Darian Clark Rice
Thesis: The Effect of a Predator Gradient on Female Oviposition Site Selection and Larval Performance, Josef F. Rieger
Thesis: Analysis of Error Recovery Effects on Digital Flight Control Systems, Arturo Tejada Ruiz
Thesis: Academic Achievement of College Underclassmen as a Function of Student Ethnicity and Parenting Style, Meghan Marie Sabin
Dissertation: Aligning Hierarchical Goals in an Organization: The Path From Training to Performance, Jeanette Denise Selby-Lucas
Thesis: Recurrent Neural Networks and Algorithms for Reconstruction of Images from Noisy and/or Partial Data, Ming-Jung Seow
Dissertation: They Did Not Teach: Veterans' Experiences in a Mid-Career Transition Program at an Urban University, Joseph Franklyn Shipes
Thesis: Beyond the Sea of Cortes: A Memoir, Rick Skwiot
Dissertation: Latin American-United States Security Relations and the Power Asymmetry Divide, Matthew R. Slater
Dissertation: Facility Administrator Perceptions of the External Environmental Constituencies Shaping Urban Advanced Technology Centers, Daniel Robert Smith
Thesis: Stress-Counter Response Training: Flight Simulation ANS Biofeedback, Debra K. Stewart
Thesis: Defining and Customizing Tagmemic Interaction for Historic House Museum Websites: A Study of Effective Learning Design for Museum Educators, Julie Jenkins Strohkorb
Dissertation: Supersonic Combustion and Mixing Characteristics of Hydrocarbon Fuels in Screamjet Engines, Ahmed A. Taha
Thesis: Managerial and Administrative Competencies for Dental Hygiene Program Administrators, Kelly Gale Tanner
Thesis: Hegel, Nietzsche, and the Postmodern Teleological Impasse, Michael P. Tarpey
Dissertation: East European Security Revisited: Institutions, Power, and Security, Blagovest Tashev
Dissertation: Apoptosis Pathways: Presence and significance in Ejaculated Human Spermatozoa, Steven Lewis Taylor
Thesis: A Comparison of Big-Five Personality Factors Safe Sex Behaviors and Social Desirability Using Paper-and-Pencil and Interactive-Voice-Response Surveys, J. Eric Tedford
Dissertation: Antecedents and Consequences of Consumer Ethnocentrism Across Russia's Three Sub-Cultures, Shawn Thelen
Dissertation: Complementarity of Politics and Administration: An Empirical Examination, Jothi S. Themozhi
Thesis: Determination of Nuclear Factor-Kappa B Activation in Cultured Renal Epithelial Cells and Cardiac Myocytes Exposed to Cocaine and Morphine, David Angeles Tiangco
Thesis: Differences in Perception and Number of Incidents of Sexual Harassment Among College Students in the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany, Antonia von Tobiesen
Thesis: The Normative Structures Guiding Surfers' Perceptions About the Environment: An Exploratory Analysis of Environmental Behavior and Environmental Concern, Jeffrey G. Toussaint
Dissertation: A Study of Professional Development School Program Graduates Through Their First Year as Urban School Teachers, Amy J. Vereen
Thesis: The Development of an Enterprise Supply Chain Model for Naval Warship Construction, Rex A. Wallen
Thesis: Summer Vertical Phytoplankton Distribution in the Lower Chesapeake Bay, Mollie Jill Weinstein
Dissertation: The Effects of Technology on Urban High School Students' Sense of Classroom Community, Mervyn J. Wighting
Dissertation: Prostate Specific Membrane Antigen (PSMA): Immunoassay Development and Characterization of Transcriptional Regulation, Zhen Xiao
Dissertation: Active and Adaptive Flow Control of Twin-Tail Buffet and Applications, Zhi Yang
Thesis: Traffic Simulation Using Arena, Shanti Yelamanchi
Dissertation: Spin Structure Functions of the Deuteron, Junho Yun
Thesis: VATA: An Improved Personal Computer-Based Vowel Articulation Training Aid, Andrew Matthew Zimmer
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Dissertation: Finite Element Analysis and Active Control for Nonlinear Flutter of Composite Panels Under Yawed Supersonic Flow, Khaled Abdel-Motagaly
Thesis: Parenting Behaviors Related to Young Adult Depressive Symptomology, Rebecca D. Abramson
Thesis: The Rhetoric and Reality of Famine in Early Modern Europe, Karen Russell Adams
Thesis: Western Psalm, Josh Allen
Thesis: Determination of Life Cycle Cost Under Uncertainty, Hamoud R. AL-Otaibi
Dissertation: Optimal Aeroelastic Vehicle Sensor Placement for Root Migration Flight Control Applications, Abdul Ghafoor Al-Shenhabi
Thesis: The Effect of Multiple Pulses on Bacteria, Ramy El-Sayed Aly
Thesis: The Search for Vinland: Reconciling Literature and Archaeology, Clifford W. Anderson
Dissertation: A Longitudinal Study Examining the Stability of Occupational Stressors Identified by Nursing Home Administrators, Gay Lynne Andrucci-Armstrong
Dissertation: Detection of Aneuploidy for Chromosomes 7 and 8 Using Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization in Patients with Aplastic Anemia and Sequencing of the Mitotic Checkpoint Gene hBUB1, Laura Jane Aridgides
Thesis: Childhood Obesity and Its Relationship to Sedentary Behavior Patterns vs. Other Independent Risk Factors of Obesity Among Navy Dependent Adolescents, Shaye Lauren Arluk
Dissertation: In Support of a Rationally Managed Fishery: Age and Growth in Patagonian Toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides), Julian R. Ashford
Thesis: Motion Perception of Angularly Expanding Stimuli Within a Presence Versus Absence Framework, Nathan R. Bailey
Thesis: Human Research Participant Protections: A Rhetorical Analysis of Two Key Documents, Lisa R. Ballance
Thesis: Beneath the Black and Blue: The Child Abuse-Delinquency Connection, Heather M. Baltodano
Dissertation: Effects of Organizational Climate, Feedback-Seeking Environment and Innovation Characteristics on the Implementation of a 360-Degree Feedback System, Simon Alan Bartle
Thesis: The Anaconda's Head: The U.S. Consular Service in British North America, 1861-1866, Myron Becker
Thesis: Co-Located Fiber Bragg Gratings for Simultaneous Measurement of Temperature and Strain, Ronald W. Bentley
Dissertation: A Study of the Effects of Constructivist Based vs. Traditional Direct Instruction on 8th Grade Science Comprehension, Clair T. Berube
Thesis: She Stories: Navy Wives in the Twentieth Century, Susan Boland
Thesis: The Cowboy's Dirty Laundry, Kurt Bolotin
Thesis: Bolshevism and the Avant-Garde: Marxist Ideology and the Aesthetics of Soviet Film, 1923-28, Garrett H. Booker
Thesis: The Distribution of Airborne Coal Dust in Soil Profiles of Norfolk, VA and Its Implication for Arsenic Loading to These Soils, William Joseph Bounds
Dissertation: The Effects of the Help One Student to Succeed (HOSTS) Program on the Reading Achievement of At-Risk 4th and 5th Grade Elementary Students, Kelvin L. Bradley