ODU theses and dissertations since 1965 are available in this collection.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Dissertation: K+-Induced Smooth Muscle Calcium Sensitization Requires RhoA Kinase (ROK) Translocation to Caveolae Which Is Inhibited in Non-Neuronal Cell Memory, Nicole Hairrell Urban
Thesis: Adaptive Segmentation Techniques for Object Region Extraction from Images with Complex Lighting Environment, Deepthi P. Valaparla
Thesis: Leadership Style and Performance in Telework: Examining the Influence of Trust, Rebecca D. Vandever
Dissertation: The Impact of Place of Residence on the Academic Achievement and Retention of First-Time-in-College Students at an Urban Commuter University, Tameria Lee Vickerson
Thesis: Monte Carlo Analysis of Millimeter-Wave GaN Based Gunn Effect Oscillators, Sridhara Viswanadham
Dissertation: An Experimental Study of Flow Control Techniques on a Multi-Element Airfoil, Ira James Walker
Dissertation: An Analysis of the Relationship Between Exposure to Risk, Gender, and Delinquency: An Exploratory Case Study, Rosanne D. Walters
Dissertation: Hyaluronate Lyase Gene of Streptococcus pyogenes: Molecular Characterization and Regulation, Sheryl Lynne Walton
Thesis: Police Response to Domestic Violence: Does Officer Gender Make a Difference?, Amy Leighann Whitmore
Thesis: Effects of Race and Prosecutor's Perceptions of Victim's Behaviors on Domestic Violence Case Outcomes, Angel K. Williams
Thesis: What's Yours? What's Mine?, Robert D. Woodcock
Dissertation: Life-Extending Control for a Highly Maneuverable Flight Vehicle, Si-bok Yu
Dissertation: Hypersonic Boundary-Layer Stability Across a Compression Corner, Hongwu Zhao
Thesis: Adaptive Parallel Framework Algorithm (APFA) for Environmental Engineering Applications, Lianghua Zhou
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
Thesis: A Study to Examine the Attitudes and Perceptions of Saudi Women in the United States and Canada Toward Exercise and Physical Activity, Tawfeeq E. Al-Bakry
Thesis: Retracing the Novel: Amatory Fiction and the Novel's Rise, Sarah Elizabeth Alderfer
Dissertation: An Examination of the Effects of the America Reads Tutoring Program and Tutor Training on the Attitude and Academic Achievement of Urban At-Risk Minority Students, Tami C. Al-Hazza
Dissertation: A Policy-Based Resource Brokering Environment for Computational Grids, Ahmed Hamdan Al-Theneyan
Thesis: The Economic Impact of a Regional Triathlon Event on the Greater Richmond Area, Yousof Al-Thibaiti
Thesis: This Island's History, Rachel Blue Ankney
Thesis: Production of a Monoclonal Antibody Against Benzo[α]Pyrene Diol Epoxide DNA Adducts, Brian Peden Austin
Thesis: Snapped Into the Sun, Marissa R. Bailey
Thesis: Improvements in Wavelength Modulation Spectroscopy Using Ratios of Higher Harmonics, James Michael Barrington
Thesis: The Relationship of Ethnicity Ethnic Identity and Problem Type to Preferences for Counselor Race in College Students: A Survey of African-American and European-American Students, Sara H. Bausch
Dissertation: External Aerodynamics of Heavy Ground Vehicles: Computations and Wind Tunnel Testing, Ilhan Bayraktar
Dissertation: Investigation of Port Fuel Injector Spray Mass Distribution by Laser Induced Fluorescence, Tuba Bayraktar
Dissertation: Time-Based Work-Family Conflict: Myth or Reality?, Karyn H. Bernas
Dissertation: Clinton's Foreign Policy and the Politics of Intervention: Cases of Ethnic Cleansing and Democratic Governance, Daneta G. Billau
Dissertation: A Naturalistic Investigation Into the Processes and Themes of Recovery From Chemical Dependency, Mark Thomas Blagen
Dissertation: Modeling Aspects of Magnetic Actuators and Magnetic Suspension Systems, V. Dale Bloodgood Jr.
Dissertation: Leadership: The Missing Variable in the Economic Development of Sub-Saharan Africa, Osei K. Bonsu
Thesis: Effects of Daily Oral Care with 0.12% Chlorhexidine Gluconate and a Standard Oral Care Protocol on the Development of Nosocomial Pneumonia in Intubated Patients- A Pilot Study, Michelle Lynn Bopp
Thesis: In the Shadow of the Fleet: The Development of American Submarines Between the World Wars, Stephen J. Brady
Dissertation: Variables Associated With a Sense of Classroom Community and Academic Persistence in an Urban Community College Online Setting, Cynthia P. Cadieux
Thesis: Breastfeeding and the Supportive Workplace: Integration of Women's Productive and Reproductive Lives, Rebekah A. Cardenas
Dissertation: Finite Element Modal Formulation for Panel Flutter at Hypersonic Speeds and Elevated Temperatures, Guangfeng Cheng
Thesis: The Impact of Children's Asthma on Mother's Employment, Suzanne Michele Clarke
Dissertation: The Effect of Model Formulation on the Comparative Performance of Artificial Neural Networks and Regression, Michael F. Cochrane
Thesis: A Study of Radiofrequency Effects on Gene Expression, Elizabeth A. Coln
Thesis: Selected Factors That Influenced a State's Collapse: A Historical Analysis of the Case of Sierra Leone, I. Betty Williams Conteh
Thesis: An Examination of the Psychosocial Functioning of Children with Drug or Alcohol Dependent Fathers, Cathy G. Cooke
Thesis: The Effects of Visual Cues and Interstimulus Interval on Error Rates in Auditory Localization and Detection, Joseph Thomas Coyne
Dissertation: Decomposition Dynamics in Restored and Naturally Recovering Atlantic White Cedar (Chamaecyparis thyoides) Wetlands, Edward Ratcliffe Crawford
Thesis: Evaluation of Distributed Effects in Field Effect Transistors for High Frequency Applications, Srinivas Rowjee Cuddapah
Dissertation: Decomposition of Carbon Dioxide in a Capacitively Coupled Radio Frequency Discharge, Thao Hoang Dinh
Dissertation: The Transfer Promise: An Investigation of Impediments to Academic Success and Persistence in a Mid-Sized Urban University, Mary H. Duggan
Thesis: Fueling and Fortifying the Foundational Machinery: Religious Necessity and Enlightened Republicanism in America's Founding, Jennifer L. Dyar
Dissertation: Development of an Efficient Ti:Sapphire Laser Transmitter for Atmospheric Ozone Lidar Measurements, Khaled A. Elsayed
Dissertation: Video Indexing and Retrieval Techniques Using Novel Approaches to Video Segmentation, Characterization, and Similarity Matching, Waleed Ezzat Farag
Thesis: The Effects of Communication Modality on Teamwork Processes, Thomas D. Fletcher
Thesis: Histological Evaluation of Cryopreserved Ovaries in Autologous Abdominal Transplant to Naïve, Outbred, CD1, Mice, Wentia Elissa Ford
Thesis: Relationship Between Behavioral Measures in a Driving Simulator and EEG Activity on Day-Shift and Night-Shift Workers, Jennifer L. Freeman
Thesis: A Wedding Song, Farideh Dayanam Goldin
Thesis: Analysis of a Direct Expansion Solar-Assisted Heat Pump Using Different Refrigerants, Francis Benjamin Gorozabel Chata
Dissertation: Organizational Climate and Commitment: A Case Study of an Urban Nonprofit Organization, William Sawyer Grant
Thesis: Chipping Away at the Gendered Wall Implications for Being a Woman Sociologist, Rebecca Fogerty Grove
Thesis: Study of Transport Properties of InAs Using Monte Carlo Simulation, Satyanadh Gundimada
Thesis: Perceived Paternal Style and Its Relationship to the Child's Explanatory Style and Depression, Janice E. Halecki
Thesis: Predicting Team Performance Over Time: A Secondary Data Analysis, Hope S. Hanner
Thesis: The Use of Free Indirect Discourse in Burney, Austen, and Eliot, Elizabeth H. Harlan
Dissertation: Creating Inclusive Organizations: Its Meaning and Measurement, Bryan Christopher Hayes
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