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 1991
Dissertation: Processes Affecting the Behavior of Redox-Sensitive Elements in Chesapeake Bay, Maria Lourdes San Diego-McGlone
Dissertation: Vitellogenesis in Hyalomma dromedarii (Acari: Ixodidae): A Model for Analysis of Endocrine Regulation in Ixodid Ticks, Martin E. Schriefer
Dissertation: Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Distributed Parameter Models of Large Beam-Like Structures, Ji Yao Shen
Dissertation: Using Socio-Demographic Characteristics to Evaluate the Program Outcome of Job Training Partnership Act Clients, Denise Vanasse Siegfeldt
Thesis: Faculty Standardization of Dental Hygiene Instrumentation Skill Evaluation: A Calibration Exercise, Diane-Marie Smela
Thesis: A Case Study in Software Reuse: The RNTDS Architecture, Barry J. Stevens
Thesis: The Study of Natural Product(s) from Opsanus tau (Linnaeus), the Oyster Toadfish, Miki Taira
Thesis: The Political and Ideological Context of Broadcast News CBS Nightly News Coverage of Eastern Europe, Terese A. Thompson
Dissertation: Identification of the Potential High School Dropout, Alan L. Vaughan
Thesis: Computer Simulation Techniques to Assess Bias and Precision in the Roving Creel Survey Estimator, David L. Wade
Dissertation: Kinematic Synthesis of Deployable-Foldable Truss Structures Using Graph Theory, Dirk B. Warnaar
Thesis: A Comparative Analysis of Nurse Leaders' Degree of Transformational Leadership and Staff Nurse Job Satisfaction, Kathie Sawyer Weatherly
Dissertation: Fast Parallel Algorithms for Basic Problems, Zhaofang Wen
Dissertation: School Desegregation and Urban Renewal in Norfolk, 1950-1959, Forrest R. (Hap) White
Dissertation: Information Technology and Wealth: Cybernetics, History and Economics, Elin Whitney-Smith
Thesis: Ninety-Nine and One-Half, Deborah R. Williamson
Dissertation: Prediction and Control of Asymmetric Vortical Flows Around Slender Bodies Using Navier-Stokes Equations, Tin-Chee Wong
Dissertation: Compressed Digital Video Instructional Delivery: A Study of Student Achievement, Student Attitude, and Instructor Attitude, Eddyth Niceler Worley
Dissertation: Transplantation of the Mammalian Pineal Gland: Studies of Survival, Revascularization, Reinnervation and Recovery of Function, Wutian Wu
Dissertation: Finite Element Frequency Domain Solution of Nonlinear Panel Flutter With Temperature Effects and Fatigue Life Analysis, David Yongxiang Xue
Thesis: In the Shadow of Oriental Culture: A Study of the Impact of Confucianism on Japan's Economic Development After World War II, Xuedong Xu
Thesis: Japan Looks at An Uncertain China: The Role of Japan's Aid to China, Yixin Yang
Dissertation: Formal and Informal Educational Activities of Transformational Nurse Leaders in Urban Hospitals, Sue Waltrip Young
Dissertation: Integration of Abductive and Deductive Inference Diagnosis Model and Its Application in Intelligent Tutoring System, Jingying Zhang
Dissertation: Parallel-Vector Design Sensitivity Analysis in Structural Dynamics, Yongxing Zhang
Dissertation: Effectiveness Analysis of Knowledge Bases, Shensheng Zhao
Thesis: Osteoinductivity of Demineralized Bone: A Quantitative In Vitro Assessment, Yihong Zheng
Theses/Dissertations from 1990
Dissertation: Seasonal and Diel Patterns of Abundance and Productivity of Phototrophic Picoplankton in the Lower Chesapeake Bay, Lewis Francis Affronti Jr.
Dissertation: A Generalization of Linear Multistep Methods, Leon Arriola
Thesis: The American Influence on the Mindanao Resistance During the Second World War, Michael Anthony Balis
Thesis: Head Nurse Leadership Behavior and Head Nurse and Staff Nurse Job Satisfaction and Burnout in the Intensive Care Setting, Dianne Vick Benton
Thesis: Comparison of the Protein Content in Selected Tissues at Different Feeding Stages in the American Dog Tick Dermacentor variabilis (Say), Mark John Beveridge
Dissertation: An Assessment of the Utilization of Permanent and Temporary Classrooms as It Relates to Cost and Efficiency in Selected School Divisions, E. Carlton Bowyer
Thesis: Survey of Virginia Dental Practices to Determine Compliance With the Standards of Risk Management Theory, Joanne Schade Boyce
Dissertation: Comparison of the Efficacy of General and Specific Performance Dimensions in an Operational Assessment Center, Wanda J. Campbell
Dissertation: Validation of the Human Factors Satisfaction Questionnaire, James Carlopio
Dissertation: An Extension of Essentially Non-Oscillatory Shock-Capturing Schemes to Multi-Dimensional Systems of Conservation Laws, Jay Casper
Thesis: Evidence of a Neurogenic Component During IgE-Mediated Inflammation in Murine Skin, Victoria Jean Cavanaugh
Dissertation: Marketing Higher Education to Mexican-Americans: Identification of Successful Marketing Strategies and Tactics, Cynthia Gale Coiner
Thesis: A Comparison of Metals in Several Ahermatypic Corals and Surficial Sediments: Mobile Pinnacles and Hoffa Reef, Northcentral Gulf of Mexico, Kathryn M. Conko
Dissertation: Nonproportionally Loaded Steel Beam-Columns and Flexibly-Connected Nonsway Frames, Siva Prasad Darbhamulla
Thesis: The Hydrogeology and Leachate Generation of an Alum Sludge Lagoon Chesapeake Virginia, Charles M. Darling
Dissertation: Boundary Value Problems in Elasticity and Thermoelasticity, Stuart Davidson
Dissertation: The Fokker-Planck and Related Equations in Theoretical Population Dynamics, George DeRise
Dissertation: The Modeling of the Interactions of Pellets With Magnetic Fusion Plasmas for Alpha Particle Diagnostics, Abdel-Ghafar Mahmood El-Cashlan
Thesis: Activation In Vitro of Transfer RNA-Guanine Ribosyltransferase by Protein Kinase C, Panayota Eriotou
Dissertation: Morphological and Physiological Examination of a Demyelinating and Remyelinating Lesion, Paul Anson Felts
Dissertation: Navier-Stokes Simulations of Flows About Complex Configurations Using Domain Decomposition Techniques, Kamran Fouladi-Semnani
Thesis: Knowing God in William Blake: A Study to Find Meaning in His Work Through Plato, Swedenborg, and Mystical Tradition, David B. Gabel
Dissertation: Performance Improvements for FDDI and CSMA/CD Protocols, David Earl Game
Thesis: A Potentiometric Gaseous Hydrogen Sensor, Anne Guillory
Thesis: A Case Study in the Development of a Cost Reduction Methodology in the Public Sector, Ross Cooper Haines
Thesis: Hydrogeology and Water Budget Analysis of Two Interdunal Ponds Nags Head Woods Ecological Preserve, Dare County, North Carolina, Richard A. Hisert
Thesis: Metal Mobilization from a Near-Shore Lake Sediment Under Simulated Acidic Groundwater Inputs, Raveendra V. Ika
Dissertation: A Comparative Study of Spectral Peaks Versus Global Spectral Shape as Invariant Acoustic Cues for Vowels, Amir Jalali Jagharghi
Thesis: Middle Eocene Foraminifera From the Piney Point Formation of the Virginia and Maryland Coastal Plain, Megan S. Jones
Thesis: The Frontal Method for Finite Element Analysis on IBM-3090 Vector Computer, Chaerul Kamal
Dissertation: An Application of the Investment Model for Examining the Effects of Commitment, Self-Efficacy, and Goal Difficulty on Performance, Brian J. Kaufman
Dissertation: Freshwater Transport on the Continental Shelf of the Southeastern United States, Cheolsoo Kim
Thesis: The Determination of Clomiphene Citrate and Tamoxifen in Human Blood Plasma and Semen, Janice Irene Kiss
Thesis: Trace Metals and Pyrite in Sediments of Chesapeake Bay, Robert S. Kluckhohn
Dissertation: An Experimental Study of an Axisymmetric Turbulent Boundary Layer Disturbed By a Periodic Freestream, Chithrabhanu Koodalattupuram
Thesis: Assessment of Lipid Extraction from Human Bone on Subsequent Demineralization, JaeEun Lee
Thesis: Development of a Solid Phase Enzyme Immunoassay for Total Serum Testosterone, Li Li
Thesis: An Autecological Study of Pyxidanthera Barbulata in the Blackwater Ecologic Preserve Virginia, John Marc Lowenthal
Dissertation: Experimental Studies of Bulk Optically Controlled GaAs Switches Utilizing Fast Infrared Quenching, Michael S. Mazzola
Thesis: An Analysis of External Features as Predictors of Reproductive Status in Small Mammals, Kenneth Wayne McCravy
Dissertation: Effect of Passive Flow-Control Devices on Turbulent Low-Speed Base Flow, Farid Heidari Miandoab
Thesis: A Root Finding Algorithm for Parallel Architecture Machines, Stuti Moitra
Thesis: Job Satisfaction and Retention: Outcomes Since Implementation of Three Scheduling Options, Katherine Marie Newnam
Thesis: Dental Hygiene Manpower Distribution in Virginia, Christine Ann Nielsen
Thesis: A Pulse Gas Chromatographic Method for Determining the Dispersion and Surface Area of CO Oxidation Catalysts, Susan Kay Ohorodnik
Dissertation: Hemispheric Effects of Verbal Information Processing on Single and Dual Task Performance, Gwendolyn Lorell Pearson
Thesis: Health Locus of Control, Sexual Self-Concept, Self-Efficacy and the Contraceptive Behavior of College Students, Lorraine Kime Perkins
Dissertation: Investigations of the Trophic Relationships, Feeding Ecology and Feeding Behavior of Larval Spot, Leiostomus Xanthurus Lacepede, and Atlantic Croaker, Micropogonias Undulatus (Linnaeus) (Pisces:Sciaenidae), Dirk Edward Peterson
Thesis: Franco-American Relations and the Emergence of French Nuclear Armament, 1939-1962, Regis Hugues Philippon
Thesis: Phytoplankton in Lake Drummond and Two Drainage Ditches in the Great Dismal Swamp, Virginia, Christine Gregory Phillips
Dissertation: Parallel Process: An Empirical Investigation, Thomas E. Pollack
Thesis: An Explanatory Study of Maternal Stress and Coping with a Cystic Fibrosis Child, Leslie G. Potter
Thesis: Root Biomass and Production in Four Communities Within the Great Dismal Swamp, Susan West Powell
Thesis: Effects of Applied Soil Repellent Finish on Pesticide Residues in Work Clothing, Sandra L. Prior
Thesis: The Role of Longshore Sediment Transport in the Loss of Fill Material from an Estuarine Groin System, R. Neville Reynolds
Thesis: A Comparative Analysis of Pediatric and General Hospital Nurse Recruitment Practices, Rebecca Parsons Scott
Thesis: Effects of Chemical Aneuploidogens on Taxol Purified Drosophila and Mouse Brain Microtubules Polymerization and Depolymerization In Vitro, Anil Sehgal
Thesis: Quantitative Respirator Fit Testing: Probed Facepiece versus Probed Cartridge, Sonya Melissa Seward
Dissertation: The Effects of a Program to Develop Collaboration on Teacher Interactions and Norms of Collegiality Within the School as a Workplace, Michael E. Sicignano
Dissertation: The Relationship Between Needs and Interpersonal Problems of Women in Four Interpersonal Categories, Valarie Elaine Sikes-Nova
Thesis: The Guaranteed Minimum Price and Price Stabilization in the Wheat Market, Therese L. Soullier
Dissertation: The Truncated Cauchy Distribution: Estimation of Parameters and Application to Stock Returns, Paul G. Staneski
Dissertation: Integrated Control of Thermally Distorted Large Space Antennas, Robert H. Tolson
Dissertation: The Role of Small Peptides in Cancer Physiology and Chemotherapy, Bao-Ling Tsay
Thesis: The Reaction of Organoboranes with N-Chloro-N-Sodiocarbamates: A Convenient Synthesis of N-Alkylcarbamates, Nanette M. Wachter-Jurcsak
Dissertation: A Mathematical Model of the Dynamics of an Optically Pumped Codoped Solid State Laser System, Thomas G. Wangler
Dissertation: The Role of the Voltage Gradient in the Agarose Gel Electrophoresis of DNA, David Wheeler
Dissertation: The Effects of Variable Parameters on the Behavior of Initial Wind Waves, Glen Harvey Wheless
Thesis: A Study of Striga Chromosome Numbers with a Comparison to Those of Some Genera in the Rhinathoideae and the Orobanchaceae, Cynthia White
Thesis: The Effects of Two Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Benzo[a]pyrene and Naphthalene on Reproductive Success Embryological Development Larval Physiology and Mortality of the Mud Crab Rhithropanopeus harisii (Gould), Gregory V. White
Thesis: Vincent Van Gogh: The Artist and His Journey, Sheila F. Winborne
Thesis: Separation of Transfer RNA Isoacceptors by Reversed Phase W-Porex C-4 High Pressure Liquid Chromatography, Christine D. Witte
Thesis: The Study of Oxygen Transport Through Polycrystalline, Single Crystal and Alloyed Silver, Dongchuan Wu