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 1999
Dissertation: Perceptions of Childhood Relation with Parents Related to Current Functioning, Peter O. Lielbriedis
Dissertation: Factors Which Affect Post-Hospital Resource Use and Patient Health Outcomes Among Taiwanese Older Adults, Chouh-Jiaun Lin
Dissertation: First Mover Advantage: An Industrial Buyer Behavioral Perspective, Howard G. Ling
Thesis: Two Approaches to Critical Path Scheduling for a Heterogeneous Environment, Guangxia Liu
Thesis: The Effects of Offshore Mining of Beach Quality Sediments on Nearshore Wave Climate, Frank R. Lonza
Thesis: The Effects of Task Demand and Knowledge of Results on Operator Engagement and Vigilance Performance Moderation with a Biocybernetic System, Jamie Lynn LoVerde
Thesis: Henri IV as Military Commander, Terence W. Loveridge
Dissertation: Efficient Dynamic Unstructured Methods and Applications for Transonic Flows and Hypersonic Stage Separation, Xiaobing Luo
Thesis: Cultural Adaptability of Students Attending Culturally Diverse and Non-Culturally Diverse Dental Hygiene Programs, Katrina White Magee
Dissertation: African American Community Mental Health Center Service Utilization: A Test of the Cultural Compatibility Hypothesis, Alicia Michelle Marsh
Dissertation: An Empirical Investigation Into Significant Factors of Moral Reasoning and Their Influences on Ethical Judgment and Intentions, Janet K. Mullen Marta
Thesis: All That Becomes a Man, Eugene M. McAvoy
Dissertation: The Effects of School Uniforms on Student Behavior and Perceptions in an Urban Middle School, Jacqueline M. McCarty
Thesis: Daughters of Charity: Catholic Women and Their Communities in Antebellum America, Linda Merritt McCubbins
Thesis: The Relationship Between Workplace Aggression and Alcohol Use: A National Survey, Susan Kay McFarlin
Thesis: Aeroelastic Load Alleviation Using Shunted Piezolectrics, Anna-Maria Rivas McGowan
Dissertation: Stratal Architecture in a Prograding Shoreface Deposit, Eastern Shore, VA: Relationship to Grain Size, Permeability, and Facies Distribution, Andrew C. Miller
Dissertation: Work-Life Role Integration: A Construct Validation Study, Tonya Alicia Miller
Thesis: Television, Low Self-Control, and Deviance: Examining Basic Elements of Gottfredson and Hirschi's General Theory of Crime, Moises O. Mina Jr.
Dissertation: The Effects of Group Counseling on the Self-Esteem, Anxiety, and Behavior of Children with Deployed Parents, Nancy Taylor Mitchum
Dissertation: Needle Localization for Breast Biopsy: The Patient's Experience, Marian De Walt Morgan
Thesis: Effect of Temperature on Short-Term Creep Rupture Response in Polymer Matrix Pultruded Composites, Robert Harold Munson
Dissertation: Virtual Compton Scattering Processes in Quantum Chromodynamics, Igor V. Musatov
Thesis: Development of Baseline Water Quality Stormwater Detention Pond Model for Chesapeake Bay Catchments, William J. Musico
Thesis: An Exploratory Study of the Correlates of Drug Use Among Juveniles: Analysis of Regional Variations in the United States, Denise D. Nation
Thesis: When Officers Get the "Blues": Factors That May Determine Which Officer Is More Inclined to Feel Job Stress, Olivia Poppy Nelson
Dissertation: A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Multicultural Education on the Racial Attitudes of Pre-K Through Grade 12 Students: A Comparison of Curricular Intervention and Reinforcement Dimensions in Suburban and Urban Educational Settings, Ogochukwu Nkeiruka N. Okoye-Johnson
Thesis: Factors That Affect Recidivism of Offenders on Electronic Monitoring in Norfolk, Virginia, Michael P. O'Toole
Dissertation: Jet Stability and Noise Computations Using Direct Numerical Simulation, Farouk Owis
Thesis: Evaluation of the Transport Properties of GaSb for Bipolar Applications Through Monte Carlo Simulations, Damayanthi Palaniappan
Thesis: Sexual Harassment in the Virginia Dental Hygiene Profession, Anne Pennington
Thesis: Assessment of a Higher Harmonic Control System for Minimizing Vibrations on a Dynamically Scaled Tiltrotor Model, David J. Piatak
Dissertation: Growth and Yield-Per-Recruit Modeling of Spot (Leiostomus xanthurus) in the Chesapeake Bay, and a Comparison of Biological Reference Points, Kevin Ray Piner
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
Thesis: Do You See What I See?: A Study of Actual and Perceived Physical Appearance Attitudes in Romantic Relationships, Laura Catherine Rieves
Thesis: An Experimental Investigation into the Effect of Clearance and Torque on Load Sharing in a Bolted Joint, Jerry B. Robertson
Thesis: The Physical Attractiveness of One's Rival: A Self- Evaluation Maintenance Perspective, Robin Elizabeth Roy
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.
Thesis: Traning Strategy Use and its Effects on Working Memory Capacity, Jennifer Lynn Scott
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
Thesis: Behavioral and Subjective Measures of Mental Fatigue and Workload: Examining Allocation of Effort During Extended Multiple Task Performance, Julie Michele Stark
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: Development and Application of Adaptive Dynamic Grids for Wake Vortex/Ground Interaction, Ilker Emin Türkgeldi
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: Beyond This Point There Be Dragons, Temple D. West
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
Thesis: Journey Without Landmarks, Connie Young
Dissertation: Exploring Participation Processes for Technology Development: Case studies of Biotechnology Research and Development Projects in Thailand, Omjai Yuktavetya
Thesis: Long-Term Aircraft Structural Integrity Prediction Under the Influence of Feedback Control, Si-bok Yu
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
Thesis: Brecht's Influence on the Modern British Theater with a Special Focus on Edward Bond's The War Plays, Amal Abdelrazek
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
Thesis: Design Optimization of Magnetic Bearings and Magnetic Suspension Systems, V. Dale Bloodgood Jr.
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