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 1998
Thesis: Chick's Beach, Teresa E. Perrel
Thesis: From a Far High Place, Princess J. Perry
Dissertation: Men Who Batter: Personality Variables, Relationship Variables, and Treatment Outcome, Lisa M. Petrica
Thesis: Electrocortical Output and Hemispheric Contributions to the Alert State During a Sustained Attention Task, Treven Curtis Pickett
Dissertation: The Relationship Between Ethnic Identity, Self-Esteem, Emotional Well-Being and Depression Among Lakota/Dakota Sioux Adolescents, Susan M. Pittenger
Thesis: The Mentoring Experiences of College and High School Seniors, Clenise Rachelle Platt
Dissertation: A Psychophysiological Assessment of the Efficacy of Event-Related Potentials and Electroencephalogram for Adaptive Task Allocation, Lawrence J. Prinzel III
Thesis: Chaff, Melissa H. Range
Dissertation: Essay I. Intra-Industry Contagion and Competitive Effects Associated With Corporate Liquidation Announcements: Does Shareholder Governance Influence the Results? Essay II. Investors' Pricing of Exchange Rate Risk in U. S. Firms That File for Bankruptcy, J. Terry Ray
Thesis: William Mahone and the Confederate Command Style During the Siege of Petersburg, 1864-1865, David Kenneth Reed
Thesis: Russian Supply Efforts in America During the First World War, Dale C. Rielage
Thesis: Driving Simulation Performance and EEG Evaluation Associated with Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Matthew Richard Risser
Dissertation: Skin-Stiffener Separation in Buckled Composite Plates and Shallow Shells, Mark Edward Robeson
Dissertation: Sparse Equation-Eigen Solvers for Symmetric/Unsymmetric Positive-Negative-Indefinite Matrices with Finite Element and Linear Programming Applications, Hakakizumwami Birali Runesha
Thesis: Saturation Control for Reduction of Rotor Blade Lag Vibration, Sayam Saguanrum
Thesis: Course Selection Factors Deemed Important by Dental Hygienists Prior to and After the Initiation of Mandatory Continuing Education in the Commonwealth of Virginia, Melissa Lynn Sainsbury
Dissertation: Factors Affecting Leadership Styles of Prison Wardens: A Case Study of Public Adult Prisons Within Virginia, Nancy Elizabeth Santiago
Dissertation: Consortia as Technology Innovation Management Vehicles: Toward a Framework for Success in Venture Based Public-Private Partnerships, Ralph B. Saunders II
Thesis: Searching for the Presence and Absence of Features in Sustained Attention: The Effect of Discriminability and Display Size on Performance and Workload, Victoria Suzanne Schoenfeld
Thesis: The Effects of Dehydration and Rehydration on the One-Repetition Maximum Bench Press of Weight Trained Males, James E. Schoffstall
Thesis: Investigating the Effects of Subtle Ratee Characteristics in Team Performance Appraisal: The Influence of Personality and Cohesiveness, Jonathan Quinn Schroeder
Thesis: The Effects of Fabry-Perot Fringing on the Sensitivity of a Wavelength Modulation Experiment, Patrick C. Shea
Thesis: The Development of United States Navy Convoy Escort Doctrine and the Implementation of Coastal Convoys in 1942, Ronald J. Sheppard
Thesis: Electrical Characteristics and Parallel Operation of Microhollow Cathode Discharges, Wenhui Shi
Dissertation: Fiber-Reinforced Plastic Composite Beam Stability and Load and Resistance Factor Design Approach, Mojtaba B. Sirjani
Dissertation: The Solution of Hypersingular Integral Equations With Applications in Acoustics and Fracture Mechanics, Richard S. St. John
Dissertation: Multiple Streams Synchronization in Collaborative Multimedia Systems, Emilia Stoica
Thesis: Evening Assurances, Paul Sznewajs
Thesis: A View of Melville's Piazza Tales from The Piazza, Amy Nadine Vanek
Thesis: A Calibrated Shoreline Change Model for the Southeast Atlantic Ocean Coast of Virginia, Prasert Vangsantitrakul
Thesis: Collapsing the Philosophy/Rhetoric Disjunct: Nietzsche, Plato and the Perspectival Turn, Ned Vankevich
Dissertation: Mouse Embryo Development in the Presence of Capsaicin, Carlos Santiago Villar-Gosalvez
Dissertation: The Convenience Orientation of Services Consumers: An Empirical Examination, Patricia Kramer Voli
Thesis: Fact or Fiction? The Use of Eighteenth-Century Criminal Biographies in Historical Studies, Steven M. Wakefield
Thesis: Spectral/Temporal Segment Features for Automatic Speech Recognition, Xi Hong Wang
Dissertation: Reaction-Diffusion Models of Cancer Dispersion, Kim Yvette Ward
Thesis: The Causes and Consequences of Migration: The Case of Chinese Women, Janet L. Warren
Thesis: Racial Differences in Rape Myth Acceptance Among College Women, LeKeshia M. Washington
Thesis: Institutions, Developmental Alliances, and Economic Development in Korea and Brazil (1950-1985), Charles Paul Winebarger
Dissertation: Acute Blood Pressure Responses to Static and Dynamic Exercise: Racial Differences, Reuben Leon Wright
Thesis: Reliability of the Dynamic Gait Index in Vestibular Disorders, Diane M. Wrisley
Thesis: A Paleoenvironmental Study of a Middle Wisconsinan Biota Site, Russell County, Virginia, Thomas C. Wynn
Thesis: Material Evaluation by Pulsed Diode Laser Optoacoustics, Xiaodong Xu
Dissertation: Validation of the Risk and Needs Assessment Used in the Classification for Parole and Probation of Virginia's Adult Criminal Offenders, George Michael Yacus
Thesis: The Geomorphological History of an Alluvial Fan Complex in Nelson County, Virginia, Melinda Ann Youngblood
Dissertation: A Framework for Controlling Quality of Sessions in Multimedia Systems, Alaa S. Youssef
Dissertation: Reduction of Thermal Deflection and Random Response of Composite Structures With Embedded Shape Memory Alloy at Elevated Temperature, Zhiwei Zhong
Dissertation: Placement of Piezoelectric Actuators for Active Control of Vibration Using Modal Parameters, Xuegeng Zhu
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
Dissertation: Ecology of the Early Life History of the Caribbean Spiny Lobster, Panulirus argus: Recruitment, Predation, and Habitat Requirements, Charles A. Acosta
Thesis: Conditioned Response to Ethanol as Indicated by Spontaneous Motor Activity, Tevfik Alici
Dissertation: A Survey of Characteristics of Effective Alternative Education Teachers as Perceived by Alternative Education Teachers, Administrators, and Students, Barbara Jean Nicholson Anderson
Thesis: Investigation of Drag Reduction on a Two-Dimensional Circular Cylinder by Ejecting Jet From the Rear Stagnation Region, Satoshi Atsuchi
Thesis: A Proposed Approach to ISO Compliance and Validation for Metrology Laboratories, J. Lyle Bagley
Thesis: DYNA3D Simulations of Low-Speed Impact Response of Laminated Composite Panels, Kenneth William Barlow
Dissertation: Active and Passive Settling By Marine Benthic Nematodes, Rodney Duane Bertelsen
Thesis: Analysis and Testing of Plates with Piezoelectric Sensors and Actuators, Jeffrey S. Bevan
Thesis: Ecological Relationships Between the Marsh Rice Rat (Oryzomys Palustris) and the Meadow Vole (Microtus Pennsylvanicus) in Two Virginia Tidal Marshes, Christopher P. Bloch
Thesis: A Model of Paternal Involvement in Child Care and Household Labor, Jennifer Fancher Bonney
Thesis: Out of the Familiar Graces: A Book of Poems, Ronald Clark Brooks Jr.
Dissertation: African-American Males' Perception of Law Enforcement: A Psychophysiological Perspective, Adolph Brown III
Dissertation: A Comparison of Coping Styles and Body Image of Abused and Non-Abused Women, Laura Elizabeth Brown
Dissertation: The Effects of Human-Computer Communication Mode, Task Complexity, and Desire for Control on Performance and Discourse Organization in an Adaptive Task, Cristina Bubb-Lewis
Thesis: High Resolution Wavelength Modulation Spectroscopy for Precise Gaseous Characterization, Audra Michiele Bullock
Dissertation: Differential Endometrial Responses of Primates vs Rodents: Screening for Antiproliferative Effects of Antiprogestins, David Williams Burleigh
Thesis: Is Money Growth Still a Useful Indicator of Inflation?, Levent Camlibel
Dissertation: The Study of Wave-Blocking and Current Effects on Nonlinear Interactions of Shallow-Water Waves Using Advanced Boussinesq Models, Qin Chen
Thesis: Begging the Earth's Forgiveness: Russian Folklore in the Novels of F. M. Dostoevsky, Wendy Kristine Chia-Klesch
Thesis: Minimizing Post-Production Weight Growth in Tanks Using a Decision Analysis Model, Michael F. Cochrane
Thesis: The Eisenhower Administration and Allied Relations During the Suez Canal Crisis of 1956, Gregory D. Colburn
Thesis: Selective CVD Growth of Diamond Crystals on Tungsten, Charles Randal Cole
Thesis: Interactive Approach for Geometry Definition with Automatically Differentiated Sensitivities for Practical Airplane Design, Yvette Cordero
Thesis: Evaluation of Solid Phase Extraction Followed by Supercritical Fluid Elution of Semi-Volatile Organic Compounds in Toxicity Characteristic Leachates, William Edward Corl III
Thesis: Flexural Behavior of Thermoplastic Beams With and Without FRP Reinforcement, Hilmi Coskun
Thesis: The Men Behind the Oath: A Profile of the German Officer Corps in the Interwar Period, 1919-1939, Brian E. Crim
Dissertation: Causal Attribution and Dimension Differences Between Sixth-Grade Urban Middle School Students Who Pass and Students Who Fail Reading on the Virginia Literacy Passport Test, Elsie Perry Daniels
Thesis: Electromyography (EMG) Signal Classification by Artificial Neural Networks, Behnam Dashtipour
Thesis: The Marine Corps in Vietnam: An Examination of Cohesion and Effectiveness at Khe Sanh, Gregory L. Davenport
Dissertation: Fluorescence in Situ Hybridization Analysis of Human Embryos Derived From in Vitro and in Vivo Matured Oocytes, Constance DeScisciolo
Dissertation: Designing a High-Quality Network: An Application-Oriented Approach, Sudheer Dharanikota
Thesis: Oral Health Assessment of Renal Transplant Recipients Undergoing Immunosuppressant Therapy, Coral Diaz
Dissertation: Distribution of Free Marine Viruses of Lower Chesapeake Bay and Their Effects on Life-History Parameters of the Estuarine Copepod Acartia tonsa Dana, Lisa A. Drake
Thesis: The Annual Reproductive Cycle of Oryzomys Palustris in a Virginia Tidal Marsh, Erin A. Dreelin
Thesis: Gender, Race, and Court Location Effects on Exceptional Sentencing in the State of Washington, Catherine L. Drezak
Thesis: Development of a Photon Counting System for Ozone Differential Absorption Lidar Signal Detection, Bradley Allen Eccles
Dissertation: Choline Acetyltransferase and Carnitine Acetyltransferase Activity in Human Spermatozoa During Capacitation, Lisa A. Eccles
Thesis: The Effects of Task Partitioning and Computer Skill Level on Operator Engagement and Performance in an Adaptive Biocybernetic Environment, Todd Michael Eischeid
Thesis: The Father Machine, Anthony Winslow Enns
Thesis: Windlass Taping Technique for Symptomatic Relief of Plantar Fasciitis, Beth Anne Ernst
Dissertation: A Comparison of White Male College Students Attending an Urban Black University and an Urban White University: White Racial Identity and Perceived Comfort With Blacks, Cheryl Lorraine Evans
Dissertation: The Effects of Applied Technology Instruction on Mathematics Achievement and Career Interests of Urban Seventh-Grade Students, Eric M. Fischer
Dissertation: Self-Concept of Eating-Restrained Women: A Study of Personal Constructs, Adelia Atkinson Furr
Dissertation: The Effects of Race and Socioeconomic Status on the Acceptance of Biracial Individuals, Erika Lela Gilyot
Thesis: Orphans and Guardians in Eighteenth-Century Virginia, Sarah M. Goldberger
Dissertation: Social Support, Prior Interracial Experiences, and Network Orientation: Factors related to Later Adjustment Among Black Freshmen at a Predominantly White University, Calvin Graham
Thesis: Middle Shoreface Intervals: Evidence of Barred Nearshore Systems in he Stratigraphic Record, James V. Gravette
Thesis: Changes in Spinal Height Supine and Walking in Subjects With and Without Lower Back Pain, Dave Gregory
Dissertation: A Study of the "Pride" Program: A Residential, Summer-School Program for At-Risk Middle-School Students in an Urban Community, Maria Teresa Amillategui Grimm
Thesis: Effect of Cocaine on Rabbit Renin Angiotensin System: Cocaine Detection in Adult and Fetal Tissue and Adult Plasma Using Ion Mobility Spectrometry, Barbara Belinda Guinn
Dissertation: Abnormalities in Post-Translational Processing of Platelet Rap 1B in NIDDM: A Possible Cause of Platelet Hyperactivity and Cardiovascular Disease in Diabetes, Elizabeth Ann Hall
Dissertation: Structural Equation Modeling of Attitudes Toward Employment Testing, Laura Susan Hamil