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 1997
Dissertation: Diamond for Fiber-Optic Raman Spectroscopy, Jianli Zheng
Thesis: Development of a Fluorescent Indicator for Inorganic Monochloramine, Xiaojun Dong Zou
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Thesis: Downsizing America in the Twentieth Century: A Sociological and Theoretical Analysis of the Shrinking Middle Class, Terreea Lynne Adams
Thesis: Expressions of Oppression or Power? Reconsidering the Texts of Hannah Webster Foster and Tabitha Gilman Tenney, Debra Anne Akgun
Thesis: Passage or Pathology: Current Attitudes Toward Women's Aging in the Literature of Menopause, Kaaren Gearhart Ancarrow
Thesis: Body Image and Information-Processing Biases on a Modified Stroop Task, Andrea Powell Arcona
Thesis: Speech Feature Computation for Visual Speech Articulation Training, Stefan Auberg
Thesis: Effects of Goal Reward and Feedback Frequency on Motivation: A Control Theory Perspective, Jonathan Michael Balcerek
Dissertation: An Analysis of Structure, Organization, and Activities of Community Dispute Resolution Centers in Virginia, Terri Colby Barr
Dissertation: Two-Photon Quantum Interference Polarization Spectroscopy: Measurements of Transition Matrix Elements in Atomic Rubidium, Alexander I. Beger
Thesis: Depositional Environment and Sequence Stratigraphic Interpretation of Miocene St. Marys Formation, Calvert County, Maryland, John J. Blandin
Thesis: Maintaining the Neutrality: Soviet-Japanese Relations, 1941-1945, Michael Shawn Blevins
Dissertation: A Computational Paradigm on Network-Based Models of Computation, Venkatavasu Bokka
Thesis: An Investigation of Software Reliability Models, Pamela Elaine Bowman
Thesis: An Enhanced Signal Processing Strategy for Fetal Heart Rate Detection, Charles Brewton
Thesis: Effects of Exposure to Information About Appearance Stereotyping and Discrimination on Body Image and Mood, Melissa Ann Brown
Dissertation: Recruitment of Blue Crab, Callinectes sapidus, Postlarvae to the Back-Barrier Lagoons of Virginia's Eastern Shore, Robert D. Brumbaugh
Thesis: Parametric Correlations for Generic Scramjet Combustors with Ramp-Type Injectors, Jason Granville Bush
Thesis: The Role of Plant Foods Among Native Americans in Seventeenth-Century Virginia An Historical and Botanical Study, Timothy W. Cameron
Dissertation: Determinants of CEO Pay: A Critical Assessment, W. Otto Carroll
Thesis: Visual Speech Recognition Using Multiple Deformable Lip Models, Devi Chandramohan
Thesis: The Relationship of Autonomy Sociotropy and Depression to the Recall of Autobiographical Memories, Jennifer Sue Cheavens
Dissertation: The Progressive Failure Analysis of Cut Slope in Anisotropic Strain Softening Soils, Jong Woon Choi
Thesis: Application of Monoclonal Antibodies Against Creatine Kinase MM and BB Isoenzymes for Creatine Kinase MB Isoenzyme Detection, Lei-Chieh Chuang
Dissertation: Extreme Response Style, Irvine Clarke III
Thesis: The Assessment of Different Cerebral Locations in the Study of Arousal and Attention Using a Closed Loop Tracking System, Keith W. Clouatre
Dissertation: A Progressive Damage Methodology for Residual Strength Predictions of Center-Crack Tension Composite Panels, Timothy William Coats
Thesis: Resource/Dataflow Graph Operating System Development, Sriram J. Coimbatore
Thesis: Parental Quality Ratings of Early Child Care Experiences and Subsequent School Adjustment, Donna Owens Collier
Thesis: The Cultural Adaptability of Dental Hygiene, Medical Laboratory Sciences, Nursing and Physical Therapy Faculty, Irene Mary Connolly
Thesis: Energy Use Analysis of a Multi-Unit Housing Facility A Parametric Study, Brian David Cooper
Thesis: Real-Time Visual Speech Articulation Training Aid, Neiyer S. Correal
Thesis: Economic Interdependence Along a Colonial Frontier: Capitalism and the New River Valley, 1745-1789, B. Scott Crawford
Thesis: When the "Blues" Come to Call: Police Officers' Attitudes Toward and Responses to Domestic Violence, Christine Reneé Crossland
Dissertation: Factors Affecting Nitrogen Fixation Rates in Termites (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae: Reticulitermes) and Termite Nitrogen Contributions of Forest Ecosystems, Anthony Duane Curtis
Dissertation: The Effects of Environmental Variability on the Population Structure of the Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica): A Modeling Study, Margaret McManus Dekshenieks
Thesis: An Investigation of the Influence of Tightening Torque and Sea Water on Pultruded GFRP Composite Bolted Joints, Satish Devara
Dissertation: Development of the Inventory of Life Span Events, Julie A. Dickison
Thesis: Lower Chesapeake Maritime Enterprise: 1781-1812, D. Dennis Duff
Dissertation: Modelling an Optical Fiber Bragg Grating, Claudio Oliveira Egalon
Thesis: Dynamics and Control of a Three Dimensional Gantry Crane with Cable Flexibility, Uchendu H. Eke
Thesis: The Relationship of Foot Types to Pressure Distribution Patterns of the Forefoot During Gait, Hui-Ji Fan
Thesis: Effects of Elevated Temperature on the Physical Aging of a High Temperature Thermoplastic Resin and Composite, Mark Feldman
Thesis: A Receiving Water Quality Model for Dissolved Metal Runoff from a Floating Drydock, Thomas O. Fenn
Thesis: Validation of Continuous Self Improvement Flow and Individual Commitment as Personality Constructs, Alexia Anne Fink
Thesis: Petrochemical Analysis by Remote Fiber-Optic Raman Spectroscopy and Partial Least Squares Regression Analysis, Philip Edmund Flecher Jr.
Thesis: Reactions of Aqueous Chlorine with Alanylphenylalanine in Model Solutions and in a Wastewater, Thomas C. Fox
Thesis: An "Earthly Paradise": William Morris's Later Prose Romances, Carolyn Adele Gardner
Thesis: Electron Beam Emission from a Ferroelectric Cathode, Crystal Briana Garland
Thesis: Modeling a High-Efficiency Ozone Injection Contactor, L. Bernard Garrett Jr.
Thesis: Relationship Between Design Marketing Strategies and Toothbrush Purchases by Consumers, Cynthia Lynn Garvin
Dissertation: Pion Absorption on Polarized Lithium-7 at 165 MeV, Thomas A. Greco
Thesis: School Behavior and Perception of the Family Environment of Delinquent Youth, Anne Rachel Greenberg
Dissertation: Volatility Risk Premiums in Futures Markets: Investment Prices and Commercial Bank Performance, Richard P. Gregory
Thesis: Finding Godot: Postmodernism and Truth, Robert T. Gregory Jr.
Dissertation: Visibility-Related Problems on Parallel Computational Models, Himabindu Gurla
Thesis: Frequency Response Enhancement of a Flow Sensor Using Diamond Thin Films Synthesized by Plasma CVD, John Curren Hagwood
Thesis: Comparison of Sapling Community Structure in Created and Natural Forested Wetlands in Southeastern Virginia, Sharon Ann Haines
Thesis: The Resurgence of the Wehrmacht on the Western Front in the Fall of 1944, Aaron S. Hamilton
Dissertation: The Effect of an Integrated Library Computer System on Job Characteristics in Public Libraries, Richard J. Harris
Thesis: Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)/Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) Risk Perception Related to Needlestick Injuries at a Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia, Ronald B. Hartman
Thesis: The Effects of Feedback Seeking Performance and Tenure on Perceived Organizational Commitment Self-Promotion Attributions and Allocation of Organizational Rewards, Bryan C. Hayes
Thesis: Brown-Headed Cowbird (Molothrus Ater) Range Expansion into the Southeast: Effects on the Passerine Populations Using North American Breeding Bird Survey Data, Elizabeth Pruitt Henderson
Thesis: Concentrations, Complexation and Speciation of Total Dissolved Zinc in the Chesapeake Bay, Charles William Henry III
Dissertation: An Artificial Life Model of Engineering Attrition Contemplation: Why do Federally Employed Civilian Engineers Think of Quitting?, John William Herweg
Dissertation: Cross-Cultural Differences and Intercultural Cooperation in the Context of Change and Uncertainty: Americans and Finns in the Workplace, Maija Llisa Herweg
Thesis: The Relation Between Maternal Beliefs and Behavior and the Metabolic Control and Social Development of Children with Diabetes, Peggy Ann Herzog-Simmer
Thesis: Annie Wood: A Portrait, Jo Ann Mervis Hofheimer
Thesis: Work Interference with Family (W→F) and Family Interference with Work (F→W): Antecedents and Mediators, Karyn Hofler
Thesis: Psychological Outcomes of Religiosity in the Elderly, Deanna R. Hogge
Thesis: Social and Economic Opportunity in Seventeenth-Century Charles County, Maryland, Garett William Hughes
Dissertation: Variational Methods in Sensitivity Analysis and Optimization for Aerodynamic Applications, Adem Ibrahim Hussen
Dissertation: Correlates of the MMPI-A Immaturity (IMM) Scale in an Adolescent Psychiatric Population, Eric Albert Imhof
Thesis: Two-Dimensional Drift-Diffusion Simulations of Silicon Avalanche Shaper (SAS) Devices for High Power Applications, Hamid Jalali
Thesis: Affinity-Maintenance Strategies and Relationship Satisfaction, Carla J. Jernigan
Thesis: Long-Term Effects of Seawalls on the Adjacent Nonwalled Beaches of a Historically Receding Shoreline, Bryan Norton Jones
Dissertation: Therapist Orientation and Circularity-Linearity of Causality, Responsibility, Intentionality, and Blame for Clinical Problems, Helen Alexander Jones
Dissertation: Dynamic Scale Genetic Algorithm: An Enhanced Genetic Search for Discrete Optimization, Bela Dange Joshi
Thesis: An Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay for the Detection of Cardiac Myoglobin Using Monoclonal Antibodies, Deborah F. Kelly
Thesis: Lattice Truss Structural Response Using Energy Methods, Winfred Scottson Kenner
Dissertation: Numerical Prediction of Turbulent Diffusion Flames Formed by Cylindrical Tube Injector, Ali S. Kheireddine
Dissertation: The Valuation Effects of Corporate Investment Decisions: Evidence From Domestic and Foreign Plant Announcements, Bum Suk Kim
Dissertation: Application of Reanalysis Techniques for Pattern Design of Spot Welds, Young San Kim
Thesis: Comparison of Curriculum Content on Behavioral Strategies for Managing Anxious Clients in Associate and Baccalaureate Degree Dental Hygiene Programs in the United States, Darnyl Marie King
Thesis: Interaction of Ethanol and Insulin on Motor Activity and Hypoglycemia in Rats, Kristen E. Koontz
Thesis: Task Interdependence and Teamwork Processes, Kristin Krahl
Thesis: An Approach for Multidisciplinary Design Optimization, Robert V. Krueger
Dissertation: Observation of Shelfwater Overrunning the Southern Slope Sea, Ajoy Kumar
Dissertation: Seasonal and Mesoscale Variability in the Distribution of Antarctic Krill, Euphausia superba, West of the Antarctic Peninsula, Cathy Meyer Lascara
Thesis: Nuclear Pariahs and Regimes in the New World Disorder, Wayne F. Lesperance Jr.
Dissertation: The Corporate Effects of R&D and Patent-Grants: Evidence From Intra-Industry Analysis, Steven Alan Lifland
Thesis: A Decision Support Model for Large Systems Using Quality Function Deployment and Goal Programming: A Capital Budgeting Problem, Kenneth Lindsey Jr.
Dissertation: Neuronal Toxicity of Humoral Factors From Patients With Diabetic Neuropathy and Mechanism of Neuronal Death on Cultured Adrenergic Neurons: Studies of Autoimmune Pathogenesis in Diabetic Neuropathy, Dong Liu
Thesis: Organic Matter Characterization of Virginia Rivers and Reservoirs, Susanne Margaret Lockhart
Thesis: A Structural Model of Antecedents and Consequences of Satisfaction with Growth and Development, Greg E. Loviscky
Thesis: Wavelength Modulation Spectroscopy with Diode Lasers, Ying Lu
Thesis: Wittgenstein on Freedom of the Will, Grant Allen Marler
Thesis: A System for Structured Management of Hypermedia Resources for the World Wide Web, Kevin L. Marlowe
Thesis: The NOAA Corps -- A Participant Action Research of a Uniformed Service Facing Termination, Richard Eugene Marriner II
Thesis: The United State Government Versus John Harrison Surratt: A Study in Attitudes, Thomas Michael Martin