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 1996
Dissertation: A One-Dimensional Model for Storm Breaching of Barrier Islands, Cheol Shik Shin
Dissertation: The Modeling of Structural-Acoustic Interaction Using Coupled FE/BE Method and Control of Interior Acoustic Pressure Using Piezoelectric Actuators, Yucheng Shi
Thesis: Fear of Crime in Rural America: Fear Along Virginia's Eastern Shore, David Steven Simon
Thesis: Progressive Failure Analysis Methodology for Laminated Composite Structures, David Wayne Sleight
Thesis: Neural Generalized Predictive Control for Real-Time Control, Donald I. Soloway
Dissertation: Dynamic Lot Sizing and Scheduling in a Multi-Item Production System, Padmanabhan Soundar
Thesis: The Role of Event Asynchrony and Attentional Deficits on Task-Unrelated Thoughts in Vigilance: Implications for Workload and Boredom Proneness, Steven Michael Springer
Thesis: Monte Carlo Simulations of Photoemission Characteristics from GaAs and Diamond, Abhishek Srivastava
Dissertation: Optimality and Construction of Designs with Generalized Group Divisible Structure, Sudesh K. Srivastav
Dissertation: The Impact of Total Quality Management on Student Achievement and School Improvement Team Performance in an Urban Elementary Setting, Jennette Ann Straus
Thesis: Comparison of Positive Screening and Confimatory Results From Federally Mandated Drug Testing of Urine, Mary M. Stuck
Dissertation: Comprehensive Conjunctive-Use Management of Connected Surface Water Groundwater Systems using Stochastic Inputs and Uncertainties, Seshadri Suryanarayana
Thesis: A Study of the Numerical Implementation of Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Strategies, Rodney A. Taylor
Thesis: Rectified Synthesis of Coupler Driven Four Bar Mechanisms for Two and Three Position Motion Generation, Ramanujam Thiruvenkatachari
Dissertation: Sensitivity Analysis and Optimization of Aerodynamic Configurations With Blend Surfaces, Almuttil Mathew Thomas
Dissertation: A Study to Determine the Effects of Marketing Occupational Experience on Urban Secondary Marketing Teachers' Perceptions of Curriculum Priorities, K. Denise Threlfall
Dissertation: Neuropsychological Assessment of Battered Women, Mona Matheney Tiernan
Dissertation: Characterization of P39, A Borrelia burgdorferi Specific Protein, Jill M. Troyer
Dissertation: Measuring Organizational Climate for Diversity, Amy L. Vick
Thesis: A Test of an Alternate Calibration Matrix for NIOSH Method 7300, Robert T. Vitek
Thesis: Study of Surface Heat Exchangers for High-Altitude Atmospheric Research Aircraft, Te-Kang Wang
Thesis: Effects of Initial Geometric Imperfections on the Behavior of Graphite-Epoxy Cylinders Loaded in Compression, William Allen Waters Jr.
Dissertation: Causal Models of Work-Family Conflict From Family and Organizational Perspectives, Lyse Guttau Wells
Thesis: Developing Methods to Measure and Project Levels of Combat Readiness in a Naval Aviation Squadron at the Unit Level, Michael Lawrence White
Thesis: Narcissism and Actors: A Comparative Study of the Narcissistic Qualities of Actors Acting Students and Psychology Students, David William Wicker
Dissertation: Numerical Simulation of Complex, Three-Dimensional, Turbulent-Free Jets, Robert V. Wilson
Dissertation: An Evaluation of the Norfolk Interagency Consortium's Community-Based System of Care for At-Risk Youth, Melody Bingman Wilt
Thesis: Procedural Implications of Affirmative Action: Perceptions and Attitudes Toward the Policy and Its Beneficiaries, Nicole A. Windfelder
Thesis: The Diet of Oryzomys Palustris Based on Stomach Content Analysis, Shannon L. Wright
Thesis: Variable Step Size LMS Adaptive Filters with Delayed Coefficient Updating, Guixian Xu
Dissertation: Scalability in Real-Time Systems, Ramesh Yerraballi
Thesis: "Never Draw Unless You Mean to Shoot": United States Department of State's Responses to Property Seizures in Latin America, Nathan D. Younge
Thesis: The Effectiveness of Film Cooling in a Hypersonic Flowfield with Favorable Pressure Gradients, Julie A. Young
Dissertation: Exploring Knowledge Processes for Technology Assimilation, Rochelle K. Young
Thesis: Parallel Newton-Krylov-Schwarz Solvers for the Full Potential Flow Equation, Jie Zhang
Dissertation: The Assessment of Osteoinductivity of Human Allograft Demineralized Bone Matrix by In Vivo and In Vitro Assay Models, Min Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Dissertation: Numerical Investigation of Shock-Induced Combustion Past Blunt Projectiles, Jagjit K. Ahuja
Thesis: Fault Tolerant Pipelined Adaptive Systems, Bhasker Reddy Allam
Dissertation: Development of a K-correction Factor for the MMPI-A, Jody Jacobson Alperin
Thesis: Non-Linear Boundary-Layer Receptivity Due to Distributed Surface Roughness, Tahani R. Amer
Thesis: The Transference of Traditional American Indian Oral Narratives into Contemporary Literature, Barbara A. Baisley
Thesis: Judicial Intelligence: Allied Signal Intelligence and the War Crimes Trials of Class "A" War Criminals at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, 1946-1948, William Todd Baker
Dissertation: Nonlinear Transient Thermal Analysis By the Force-Derivative Method, Narayani V. Balakrishnan
Thesis: Conjunctive Decisions in a Paper-and-Pencil Task, Tracy A. Bean
Dissertation: The Effect of Arctic River Hydrological Cycles on Arctic Ocean Circulation, Peter Becker
Thesis: Modeling and Simulation of Load Introduction for Fuselage Crown Panel Testing, Kevin P. Belack
Thesis: The Effects of Simultaneous and Successive Tasks and Knowledge of Results on ADD and Non-ADD Children, Pamela J. Bishop
Dissertation: An Experimental Investigation of Wall Cooling Effects on Hypersonic Boundary Layer Stability in a Quiet Wind Tunnel, Alan E. Blanchard
Thesis: Revolution, Song Lyrics by John Lennon and Paul McCartney Playscript, LeRoy C. Boyd III
Thesis: Partnership of Necessity: The Anglo-American Intelligence Relationship from 1921 to 1942, H. Douglas Brooks III
Thesis: Effect of Oral Creatine Monohydrate Supplementation on Body Mass and Composition, Dennis Michael Burke
Thesis: Hold as a Monosemic Verb, Amy D. Camp
Thesis: Hardiness and Sensation Seeking as Potential Moderating Variables in the Stress-Illness Relationship, William N. Campbell Jr.
Dissertation: MMPI and Rorschach Findings of Individuals Approved for Gender Reassignment Surgery, Gregory Ralph Caron
Thesis: Assumed-Stress Hybrid Beam Element for Nonlinear Elastic Stress Analysis, William Scott Carron
Dissertation: Pathogenicity of Murine Cytomegalovirus Mutants, Victoria Jean Cavanaugh
Thesis: The Effects of Multiple Monitors and Knowledge of Results on Vigilance Performance and Mental Workload, Peter John Ceplenski
Thesis: Attentional Processing of Visual Stimuli: What Makes a Face a Face?, Samuel L. Chapman
Dissertation: Views of Feminist Family Therapy: A Q-Methodological Inquiry, Bronwen Cheek
Dissertation: In vitro Expression of Human Zona Pellucida Protein 3, Chih-Wei Chen
Dissertation: Finite Element Nonlinear Random Response of Composite Panels of Arbitrary Shape to Acoustic and Thermal Loads Applied Simultaneously, Roger R. Chen
Dissertation: A Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Computer-Assisted Instruction on the Academic Achievement of Students in Grades 6 Through 12: A Comparison of Urban, Suburban, and Rural Educational Settings, Edwin Patrick Christmann
Thesis: A Historical, Theoretical, and Empirical Study of PPP Using Traditional and Alternative Methodologies, Kerry E. Clendenon
Thesis: The Inner Voice, Janis Ruth Bagnall Cochrane
Thesis: Geology of an Archean Greenstone Belt at Point Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada, Patrick Rowan Considine
Thesis: Confederate Civil War Photographers Propagators and the Hero Myth, Ronald L. Crusan
Dissertation: The Nature of Data Sources That Inform Decision-Making in Reading by Experienced Second-Grade Teachers, Margaret Mary Dinan Davis
Thesis: Assessment of High-Order Serendipity and Lagrangian Quadrilateral Membrane Elements, Timothy Scott Davis
Thesis: A Comparison of Graduation Rates for Community College Transfer Students and Non-Transfer Students at An Urban, Regional University, Rory Jay DeShano
Thesis: Names as Insults Among Middle School Students, Susan M. de Veer
Dissertation: Theoretical Investigation of Two-Color, Two-Photon, 6s(2)S(1/2) → 5d(2)D(j) → 11p(2)P(3/2) Excitation and Depolarization Spectra in Atomic Cesium, Boris Dobrydnev
Thesis: The Effects of Risk Management Program Implementation on Worker Safety Knowledge, John C. Donnelly
Dissertation: The Study of Pion Absorption on -4He at 355 MeV/C with LADS (Large Acceptance Detector System), Thomas A. Dooling
Dissertation: Heavy-Ion Interaction Models for Radiation Transport, Rajendra R. Dubey
Thesis: The Relationship Between Levels of Dentist Supervision and the Ability of Dental Hygienists in Nontraditional Settings to Provide Care, Julie Ann Dunphy
Dissertation: The Relationship Between Machiavellianism, Self-Monitoring, and Adaptiveness to the Performance of Real Estate Sales Professionals, Dianne Broman Eppler
Thesis: Competitive Enzyme Immunoassay of Catechin in Human Blood Serum, Jay Fedorowicz
Thesis: Extension to the Dynamic Modeling of the Large Angle Magnetic Suspension Test Fixture, Lucas E. Foster
Dissertation: An Assessment of the Descriptors and Determinants of Academic Success of Selected Allied Health Students in Virginia, Theodora Christine Gordon
Dissertation: Identification and Characterization of the Iron-Zinc Intermetallics Formed in Galvanneal steel, Richard Frederick George Grant
Dissertation: Understanding Collaborative Writing of Technical Proposals with a Process/product Model, Frank Joseph Greco
Dissertation: The Effect of Technology-Rich School Environments on Academic Achievement and Attitudes of Urban School Students, Charles R. Grimm
Thesis: Attachment Theory and Self-Disclosure of HIV Status, Amy H. Grimshaw
Thesis: Attachment Theory and Self-Disclosure of HIV Status, Amy H. Grimshaw
Dissertation: A Comparison of the Utilization of Health Services in the Presence or Absence of Prescriptive Drug Insurance in a Managed Care Environment, Martha Groblewski
Thesis: Open-Loop State-Space Model Identification from Closed-Loop Data, Lori Guy
Dissertation: Identification and Characterization of Genes Associated with V-Jun Induced Cell Transformation, Martin Toralballa Hadman
Dissertation: Non-United States Firms' Exchange Rate Exposure and the Pricing of Exchange Rate Risk in Foreign Stock Markets, Patricia Hill Hamlin Hall
Dissertation: Identification and Characterization of Mitochondrial DNA Variants in Alzheimer's Disease, Natasha Singh Hamblet
Thesis: Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop: Narrative and Historical Inspiration, Melissa L. Hamilton
Dissertation: Values in Transition: The Case of Modern Mexico, Howard Stanley Hart III
Dissertation: Comparing Traditional Statistical Models with Neural Network Models: The Case of the Relation of Human Performance Factors to the Outcomes of Military Combat, William Oliver Hedgepeth
Dissertation: The Effects of Aerobic Exercise on State and Trait Body Image and Physical Fitness Among College Women, Sherri L. Hensley
Dissertation: Predicting Strategic Orientations of Public Research Universities in Economic Development: A Test of the Resource Dependence Model, Steven Rae Hoagland
Dissertation: Software Reliability Issues: An Experimental Approach, Mary Ann Hoppa
Thesis: A Two-Dimensional Model for Watershed Runoff and Pollutant Transport, Laura Jean Howard
Thesis: Experimental Investigation of the Inlet Deflector Configuration Variation in the Flow Field at Mach 1.9, Kyu C. Hwang
Thesis: Wing-Section Optimization for Supersonic Viscous Flow, Cem Cihan Item
Dissertation: Buckling Analysis and Optimum Design of Multidirectionally Stiffened Composite Curved Panel, Navin R. R. Jaunky