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 1995
Dissertation: A Kinetic Investigation of the Mechanism of Muscle Contraction with a Series of Nucleotides, Wei Jiang
Dissertation: Nuclear Forward-Scattering of Synchrotron Radiation From Krypton: First Observation and Application to the Study of Lattice Dynamics in Near-Monolayer Krypton-on-Graphite, David Eric Johnson
Thesis: Development of a Knowledge-Based System for Generating Process Plans Using Group Technology: A Study for Norfolk Naval Shipyard, William P. Keene Jr.
Dissertation: Thermal Ignition Analysis in the Laminar Boundary Layer Behind a Propagating Shock Front, Mushtaq Ahmed Khan
Thesis: Effectiveness of DNA Probe Technology in Distinguishing Among Gingival Health, Mild-Moderate Periodontitis, and Severe Periodontitis in Human Oral Sites, Juliana J. Kim
Dissertation: Aerodynamic Design Optimization with Consistently Discrete Sensitivity Derivatives Via the Incremental Iterative Method, Vamshi M. Korivi
Dissertation: Studies of Mixing Processes in Gases and Effects on Combustion and Stability, Frank Paul Kozusko Jr.
Dissertation: Nozzle Flow with Vibrational Nonequilibrium, John Gary Landry
Thesis: Patient Satisfaction Among Users of the After Hours Program, Helen L. LaRocco
Dissertation: Excited-State Magnesium-Rare Gas Optical Collisions, Rosemary A. Lasell
Dissertation: A Model for Assessing the Quality of Learning in Distance Education, George C. Lassetter III
Thesis: Thermal Effects on Y2O3:Eu3+ for Fiber Optic Temperature Sensing, Arnel C. Lavarias
Dissertation: Closed-Loop Identification of Unstable Systems in Time and Frequency Domains, Hyun Chang Lee
Thesis: Self-Esteem, Sense of Community, and Participation in Organized Sports: A Study of Rural High School Students on Virginia's Eastern Shore, Michele K. Lee
Dissertation: Seasonal Variability of Heat and Mass Transport Process in the Upper Tropical Atlantic Ocean: A Numerical Model Study, Sang-Ki Lee
Dissertation: Knowledge Acquisition and Structuring by Multiple Experts in a Group Support Systems Environment, Bernard Lee Lewis
Thesis: Russia's China Policy Under Yeltsin and Its Effect on the Korean Peninsula, Jong Dyuk Lim
Dissertation: Dynamics of Dipoles in the Middle Atlantic Bight, Bruce L. Lipphardt Jr.
Thesis: Predicting Utility Bills for Air Combat Command A Study of Forecasting Techniques, William L. Luthie
Thesis: The Influence of Work Environment, Perpetrator Power and Victim Characteristics on the Occurrence of and Response to Sexual Harassment in the Workplace, Cynthia J. Maahs
Thesis: Population Dynamics of Oryzomys palustris and Microtus pennsylvanicus on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, John A. March Jr.
Dissertation: Component Mode Synthesis-Based Design Methodology for Structural Modification and Synthesis, Venkateshwarlu Maroju
Dissertation: Characteristics, Perceived Skills and Leadership Styles of Female Executives in the Senior Executive Service, Ahmad Mashayekh
Dissertation: The Relationship Among Self-Reported Aggression, Locus of Control, Expectancy for Success, and Dream Content, Stephen James McCullough
Dissertation: Precision Measurement of Relative Dipole Matrix Elements in Atomic Sodium, Rodney P. Meyer
Dissertation: The Association Between Perceived Family Support and Psychological Well-Being in Infertile Couples, Linda Marquardt Mintle
Thesis: An Examination of Factors Influencing the Definition of Rape, Connie Sue Minton
Dissertation: Effect of Nutrition Intervention on the Outcomes of Pregnancy: A Rural Urban Comparison, Ranjita Misra
Dissertation: An Examination of the Role of the Assistant Principal in High schools in Virginia That Are Restructuring, Teresa K. Mizelle
Thesis: An Investigation of Hole Size Effects in a Composite Material During Tensile Fracture, David Floyd Moore
Thesis: Presidential Philosophies and American Foreign Policy: From the Long Telegram to the New Look, John R. Moore
Thesis: Comparison of System Identification Techniques for the Dexterous Orbital Servicing System (DOSS), Allan Terrence Morris
Thesis: Development of a Measure of Homosexual Stress: A Factor-Analytic Approach, Lynn Marie Morris
Thesis: The Effects of Social Interaction and Verbalization on the Acquisition of an Organizational Memory Strategy, Suzanne F. Morrow
Thesis: Data on Gait Characteristics of Four, Five, and Six Year Old Children Using Three Dimensional Video Motion Analysis, Donna Soave Nichols
Thesis: Out of the Air: The Role of Communications Intelligence in the Strategic Bombing Campaign Against the German Oil Industry and Transportation System in World War II, Darrell Nolen
Thesis: Text Independent Speaker Verification Using Binary-Pair Partitioned Neural Networks, Claude A. Norton III
Dissertation: Teacher Roles for the Twenty-First Century, James C. Onderdonk Jr.
Thesis: Finite Element Formulation of a Three-Node Spatially Curved and Twisted Beam, Umesh Vishnu Padhye
Thesis: The Student Movement at Old Dominion: 1964-1970, Patrick Joseph Pané
Dissertation: Mathematical Models of Chemotherapy, John Carl Panetta
Thesis: Nutritional Condition of Striped Bass (Morone Saxatilis) Larvae as Determined by Constituent Lipid Analysis, William Frank Patterson III
Thesis: Movement Patterns and Habitat Use of the Copperhead Snake (Agkistrodon contortrix) in Southeastern Virginia, Christopher Edwin Petersen
Thesis: Predictive Value of Apgar Scores When Developmental Rates are Established: An Elimination of Corrections for Prematurity, Daniel M. Phillips III
Thesis: The Civil War as a Catalyst for the Professionalization of Nursing, Rosemary Plum
Dissertation: The Influence of National Culture on Work-Related Values and Job Satisfaction Between American and Filipino Registered Nurses, Karin Polifko-Harris
Dissertation: Analysis of Growth Curves Under Some Special Covariance Structures, Shobha Prabhala
Dissertation: New Paradigms for Evaluating Performance and Performance Persistency of Domestic and Globally Diversified Portfolios, Larry Joseph Prather
Thesis: A Bio-Cybernetic System for Regulating Operator Engagement in an Adaptively Automated, Multi-Task Flight Environment, Lawrence J. Prinzel III
Dissertation: Demography, Reproduction, Diet and Crop Depredation in Three Species of Rodents in Natural and Irrigated Fields in Nigeria, Safianu Rabiu
Thesis: Generalization Metrics for Neural Modeling Applications in System Identification, Denise M. Reeves
Dissertation: The Effects of the Recommendations of the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission on State Funding for the School Divisions of Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Virginia Beach, James T. Roberts
Thesis: The Effects of Fragrance Instructional Set, and Boredom Proneness on Performance in a Vigilance Task, Sheryl Lynn Roberts
Dissertation: A Formative Analysis of the Full Integration of Students with Severe and Profound Disabilities in Age-Appropriate Elementary School Classrooms, Nancy Cheshire Rosenblatt
Dissertation: Compensation and Characterization of Gallium Arsenide, Randy A. Roush
Thesis: "A Geological Interpretation of the Stanley Fault and Other Thrust Faults in Page County, Virginia", Michael James Sarros
Dissertation: Effects of Direct Reading Instruction on Literacy Achievement in Urban, Literature Based Classrooms, Steven M. Scarcelli
Thesis: Development of a Cross Generational Measure of Altruism, Paul G. Schloemer
Dissertation: Multiple Intelligences and the Gifted Identification of African-American Students, Oscar Scott Jr.
Thesis: Seismic Stratigraphic Analysis of the Upper Indus-Fan Complex a Model for Fan Development, Syed Firasat Shah
Thesis: Zooplankton Community Dynamics in the Elizabeth River, Virginia, William C. Sharp
Thesis: The Entry of the People's Republic of China Into the Korean War, Yueliang Shen
Thesis: Affective Reactions, Social Support and Willingness to Self-Disclose to HIV Seropositive Individuals: Impact of Sexual Orientation and Responsibility for the Infection, Susan Paige Sherburne
Thesis: Automatic Differentiation for First- and Second-Order Sensitivity Derivatives of a CFD Code, Laura Lee Sherman
Dissertation: From Realist to Constructivist Theory in Public Administration: Development of a Quality Perspective, Ernest Edward Sides III
Dissertation: Dynamic Unstructured Method for Prescribed and Aerodynamically Determined Relative Moving Boundary Problems, Kamakhya Prasad Singh
Thesis: Late Cretaceous Foraminifera as Indicators of Sequence Boundaries, Book Cliffs, Utah, U.S.A., Kimberly A. Smith
Dissertation: An Analysis of the Impact of Race, Socioeconomic Status and Gender on Juvenile Justice Case Processing in a Southeastern C-Level Metropolitan Area, Melanie Wynell Smith
Thesis: The Distribution of Rice Rats (Oryzomys palustris) and Meadow Voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus) in Tidal Marsh Communities on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, Allison L. Sowell
Dissertation: A Feasibility Study of Dynamical Assimilation of Tide Gauge Data in the Chesapeake Bay, Yvette H. Spitz
Thesis: Fine Root Biomass Distribution and Production Along a Barrier Island Chronosequence, Mark Jeffrey Stevenson
Thesis: The Kinetic Characterization of Mutant L289p of Recombinant HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase, Tryn Thomas Stimart
Dissertation: An investigation of the Speed and Power Limitations of a Copper-Doped Gallium Arsenide Photoconductive Switch, David Clifton Stoudt
Thesis: Copper Complexation Capacity and Copper Speciation in Freshwater Lakes (Lake Western Branch and Lake Prince), Rachide Ibrahimo Abdul Sultana
Thesis: Fault Tolerance in Critical Real-Time Systems, Balaji Tirukarneswaran
Dissertation: Investigation of the Substrate Recognition Characteristics and Kinetics of Mammalian Mitochondrial DNA Topoisomerase I, Zeki Topcu
Dissertation: Biochemical and Molecular Characterization of the Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen (PSMA), John Karl Troyer
Dissertation: The Effects of Partial Hospitalization on Acute Psychiatric Hospital Readmission Days, William E. Turner III
Thesis: "Preservation...From the Dangers of the Enemy as Well as Seas": The Establishment of the Old Cape Henry Lighthouse, Kevin Charles Valliant
Thesis: Real-Time Communication in the Algorithm to Architecture Mapping Model, Somesh M. Varma
Dissertation: Thermocline Circulation Driven at Surface Outcrops of Isopycnal Surfaces, Gudavalli V. R. K. Vittal
Thesis: No Other Track: Russell Hoban and the Literary Pilgrim, Eric G. Waggoner
Thesis: System Dynamic Modeling of Activity and Flow Relationships in Plant Layout Problems, Gary Allen Weaver
Thesis: Stephen Crane and "The Subtle Brotherhood of Men", Christian Robert Weisser
Thesis: Czechoslovakia's "Velvet Divorce" Ethnicity in the Post-Cold War World, Jonathan Robert Wert
Thesis: Structural Characterization of a Novel Inhibitor of HIV Reverse Transcriptase (HIV RT), Greggory Jon Woitte
Dissertation: A Nonlinear Dynamic Method for Supporting Large-Scale Decision-Making in Uncertain Environments, Wayne Woodhams
Dissertation: Elimination of Edge Effects Using Spline Wavelets Which Maintain a Uniform Two-Scale Relation, Sang Kyu Yang
Dissertation: Demonstration of a Method for the Development of a Team Classification System, Ann Marie Yanushefski
Dissertation: Measurement of Hyperfine Coupling Constants of the 5d²D₃/₂ and 5d²D₅/₂ Levels in Atomic Cesium Using Polarization Quantum Beat Spectroscopy, Wo Yei
Dissertation: Atomic Broadcast in Heterogeneous Distributed Systems, Osman ZeinElDine
Dissertation: A Relativistic Model for Heavy Mesons, Jialin Zeng
Thesis: Fetal Heart Rate Detection with a Passive Acoustic Sensor System, Zongyao Zhou
Dissertation: Cellular Mechanisms Underlying Myogenic Reactivity in Isolated Arterioles, Hui Zou
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Thesis: Optimization of Electron-Beam Activated GaAs Switches, Raymond Jack Allen III
Dissertation: Psychosocial Determinants of Age-Appropriate Immunizations of Infants in Norfolk, Virginia, Hoda Youssef Atta
Thesis: A Study of the Thermodynamic and Heat Transfer Characteristics of Two-Phase Two-Component Flow with Application to a Solar-Assisted Heat Pump, Walid A. Aziz
Thesis: The Pollution Effects of Pleasure/Work Boat Sewage Discharges on Fecal Contamination Levels of Waters in and Around Marinas and Other Places Where Boats are Moored on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, George H. Bangs
Thesis: The Appropriation of Nietzschean Thought by Donald Kuspit in the Critic Is Artist: The Intentionality of Art and the Existential Activist Painter: The Example of Leon Golub, Frederic S. Bayersdorfer
Dissertation: Building a Consensus for the Development of National Standards in History, Mary Vassilikou Bicouvaris