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 1994
Thesis: Threats, Carol DĹynn West Bleyle
Dissertation: Analysis of Human Sperm Chromatin Integrity, Silvina M. Bocca
Thesis: The Effects of Perceived Upward Influence Rewards and Personality Moderators on Job Satisfaction and Productivity in an Employee Suggestion Program, David J. Braun
Thesis: Diamond Thin Film Sensors for Hypersonic Flow Studies, Bhaskar Kumar Bulusu
Dissertation: An Analysis of Mitochondrial DNA in Rett Syndrome and Other Neurodegenerative Disorders, Catherine Erickson Burgess
Dissertation: Three-Dimensional Aerodynamic Shape Optimization Using Discrete Sensitivity Analysis, Gregory Wayne Burgreen
Thesis: Against a Politics of Desire: Lesbians Romance and Film, Angela Anelalani Cantrell
Thesis: Social Change in Rural Alaska: Attitudes, Sense of Belonging, and Migration Intentions of High School Students, Lisa R. Carley
Thesis: A Comparative Study of Victimization Experiences and Family Dynamics of Adolescent Sexual Offenders and Nonsexual Offending Delinquents, Alicia Ann Chavis
Thesis: Stress Fields in Composites with a Variable Interphase Under Thermo-Mechanical Loadings, Nianfeng Chen
Thesis: Electrodermal Activity as a Function of Name Stimulus Match and Facial Familiarity, Donald Cherry
Dissertation: Dosimetry of High-Energy Heavy-Ion Beams Using Energy-Dependent Green's Functions, Sang Yull Chun
Dissertation: The Role of Nitrogen Availability, Hydroperiod and Litter Quality in Root Decomposition Along a Barrier Island Chronosequence, Christine Elizabeth Conn
Thesis: A Comparative Study of Black and White Girls' Delinquency, Kenya Larae Covington
Thesis: An Ounce of Truth, Matilda Wyche Cox
Thesis: A Literary Evaluation of Black Female Interaction in Toni Morrison's "Beloved", "Sula," "Jazz", Carol Ann Davenport
Thesis: Seasonal Composition of Mesozooplankton in the Pagan River, a Nutrient Enriched Virginia Estuary, Lillian Norman Davis
Thesis: Body-Image Disturbances in Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa: A Meta-Analysis of Extant Research, Edwin A. Deagle III
Thesis: The Laissez Faire Political Vision of John Milton in Paradise Lost, Gerald Keith Delles
Thesis: Aboveground Biomass and Net Primary Production Along a Virginia Barrier Island Dune Chronosequence, John Joseph DiLustro
Thesis: Cardiovascular, Thermoregulatory, Metabolic and Performance Responses to Repeated Ultraendurance Cycling, Bart E. Drinkard
Thesis: Optimal Active and Passive Control Design for a Slewing Piezoelectric Laminate Beam, Travis V. DuBois
Thesis: Group Therapy: A Play, Eleanor L. Earl
Dissertation: Linguistic Theory Applied to Teaching Practice: Looking Through Linguists' Eyes at an Urban ESL Classroom, Caroline Mary El-Kadi
Dissertation: The Effects of an Urban Middle School Dropout Prevention Program on the Academic Achievement, Attendance, Attitudes, and Conflict Resolution Skills of At-Risk Student, Patricia Hawkins Fisher
Thesis: An Assessment of Four-Hour Sample Durations Used to Determine Full-Shift Noise Exposures in a Foundry, Vince Marlo Fleming
Dissertation: An Urban Education Study: Implementing Problem-Solving Strategies in Mathematics as a Function of Teacher's Learning Styles, Mary Lou Meinhold Fogarty
Dissertation: Quaternary Seismic Stratigraphy of the Inner Shelf and Coastal Zone, Southern Delmarva Peninsula, Virginia, Anthony M. Foyle
Dissertation: The Contribution of Selected Cognitive and Noncognitive Variables to the Academic Success of Medical Technology Students, Mildred Keels Fuller
Thesis: The Role of Laughter in the Thought of Friedrich Nietzsche, Paul D. Gerdes
Thesis: Correlation Between Hamstring Spasticity and Range of Motion and Selected Gait Parameters in Pediatric Clients with Spastic Diplegia, Erin McCain Glace
Dissertation: A Study to Determine Whether Oral Delivery Style, in Presenting Poetry to Students, Significantly Effects the Level of Responsiveness to the Poetry, William H. Goff II
Thesis: Childhood Sexual Abuse: Attribution of Responsibility, Dennis W. Goodwin
Dissertation: Investigation of Wall Injectors for Supersonic Mixing Enhancement, Yaacov Haimovitch
Dissertation: Teamwork in the Workplace: A Discovery of the Work Processes One Team Used to Meet Its Goals, Thomas Andrew Hassler
Thesis: The Influence of Seawalls on Beach Responses to Storms, Seasonal Transitions and Long-Term Erosion, John Marshall Hazelton
Thesis: Biofeedback Gait Training Auditory Vs. Visual Techniques, Timothy D. Hiemenz
Thesis: The Identification and Magnitude Estimation of Occupational Stressors in the Industrial Hygiene Profession, Judith Hinch
Thesis: A Comparative Analysis of Prospective Nursing Patient Classification and Retrospective Nursing Patient Classification, Dana Larmore Hlusko
Thesis: The Dinoflagellate Flora of the Late Oligocene - Early Miocene Old Church Formation Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain, Alan P. Hoffmeister
Dissertation: Explicit and Iterative LQG Controller Design, Min-Hung Hsiao
Dissertation: Structure-Substrate Binding Relationships of HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase, Steve Chien-Wen Huang
Dissertation: Multigrid Acceleration of Time-Dependent Solutions of Navier-Stokes Equations, Sarafa Oladele Ibraheem
Dissertation: Visual Information Processing of Geometric Figures as a Function of Complexity and Field of Vision, Karen E. Inn
Thesis: Derivative Absorption Spectroscopy with Tunable Laser Diodes, Andrew D. Jackson
Thesis: Effects of a Commercial Sodium Bicarbonate Toothpaste on Composite Restorative Material, Maggie Jackson
Thesis: Investigation of the Relationship Between Pelvic Tilt and Unilateral Sacroiliac Pain, Beth-Anne Moody Jones
Dissertation: Neuropsychological Functioning Among Violent and Nonviolent Sex Offenders, Pamela Knox-Jones
Thesis: Implementation of a Multiblock Sensitivity Analysis Method in Numerical Aerodynamic Shape Optimization, James Matthew Lacasse
Thesis: Vibration Control With Piezoelectric Actuation Applied to Nonlinear Panel Flutter Suppression, Zhihong Lai
Dissertation: Some Sampling Designs and Estimation Problems, Hassan Lakkis
Dissertation: High Energy Coupled Nucleon Tranpsort in One Dimension, Stanley L. Lamkin
Thesis: Characterization of an Antiviral Agent Based on Nonionic Surfactants and It's Effects on Human Dermal Fibroblasts, Ji Young Li
Dissertation: Radiative Interactions in Multi-Dimensional Chemically Reacting Flows Using Monte Carlo Simulations, Jiwen Liu
Dissertation: The Speciation of Dissolved Uranium in Marine Waters, Darrin Kent Mann
Thesis: A Direct Numerical Simulation of Vortex Breakdown Induced Tail Buffet, Steven James Massey
Dissertation: An Assessment of Personal Characteristics, Job Satisfaction and Semantic Descriptors of Virginia Acute and Tertiary Care Hospitals' Chief Executive Officers, Justin C. Matus
Dissertation: The Routinization of Innovations in an Urban School System, Thomas McAnulty
Thesis: Eutrophication and Macrobenthic Communities of the Lower Chesapeake Bay: Effects of Organic Enrichment in Pocomoke Sound, Saxis Virginia, Janice D. McDonnell
Dissertation: The Impact of Educational Interventions on Organizational Culture at an Urban Federal Agency, Janet Myrick McKenzie
Thesis: Judging Statistical Significance: The Effects of Standard Error Bar Formats and Visual Displays, Rebecca Wilson Miller
Thesis: African-American Women's Career Development: Predicting Nontraditional Educational and Career Choices Educational and Career Aspirations and Career Salience, Tonya Alicia Miller
Dissertation: Biosystematics and Diversification in the Genus Striga Lour. (Scrophulariaceae) in Africa, Kamal-Eldin Ibrahim Mohamed
Thesis: The Current Voltage Characteristics of Electron Beam Controlled Thin Film Diamond Switches, Christopher Anthony Molina
Dissertation: The Effect of Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Education Program on Knowledge, Attitudes and Sexual Behavior of Selected College Students, Arlene Jaine Jackson Montgomery
Dissertation: Numerical Simulation of the Nonlinear Response of Composite Plates Under Combined Thermal and Acoustic Loading, Jayashree Moorthy
Thesis: Regulation of Dental Hygienists: Its Effect on Disciplinary Action and Opinions of Regulatory Board Members in the United States and Canada, Jodie A. Mueller
Dissertation: Flow Kinematics and Dynamics of the Gulf Stream From Composite Imagery, Caitlin Patrice Mullen
Dissertation: Immunologic Evaluation of Ectopic Gestation, Tawfig Amin Nasser
Thesis: Flow Simulations About Steady-Complex and Unsteady Moving Configurations Using Structured-Overlapped and Unstructured Grids, James Charles Newman III
Thesis: Defining Locally Shared Memory Constructs for Special Purpose Parallel Architectures, David J. Nielsen
Dissertation: Taxes and Dividend Policies: An International Study, Chinwe Edna Nweke
Dissertation: An Assessment of Management Practices Among Virginia Acute Care Hospitals, Ogbonnia Godfrey Ochonma
Dissertation: The Effects of Athletic Participation on Self-Concept, Daily School Attendance, and Grade Point Average of Female Seventh-Grade Students in Urban Schools, David L. Olah
Dissertation: Analysis of Random Structure-Acoustic Interaction Problems Using Coupled Boundary Element and Finite Element Methods, Carl S. Pates III
Thesis: A Diffuse Reflectance Infrared Fourier Transform Spectroscopic Investigation of the Oxidation of CO on Platinum/Tin(IV) Oxide-Based Catalysts, Julie Christi Stiltner Patrick
Thesis: Come Rain or Come Shine, Teresa E. (Terry) Perrel
Thesis: Numerical Solution of Nonequilibrium Compressible Nozzle Turbulent Boundary Layers Using Laws of the Wall and Wake, Ajit A. Prabhu
Thesis: Materials Recovery Facilities in the United States Virgin Islands: A Regional Facilities Location Model Study, Lloyd O. Prince Jr.
Thesis: Transient Simulations and Modelling of Semi-Insulating GaAs Photoconductive Switches, Prasun Kumar Raha
Thesis: Development of a Knowledge-Based System for Wastewater Pipeline Rehabilitation, David Allen Reaves
Thesis: Computer Networks and the Teaching of English as a Second Language: How Networks Affect Second Language Acquisition, Kirstin J. Reed-Perez
Dissertation: The Application of Formal Principles of Public Administration as Perceived by City Managers, Shelton P. Rhodes
Thesis: Ironic Discourse in Film Noir, D. Kirk Richardson
Dissertation: Landfill Leachate Production and Gas Generation Numerical Model, John Edward Riester Jr.
Dissertation: Development of Vibration and Sensitivity Analysis Capability Using the Theory of Structural Variations, Ting-Yu Rong
Dissertation: The Teamwork Components Model: An Analysis Using Structural Equation Modeling, Rebecca Rosenstein
Dissertation: Methods for the Comparison of Timing Behavior Applied to the Pink Salmon Fisheries of Prince William Sound, Alaska, Louis J. Rugolo
Thesis: The Influence of Saprolite Composition Texture and Structure on Groundwater Flow in the Piedmont Province Henry County Virginia, John Thomas Russell
Dissertation: In Situ Regulation of Cytosolic Phospolipase A₂, Beverly A. Rzigalinski
Thesis: Dynamic Task Scheduling for the ATAMM Multicomputer Operating System Using Embedded Firmware on Microcontrollers, Sudhir Sastry
Thesis: Vigilance: Instruction Effects and Personality Correlates of Performance Workload and Boredom, David A. Sawin
Thesis: Transverse Stress Effects for Laminated Composite Beams in Bending, Christine Chatterton Schleicher
Thesis: Autonomous Robot Navigation in Unknown Terrains Using Parallel Numerical Artificial Potential Fields, John C. Schneider
Thesis: Seasonal Phytoplankton Dynamics in the Pagan River, David Wade Seaborn
Dissertation: Translational Regulation of the C-Jun Proto-Oncogene, Anil Sehgal
Dissertation: Simulation of Active Control of Asymmetric Flows Around Slender Pointed Forebodies, Hazem Sharaf El-Din
Thesis: Premature Infant Attractiveness and Temperament in the Prediction of Maternal Sensitivity, Cheryl L. Shiflett
Dissertation: Subunit Interactions of Recombinant HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase With Mutations at L289, Jacquelyn R. Smith
Thesis: Benthic Community Responses to Hypoxic Conditions in the Lower Rappahannock River, Virginia, Mary Elaine Smith