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: An Experimental and Analytical Investigation of the Iosipescu Shear Test for Composite Materials, Barry Stuart Spigel
Dissertation: Strong Magnetic Field Effects and Molecular Processes with Applications to White Dwarfs, Phillip C. Stancil
Thesis: Allied Communications Intelligence and the Monsoon Group, 1943-1945, Christopher G. Stuart
Thesis: Investigation of Selenium Status in Hypo-, Hyper- and Euthyroid Children, Ping Sun
Thesis: The Atlantic Conference at Argentia (9-12 August 1941) The Anglo-American Agreement on the Defeat of Nazi Germany, John Michael Sweeney
Thesis: An Approach for Representation of Organizational Mental Models Using System Dynamics, Jörg-Peter Theissen
Dissertation: The Effect of Same-Sex Grouping Versus Mixed-Sex Grouping on Mathematics Achievement and Attitudes of Academically Gifted Fourth and Fifth Grade Females in the Urban Classroom, Martha J. Tompkins
Dissertation: Invariant Manifolds of a Toy Climate Model, Michael Toner
Thesis: The Igloo, Michael George Treanor
Thesis: Use of the Genetic Algorithm in Positioning Sacrificial Anodes for Optimum Cathodic Protection, Chi-Cheng Tsao
Dissertation: Iodate Transformation By Marine Phytoplankton, Ajcharaporn Udomkit
Dissertation: Invariance Properties of Statistical Tests for Dependent Observations, Akhil K. Vaish
Thesis: Investigation of Computational and Spectral Analysis Methods for Aeroacoustic Wave Propagation, Florence Odile Vanel
Dissertation: Determination of Pancreatic and Salivary Amylase By Enzyme Immunoassay and Their Prevalence in Hyperamylasemic Patients, Sabdra Borgens Ward
Thesis: The Effect of Nitrogen Fertilization on the Phenology of Roots in a Barrier Island Sand Dune Community, Everett P. Weber
Dissertation: A Study of Similarity and Analogical Decision-Making in Collaborative Design, Christopher Edward Weeks
Thesis: Reproductive Biology of Chesapeake Bay Black Drum, Pogonias cromis, with an Assessment of Fixatives and Stains for Histological Examination of Teleost Ovaries, Brian K. Wells
Thesis: Role of Heat Shock Protein 70 kDa Cognate in Limiting Thermal Inactivation and Refolding of Heat-Denatured Nuclear Type I Topoisomerase, Kuo-Kuang Wen
Thesis: The Vital Life: D.H. Lawrence's Response to a Dehumanized World, Rebecca Recce White
Thesis: It's a Family Affair: Choices in Kinship Configurations as Represented in Fried Green Tomatoes and Bastard Out of Carolina, Mary Elizabeth Wright
Dissertation: The Development of a Method to Extract High Purity Oxygen From the Martian Atmosphere, Dongchuan Wu
Dissertation: Rational Cubic B-Spline Interpolation and Its Applications in Computer Aided Geometric Design, Kotien Wu
Dissertation: On the Low-Frequency Current and Temperature Fluctuations Along the Shelf Break in the South Atlantic Bight, Sunny Yu Wu
Thesis: The African Independence Movement and United States Foreign Policy, 1945-1960, Vera McLauchlin Wyche
Thesis: The Ottoman Reaction to the Annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1908 by Austria-Hungary, Yücel Yanikdağ
Dissertation: Unsteady Flow Simulations About Moving Boundary Configurations Using Dynamic Domain Decomposition Techniques, Guan-Wei Yen
Dissertation: Finite Element Analysis for Nonlinear Flutter Suppression of Composite Panels at Elevated Temperatures Using Piezoelectric Materials, Run Chen Zhou
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
Thesis: An Exploratory Study of Terminal Syndrome, Phyllis Jean Adams
Thesis: The Effect of 6-Methoxybenzoxazolinone on Reproductive Condition in the Hispid Cotton Rat, Sigmodon Hispidus, Vera Lee Adams
Dissertation: The Implementation of Neighborhood Conservation Projects in Portsmouth, Virginia, 1960-1990, Robert Brooke Albertson
Dissertation: Boundary Layer influences on the Subsonic Near-Wake of a Family of Three-Dimensional Bluff Bodies, Charles Willliam Alcorn
Thesis: Naval Airborne Early Warning 1945-1985, Edwin Leigh Armistead
Dissertation: A Multivariate Quality Control Approach for Automated Manufacturing Systems, Hisham Naim Ashur
Dissertation: A Multiple Case Study of Selected Individuals Who Facilitate the Successful Adoption of Environmental Public Policy, John H. Austin
Dissertation: A Preliminary Study of a Job Analytic Inventory Derived From a Behavioral Consistency Method for Assessing Intrinsic Motivation, William John Banis
Thesis: The Adversarial and Mediation Processes: An Exploration of Outcomes in Child Custody Disputes, Cheryl Barakey
Thesis: Intersection Decisions and Reaction Time, Orhan Earle Beckman
Thesis: Statistical Variations in Beach Parameter Change Rates for Walled and Non-Walled Profiles at Sandbridge, Virginia, Douglas Allen Bellomo
Dissertation: Time-Optimal Algorithms on Meshes With Multiple Broadcasting, Dharmavani Bhagavathi
Dissertation: Export Marketing Development Program Selection, Albert Phillip Bianchi Jr.
Dissertation: A Follow-Up Study Investigating the Relationships Between Holland's Personality Types and Selected Career Choice Variables, Kennard S. Brackney Sr.
Thesis: Light Injection from an Active Cladding to the Core of a Fiber Optic Fluorosensor, Alvin Leon Bryant
Thesis: Choice Reaction Time and Conjunctions of Form Size Color and Orientation, Cristina Bubb-Lewis
Thesis: Emissions Studies for a Natural Gas-Fired Internal Combustion Engine, Carlos M. Buitrago
Thesis: DOK: An Original Screenplay, Duncan Campbell
Dissertation: Studies on Nonequilibrium Phenomena in Supersonic Chemically Reacting Flows, Rajnish Chandrasekhar
Thesis: The Complexities of Learning Prepositions: Spanish to English, Denise J. Simon Chiavarini
Thesis: Study of Algebraic Reynolds Stress Models for the Computation of Secondary Motion in Channels, Tomas Chylek
Thesis: The Influence of Touch and Gender on Subjects' Perceived Social Support and Emotional State, Edmond R. Cochard
Thesis: Women's Profiles, Robyn Lynn Cochran
Dissertation: A Comparison of Minority and Non-Minority Engineering Students on Selected Personality and Program Variables, Thomas Mercer Collier Jr.
Thesis: A CIPP Evaluation of the Administrative Associate Training Program through Sentara, Patricia A. Criswell
Dissertation: The Effect of Noncognitive Variables on the Prediction of Academic Difficulty and Attrition of Freshman Student-Athletes, Bruce W. Cunningham
Dissertation: Recognition of Quadric Surfaces From Range Data: An Analytical Approach, Ivan X. D. D'Cunha
Thesis: Computer-Based Procedural Performance as a Function of Window Size and Format Type, Christina Ann DiPalo
Thesis: Robot Force Velocity Control Using Expert System for Control Mode Changes, William R. Doggett
Thesis: Yellow Ribbons, D. Scott Drake
Thesis: Dependency Autonomy Stress and Depression: A Test of an Interactive Model, Kathryn Kern Drury
Dissertation: Fast Fourier Transforms on Distributed Memory Parallel Machines, Anshu Dubey
Thesis: The Soviet Military: Pressures for Change 1981-1991, William C. Dughi
Thesis: A Test of Bass's Model of Transformational Leadership Among Managers in the Dominican Republic, Nancy Urbaez Echavarria
Thesis: Validation of a Bag Sampling Method for 1,3-Butadiene, Lori Eckenrode
Dissertation: A Framework for Data Sharing in Computer Supported Cooperative Environments, Mohamed Youssef Eltoweissy
Thesis: Stand and Run, Andrea Gaye Evans
Thesis: Three-Dimensional Transport Simulations of the Dispersal of Volcanic Aerosol From Mount Pinatubo, T. Duncan A. Fairlie
Thesis: Longitudinal Study of Plasma and Erythrocyte Selenium Levels in Type I Diabetic Children During Development and Treatment of Ketoacidosis, Pi-hsia Fan
Thesis: The Influence of Temperature Salinity and Postlarval Transport on the Distribution of Juvenile Spiny Lobsters, Panulirus argus, in Florida Bay, Jennifer Marie Field
Thesis: Simulation of Vertical Tail Buffet in Internal Vortex Breakdown Flows, Mark William Flanagan
Thesis: Paleocene to Miocene Foraminifera From a Well Near Gloucester, Virginia, Nelson Stanley Ford
Thesis: A Comparison of Four Muscle Relaxant Techniques and Their Incidence of Postoperative Myalgia in Ambulatory Patients, William James Garske Jr.
Thesis: Description, Distribution, and Abundance of the Blue Crab, Callinectes Sapidus (Rathbun), Spawning Stock of the Lower Chesapeake Bay, Patrick John Geer
Dissertation: A Study of the Relative Effectiveness of Alternative Instructional Delivery Schedules for Adult Achievement, Wendy A. Gee
Thesis: The Relationship Between Self-Efficacy, Outcome Expectancy, and Metabolic Control in People With Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus, Edwina Rudisill Giddens
Thesis: The Distribution and Occurrence of Aerobic Heterotrophic Antimicrobic-Producing Bacteria Isolated from the Lower Chesapeake Bay, Linda Lea Gilmer
Thesis: Iranian Foreign Policy Shedding the Pariah Image, Joseph Edward Gleason Jr.
Thesis: Factors Influencing Dental Hygiene Job Retention in the Private Practice Setting, Kristin A. Hamman
Dissertation: Theoretical Results Supporting the Use of Passive Damping as Augmentation to the Active Control of Flexible Structures, Joseph Vincent Harrell
Dissertation: An Evaluation Model for Middle School Counseling and Guidance, Ann Salisbury Harrison
Thesis: Real Time Texture Analysis from the Parallel Computation of Fractal Dimension, Halford I. Hayes Jr.
Thesis: Beyond Sugar and Spice: Labeling Female Genitalia, Ethel E. Hellman
Thesis: Contemporary Applications of Classical Ethos, Sheri L. Helsley
Thesis: Effects of Palatability of Food on the Conditioning of Hunger in Rats, Elizabeth Yates Hill
Dissertation: Multidimensional Approach to Implementation of Continuous Process Improvement Utilizing Small Run Analysis in a Shipyard Environment, Paul Ray Hollandsworth
Thesis: A Comparison of Three Cam Profiles as Measured by EMG and Angular Displacement, Elizabeth Grace Ann Hood
Thesis: Evaluation of Long Term Changes in the Macrobenthic Community of the Southern branch of the Elizabeth River, Virginia, William S. Hunley
Dissertation: A Comparison of the Effectiveness of Two Types of Clinical Instruction on Selected Variables Among Urban Baccalaureate Nursing Students, Janice Parks Hylton
Thesis: Effects of Radiative Interactions in Molecular Gases Under Local and Nonlocal Thermodynamic Equilibrium Conditions, Manoj Kumar Jha
Dissertation: Navier-Stokes Simulation of Quasi-Axisymmetric and Three-Dimensional Supersonic Vortex Breakdown, Hamdy A. Kandil
Dissertation: Cloning a Putative DNA-Binding Protein Controlling the 5'LTR of the Copia Element in Drosophila, Horng-Yuan Kan
Dissertation: Heat Storage and Transport Processes in the Tropical Atlantic Ocean, Andras Kapolnai
Dissertation: A Computer-Based Strategy to Facilitate Organizational Learning Process, Charles B. Keating
Thesis: Chlorination Products of Glycylphenylalanine in Model Solutions and a Wastewater, Daniel J. Keefe
Dissertation: Robust Control of Nonlinear Multibody Flexible Space Structures, Atul G. Kelkar
Thesis: Absorption Imaging Studies on Intrinsic GaAs, John Samuel Kenney
Dissertation: The Effects of Electron Radiation on the Glass Transition Temperature of a Polyetherimide, Kristen Tulloch Kern
Dissertation: Boundary Value Problems in Rectilinearly Anisotropic Thermoelastic Solids, Gilbert Kerr
Dissertation: Multilevel Parallel Communications, Sanjay Khanna
Dissertation: Production and Decomposition of Hydrogen Peroxide by Marine Phytoplankton, Dong-Beom Kim
Thesis: The Red Hawk's Cry, Malaika Anne King
Thesis: Identification and Quantitation of Volatile Amines in Chesapeake Bay Sediments, Neeraja Y. Krishna