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 1993
Thesis: Elasto-Plastic Analysis of Buried Pipelines Subjected to the Large Fault Movement, Luo-Jia Wang
Thesis: Ultra Underseas: Signal Intelligence and the Submarine War Against Japan, 1941-1945, Robert B. Watts
Dissertation: Competitive Enzyme Immunoassay by Polyclonal Antibodies Against Organophosphorus Pesticides, Kuo-Lan Wen
Thesis: Phytoplankton Assemblages Associated with a Bloom of Ptychodiscus brevis off the North Carolina Coast, Traycie Lea West
Thesis: Numerical Simulation of Two-Dimensional, Spatially Developing Mixing Layers, Robert V. Wilson
Thesis: Evaluation of the Gross Anatomy Seasonal Changes Function and Histology of the Perineal Gland in the Hispid Cotton Rat, Sigmodon hispidus, Julie Anne Winchell
Thesis: A Study of the Chlorination Products of Methionine in Model Solutions and in Wastewater, D. Scott Winters
Dissertation: The Effects of Educational Programs About Rape on the Attitudes of First Year Urban University Students, Mary Jodine Wolford
Dissertation: Fiber Enhanced Viscoelastic Damping Polymers and Their Application to Passive Vibration Control, Houchun Xia
Dissertation: The Biogeochemistry of Iodine in Seawater, Lingsu Zhang
Thesis: Acoustic Correlates of Vowel Perception as Determined from Synthesis Experiments With Multi-Tone Stimuli, Zhongjiang Zhang
Dissertation: Diffusion of Total Quality Management: An Organizational Self-Production Perspective, Baizhong Zhao
Dissertation: The Influence of Reynolds Number and Atmospheric Effects on Aircraft Wake Vortices Near the Ground, Zhongquan Charlie Zheng
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
Thesis: Design and Implementation of Fuzzy Logic Controllers, Osama A. Abihana
Thesis: The Riga Mission: The Reports of the First American Outpost on the Soviet Border, 1924-1933, Jeffrey Acosta
Dissertation: Materially Nonlinear Finite Element Analyses of Trusses and Slab-on-Grade Problems, Moayyad Moh'd Al-Nasra
Dissertation: Elementary Guidance Services in Urban and Rural Schools in Tidewater, Virginia, Berkley Edgerton Ashby
Thesis: Biochemical Analysis of Human Seminal Plasma, Jamshed Ayub
Dissertation: A Comparison of Self-Efficacy and Informational Career Counseling With Undecided High School Seniors, Beth Beddingfield Bangley
Thesis: Social Support for Family Caretakers of the Chronically Mentally Ill, Gina L. Bankes
Thesis: Eigenvalue Reanalysis Techniques Using MSC/NASTRAN, Christopher B. Barton
Thesis: Neural Network Based Vowel Articulation Training Aid for the Deaf, Andrew E. Beck
Thesis: Ground Water Investigation of the Petersburg Granite in Chesterfield County, Virginia, Michael W. Bennett
Thesis: Experimental Investigation of Crossflow Instability Waves in Rotating Disk Flow, Alan E. Blanchard
Thesis: Modal Analysis of Gyroscopically Coupled Sound-Structure Interaction Problems, Vijay B. Bokil
Thesis: Francis Gildart Ruffin: A Jeffersonian Agrarian in the Old South and New Virginia, 1816 - 1892, R. Allen Brahin
Dissertation: A Comparison of Two Theories of Resistance to Innovation in Medical Record Administration Baccalaureate Degree Programs, Joyce Brown-Harvey
Thesis: A Fracture Mechanics Analysis of A 38 Inch Diameter Hot Pressed Beryllium Telescope Mirror, Phillip L. Brown
Thesis: France and NATO: A Case of Misunderstanding, Servane Burel
Thesis: Preliminary Structural Design of a Lunar Transfer Vehicle Aerobrake, Lance B. Bush
Thesis: Increasing International Military Interdependence: Defense Cooperation in the New World Order, Sheila Callaham-Gay
Dissertation: Runge-Kutta Upwind Multigrid Multi-Block Three-Dimensional Thin Layer Navier-Stokes Solver, Frank E. Cannizzaro
Dissertation: The Impact of an Employee Involvement Program on Service Quality in a Nursing Home Organization, Diane Catanzaro
Dissertation: Topics in Nonlinear Stochastic Control, Estimation, and Decision, Using a Measure Transformation Approach, Charalambos Demetriou Charalambous
Thesis: Single Object Detection Using Multiple Sensors with Unknown Noise Distributions, Shaofen Chen
Dissertation: Laminar and Turbulent Natural Convection Heat Transfer in Trombe Wall Channels, Tony D. T. Chen
Dissertation: Shape Sensitivity Analysis and Optimization of Skeletal Structures and Geometrically Nonlinear Solids, Ching-Hung Chuang
Dissertation: Developmental Changes in Predictors of Job Satisfaction for Female Elementary School Teachers, Donna Owens Collier
Thesis: Transfer Function Models and Control of a Flexible Structure Using Piezoelectric Laminates, Joseph A. Colvin
Thesis: Seasonal Changes in Brown Adipose Tissue and Pelage of the Southern Short-Tailed Shrew Blarina carolinensis, Elisa Michelle Dew
Thesis: The Effects of Post-Event Massage Therapy on Multistage Ultraendurance Cycling, Tracey Hodges Drews
Thesis: Biodegradation of Crude Oil by Marine Higher Fungi, Brian J. Dyer
Dissertation: Inelastic Stability of Nonproportionally Loaded Steel Sway Beam-Columns and Space Frames, Saleh Ali Eidan
Dissertation: A Computational Aerodynamic Design Optimization Method Using Sensitivity Analysis, Mohamed E. Eleshaky
Dissertation: Explicit Multistage Schemes for the Solution of the Three-Dimensional Compressible Euler/Navier-Stokes Equations, Alaa Ahmed Elmiligui
Thesis: Analysis of Heat Pump Cycles Using Thermodynamic Equations of State, Stephen C. Ericson
Thesis: An Application of Neural Networks in Data Communication Real-Time Resource Reallocation, Qing Fan
Thesis: The Effects of Style of Timing Cue on Motor Skill Acquisition, Michael A. Freeman
Dissertation: A Comparison of Alphanumeric, Direct Manipulation Graphic, and Equivalent Interface Design for a Production Scheduling Task, Ann C. Fulop
Thesis: Interferences of N-Chloroorganic Compounds in Free Chlorine Determination, Sushma H. Gandhi
Thesis: Retention of Cellular Viability and Growth Potential in Cryopreserved Bovine Arterial Tissue: Implications for Clinical Use of Cryopreserved Vascular Allografts, Kip G. Gardner
Thesis: Development of a Model Updating Technique for Controls-Structures Integrated Design Optimization, Angela Georges
Thesis: Approaches to Control of the Large Angle Magnetic Suspension Test Fixture, Mehran Ghofrani
Dissertation: Magnesium Regulation of Calcium in Essential Hypertension, Elaine Pringle Gordon
Thesis: Evaluation of Late Mesozoic and Cenozoic Tectonism: Atlantic Inner Coastal Plain Margin Near Richmond, Virginia, Andrew A. Gremos
Dissertation: Factors Affecting the Kinetics of Light Intensity Adaptation in Marine Phytoplankton, Chunzhi Guo
Dissertation: Multigrid Algorithms for Massively Parallel Machines, Satyanarayan Gupta
Thesis: The Effects of Exposure to the Modeling of Normative Discontent Versus Rational Coping on Women's Body-Image Affect, Lyse Guttau
Thesis: Dynamics and Control of a Five Degree-of-Freedom Magnetic Suspension System, Anwar Mohammed Haj
Thesis: Individual Differences in the Career Decision-Making Process, Laura S. Hamill
Dissertation: The Relative Effectiveness of Programmed Instruction Versus the Lecture and Discussion Method on the Assessment Skills and Reporting Patterns of Child Abuse and Neglect Among Undergraduate Nursing Students, Pamela Valleria Wilson Hammond
Dissertation: A Genetic and Physiological Study of the Role of Extracellular Copper-Binding Proteins in Copper Detoxification by the Marine Bacterium Vibrio alginolyticus, Valerie J. Harwood
Thesis: Kinetic Characterization of a Recombinant C-Terminal Mutant of Reverse Transcriptase from the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Thomas S. Heard
Dissertation: A Responsive Evaluation in Two Hampton Roads Museums: The Development of a Performance Assessment System for Museum Volunteers, Joan Fishman Hecht
Dissertation: Development and Standardization of a Short-Term Assay for Evaluating Polluted Estuarine and Coastal Environments: The Medaka Embryo-Larval Assay, Michael Frederick Helmstetter
Thesis: Choice Reaction Time as a Function of Set Size and Signal Frequency, Barbara M. Herzing
Thesis: Plankton Transport Patterns and Residence Times Around a Tall Seamount: Simulation Results, Dorlisa Louise Hommel
Thesis: Biochemical Investigation of Gout and Its Familial Incidences, Chin-Ling Hsu
Dissertation: Visual Graphic Knowledge Management Methodology, Jih-shih Hsu
Dissertation: The Relationships Between Metacognitive Strategies and Learning Outcomes in an Adult Basic Skills Program, Bert Huggins
Thesis: Five Stories and a Novella for Young Adults, Ronald Vincent Hughes
Dissertation: Optimization of Cryopreservation Protocols for Cardiovascular Tissue, Jianfei Hu
Thesis: Making Salt, Lynn Dean Hunter
Thesis: Port Visits as a Component of Soviet Naval Diplomacy in the Mediterranean Sea 1967-1986, John Mark Ickes
Dissertation: Ring Dynamics in the Western Gulf of Mexico, Adolphe W. Indest
Dissertation: Reasoning by Analogy in a Multi-Level System Architecture for the Design of Mechanisms, Ghassan F. Issa
Thesis: The Description and Prediction of Self-Percepts and Ideal-Percepts of Body Image for Multiple Physical Attributes, Lora L. Jacobi
Thesis: Elastic Buckling of Stiffened Composite Curved Panels, Navin R. R. Jaunky
Dissertation: The Perceived Role of High-Level Black Urban Managers in Virginia, Karen Ann Johnson
Thesis: Formant Estimation from DCTC's Using a Feedforward Neural Network, Shubhangi U. Kelkar
Thesis: The Effect of Contacts on the Performance of Electron-Beam Controlled GaAs and Diamond Switches, Michael Kevin Kennedy
Thesis: Transient Simulation of a Trombe Wall Passive Heating System Coupled to a Thermally Stratified Room, Ali Saleh Kheireddine
Thesis: F Response Frequency for the Median and Ulnar Nerves in a Normal Population, Patricia J. Killea
Thesis: Gender, Reason, and Argument in Composition, Lee Ellen Knight
Thesis: The Effects of Orthopaedic Surgery and Dorsal Rhizotomy on Selected Gait Characteristics of Cerebral Palsy Children, Danielle M. Lanoue
Dissertation: Control of Low-Speed Turbulent Separated Flow Over a Backward-Facing Ramp, John C. Lin
Dissertation: Characterization of a Novel Prostate Tumor-Associated Antigen, Grayson B. Lipford
Dissertation: Some Solutions to a Lens Model With Applications to Warm-Core Eddies, Juping Liu
Dissertation: Diapycnal Mixing and Mass Transfer in Western Boundary Currents, Jose Luis Pelegri Llopart
Thesis: A Paleoenvironmental Analysis Based on Ostracode Assemblages from the Late Pliocene Tuapaktushak and Middle Pleistocene Karmuk Members of the Gubik Formation of the Arctic Coastal Plain, Western Alaska, D. E. Loehrke
Dissertation: High Performance Issues on Parallel Architectures, Peter J. Looges
Thesis: The Failure of United States Foreign Policy in Egypt 1953-1956, Patrick Bruce Lowrey
Thesis: Relation of Groundwater Fluoride Concentrations to Sediment Mineralogy, Potomac Formation (Cretaceous), Southeastern Virginia, Paul Anthony Maciuika
Dissertation: The Relationship of Educational Attainment and Socioeconomic Factors in the Health Behaviors of an Urban Population, George C. Maihafer
Thesis: The Development of a Youth Consumer Culture in the United States in the 1950s, Phillip D. McCaskey
Thesis: The Functional Role of Peripheral Nerves in IgE-Mediated Inflammation, Gary Wright Miller
Dissertation: Differential Utilization of Allochthonous and Autochthonous Carbon By Aquatic Insects of Two Shrub-Steppe Desert Spring-Streams: A Stable Carbon Isotope Analysis and Critique of the Method, Alfred Lynn Mize
Thesis: Russophobia and Judophobia Backlash in Extremist Russian Nationalism, 1987-1990, Connie Moray
Thesis: Characterization of Trailing Line Vortices, Karla M. Mossi
Thesis: The Defenders of State Sovereignty and Individual Liberties, 1954 - 1967, David Pembroke Neff