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: Paleobathymetric Interpretation of Pleistocene Sediments in the South Padre Island Area, Northwestern Gulf of Mexico, Using Benthic Foraminiferal Morphology, Karen Ianthe Kruebbe-Belwood
Thesis: The Impractical Ideal Costa Rica, the United States and Central America Reunification, 1902-1932, Donald R. Lam
Thesis: Political Interference in Military Operations During the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, Thomas Max Lansford
Thesis: Accurate Evaluation of Homogeneous and Nonhomogeneous Gas Emissivities, Kam-Pui Lee
Thesis: Instability Waves in the Gulf Stream Front and Its Thermocline Layer, Sang-Ki Lee
Dissertation: Studies on Type I and Type II DNA Topoisomerases From Mammalian Mitochondria, Jia-Hwei LIn
Thesis: A Study of the Interface Between a Turbulent Boundary Layer and the Irrotational Free Stream, Shih-Chao Lin
Thesis: American Christianity and its Role in the Denigration of the African-American Identity as Found in African-American Literature, Zelda Lockhart
Thesis: The Degree of Exposure to Anesthetic Nitrous Oxide Waste Gas in the Operating Room During Various Surgical Procedures, Kathryn Ann Longworth
Thesis: Reliability Trend Analyses With Statistical Confidence Limits Using the Luke Reliability Trend Chart, Stephen R. Luke
Thesis: Recent Benthic Foraminifera, Petrology, and Implications for Recent Transport in Wilmington and South Heyes Submarine Canyons, U.S. Atlantic Continental Margin, Jason James Lundquist
Thesis: Katharine's Dream, Karen Maceira
Thesis: Simultaneous Aerodynamic Analysis and Design Optimization, Satish Venkatasubra Mani
Thesis: The Nuclear Contamination of Kazakhstan, Rebecca Marie Matter
Thesis: Attitudes of Virginia Dental Hygienists Towards Issues Relevant to the Independent Practice of Dental Hygiene, Linda Hawkins McCain
Dissertation: Description and Dynamics of 50-Day Oscillations in the Western Tropical Region of the CME Model, Julie Lorraine McClean
Thesis: The Falcon: A Play, Harold W. McKinney II
Thesis: Maternal Perceptions of the Social Development and Behavior of Asthmatic Children, Chelley A. Merrell
Thesis: The Relationship Between Negative Affectivity and Perceptions of Performance and the Workplace, Johanna M. Merritt
Dissertation: Materialism and the Self, Kathleen Shirley Micken
Thesis: The Identification and Magnitude Estimation of Stressors in a Selected Military Population at One Training Command, Susan W. Miller
Dissertation: Modeling Nutrient and Plankton Processes in the California Coastal Transition Zone, John Roland Moisan
Thesis: A Historiographical Survey of the Assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Ottie Jackson Moore Jr.
Thesis: Lithofacies of the Pliocene-Pleistocene Lucayan Limestone, Great Abaco Island, Little Bahama Bank, Mary K. Mullen
Thesis: Development of a Knowledge Based System for Wastewater Pipeline Failure Risk Assessment, Adam Mayanzani Ngaliga
Thesis: Study of Single-Fiber Fiber Optic Lever Microphone, Trung Duc Nguyen
Thesis: Bleek: A Dramatic Poem, Gwendolyn Gail Nixon
Thesis: Age and Growth of Larval and Juvenile Atlantic Croaker, Micropogonias Undulatus, from the Middle Atlantic Bight and Estuarine Waters of Virginia, Stephen W. Nixon
Dissertation: A Performance Prediction Model for a Fault-Tolerant Computer During Recovery and Restoration, Rodrigo A. Obando
Thesis: An Analysis of the Response of a Buckled Beam with Fixed Ends to an Harmonic Base Excitation Using the Finite Element Method, Peter John O'Donoghue
Dissertation: The Use of a Factory Simulation to Evaluate a Flexible Control Structure for Integrated Manufacturing, Ling Ling Pan
Thesis: Resource Utilization Model for the Algorithm to Architecture Mapping Model, Rakesh R. Patel
Dissertation: Improving Team Performance By Identifying and Targeting Back-Up Behaviors: A Training Strategy, Rosalynn M. Peron
Dissertation: Population Dynamics in Response to Fire in Quercus laevis - Pinus palustris Barrens and Related Communities in Southeast Virginia, Allen E. Plocher
Thesis: Pheromonal Composition of Two Species of African Amblyomma Ticks: Similarities, Differences and Possible Species Specific Components, Thomas Lem Price Jr.
Dissertation: The Biogeochemistry of Hydrogen Sulfide in the Open Ocean, Joël Radford-Knoery
Thesis: Towards a Universal Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, T. P. Radhakrishnan
Thesis: A New Adjoint Variable Method for the Sensitivity Analysis of Dynamic Responses, Krishnamoorthy Ramesh
Thesis: Responses to Dissatisfaction in Psychotheraphy: The Influence of Prior Satisfaction, Perceptions of Problem Severity and Attachment Style, Christopher C. Read
Thesis: The Isolation and Identification of Polyphenolics from Grape Seeds and Their Activity Towards Specific Cell Lines, Joseph A. Reddy
Thesis: The Effect of Prior Cooperation and Competition on Approaches to a Decomposed Social Dilemma, Keith M. Rettig
Thesis: Sexual Orientation, Attachment, and Adult Relationship Quality, Earl Calvin Riggins III
Thesis: Sexual Orientation, Attachment, and Adult Relationship Quality, Earl Calvin Riggins III
Thesis: Petrology of a Large Granophyre-Rich Mesozoic Diabase Dike Near Farmville, Virginia, Philip Thomas Rogan
Dissertation: Managerial Roles and Entrepreneurship in Non-Profit Urban Arts Agencies in Virginia, Beth Joan Novitch Rossheim
Thesis: Cyclo-Static Scheduling of Large Grain Dataflow Algorithms on a Local Area ATAMM Multicomputing Testbed, Sudeepto Roy
Dissertation: Grid Sensitivity for Aerodynamic Optimization and Flow Analysis, Ideen Sadrehaghighi
Dissertation: Attributions for Change in Attitude Among Urban Elementary Parochial School Teachers Toward Children Who Speak Nonstandard English, Charles A. Saglio Jr.
Thesis: Separation and Quantification of Queuine-Modified and Unmodified Transfer RNA Isoacceptors, Jorge Miguel Pereira de Oliveira da Silva Santos
Dissertation: A Construct Validity Study of the Cynicism Scale of the MMPI-2, Jeffrey Shelton
Dissertation: Analysis of the Proteoglycan Content in Fresh and Cryopreserved Porcine Cardiovascular Tissues, Yun Hee Shon
Thesis: Masculinity Ideology: Establishing Convergent and Discriminant Validity, Jeffrey S. Sinn
Thesis: Tobacco and Its Role in the Life of the Confederacy, D. T. Smith
Dissertation: A Meta-Analysis of the Relative Effectiveness of Two Cooperative Learning Models in Increasing Mathematics Achievement, Frances Burton Spuler
Dissertation: An Evaluation of the Implementation of Total Quality Management in a Service Organization, Charles Stanford Stevens
Dissertation: The Influence of Cohesive Groups on the Ethical Behavior of Public Employees: An Analysis of an Urban University, Patricia Bellin Strait
Dissertation: Cultural Transposition: Exploring Meanings of and Strategies for Cross-Cultural Transfer of Organizational Practices, Yongming Tang
Dissertation: Influence of Processing Techniques on Copper Deep Levels Formation and on Photoconductivity in Silicon Doped Gallium Arsenide, Lucy M. Thomas
Thesis: Computation of the Aerodynamic Characteristics of a Subsonic Transport Aircraft Using a Panel Method, Lillianne Plaster Whitelock Troeger
Thesis: Analysis of Pultrusion Processing for Long Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastic Composite System, Wen Tso
Thesis: Cross-Cultural Issues in the Management of German-Owned Business Subsidiaries in Hampton Roads, Teja Ulrich
Thesis: A Sociotechnical Approach to the Study of Semiautonomous Work group Communication in Technical Organizations, Elizabeth B. Varnes
Thesis: The Impact of Leadership Style and Subordinate Charisma on Organizational Outcomes, Amy L. Vick
Dissertation: The Relationship of Locus-of-Control and Altruism to Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Providers Universal Precaution Practices, Joanne L. Wakeham
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