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
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
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