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: 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
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