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 1992
Thesis: Multiple Learner Systems Using Resampling Methods, Binyun Xie
Dissertation: Monitoring Computer Systems: An Intelligent Approach, Myron Zhihong Xu
Dissertation: Seismic Response of Pipeline Systems in a Soil Liquefaction Environment, Hongzhi Zhang
Dissertation: High Performance Issues in Image Processing and Computer Vision, Jingyuan Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 1991
Thesis: Overall Laughing One and the Experiences, Anina Porter Adams
Dissertation: Micromechanics of Granular Materials and Its Relation to Wave Velocity, Tarun K. Agarwal
Thesis: Effect of Passive Flow-Control Devices on the Drug of a Tractor-Trailer Model, Jagjit K. Ahuja
Thesis: United States Tactical Doctrine, 1855 to 1861: The Mismeasure of Technology, Marion Vincent Armstrong Jr.
Dissertation: Operator Strategies Under Varying Conditions of Workload, Ruth Justine Arnegard
Thesis: The Relationship Among Absorption Anxiety and Frontal Electromyogram, Jeffrey E. Atkinson
Dissertation: Parallel-Vector Computation for Geometrically Nonlinear Frame Structural Analysis and Design Sensitivity Analysis, Majdi A. Baddourah
Dissertation: The Effects of an Inservice Training Program for Cooperating Teachers on the Supervision of Student Teachers in an Urban School System, Cheryl S. Baker
Thesis: Inter-American Indemnity: Internal Security and the Mutual Security Program for Latin America (1951-1961), Robert George Baker
Dissertation: An Analysis of Urban Higher Education CEO's Perceptions of Critical Leadership Behaviors, Linda Ferguson Banis
Thesis: The Road to Reorganization: The First Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Virginia, May 18-25, 1785, William C. Barnhart
Dissertation: Relocation Decision-Making in Dual-Career Couples, Lori Bartels
Thesis: Thermal Characterization of Carbon Monoxide Oxidation Catalysts Using Thermogravimetric Analysts and Differential Scanning Calorimetry, Rene A. Bartgis
Thesis: Touch Her, Carol Jensen Bliefernich
Thesis: Age Growth and Reproduction of Black Drum, Pogonias cromis, in Virginia, Stephen J. Bobko
Thesis: Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) An Attempt to Explore the Role of Khomeiniism in the War, Masoud Bonyanian
Thesis: The Effects of Confidentiality Gender and Subject Shyness on the Social Desirability Response Bias, Scott D. Bradshaw
Thesis: Identification and Ranking of Stressors Specific to the Acute Head Care Nurse, Joan A. Breen
Thesis: Playdance, Gary Ryan Brown
Thesis: Transfer of Thermal Biofeedback Training from One Hand to the Opposite Hand, W. Thomas Bundick Jr.
Dissertation: History and Analysis of Food Guides in the United States, Barbara B. Carlson
Thesis: Religious Orientation and Sex-Role Attitudes: The Apportionment of Paid Employment Childcare and Household Tasks within the Context of Marriage, Gregory Ralph Caron
Thesis: Reliability of Assessment of Postural Control in the Sitting Position in the Hemiplegic Subjects by use of a Functional Reach Task, Karen Dreher Carter
Dissertation: Effects of Mentoring on the Personal Career Development, Attendance, and Retention of Teen Mothers in a Job Training Program, M. Elaine Chase
Dissertation: Integrated System Identification and Adaptive State Estimation for Control of Flexible Space Structures, Chung-Wen Chen
Dissertation: On Shock Capturing for Liquid and Gas Media, Tze Jang Chen
Thesis: An Experimental Study on Anisotropic Behavior of Granular Materials, Jong Woon Choi
Thesis: Thermal Compatibility Analysis of the Passive Damping Treatment Proposed for the Space Shuttle Remote Manipulator System (SRMS), Mahesh Chowdhary
Thesis: High Performance Liquid Chromatographic Separation of Different Types of Collagen, Yongjoo Chung
Thesis: Difference Between Maternal Characteristics and Home Environments of Day Care and Non-Day Care Families, Eva Granahan Clarke
Thesis: Lessons From Home, Leslie T. Clark
Thesis: A Record of the Present Moment: A Comparison of the Early and Later Narrative Work of Gertrude Stein, Elisa Stuber Cohen
Thesis: Stable N-Chloraldimines and Other Chlorination Products of Phenylalanine in Model Solutions and in a Wastewater, Barbara L. Conyers
Thesis: A Heritage in Stone: The History of Norfolk's Burial Grounds and Customs Seventeenth to Nineteenth Century, Cheryl Copper
Thesis: An Analysis of Quality Assessment Efforts in Health Care, Margaret M. Curran
Thesis: Promoting Careers in Dental Hygiene: The Dental Hygienist's Role, Taline Dadian
Thesis: "But Where Shall Understanding Be Found?" Searching for Sophia, Personified Wisdom, Kathleen Damiani
Thesis: Uncle Sam's Lesbians: Power, Empowerment, and the Military Experience, Patricia Lee Davis
Thesis: At the Crossroads: U.S. National Interests in the Gulf and the Middle East, Khalid I. DeKhayel
Dissertation: The Effects of Job Characteristics and Task Decomposition on the Estimation of the Dollar-Value of Performance, Robert P. Delprino
Thesis: Finite Element Analysis of Nonlinear Panel Flutter of Rectangular Composite Plates Under a Uniform Thermal Load, lain Ross Dixon
Dissertation: An Unsolicited Sociotechnical Intervention in a Public System: A Participatory Action Research Approach, Ely Alfred Dorsey Jr.
Thesis: A Study of the Reactions of p-Dipiperidino Benzene and Its Synthesis from 1,4-Dicyano-1,4-Dipiperidinocyclohexane, Ilias Konstantinos Dorziotis
Thesis: A Diffuse Reflectance Infrared Fourier Transform Spectroscopic Study of Platinum/Tin (IV) Oxide Low-Temperature Carbon Monoxide Oxidation Catalysts, Donna Sue Duarte
Thesis: The Geomorphology of Alluvial Fan Deposits on the West Flank of the Blue Ridge, Augusta County, Virginia, Debra Lynn Duffy
Dissertation: The Solution of a Singular Integral Equation Arising From a Lifting Surface Theory for Rotating Blades, Mark H. Dunn
Thesis: The Effect of Fear of Success and Perceived Task Difficulty on Cognitive Performance, David Eugene Elkins
Thesis: From Pillage to Conquest: The Normans in Ireland, 1167-1185, Ray E. Etheridge
Dissertation: The Effects of Training and Feedback Format on Reactions to in-basket feedback and on In-Basket Performance, Michael G. Fedorko
Dissertation: Purification and Characterization of the Prostate Cancer-Associated Antigen: 7E11-C5, Qi Feng
Thesis: Sexual Orientation Body Image and Sexual Functioning, Charlie Bryan Finch Jr.
Thesis: The Theology of Father Brown, Catherine Miles Flynn
Dissertation: An Examination of the Effects of an Intergenerational Reading Workshop on the Listening Comprehension of At-Risk Pre-Kindergarten Students, Marycarolyn G. France
Dissertation: Gender Effects on Recall, Clinical Judgement and Treatment Recommendations for a Combination of Major Depression and Alcohol Dependence Symptoms, Jodi L. French
Dissertation: Large-Amplitude Finite Element Flutter Analysis of Composite Panels in Hypersonic Flow, Carl E. Gray Jr.
Thesis: Finite Element Analysis of Thermal Post-Buckling and Vibrations of Thermally Buckled Composite Plates, Charles Clifton Gray
Thesis: Multiple Cue Probability Learning: Effects of Individual Differences on MCPL Performance, Catherine Q. Greenwald
Dissertation: Estimation in a Marked Poisson Error Recapture Model of Software Reliability, Rajan Gupta
Dissertation: Communicating With Graphic User Interfaces: A Comparison of Menu Selection and Menu Bypass Techniques, Monty Lee Hammontree
Dissertation: Sleep Patterns and the Behavior of Children in the Second-, Third-, and Fourth-Grades in Urban Public Schools, Yolanda Cardelli Hampel
Dissertation: Development and Characterization of Monoclonal Antisperm Antibodies: Potential for Contraception, Dilrowshan H. Haque
Thesis: Preventative Oral Health Services Provided by Nurses' Aides to Nursing Home Residents, Deborah Lewis Hardy
Thesis: J. Robert Oppenheimer and His Role in the Development of the United States Nuclear Weapons Policy 1945-1953, Craig M. Harris
Thesis: The Effects of Social Support on the Psychological Adjustment of Navy Wives Experiencing Deployment, Marci A. Harris
Dissertation: The Role of Queuine Deficient tRNA in Translational Control, Kathryn Lenore Hart
Thesis: Effects of Ultrasonic Scaling and Hand Scaling on Root Typography, Kim Lee Herremans
Thesis: Simulation of 3-D Viscous Flow Around a Nozzle-Afterbody at High Speeds, Wendy B. Hoffman
Dissertation: The Effects of Wellness Activity Choices on Urban Employees' Psychological Mood States and Job Satisfaction, Ruth Porter Holland
Dissertation: Body-Image Attitudes and Perceptions Among African-Americans and Whites as a Function of Socioeconomic Class, Christopher Eugene Huffine
Thesis: A Geophysical and Geological Study of the Farmville Triassic Basin, Charles G. James Jr.
Thesis: Study of Cathodoluminescence in Semiconductors, Mandakini V. Kale
Thesis: The Role of Priming in the Rating Process: An Investigation of Priming Effects in a Simulated Assessment Center, Rebecca Regan Keever
Thesis: Experimental Study of Transition in a Supersonic Free Shear Layer, Rudolph A. King
Thesis: The Origins of the Department of Defense Recommendation to Cross the 38th Parallel During the Korean War, Wayne A. Kirkbride
Thesis: Linearized Dynamics of Space Structures with Articulated Appendages, Gopichand Koganti
Dissertation: Norfolk Resource Mothers Program Evaluation, Margaret Moore Konefal
Thesis: Application of Sensitivity Analysis to the Euler Equations, Vamshi Mohan Korivi
Thesis: Population Dynamics of Feral House Mice and Meadow Voles on a Dredge Disposal Site, Georgia E. Kratimenos
Dissertation: A Study on Teacher Change to Developmentally Appropriate Practice in the Primary Grades of an Urban Elementary School, Kerry Sullivan Lambert
Thesis: Community Structure of the Macrobenthos in Back Bay, Virginia, Michael F. Lane
Thesis: Fertilization and Mouse Embryo Development in the Presence of Midazolam, Maria Leavitt
Thesis: Q Improvement of a 5.2 GHz TE011 Cavity by Incorporating Y1Ba2Cu3O7-x, R. Joseph LeClear
Dissertation: Rotationally Resolved Laser Spectroscopy of the 3s2Σ+ ← 2p2II Transition in 6Li20Ne and 7Li20Ne Van Der Waals Molecules, Chang Jae Lee
Dissertation: The "Virginian-Pilot" Newspaper's Role in Moderating Norfolk, Virginia's 1958 School Desegregation Crisis, Alexander Stewart Leidholdt
Thesis: Domain Limitations and Interface Requirements for Expert Developed Knowledge Based Systems, Bernard Lee Lewis
Thesis: Indifference Graphs and the Single Row Routing Problem, Peter J. Looges
Thesis: Simulator for Concurrent Processing Data Flow Architectures, Mahyar R. Malekpour
Thesis: The Parties Quarrae, Michael E. Malone
Thesis: A Laboratory Study of Predation on the Trinidadian Guppy, Poecilia reticulata, by Two Natural Piscine Predators: Effects of Predator Size, Prey Size, and Habitat Complexity, Hayden Thomas Mattingly
Thesis: Conceptual Design of Dual Cam Mechanisms Using Graph Theory, Raymond Lee McClendon
Thesis: Reactions of Aqueous Chlorine with Valine in Model Solutions and in Wastewater, Erika Forrer McCormick
Thesis: Creativity its Phenomenology in Man and Nature, Margaret L. McCoy
Thesis: Analytical Modeling and Simulation for Investigation of a Digital Gas Filter Correlation Radiometer, Catherine P. McGowan
Thesis: Dynamic Test/Analysis Correlation Using Reduced Analytical Models, Paul E. McGowan
Thesis: Short-Term Effects of the PoliswabR on Supramarginal Bacterial Plaque Removal and Gingival Health in a Spinal Cord Unit Population, Beth Elaine McKinney
Dissertation: The Role of GABA in Reproductive Neuroendocrine Systems, Robert Carter McRee