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
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
Dissertation: Investigation of Alignment Dynamics in Mg-Ne and Mg-Ar Two-Photon Fractional Collisions, David Allen Olsgaard
Thesis: Teaching Rhetorical Delivery in Freshman Composition, Clayann Gilliam Panetta
Thesis: A Novel Technique for Deep Level Characterization of High-Resistivity Semiconductor Materials, Sridhar Panigrahi
Thesis: An Experimental Study for the Effect of Specimen Size on Shear Behavior of Granular Materials, Clifton Linwood Parker IV
Dissertation: An Evaluation of the Performance of Retired Military Personnel Who Begin Teaching as a Second Career, Wendell Edgar Parker
Thesis: Structural Characterization of Fucoidan and Its Role in the Hemizona Assay, Manish S. Patankar
Dissertation: Evidence for the Sensory Receptor(s) of the Mounting Sex Pheromone in Two Species of Ixodid Ticks, Dermacentor variabilis (Say) and Dermacentor andersoni Stiles, James Stephen Phillips
Thesis: The Measurement of Mood Variation Over Time and Its Relation to Performance, William T. Pinkston
Dissertation: The Growth and Bioenergetics of Callinectes sapidus Larvae and the Effects of Diet Quality on Larval Physiology, James J. Pletl
Thesis: Hierarchical Flux-Based Thermal-Structural Finite Element Analysis Method, Sandra P. Polesky
Dissertation: The Evaluation of Company-Sponsored Test-Preparation Courses: Training Different Aged Employees on General Test-Taking Skills and Basic Cognitive Skills, Kerrie D. Quinn
Dissertation: Search for the Mössbauer Effect in 109Ag, Shokrollah Rezaie-Serej
Thesis: SMIMD - A Synchronous Multiple Instruction Multiple Data Computer Architecture, Cathy C. Roberts
Thesis: U.S.S. New Ironsides: The Seagoing Ironclad in the Union Navy, William Howard Roberts
Thesis: Analysis of Impact Damage of Composite Laminates Using Five-Point Bending, Mark Edward Robeson
Dissertation: Text-Independent Automatic Speaker Identification Using Partitioned Neural Networks, Laszlo Rudasi
Dissertation: Unsteady Euler and Navier-Stokes Computations Around Oscillating Delta Wing Including Dynamics, Ahmed Abd-El-Bar Ahmed Salman
Thesis: A Multivariate Characterization of Assemblages of Planktonic Mysids Decapods and Sergestids in the Chesapeake Bay Mouth Area, John Charles Seibel
Dissertation: Bounds on Constraint Weight Parameters of Hopfield Networks for Stability of Optimization Problem Solutions, Gursel Serpen
Thesis: About Faces: The Investigation of Electrodermal Activity (EDA) as it Relates to the Recognition and Naming of Faces, Donald J. Shearer
Thesis: The Relationship Between Gender and Empathy on a Telephone Hotline, George Shepeard
Thesis: An Assessment of Food Sanitation Knowledge and Practice of Restaurant Workers in Taichung City, Taiwan, Shiow-Fu Sheu
Thesis: Attacks on U.S. Submarines by Friendly Forces in World War II, Britt C. Skogstad
Thesis: Fluid Inclusion Studies of the Morefield Pegmatite Amelia County, Virginia, John Richard Smerekanicz
Thesis: Wising up the Marks: The Later Works of William S. Burroughs, Stephen L. Starck
Thesis: The Implementation of the Reagan Administration's Counterterrorist Policy, Howard Lawrence Steinberg
Dissertation: Mat Movement in Coastal Louisiana Marshes: Effect of Salinity and Inundation on Vegetation and Nutrient Levels, Christopher Martin Swarzenski
Thesis: Salvation at the Cinema: Religious References in American Science Fiction Films of the 1980's, Marjorie Roberts Tautkus
Dissertation: The Effects of Automation and Task Difficulty on Crew Coordination, Workload, and Performance, Ruth Coleen Thornton
Thesis: The Effects of Stroke on the Comprehension of Affective and Nonaffective Prosody, Mona Matheney Tiernan
Thesis: A Phenomenology of Textuality, Alessandro Tomasi
Dissertation: Causal Analysis of a National Study of Sales Personnel Turnover Functionality, Eric J. Vanetti
Thesis: Awareness of and Rights Related to the Patient Self-Determination Act of 1990 by Selected Post-Adolescent College Students, Toni M. Vargas
Thesis: Design Considerations for an Astronaut Monorail System for Large Space Structures and the Structural Characterization of Its Positioning Arm, Judith J. Watson
Thesis: The American Schoolyard: A Critical Study of Charles Bukowski's Short Fiction, Jonathan D. Weiss
Dissertation: Distribution of Foraminifera and Pollen in Coastal Depositional Environments of the Southern Delmarva Peninsula, Virginia, U.S.A., Han Jun Woo
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