All ODU theses and dissertations since Fall 2016 are available in this collection. Backfiles to 1976 of dissertations (and some theses) have also been added.

To browse dissertations and theses by academic department or program, please go to the Research by College, Department, Center page.

At some point, backfiles for all master's theses will be scanned and added. In the meantime, consult the library guide for "Dissertations & Theses" to find older items in print.

See the Graduate School site for information on submitting your ETD.

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Theses/Dissertations from 1986

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Thesis: Benthic Foraminifera and Paleoenvironments of the Arcola Limestone Member Mooreville Formation (Campanian) in Eastern Mississippi and Western Alabama, Julia K. Palmer

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Thesis: Confederate Leather Supply: Industrial Improvisation in the Confederacy, James E. Parker III

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Thesis: Cognitive Influences on Flavor Discrimination: Training Novices For Beer Flavor Differentiation, Rosalynn M. Peron

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Thesis: Clinical Effectiveness of ListerineR and ViadentR Mouthrinses on Bacterial Plaque and Gingivitis, Debra Pizzola Powell

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Thesis: Pregravid Weight, Prenatal Weight Gain and Maternal Age as Risk Factors in Pregnancy-Induced Hypertension Development, Maryellen C. Remich

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Thesis: The Status of Co-Recreational Intramural Sports in 1984 at American Colleges and Universities, Thomas M. Roberts

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Thesis: The Effects of Luteinizing Hormone and Adenosine 3',5'-Cyclic Monophosphate on Phospholipid Metabolism by Luteal Mitochondria, Jim John Sadighian

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Thesis: Investigation of Nickle as a Matrix Modifier in the Atomic Absorption Analysis of Tin, Charles William Saunders

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Thesis: A Frequency Domain Digital Signal Processor for Laser Velocimeter Systems, Andreas Evangelos Savvakis

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Thesis: Frances E. Willard's Southern Tours for Temperance: 1881-1883, Charles Jeffrey Shelton

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Thesis: Bark or Bite Perspectives on Economic Sanctions for Foreign Policy Objectives, Rodney W. Skotty

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Thesis: The Effect of Pre-Sterile Medium PH Photoperiod and N6-(2-Isopentenyl)-Adenine (2IP) on Shoot Production During Stage II Micropropagation of Rhododendrons, Lori Longo Smith

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Thesis: Use of Two Data Collection Strategies to Evaluate Stressors and Coping in Spouses of Patients Sustaining a Myocardial Infarction, Pamalla Manz Stockho

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Dissertation: Estimating the Utility of Job Performance the Influence of the Delphi Technique and Behavioral Examples on Supervisors' Estimates, Scott I. Tannenbaum

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Dissertation: A Study of the Effectiveness of Developmental Reading and Writing Courses at Old Dominion University, Jimi Thomas-Muskovac

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Thesis: Symbol of American Discontent: The Selective Service During the Vietnam War, Jean B. Todd

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Thesis: Speech Anxiety as a Self-Handicapping Strategy, Gerald Macon Travis

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Dissertation: Investigation of Vscous/Inviscid Interaction in Transonic Flow Over Airfoils With Suction, Chadra S. Vemuru

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Thesis: Geometric Photoisomer Investigation of Bilirubin (Z,Z)-IXα, Robert Howe Walker III

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Thesis: A Study of Federalist Motivation in the Virginia Ratifying Convention of 1788, Rosemarie Yoder

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Thesis: Wind Streamline Ambiguity Removal of Microwave Scatterometer Data, Hans W. Zaepfel

Theses/Dissertations from 1985

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Thesis: Long-Term System Performance of a Direct Expansion Solar Assisted Heat Pump, Majid Abazeri

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Thesis: Controlling the Big Stick: The United States Navy and the Cuban Intervention of September 1906, Christopher A. Abel

Thesis: Removing Fluoride from Drinking Water By Organic Polymers, Eleni Davou Achilleos

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Thesis: Feasibility Studies of Conversion Electron Mossbauer Spectroscopy (CEMS) of Iron-Doped InP, Edward Agyekum

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Thesis: Lineament Analysis and Tectonic Interpretation for the Central Tharsis Region, Mars, Robert C. Anderson

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Thesis: Effects of Ethanol on Stimulus Properties of D-Amphetamine, Michaela Arango

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Dissertation: Unsteady Transonic Flow Over Slender Bodies, Cevdet Aydun

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Thesis: Fluvial Depositional Processes of a Tropical River, Colombia, South America, Michael L. Babuin

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Thesis: The Short Term Effect of a Dental Health Fair on Children's Attitudes Toward Plaque Control, Fluorides, Nutrition, and Receiving Dental Treatment, Sue Nell Bethea

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Thesis: Acetylcholinesterase in the Neonatal Rat Brain: The Effects of Prenatal Ethanol Exposure, Linda M. Boland

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Thesis: The Role of the Nurse Middle Manager in a Military Health Care Setting, Terry Brown

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Thesis: The American-British Alliance of World War II and the Debate Over European Strategy, Emory Allen Burton

Thesis: The Effect of Intuition on Creativity as Discussed by Several Individuals of Creative Genius, Mary Jean Campbell

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Thesis: The Relationship Between Response Variability and Interview Contrast Effects, Salvatore John Cesare

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Thesis: The Ellet Family and Riverine Warfare in the West--1861-1865, Jesse L. Chapman

Thesis: Design of a Modulation System Simulator, Vincent Carl Dale

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Thesis: A Geophysical Model of the Gravity-Magnetic High, Virginia Coastal Plan, Gordon Everett Davison

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Thesis: Determination of Total and Unfilterable Plasma Aluminum in Uremic Patients, Theodore R. Delbridge

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Thesis: An Investigation to Improve Linear Predictive Vocoder Pulse/Noise Excitation Models, Elizabeth Annella Martina Effer

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Dissertation: An Evaluation of Education Programs for Pregnant Teens in Three Selected Urban Virginia Communities, Susan K. Eilberg

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Thesis: The Relationship Between Habitat Structure and Small Mammal Communities in Southeastern Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina, Roger Keith Everton

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Thesis: The Direct Summation of Totally Self-Checking Checkers, Stefean Andrew Fedyschyn

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Thesis: High Performance Switching Circuits for VLSI, Ali Reza Feizi

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Thesis: Absorption Cross-Sections of Sodium Diatomic Molecules, Zeng-Shevan Fong

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Thesis: Solar-Assisted Heat Pumps for Low-Temperature Industrial Process Heat Applications, Kamran Fouladi-Semnani

Thesis: Selecting Non-Point Source Pollution Treatment Practices Using Linear Optimization, John Gardy Garland III

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Thesis: Depositional Model for the Auriferous Gravels in the Payan Mining District Department of Narino, Columbia, South America, Jim R. Garrett

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Thesis: Small Farmers' Cooperatives in Brazil, 1964-1984 Reasons for Success or Failure, Henry H. Gerber

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Thesis: Portrait of the Scientific Journals in Germany: 1930-1936, Paul Eugene Gesling Jr.

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Thesis: Foraminiferal Paleoenvironments of the Eastover Formation (Upper Miocene Virginia), JoAnn H. Goshorn

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Dissertation: Laity Expectations of Ministers in the Black Urban Church: A Study of Political and Social Expectations in the Context of Ministry to Community and World, James Henry Harris

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Thesis: The Apparent Dissociation Constants of Carbonic Acid in Low Salinity Waters, Ching-Hui Hsu

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Thesis: Development of an On-Line Computer System for Cyclic Voltammetry Studies, Tai-Lee Leo Huo

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Dissertation: Minimal Norm Constrained Interpolation, Larry Dean Irvine

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Thesis: Color Display of Vowel Spectra as a Training Aid for the Deaf, Amir Jalali Jagharghi

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Thesis: A Humanistic Consideration of the Farm Security Administration Photographs Made in Virginia, Brooks Johnson

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Thesis: The Synthesis and Evaluation of a New Analog of Phencyclidine (PCP), William H. Johnson Jr.

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Dissertation: Analyses of Quasi-Isotropic Composite Plates Under Quasi-Static Point Loads Simulating Low-Velocity Impact Phenomena, Ajit Dhundiraj Kelkar

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Dissertation: The Effects of Training in Safe Manual Handling on the Patient Lifting Techniques of Nursing Personnel, Bruce Paul Klein

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Thesis: Computer Aided Simulation of a Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning System in a Building, Sunil Shrikrishna Kulkarni

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Thesis: Living Reflections, Lorane Leavy

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Thesis: Mossbauer Study of Gadolinium Iron Garnet, Jun Li

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Dissertation: The Unification and Decomposition of Processing Structures Using Lattice Theoretic Methods, David L. Livingston

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Thesis: Clinical Effectiveness of Hydrogen Peroxide-Sodium Bicarbonate Paste on Human Periodontitis Treated With and Without Scaling and Root Planing, Sylvia M. Lyne

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Thesis: Depositional Environments of Late Precambrian Sediments from Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Senegal, West Africa, Alfred W. Magee III

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Thesis: Structural Self-Shadowing and Its Effects on the Thermal-Structural Behavior of Orbiting Trusses, Jack Mahaney

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Thesis: Correlates of Knowledge and Locus of Control on Burden in Professional Caregivers of Alzheimer's Disease Victims in Three Institution Types, Ruth A. Manning-Gay

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Thesis: Design of Multivariable Feedback Control Systems Via Spectral Assignment, Mohsen Marefat

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Dissertation: A Perception Based Integrative Theory of Individual Behavior in Organizations, John Edward Mathieu

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Thesis: Sedimentologic and Stratigraphic Significance of Boulder Layers in the Outer Coastal Plain of Southeastern Virginia, Robert C. McDaniel

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Dissertation: Statistical Calibration Theory, James John McKeon

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Thesis: Leachate Monitoring in Naturally Saline Groundwater Chesapeake Landfill Chesapeake Virginia, T. Britt McMillan

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Thesis: The Oneida Community: Its Apologists and its Critics, Nancy C. Morris

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Thesis: Analog Computer Simulation with Automatic Scaling By Digital Computer, Mark Anthony Motter

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Thesis: The Effects of Blood Glucose Self-Monitoring on Self-Esteem and the Ability to Apply Knowledge About Diabetes Mellitus, Nancy-Lu F. Moul

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Thesis: Curtain of Silence Japanese in Soviet Custody, 1945-1956, William F. Nimmo

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Thesis: The Effectiveness of Stimulation Therapy for the Cognitively Impaired Elderly, Sylvia H. Old

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Thesis: Conodont Biostratigraphy of the Cambrian-Ordovician Boundary Interval in the Northern Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, U.S.A., Randall C. Orndorff

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Thesis: Anxiety Differences Associated with Transtelephonic and Conventional Pacemaker Client Follow-Up Methods, Julieta Advento Richman

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Dissertation: Algebraic Grid Generation Using Tensor Product B-Splines, Bonita Valerie Saunders

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Thesis: Comparison of an Improved Plankton Sampler to the Standard Conical Plankton Net, Ronald S. Schmidt

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Thesis: Test Derivation for CMOS Iterative Logic Arrays, Ravi Sharma

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Thesis: Attributions of Martial Conflict Among College Students, Gary Franklin Sigler

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Thesis: A Biochemical and Genetic Analysis of the American Shad Alosa Sapidissima Migrating into the Chesapeake Bay, Edward Norbert Sismour

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Thesis: Noetic Infinity and Intelligible Matter: Reexamination of the Fundamental Structure of the Philosophy of Plotinus, Atsushi Sumi

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Thesis: Social Support Networks: The Effects of Sex and Personality Variables on Utilization of Resources, S. Dee Treschuk

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Thesis: The Use of Ilmenite Element Composition for the Determination of Provenance, Yu W. Tsang

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Thesis: Investigation of Eddy Population and Motion in the Southern International Ice Patrol Operations Area (40°-47°N by 40°-55°W), Frank J. Williams

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Thesis: The Distribution of Ceratia Over the Mid-Atlantic Bight, Paul V. Zimba

Theses/Dissertations from 1984

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Thesis: Mass Spectrometric Studies of Oxygen Isotope Exchange Reactions with Oxide Surfaces, Gayle J. Allen

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Dissertation: An Investigation of Refractive Index of Solutions of Ammonia and Water at Various Concentrations and Temperatures, Effendy Arif

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Thesis: A 250-KV Two-Pulse Modulator for the Gas Flow Switch Test Facility, David Michael Barrett

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Dissertation: An Intraseason Forecasting System for Commercial Marine Fisheries, Erik J. Barth

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Thesis: Life History Patterns of Dytiscidae in a Temporary Pool, Annabel C. Blanco

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Thesis: The Gift of the Gods: The Impact of the Korean War on Japan, John P. Bowen

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Dissertation: Research to Develop a Consensus Self-Evaluation Model of National Norms of Excellence for Alternating Cooperative Education Programs at Four-Year Colleges and Universities, Constance F. Brothers

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Thesis: Admissions Criteria as Predictors of Students' Successful Completion of a Dental Hygiene Program, M. Linda Brown

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Dissertation: An Examination of the Variability of Migratory Timing Statistics Estimated From Catch and Effort Observations, Arthur J. Butt

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Thesis: Predictors of Appointment-Keeping Behaviors Among Users of Adult Medical Clinics, Ruth L. Campau