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 1991
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
Dissertation: The Legislative Process in the Virginia General Assembly: Ten Case Studies of Environmental Legislation Proposed by Hampton Roads Cities, Betty Jean Meyer
Dissertation: Computer Use in the Scientific Office, Douglas L. Miller
Thesis: The Effects of a Commercial Nutritional Supplement Combining Amino Acids, Glutamine, Carnitine and B-Vitamins on the Physiological Responses to Ultraendurance Triathlon Training, Performance and Recovery, Mary V. Mitchell
Dissertation: Numerical Modeling of Flame Lift-Off Phenomenon and Calculation of Thermal Loads on a Methane Fuel Injector With Complex Geometry, Taj O. Mohieldin
Thesis: Nurse Manager Role Stress, RoseMarie Mohn
Dissertation: Characteristics of Families and Home Environments That Facilitate the Successful Adaptation of Children Into a Formal School Environment, Janice Elich Monroe
Dissertation: Determinants of Feedback-Seeking Behaviors, Melinda J. Montgomery
Dissertation: A Program Evaluation of the Welcome Baby Project: A Primary Prevention Program for Teenage Mothers and Their Infants, Susan A. Murdock
Thesis: The Breakdown Mechanism of Hollow Cathode Discharge, Mai Tuyet Ngo
Dissertation: Defining the Role of School Personnel Directors in Urban School Divisions of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Arnold Coy Nye Jr.
Dissertation: Continuum Modeling Methodology for Dynamic Behavior of Towers, Khaled A. Obeid
Dissertation: Psychosocial Developmental Levels of Freshman Urban University Students With Learning Disabilities, Nancy Ann Wolthuis Olthoff
Thesis: The Identification, Distribution, and Status of the Threatened Dismal Swamp Shrew (Sorex Longirostris Fisheri), Thomas M. Padgett
Dissertation: Approaches to High Speed Networks, Frank Charles Paterra
Thesis: A Descriptive Study of Commitment Practices in a Selected Jurisdiction, Louis A. Pesnicak
Thesis: Antisubmarine Warfare in the Fifth Naval District During World War II: The Defenses of the Chesapeake Bay, James R. Powell
Dissertation: A Study of the Planning Process Utilized by Urban School Divisions in Constructing Public Schools in the State of Virginia, 1984-1989, Patricia Liverman Powers
Thesis: Signal Processing Methodologies for an Acoustic Fetal Heart Rate Monitor, Robert A. Pretlow III
Thesis: An Experimental Investigation of Composite Sensors for Crack Length Measurement, Manickam Ramasamy
Dissertation: A Biochemical Study of Gossypol and Lactate Dehydrogenase X Binary Interactions, Patricia Brown Ravenell
Dissertation: A Robust Approach to Human-Computer Interface Design Using the Taguchi Method, Billie Mitchell Reed
Thesis: Identification of Health Promotion Behaviors, Perceived Health Status and Perceived Health Education Needs of Older Women, Susan Carol Fellinger Reynolds
Thesis: John Bankhead Magruder and the Defense of the Virginia Peninsula, 1861-1862, Leonard W. Riedel Jr.
Thesis: Relationships Among Type of Classrooms, Gender, and Measures of Student Classroom Perceptions and Preferences, Phyllis M. Roberson
Thesis: Edgardo Mercado Jarrin: Peruvian Foreign Policy During the First Three Years of the Revolutionary Military Government, 1968-1970, Cindy Lucille Robertson
Thesis: Problems and Coping Styles of Antepartal Patients Being Treated for Risk of Preterm Labor, Janet Wiehrs Rogers
Thesis: Study of the Heavy Fermion/Spin-Glass System, Ce1-x Gdx Al3, Using 155Gd Mossbauer Spectroscopy, Nicholas G. Ruggiero
Dissertation: Two-Dimensional Heat Loss From a Building Slab Including Convective Effects in Saturated Soil, William W. Rust III
Dissertation: Nitrogen Dynamics of the Acacia Senegal Agroforestry System in the Sudan, Zakaria Abdalla Mohammed Saad
Dissertation: Processes Affecting the Behavior of Redox-Sensitive Elements in Chesapeake Bay, Maria Lourdes San Diego-McGlone
Thesis: An Erasable Optical Memory Based on Stimulated Electronic Transition Concept, James D. Satira
Dissertation: Vitellogenesis in Hyalomma dromedarii (Acari: Ixodidae): A Model for Analysis of Endocrine Regulation in Ixodid Ticks, Martin E. Schriefer
Thesis: Investigation of Effects of Nose Bluntness and Angle of Attack on Slender Bodies in Viscous Hypersonic Flows, Ashwini Kumar Sehgal
Dissertation: Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Distributed Parameter Models of Large Beam-Like Structures, Ji Yao Shen
Dissertation: Using Socio-Demographic Characteristics to Evaluate the Program Outcome of Job Training Partnership Act Clients, Denise Vanasse Siegfeldt
Thesis: Faculty Standardization of Dental Hygiene Instrumentation Skill Evaluation: A Calibration Exercise, Diane-Marie Smela
Thesis: Cathodoluminescence of GaAs, Tyler Smith
Thesis: An Experimental and Analytical Investigation of Wing Flutter on a Trial Rotor V/STOL Aircraft, David L. Soistmann