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 1990
Dissertation: The Role of Small Peptides in Cancer Physiology and Chemotherapy, Bao-Ling Tsay
Thesis: Visual Speech Training Aid for the Deaf, Subhashri Venkat
Thesis: The Reaction of Organoboranes with N-Chloro-N-Sodiocarbamates: A Convenient Synthesis of N-Alkylcarbamates, Nanette M. Wachter-Jurcsak
Dissertation: A Mathematical Model of the Dynamics of an Optically Pumped Codoped Solid State Laser System, Thomas G. Wangler
Thesis: Relationship of Dysphoria to the Recall of Positive Negative and Neutral Words, Sarah Ellen Ware
Thesis: Hydrogenation Effects on Trap Related Conduction in Diamond, Linwood Cleveland Watkins III
Thesis: Looking for Literary Metaphor on Film: A Structuralist Study of East of Eden, Doctor Zhivago, and To Kill a Mockingbird, Charles D. Weaver
Thesis: Investigation of Mixing Characteristics of a LOX Injector Operating at Non-Ideal Thermodynamic Conditions, W. Wei
Dissertation: The Role of the Voltage Gradient in the Agarose Gel Electrophoresis of DNA, David Wheeler
Dissertation: The Effects of Variable Parameters on the Behavior of Initial Wind Waves, Glen Harvey Wheless
Thesis: A Study of Striga Chromosome Numbers with a Comparison to Those of Some Genera in the Rhinathoideae and the Orobanchaceae, Cynthia White
Thesis: The Effects of Two Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Benzo[a]pyrene and Naphthalene on Reproductive Success Embryological Development Larval Physiology and Mortality of the Mud Crab Rhithropanopeus harisii (Gould), Gregory V. White
Thesis: Dynamics and Control of Two Suspension Mechanisms for Ground-Based Testing of Space Structures, Joseph E. Wilson
Thesis: Vincent Van Gogh: The Artist and His Journey, Sheila F. Winborne
Thesis: Separation of Transfer RNA Isoacceptors by Reversed Phase W-Porex C-4 High Pressure Liquid Chromatography, Christine D. Witte
Thesis: Relationships Between Early Mother-Infant Interaction and Later Patterns of Attachment, Christine Oakes Work
Thesis: Mathews County Shipbuilding Patterns, 1780-1860, Peter Jennings Wrike
Thesis: The Study of Oxygen Transport Through Polycrystalline, Single Crystal and Alloyed Silver, Dongchuan Wu
Thesis: Microwell Based Solid Phase Competitive Enzyme Immunoassay for Estradiol and Estriol, Jeng-Ting Yang
Dissertation: Control and Mechanism Interaction for Ground-Based Testing of Space Structures, Li-Farn Yang
Thesis: The Evolution and Implementation of Eisenhower's "New Look" Foreign Policy: Guatemala, Jonathan Joseph York
Dissertation: The Relationship Between Occupational Choice and Perceptions of Professional Nursing Functions and Characteristics, Ellis Quinn Youngkin
Dissertation: Retirement and Re-Entry Decision-Making: A Faculty Perspective, Seth Zimmer
Theses/Dissertations from 1989
Thesis: Evaluation of Equilibrium Turbulence for a Hypersonic Boundary Layer at Nonadiabatic Wall Conditions, Cindy W. Albertson
Thesis: Auditory Feedback and Fitts' Law, Tamara L. Atkinson
Thesis: The U.S. Army and the Development of the ROK Army: 1945-1950, Charles M. Ayers
Dissertation: The Effects of Training Strategies on Assessor Behavior and the Accuracy of Assessment Center Consensus Ratings, Todd A. Baker
Thesis: An Assessment of the Characteristics and Attrition Rates of Physical Therapist Assistant Educational Programs, Pamela Ann Bayliss
Dissertation: Productivity Measurement for Home Health Care Registered Nurses, Lazelle Emminizer Benefield
Thesis: Self-Esteem and Perceived Barriers to and Benefits of Exercise Among Physically Active and Non-Physically Active College Students, Barbara Brown Bonheur
Thesis: Person Perception as a Function of Sex and Age, Leslie Borland
Thesis: Mine Warfare in the Russian and Soviet Navies, Jeffrey K. Bray
Thesis: Regulation of Queuine Insertion into Transfer RNA: Effects of Tumor Promoters, Bonnie Jean Brooks
Dissertation: Population Variation in the Mitochondrial-DNA of Two Marine Organisms: The Hard Shell Clam Mercenaria spp. and the Killifish, Fundulus Heteroclitus, Bonnie Lynn Brown
Thesis: An Analysis of Selected Family Life Education Curricula, Phoebe Terry Butler
Dissertation: Computer Technology for Executive Decision-Making in Urban Public Education Divisions in Virginia, Richard Kenneth Byrd
Thesis: Arctic Leverage: Canadian Sovereignty and Security, Nathaniel French Caldwell Jr.
Dissertation: Academic and Therapeutic Potential of the Sierra II Process: An Evaluation of an Adapted Outward Bound Diversion Program for Adjudicated Juvenile Delinquents, Ronald Clifford Callahan
Thesis: Health Status and Perceived Health Care Needs of Female Veterans of the Armed Services, Nancy Einstein Camp
Dissertation: Accuracy of Performance Measurement: An Investigation of Training Method and Amount of Practice, Salvatore J. Cesare
Thesis: Automatically Generating Functional Tests from Specifications - A Knowledge Based Constraint Logical Programming Approach, Ji Chen
Thesis: Spatiality in Ulysses and Cubism, Lingchei Chen
Thesis: An Exploratory Study of Research Utilization by Virginia Nurse Educators, Evelyn M. Clingerman
Thesis: Reconstruction in Kemper County, Mississippi, Michael Brian Connolly
Thesis: A Geophysical Study of the Easternmost Piedmont: Brunswick County, Virginia, Mark A. Corbin
Thesis: A Social Exchange Approach to Explaining Satisfaction with Therapy, Brenda B. Counts
Dissertation: The Impostor Phenomenon in the Classroom: Personality and Cognitive Correlates, Barbara H. Cromwell
Thesis: Towards the 21st Century: Long Cycles and the Future of the United States, John Davis
Thesis: Optical Machine Recognition of Lower-Case Greek Characters of Any Size, Ivan X. D. D'Cunha
Thesis: Picoplankton/Phytoplankton Dynamics in Hampton Roads, Virginia, Leslie E. Dorworth
Thesis: Navier-Stokes Analysis of Cold Gas Scramjet Nozzle-Afterbody Flowfields, Walter C. Engelund
Thesis: The Peaceful Resolution of Norfolk's Integration Crisis of 1958-1959, Nancy Parker Ford
Thesis: Electrostatic Effects on Airborne Asbestos Monitoring, Roxanne Francis
Thesis: Changes in Caloric Content as a Result of Sub-Lethal Stress in Neanthes Virens (SARS), Phyllis J. Friello
Thesis: The Use of Rhythm in the Acquisition of Motor Skills, Ann C. Fulop
Dissertation: Low Speed Flowfield Characterization by Infrared Measurements of Surface Temperatures, Ehud Gartenberg
Thesis: Experimental Study of Pressure and Heating Rate on a Swept Cylindrical Leading Edge Resulting from Swept Shock Wave Interference, Christopher E. Glass
Thesis: Gender Differences in the Relation Between Locus of Control and Physiological Responses, Monique C. Grelot
Thesis: Gender Differences in the Relation Between Locus of Control and Physiological Responses, Monique C. Grelot
Thesis: Reliability of Q-Angle Measurement, Elisabeth Ann Grusheski
Dissertation: Hemispheric Effects of Response Hand and Concurrent Auditory and Visual Information Processing on Task Performance, Paula J. Guerette
Thesis: Isolation and Partial Characterization of Basic, Sperm-Specific, Nuclear Proteins in the Dog and Hampster, Richard William Hall
Dissertation: Mounting Sex Pheromone: A Novel Pheromone Responsible for Mate Recognition in the Ixodidae, JGC Hamilton
Thesis: A Comparison of Traditional and Non-Traditional Women's Preferences for Family Oriented Vs. Career Oriented Men, Lee M. Handeland
Thesis: Spectroscopic Study of Decomposition Products of Gossypol, David Bernard Hankins
Thesis: Factors Determining Peripheral Vascular Disease Clients' Intent to Adhere to Prescribed Behaviors, Gretchen Grahn Hitchcock
Thesis: Task-Hemispheric Integrity Effect: Level of Task Difficulty and Mental Workload in a Dual Task, Nancy E. Hite
Dissertation: On Vector Sequence Transforms and Acceleration Techniques, Steven L. Hodge
Thesis: Expert Systems for Automated Maintenance of a Mars Oxygen Production System, Ming-Tsang Ho
Dissertation: Detection of Outliers and Influential Observations in Regression Models, Anwar M. Hossain
Dissertation: Software Reliability Models, Syed Afzal Hossain
Thesis: Identification and Quantitation of Volatile Amines in Marine Sediments, Chuen Mei Huang
Thesis: Determinations of Molecular Weight and Molecular Weight Distribution of High Polymers by the Rheological Properties, Joan Y. Z. Huang
Dissertation: A Comparison of the Academic Achievement of Urban Second-Grade Pupils With Different Forms of Public Preschool Experience, Elva Williams Hunt
Thesis: The Effects of Nonlinearities on the Optimal Design of Forced Vibrating Beams, Cheryl Celestine Jackson
Dissertation: On the Unique Tree Representation of Graphs, Beverly Jamison
Thesis: The 93rd Division: A Victim of Domestic Politics, 1938-1945, Robert F. Jefferson
Thesis: Pet Rock, July A. Jolly
Dissertation: Platelet Function and Energy Metabolism During Storage in a Well-Defined Experimental Medium, Thais Edwina Ahrendt Keegan
Thesis: An Experimental Study of Dewatering of Alum Sludge, Uday G. Kelkar
Thesis: British Foreign Policy and the Crimean War A Study in Uncoordinated Diplomacy, Ronald W. Kennedy
Dissertation: Nuclear Fragmentation Energy and Momentum Transfer Distributions in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions, Ferdous Khan
Thesis: Comparison of Digital Controllers Used in Magnetic Suspension and Balance Systems, William Allen Kilgore
Thesis: Studies on the Giant Mealie Witchweed, Striga forbesii Benth., in Zimbabwe, David Allen Knepper
Thesis: Party Politics During the Compromise Crisis: The Virginia Congressional Elections of 1849 and 1851, Jodi Lee Bennett Koste
Dissertation: Study of Direct Semiconductor Materials for an Optically Controlled Switch, Sung Taek Ko
Dissertation: Assessing Soccer Referee Performance Using Work Sample and Conventional Testing Methods, Robert L. Kuhnle
Thesis: Stability Design of a Slender Column with Curved Longitudinal Stiffeners, Mark S. Lake
Dissertation: Numerical Study of Three-Dimensional Separation and Flow Control at a Wing/Body Junction, Balakrishnan Lakshmanan
Thesis: Virginia Woolf's Keen Sensitivity to War: Its Roots and its Impact on Her Fiction, Jane Hamovit Lauter
Thesis: Lithofacies of the Pliocene Yorktown Formation in the Vicinity of Kingsmill on the James River, Virginia, Michael David Lawless
Thesis: Domain Decomposition for Multigrid, Finite Volume Flow Solvers, Victor Robert Lessard
Thesis: Self-Concept and Its Relationship to Achievement in Minority Preschool Children, Larry Lennard Lindsey
Dissertation: A Classification Approach for Automated Reasoning Systems--A Case Study in Graph Theory, Rong Lin
Thesis: The Effects of Differential Task Instructions and Motivational States on Individual Creative Response Generation, James Clarke Llewellyn
Thesis: The Effects of Bending on the Strain Distributions in a Stiffener-Skin Interface Region, Osvaldo F. Lopez
Thesis: An Analysis and Evaluation on Printed Materials Used in Genetic Counseling, Janet L. MacArthur
Dissertation: Mathematical Models of Prevascular Tumor Growth by Diffusion, Sophia A. Maggelakis
Thesis: Cognitive, Retention and Transfer of Learning Consequences of Computer Assisted Instruction and Videotape Instruction with Registered Nursing Students, Linda McCormack-Miller
Thesis: Three American Resistance Leaders in the Philippine Islands During World War II, Brian W. McLean