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: A Case Study in Software Reuse: The RNTDS Architecture, Barry J. Stevens
Thesis: The Study of Natural Product(s) from Opsanus tau (Linnaeus), the Oyster Toadfish, Miki Taira
Thesis: Investigation of Radiative Interactions in Supersonic Chemically Reacting Channel Flows, Almuttil M. Thomas
Thesis: The Political and Ideological Context of Broadcast News CBS Nightly News Coverage of Eastern Europe, Terese A. Thompson
Thesis: The Effects of Glutathione on Human Keratinocyte, Manisha N. Trivedi
Thesis: Simulation and Measurement of the Radiant Field Produced by Quartz Heating Systems, Travis Lee Turner
Thesis: Effects of Extraversion and Gender on Self-Disclosure of Emotion with a Same-Sex Friend, Patrick M. Ulmen
Thesis: Monte Carlo Simulation of Millimeter-Wave Gunn Effect Oscillators, Ramani Vaidyanathan
Dissertation: Identification of the Potential High School Dropout, Alan L. Vaughan
Thesis: Computer Simulation Techniques to Assess Bias and Precision in the Roving Creel Survey Estimator, David L. Wade
Thesis: Mothers and Daughters: A Study of Edith Wharton, Patricia K. Waller
Dissertation: Kinematic Synthesis of Deployable-Foldable Truss Structures Using Graph Theory, Dirk B. Warnaar
Thesis: The Effect of Menopause Stage and Exercise on Perceived Body Image and Depression, Barbara Anne Waters
Thesis: A Comparative Analysis of Nurse Leaders' Degree of Transformational Leadership and Staff Nurse Job Satisfaction, Kathie Sawyer Weatherly
Dissertation: Fast Parallel Algorithms for Basic Problems, Zhaofang Wen
Dissertation: School Desegregation and Urban Renewal in Norfolk, 1950-1959, Forrest R. (Hap) White
Dissertation: Information Technology and Wealth: Cybernetics, History and Economics, Elin Whitney-Smith
Thesis: Ninety-Nine and One-Half, Deborah R. Williamson
Thesis: The Relation Between Maternal Behavior and Childrearing Goals and Child Outcomes in Low-Income Black Children, Dawn D. Wimbush
Dissertation: Prediction and Control of Asymmetric Vortical Flows Around Slender Bodies Using Navier-Stokes Equations, Tin-Chee Wong
Dissertation: Compressed Digital Video Instructional Delivery: A Study of Student Achievement, Student Attitude, and Instructor Attitude, Eddyth Niceler Worley
Dissertation: Transplantation of the Mammalian Pineal Gland: Studies of Survival, Revascularization, Reinnervation and Recovery of Function, Wutian Wu
Dissertation: Finite Element Frequency Domain Solution of Nonlinear Panel Flutter With Temperature Effects and Fatigue Life Analysis, David Yongxiang Xue
Thesis: In the Shadow of Oriental Culture: A Study of the Impact of Confucianism on Japan's Economic Development After World War II, Xuedong Xu
Thesis: Japan Looks at An Uncertain China: The Role of Japan's Aid to China, Yixin Yang
Dissertation: Formal and Informal Educational Activities of Transformational Nurse Leaders in Urban Hospitals, Sue Waltrip Young
Dissertation: Integration of Abductive and Deductive Inference Diagnosis Model and Its Application in Intelligent Tutoring System, Jingying Zhang
Dissertation: Parallel-Vector Design Sensitivity Analysis in Structural Dynamics, Yongxing Zhang
Dissertation: Effectiveness Analysis of Knowledge Bases, Shensheng Zhao
Thesis: Osteoinductivity of Demineralized Bone: A Quantitative In Vitro Assessment, Yihong Zheng
Thesis: Signal Intelligence and Macarthur's Use of Military Intelligence (G-2) During the Second World War, James Walter Zobel
Theses/Dissertations from 1990
Dissertation: Seasonal and Diel Patterns of Abundance and Productivity of Phototrophic Picoplankton in the Lower Chesapeake Bay, Lewis Francis Affronti Jr.
Thesis: Interpreting the Personal Orientation Inventory Through the Five-Factor Model, Diane Donald Anderson
Dissertation: A Generalization of Linear Multistep Methods, Leon Arriola
Thesis: The American Influence on the Mindanao Resistance During the Second World War, Michael Anthony Balis
Thesis: Deep Level Characterization Studies in GaAs, Gordhan R. Barevadia
Thesis: George F. Kennan and the Rebuilding of Japan: The Second Phase of Occupation Policy, Rhonda S. Beckham
Thesis: Head Nurse Leadership Behavior and Head Nurse and Staff Nurse Job Satisfaction and Burnout in the Intensive Care Setting, Dianne Vick Benton
Thesis: Comparison of the Protein Content in Selected Tissues at Different Feeding Stages in the American Dog Tick Dermacentor variabilis (Say), Mark John Beveridge
Dissertation: An Assessment of the Utilization of Permanent and Temporary Classrooms as It Relates to Cost and Efficiency in Selected School Divisions, E. Carlton Bowyer
Thesis: Survey of Virginia Dental Practices to Determine Compliance With the Standards of Risk Management Theory, Joanne Schade Boyce
Dissertation: Comparison of the Efficacy of General and Specific Performance Dimensions in an Operational Assessment Center, Wanda J. Campbell
Dissertation: Validation of the Human Factors Satisfaction Questionnaire, James Carlopio
Dissertation: An Extension of Essentially Non-Oscillatory Shock-Capturing Schemes to Multi-Dimensional Systems of Conservation Laws, Jay Casper
Thesis: Evidence of a Neurogenic Component During IgE-Mediated Inflammation in Murine Skin, Victoria Jean Cavanaugh
Thesis: Finite Element Analysis of Structures with Constrained Viscoelastic Layer Damping, Yung Chen
Thesis: Use of a Generalized Set of Variables in Fluid Flow Calculations, Pawel Chwalowski
Dissertation: Marketing Higher Education to Mexican-Americans: Identification of Successful Marketing Strategies and Tactics, Cynthia Gale Coiner
Thesis: A Comparison of Metals in Several Ahermatypic Corals and Surficial Sediments: Mobile Pinnacles and Hoffa Reef, Northcentral Gulf of Mexico, Kathryn M. Conko
Thesis: A Comparison of Decision-Making Variables Used by Dual-Career Couples, Margaret K. Conrad
Dissertation: Nonproportionally Loaded Steel Beam-Columns and Flexibly-Connected Nonsway Frames, Siva Prasad Darbhamulla
Thesis: The Hydrogeology and Leachate Generation of an Alum Sludge Lagoon Chesapeake Virginia, Charles M. Darling
Dissertation: Boundary Value Problems in Elasticity and Thermoelasticity, Stuart Davidson
Dissertation: The Fokker-Planck and Related Equations in Theoretical Population Dynamics, George DeRise
Dissertation: The Modeling of the Interactions of Pellets With Magnetic Fusion Plasmas for Alpha Particle Diagnostics, Abdel-Ghafar Mahmood El-Cashlan
Thesis: Activation In Vitro of Transfer RNA-Guanine Ribosyltransferase by Protein Kinase C, Panayota Eriotou
Dissertation: Morphological and Physiological Examination of a Demyelinating and Remyelinating Lesion, Paul Anson Felts
Thesis: The Effect of the Type of Goal Setting Procedure Task Difficulty and Feedback on Psychomotor Performance, Jennifer Anne Mikulka Fletcher
Dissertation: Navier-Stokes Simulations of Flows About Complex Configurations Using Domain Decomposition Techniques, Kamran Fouladi-Semnani
Thesis: Knowing God in William Blake: A Study to Find Meaning in His Work Through Plato, Swedenborg, and Mystical Tradition, David B. Gabel
Dissertation: Performance Improvements for FDDI and CSMA/CD Protocols, David Earl Game
Thesis: A Potentiometric Gaseous Hydrogen Sensor, Anne Guillory
Thesis: Analysis and Development of a Switched Capacitor Power Supply, John Richard Hackworth
Thesis: A Case Study in the Development of a Cost Reduction Methodology in the Public Sector, Ross Cooper Haines
Dissertation: The Relationships of Body-Image Attitudes to Sexual functioning and Experiences in a Normal College Population, Jill D. Hangen
Thesis: Perceptions of Women and Substance Abuse, Marla Harrison
Thesis: Hydrogeology and Water Budget Analysis of Two Interdunal Ponds Nags Head Woods Ecological Preserve, Dare County, North Carolina, Richard A. Hisert
Thesis: Metal Mobilization from a Near-Shore Lake Sediment Under Simulated Acidic Groundwater Inputs, Raveendra V. Ika
Thesis: The Role of the Court of Justice in European Integration, Frances M. Jacobson
Dissertation: A Comparative Study of Spectral Peaks Versus Global Spectral Shape as Invariant Acoustic Cues for Vowels, Amir Jalali Jagharghi
Thesis: Middle Eocene Foraminifera From the Piney Point Formation of the Virginia and Maryland Coastal Plain, Megan S. Jones
Thesis: Diagnostics Software for Concurrent Processing Computer Systems, Robert L. Jones III
Thesis: The Frontal Method for Finite Element Analysis on IBM-3090 Vector Computer, Chaerul Kamal
Dissertation: An Application of the Investment Model for Examining the Effects of Commitment, Self-Efficacy, and Goal Difficulty on Performance, Brian J. Kaufman
Thesis: The Influence of Payload Dynamics on Trajectory Tracking Performance of Robot Manipulator, Atul G. Kelkar
Thesis: Eigensensitivity Analysis for Space Structures with Applications in Design Optimization, Sean Patrick Kenny
Thesis: The Relationship Between Childhood Sexual Abuse and Coping with Interpersonal Conflict in Adulthood, Jennifer Leigh Kerpelman
Dissertation: Freshwater Transport on the Continental Shelf of the Southeastern United States, Cheolsoo Kim
Thesis: The Determination of Clomiphene Citrate and Tamoxifen in Human Blood Plasma and Semen, Janice Irene Kiss
Thesis: Trace Metals and Pyrite in Sediments of Chesapeake Bay, Robert S. Kluckhohn
Dissertation: An Experimental Study of an Axisymmetric Turbulent Boundary Layer Disturbed By a Periodic Freestream, Chithrabhanu Koodalattupuram
Thesis: A Systematic Procedure for the Analysis and Design of Deployable Space Structures, Praveen Kumar
Thesis: Assessment of Lipid Extraction from Human Bone on Subsequent Demineralization, JaeEun Lee
Thesis: Development of a Solid Phase Enzyme Immunoassay for Total Serum Testosterone, Li Li
Thesis: A Detailed Analysis of Dynamic Robotic Simulation, Lonnie J. Love
Thesis: An Autecological Study of Pyxidanthera Barbulata in the Blackwater Ecologic Preserve Virginia, John Marc Lowenthal
Thesis: A Software Design Tool for Predictable Performance in Real-Time, Data Flow Architectures, Brij Mohan V. Mandala
Thesis: An Artificial Neural Approach to the Decomposition Problem, Chandrashekar L. Masti
Dissertation: Experimental Studies of Bulk Optically Controlled GaAs Switches Utilizing Fast Infrared Quenching, Michael S. Mazzola
Thesis: An Analysis of External Features as Predictors of Reproductive Status in Small Mammals, Kenneth Wayne McCravy
Dissertation: Effect of Passive Flow-Control Devices on Turbulent Low-Speed Base Flow, Farid Heidari Miandoab
Thesis: A Root Finding Algorithm for Parallel Architecture Machines, Stuti Moitra
Thesis: Job Satisfaction and Retention: Outcomes Since Implementation of Three Scheduling Options, Katherine Marie Newnam
Thesis: Measurement of Thermal Noise in Condenser Microphones in a Vacuum-Isolation Vessel, Kim Chi Thi Ngo
Thesis: Dental Hygiene Manpower Distribution in Virginia, Christine Ann Nielsen
Thesis: A Pulse Gas Chromatographic Method for Determining the Dispersion and Surface Area of CO Oxidation Catalysts, Susan Kay Ohorodnik
Dissertation: Hemispheric Effects of Verbal Information Processing on Single and Dual Task Performance, Gwendolyn Lorell Pearson
Thesis: Interaction Between Amphetamine and Ethanol on Amphetamine-Produced Conditioned Place Preference, Cheryl Pelphrey-Weigand
Thesis: Health Locus of Control, Sexual Self-Concept, Self-Efficacy and the Contraceptive Behavior of College Students, Lorraine Kime Perkins
Dissertation: Investigations of the Trophic Relationships, Feeding Ecology and Feeding Behavior of Larval Spot, Leiostomus Xanthurus Lacepede, and Atlantic Croaker, Micropogonias Undulatus (Linnaeus) (Pisces:Sciaenidae), Dirk Edward Peterson