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
Thesis: Franco-American Relations and the Emergence of French Nuclear Armament, 1939-1962, Regis Hugues Philippon
Thesis: Phytoplankton in Lake Drummond and Two Drainage Ditches in the Great Dismal Swamp, Virginia, Christine Gregory Phillips
Dissertation: Parallel Process: An Empirical Investigation, Thomas E. Pollack
Thesis: An Explanatory Study of Maternal Stress and Coping with a Cystic Fibrosis Child, Leslie G. Potter
Thesis: Root Biomass and Production in Four Communities Within the Great Dismal Swamp, Susan West Powell
Thesis: From Roman Britain to Norman England Continuity and Change - c. A. D. 284 - 1066, Gary Philip Priolo
Thesis: Effects of Applied Soil Repellent Finish on Pesticide Residues in Work Clothing, Sandra L. Prior
Thesis: Encoding Phonetic Knowledge for Use in Hidden Markov Models of Speech Recognition, Danming Qian
Thesis: The Effectiveness of Viscoelastic Damping Treatments on a Flexible Manipulator Subjected to Torsional Loads, Leah L. Remias
Thesis: The Role of Longshore Sediment Transport in the Loss of Fill Material from an Estuarine Groin System, R. Neville Reynolds
Thesis: Development of a Perturbation Generator for Vortex Stability Studies, John Edward Riester Jr.
Thesis: Finite Element Formulation and Numerical Simulation of the Large Deflection Random Vibration of Laminated Composite Plates, Jay Howard Robinson
Thesis: Optical and High Electric Field Effects in Bulk Gallium Arsenide Switches, Randy Roush
Thesis: Body Image and Perceptions of Body Size Among Black and White College Women, Clifford E. Rucker III
Thesis: The Effect of Initial Leader-Group Interaction and the Moderating Influence of Leadership Style on Group Decision-Making, Brian J. Ruggeberg
Thesis: From Aristotle to IBM: Classical Rhetoric and the Teaching of Technical Writing, Kathleen S. Scharf
Thesis: A Comparative Analysis of Pediatric and General Hospital Nurse Recruitment Practices, Rebecca Parsons Scott
Thesis: Effects of Chemical Aneuploidogens on Taxol Purified Drosophila and Mouse Brain Microtubules Polymerization and Depolymerization In Vitro, Anil Sehgal
Thesis: Quantitative Respirator Fit Testing: Probed Facepiece versus Probed Cartridge, Sonya Melissa Seward
Dissertation: The Effects of a Program to Develop Collaboration on Teacher Interactions and Norms of Collegiality Within the School as a Workplace, Michael E. Sicignano
Dissertation: The Relationship Between Needs and Interpersonal Problems of Women in Four Interpersonal Categories, Valarie Elaine Sikes-Nova
Thesis: The Influence of Perceptions of Labor Turnover on Stayers' Organizational Commitment, Ellen Ruth Simmons
Thesis: The Guaranteed Minimum Price and Price Stabilization in the Wheat Market, Therese L. Soullier
Dissertation: The Truncated Cauchy Distribution: Estimation of Parameters and Application to Stock Returns, Paul G. Staneski
Thesis: Grid Generation and Flow Computation About a Martian Entry Vehicle, John Edward Stewart
Dissertation: Integrated Control of Thermally Distorted Large Space Antennas, Robert H. Tolson
Thesis: Radiative Interactions in Laminar Duct Flows, Prakash A. Trivedi
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: Parental Attributions of Children's Behavior, William Franklin Whelan
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