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 1989
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
Thesis: Investigating the Method of Structural Topological Variations for Sensitivity Analysis and Design Optimization, Niki A. Mehta
Thesis: A Comparative Analysis of Selected Adolescent Fears, Martina Griffith Meyer
Thesis: Application of Shape Sensitivity Analysis for Computation of Transient Free-Surface Flows, Frank Nicolas Michel
Thesis: The Composition and Concentrations of Cyanobacteria in the North Landing River, Virginia and Upper Currituck Sound, North Carolina, Sonja E. Midgette
Thesis: Sojourn: A Time in Egypt, Deborah L. Miller
Thesis: Dynamic Analysis of Linear Structural System Using Ritz Vector Method and Substructuring Formulation, Vijay R. Modi
Dissertation: Andrological Methods of Predicting the Pregnancy Outcome of an in vitro Fertilization Program, Mahmood S. Morshedi
Thesis: Patient Satisfaction with Psychiatric Hospitalization: A Social Exchange Theory Approach, Jan H. Nelson
Thesis: Non-Linear Dynamics and Control for Thermal Room Models, Milind Prabhakar Oak
Dissertation: Nonlinear Solutions to a Two-Layer Quasi-Geostrophic Model of the Gulf Stream, Eiichi Oka
Thesis: Transient Hot-Film Sensor Response in a Shock Tube, Kelly Ryan Ortgies
Thesis: Signals Intelligence in World War II Ultra and the Air War in Europe, Demetrio J. Perez
Thesis: The Role of Values in Personality Development, Joanne Peterson
Dissertation: The Effects of Life Stress and Risk-Taking Style on Risk Perception and Driver Performance, Christine B. Philput
Thesis: Couples' Interpretations of Unwanted Sexual Advances at Three Stages of a Dating Relationship, Kerrie D. Quinn
Thesis: Global/Local Stress Analysis of Composite Structures, Jonathan B. Ransom
Dissertation: The Identification of Gifted Children at the Kindergarten and First-Grade Level in an Urban and Rural Population, Flora Carter Roberts
Thesis: The Geomorphology and Surficial Geology of the West Flank of the Blue Ridge, Sherando Area, Virginia, Derek Weston Ryter
Thesis: Literary Visions of Edward II and Isabella of France, Dana L. Sample
Thesis: Identification and Ranking of Stressors in Nuclear Medicine Technology, Scott R. Sechrist
Dissertation: Effects of Nose Bluntness and Shock-Shock Interactions on Blunt Bodies in Viscous Hypersonic Flows, Dal J. Singh
Thesis: Hypoxanthine-Induced Differentiation of Cultured Human Leukemia Cells, Gayle Jennette Singleton
Thesis: Spire and Tower: The History, Architecture and Art of Two Norfolk, Virginia Churches, Judith L. Smith
Dissertation: Performance Modeling and Enhancement for the ATAMM Data Flow Architecture, Sukhamoy Som
Thesis: Politics of Self-Destruction: The Virginia Republican Party Split of 1895-1897, Michael Anthony Southwood
Thesis: Beetle Wings and Other Savory Tidbits, Krystyna Rozanski Stefansky
Thesis: The Electrical Characteristics of Semi-Insulating Gallium Arsenide A Material for High Power Switches, David Clifton Stoudt
Thesis: Articulation of Practical Nursing Programs to Institutes of Higher Learning, Gwendolyn T. Sweat
Thesis: The Determination of Tamoxifen Citrate in Human Blood Serum and Semen, Karimdad Tahmoresi
Dissertation: Evidence for the Role of Ecdysteroids in the Genital Sex Pheromone of Two species of Hard Ticks, Dermacentor variabilis (Say) and Dermacentor andersoni Stiles, DeMar Taylor
Thesis: Honduras Pawn and Policy Maker, Elizabeth P. Thornton
Thesis: Containment, Cliency and the Revolution in Vietnam, Deborah Tompsett-Makin
Thesis: Simultaneous Determination of 3-Methoxy-4-Hydroxyphenyl-Glycol, Homovanillic Acid, and 5-Hydroxyindoleacetic Acid in Plasma by High Performance Liquid Chromatography, Yung-Te Tseng
Dissertation: Optimal Row-Column Designs for Correlated Errors and Nested Row-Column Designs for Uncorrelated Errors, Nizam Uddin
Thesis: The Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Blue Crab Larvae on the Mid-Atlantic Bight Adjacent to the Chesapeake Bay, 1982-1983, Lyle Michael Varnell
Dissertation: An Adaptive Remeshing Finite Element Method for High-Speed Compressible Flows Using Quadrilateral and Triangular Elements, Gururaja R. Vemaganti