ODU theses and dissertations since 1965 are available in this collection.
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Theses/Dissertations from 1988
Thesis: Survival and Reproduction of the Freshwater Grass Shrimp Palaemonetes paludosus (Gibbes 1850) (Decapoda:Palaemonidae), in Saline Water, Brian Thomas Lowe
Thesis: Operation Bumpy Road: The Role of Admiral Arleigh Burke and the U.S. Navy in the Bay of Pigs Invasion, John P. Madden
Dissertation: Investigation of Supersonic Chemically Reacting and Radiating Channel Flow, Mortaza Mani
Thesis: Die Geburt der Tragoedie, Joseph Barnett Metzler III
Thesis: Factors Involved in Battered Women's Decision to Leave Their Abusive Partners: Shelter Research in the Southeast, Mary Ellen Miles
Thesis: The Color of Life and Other Stories, Mary Jane Oksanen Morewitz
Thesis: Faulkner: Misogynist or Philogynist?, Imane Nejjar
Thesis: Reactions of Aqueous Chlorine in the Gastric Fluid of the Rat, Michael Gary Nickelsen
Thesis: Foraminiferal Biostratigraphy and Paleoenvironmental Analysis of the Anahuac Formation (Late Oligocene-Early Miocene) from a Deep Well in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, Audrey Lynne Orndorff
Thesis: The Effects of Personality and Mental Workload on Heart Rate and Heart Rate Variability, Gwendolyn Lorell Pearson
Thesis: The Relationship Between Multiple Health Factors, Demographics, and Body Weight, Glenda J. Potter
Dissertation: A Mathematical Model of the Dynamics of an Optically Pumped Four-Level Solid State Laser System, Lila Freeman Roberts
Thesis: Optimization of the Tungstic Acid Denuder Technique for the Measurement of Atmospheric Ammonia, Patricia Diane Roberts
Thesis: Effects of Ethanol and Caffeine Administered Maternally on Neonatal Adrenocortical Function, Rhonda L. Mullins Rohlfing
Thesis: Television and the Integration of Europe in the Era of Satellite Communications, John Erick Roos
Thesis: John of Gaunt and His Use of Marriage, Christopher Park Ross
Thesis: Eisenhower, Vietnam, and the Geneva Conference of 1954, Dean Rourke Jr.
Thesis: Development and Testing of the Stress Adaptation Scale for Parents with Chronically Ill Children (SASP), Carolyn M. Rutledge
Thesis: Seasonal Phytoplankton Assemblages in the Nansemond River, Virginia, Cindy Eleanor Shomers
Thesis: A Simple Solid-Phase Electrophoretic Procedure for the Separation of Plasmid DNA, Linda Ann Simurra
Dissertation: Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Flows Past Three-Dimensional Cavities, Shivakumar Srinivasan
Thesis: The Evolving Tactics of the 4th Virginia Cavalry: A Study of the Adaptability of Stuart's Cavalry, 1861-1865, Kenneth L. Stiles
Thesis: Trace Elements in Northern Virginia Middle Ordovician Carbonates: Implications for Diagenesis, Ruth Ann Strauss
Thesis: Reopening the Fair Gate, Toshihiro Tanioka
Dissertation: Performance Appraisal Ratings as a Function of Source of Ratings and Purpose of the Appraisal, Richard J. Tannenbaum
Dissertation: Dynamic Allocation of Responsibility Between Operators With Different Models of System Information Using Computer-Mediated Communication, Michele Terranova
Thesis: The Assessment of Imagery Scales as Potential Predictors of the Effectiveness of Thermal Biofeedback Training, Douglas A. Thomas
Thesis: Civilian Air Defense of Norfolk, Virginia, During the Second World War, Larry E. Tonneson
Thesis: Decomposition of Roots in the Great Dismal Swamp, Edward G. Tupacz
Thesis: ATAMM Multicomputer System Design, William Robert Tymchyshyn
Thesis: Vertical Distribution of Phytoplankton Populations Along the Northeastern Continental Shelf Margin of the United States, Bruce Burwell Wagoner
Thesis: The Synthesis and Evaluation of 5-Phenyloxazolidines as Potential Cardiovascular Drugs, Tammy C. Wang
Thesis: Structural Geology of Page Valley, Page County, Virginia, Tamera J. Warden
Dissertation: An Examination of Factors Which Contribute to Errors and Omissions in the Polling Place on Election Day, Ann J. Washington
Thesis: Reform and Democracy: British and American Reactions to the French Revolution, 1789-1801, Martha Lingua Wheless
Thesis: A Light and Electron Microscopic Study of the Rat Olfactory Tubercle: Normal Morphology and Acetylcholinesterase Localization, James Curtis Woodley
Thesis: An Arrayed Hot-Film Sensor for Detection of Laminar Boundary-Layer Flow Disturbance Spatial Characteristics, Michael S. Wusk
Thesis: Large Planar Maneuvers for Articulated Flexible Manipulators, Li-Farn Yang
Theses/Dissertations from 1987
Thesis: Stress Assignment in English, Said Abdessamad
Dissertation: Topology and Grid Adaption for High-Speed Flow Computations, Jamshid Samareh Abolhassani
Thesis: Testing Orem's Dependent Care Agency Construct: Parents as Health Educators in the Home, JoAnn M. Baldwin
Thesis: The Stratigraphy of Late Quaternary Deposits in the Payan Mining District, Narino, Colombia, South America, Richard Alan Barringer
Dissertation: A Simple Numerical Model for the Study of Baroclinic Estuarine Shelf Interactions, Thomas J. Berger
Thesis: Sediment Budgets and Shoreline Dynamics Cape Henry, Virginia, Marcia R. Berman
Thesis: A Comparison of Myofascial Release and Ultrasound in the Treatment of Musculoskeletal Pain, Dianna Lynn Bishop
Thesis: Meaning in the Historic and Artistic Milieu of the Jacobean Court Masque, John R. Bledsoe
Dissertation: Implications of a Family Systems Orientation for Preventing Psychiatric Hospitalization, James Howard Bullock
Thesis: Gas Permeation Measurements on Small Polymer Specimens, Karen S. Burns
Dissertation: Socialization for Professionals an Analysis of the Process, Influencing Elements, and Outcomes, Catherine Via Cauthorne-Lindstrom
Thesis: An Application of Global Optimization Algorithm for Modal Parameter Identification, Chung-Men Chen
Thesis: Synthesis of Potential Long Acting Calcium Channel Antagonists: A Study of 1,4-Dihydropyridine Analogs, Thomas E. Christos
Dissertation: Volunteer Trustees in Urban United Way Agencies, Rosemarie Scoti Cook
Thesis: Provenance of Sands Within the Lower Chesapeake Bay Based on Ilmenite Composition, Edward Augustus Council III
Dissertation: Direct Simulation of Hypersonic Transitional Flows Over Blunt Slender Bodies, Vincent Cuda Jr.
Thesis: Analysis of Phytoplankton and Particle Variability at a Warm Core Ring/Shelf Break Front Using Flow Cytometry, Kimberly G. Davis
Thesis: Investigation of Complex Formation by Oligomers of Cytosine and Guanosine, Steven Roberts Davis
Thesis: Sins of the Fathers and Mothers: Relationships Between Parental History Variables and Adult MMPI Profiles, Kathryn E. Dawson
Dissertation: Finite Element Methodology for Nonlinear Free and Harmonic Forced Vibrations of Beam and Plate Structures, Kamolphan Decha-Umphai
Dissertation: On the Thermal Stresses Due to a Uniform Heat Flow Past a Circular Hole With a Radial Edge Crack, George F. Edmonds
Thesis: The Hydrogeology of Nags Head Woods, Dare County, North Carolina, Janet Salyer Emry
Thesis: Discrimination of Subparallel Beach Ridges Using Detrital Ilmenite Composition and Fourier Shape Analysis, Allen E. Evans Jr.
Thesis: Virginia in Transition: The 1961 Democratic Primary, Thomas Carter Evans
Dissertation: The Implications of Varying Levels of Task Automation on Workload, Micheline Y. Eyraud
Dissertation: Implementation and Performance Analysis of Numerical Algorithms on the MPP, Flex/32, and Cray/2, Raad A. Fatoohi
Thesis: Computer-Aided Analysis and Design of Rectangular Buried Tank Walls and Its Safety Factor Evaluation Based on Yield Line Analysis, Rakiya J. Fatoohi
Thesis: A Comparison of Potential Fishing Methods Associated with Fish Aggregating Devices off the Northeast Coast of Puerto Rico, Alan M. Friedlander
Thesis: An Intergenerational Investigation of Urban Preferences, Angelique A. Gavin
Thesis: Coupled Bending-Torsion Steady-State Response of Pretwisted, Nonuniform Rotating Beams Using a Transfer-Matrix Method, Carl E. Gray Jr.
Dissertation: Driver Response to Simulated Intersections: An Analysis of Workload-Related Variables, Monty G. Grubb
Thesis: The Effects of Task Load on Heart Rate and Heart Rate Variability, Paula Jeanne Guerette
Thesis: Slavery and the Early Teutonic Codes A.D. 400-800: A Legal Paradigm Shift, Elizabeth Thompson Harris
Thesis: A Taxonomic Survey of the Family Gyrinidae (Coleoptera) of the State of Virginia, Jerrold R. Harris
Thesis: Effects of the Presence of a Same-Sex Friend or Stranger on Coping with Stress, Scott B. Harrison
Thesis: Molting in the Mature Female Blue Crab, Callinectes sapidus, Rathbun, Kirk J. Havens
Dissertation: Psychologists' Volunteering: Attitudes, Beliefs, and Behaviors Toward Psychotherapy Research, James Perry Howell
Thesis: Synthesis and Characterization of N-Alkyl-Adenosine-5'-Diphosphates, Han-Ping Huang
Dissertation: On a Moving Boundary Problem of Transitional Ballistics, Jen-Ing G. Hwang
Thesis: Experimental Parametric Study of a True Airspeed Sensor, Adel R. Ibrahim
Thesis: Determination of Amino Acids and Chloramino Acids in Municipal Wastewater, Jeffrey Taylor Jewell
Dissertation: The Influence of Direct Versus Indirect Observation, Candidate Report Format, and Assessor Training on the Accuracy of Assessor Ratings, Rudolph L. Johnson Jr.
Thesis: Model of Hot-Film Sensor with Substrate Effects, David McAlpine Judge
Dissertation: Cross-Shore Sediment Transport in Relation to Waves and Currents in a Groin Compartment, Hyo Jin Kang
Dissertation: Growth Potential of Young Black Sea Bass, Centropristis Striata, in Artificial Environments, Joung Won KIm
Thesis: Sulfide in Shelf/Slope Waters of the Western Atlantic, Christian F. Krahforst
Thesis: Influences of Pre-Columbian Art in the Work of Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar, June-Marie Lam
Dissertation: Microsurgical Fertilization of Mammalian Eggs: An Assessment of Clinical Utilization, Susan E. Lanzendorf
Thesis: The Antimicrobial Effectiveness of Isopropyl Alcohol, Phenylphenol, and Nonphenal Oxyethylene Iodine Complex on Dental Operatory Surfaces, Maureen Anne Lawless
Thesis: Biochemical and Histological Evaluation of Normal Human Epidermis vs Cultured Human Epidermis, Ngo Thi Bich Lien
Thesis: Processes Which Create and Destroy Stratification in the South Atlantic Bight During GABEX II, Rebecca Lynn Lovingood
Dissertation: Groin-Associated Rip Currents Measured Using a New Digital Current Meter, Dennis L. Lundberg
Thesis: The Impact of Orientation Training on Spatial Cognition and Spatial Behavior in Elderly Shoppers, Elizabeth Ann Mathes
Thesis: Reactions of Organic N-Chloramines in the Gastric Fluid of the Rat, Kathryn E. Mazina
Thesis: The Effectiveness of Oral Health Computer Assisted Instruction on Increasing the Oral Hygiene Status of Children, Claudia Ann Michalak
Thesis: The Public Record Office: A Study of the Creation of the Office and the Construction of Its Fireproof Repository, Kathryn A. Miller
Thesis: Computation of 2-D and 3-D Natural Convection Heat Transfer in Closed and Vented Cavities, T. O. Mohieldin
Thesis: Bilateral Eda Measurement of Females During Simple and Complex Listening Tasks, Rory Craig Montero
Thesis: Job Satisfaction Among Female Employees as Predicted by Work Friendships, Melinda Jan Montgomery
Dissertation: Phytoplankton Dynamics in the Very Low Salinity Region of the James River Estuary, Virginia, U.S.A., Changho Moon
Thesis: Clinical Effects of Daily Rotary Electric Toothbrushing on the Presence of Gingivitis and Supragingival Dental Plaque, Laura Jean Mueller
Thesis: A Comparison of Nursing Role Conceptions Among Baccalaureate Nursing Students, Their Nursing Faculty, and Clinical Nurse Mentors, Michele Lynn Musella