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 1985
Thesis: Analysis and Optimal Design of Wind Tunnel Balances, Sung-Ling Twu
Thesis: Investigation of Eddy Population and Motion in the Southern International Ice Patrol Operations Area (40°-47°N by 40°-55°W), Frank J. Williams
Thesis: Eigenvalue and Eigenvector Design Sensitivity Analysis for Nonlinear Beam Vibrations, Jian-Zhong Yuan
Thesis: The Distribution of Ceratia Over the Mid-Atlantic Bight, Paul V. Zimba
Theses/Dissertations from 1984
Thesis: Mass Spectrometric Studies of Oxygen Isotope Exchange Reactions with Oxide Surfaces, Gayle J. Allen
Dissertation: An Investigation of Refractive Index of Solutions of Ammonia and Water at Various Concentrations and Temperatures, Effendy Arif
Thesis: A 250-KV Two-Pulse Modulator for the Gas Flow Switch Test Facility, David Michael Barrett
Dissertation: An Intraseason Forecasting System for Commercial Marine Fisheries, Erik J. Barth
Thesis: Life History Patterns of Dytiscidae in a Temporary Pool, Annabel C. Blanco
Thesis: The Gift of the Gods: The Impact of the Korean War on Japan, John P. Bowen
Dissertation: Research to Develop a Consensus Self-Evaluation Model of National Norms of Excellence for Alternating Cooperative Education Programs at Four-Year Colleges and Universities, Constance F. Brothers
Thesis: Admissions Criteria as Predictors of Students' Successful Completion of a Dental Hygiene Program, M. Linda Brown
Dissertation: An Examination of the Variability of Migratory Timing Statistics Estimated From Catch and Effort Observations, Arthur J. Butt
Thesis: Predictors of Appointment-Keeping Behaviors Among Users of Adult Medical Clinics, Ruth L. Campau
Thesis: Design of Multivariable Feedback Control Systems Via Spectral Assignment Using Reduced-Order Models and Reduced-Order Observers, Preston Ivanhoe Carraway III
Dissertation: The Educated Worker: A Case Study of Educational Needs and Program of Developmental Reading, Margaret Barnes Carter
Thesis: Evaluation of Peptide Assimilation in Ehrlich Ascites Tumor Cells, John M. Castellano
Thesis: Determinants of Variation in Avian Mobbing Behavior, Charles Ray Chandler Jr.
Thesis: Life History Aspects of Reithrodontomys humulis in Southeastern Virginia, Michelle Cawthorn Chandler
Thesis: An Experimental and Analytical Investigation of Friction Factors for Fully Developed Flow in Internally Finned Triangular Ducts, Hoshang Chegini
Thesis: Shape Optimization for Elastic Hollow Bars in Torsion, Jahau Lewis Chen
Thesis: Determination of the Internal Rotational Energy of Gaseous 1,2-Dichloroethane in an Argon Matrix Using Fourier Transform Spectroscopy, Susan Lynn Clarke
Thesis: Germination and Host Range of Branched Broomrape (Orobanche ramosa) from Texas, Robert D. Coffin
Thesis: The Electrocortical Correlates of Fluctuating States of Attention During Vigilance Tasks, Stephen G. Cunningham
Thesis: Age Tracking Performance and the Measurement of Workload by a Secondary Tasks, Manuel Francisco Diaz
Thesis: Princess Anne County: A Study in Material Wealth, Todd Grant Duncan
Thesis: Staff Nurses' Self-Esteem as It Relates to Working in Specialty Areas, Donna Lynn Evans
Dissertation: Partial Radiative Recombination Cross Sections for Excited States of Hydrogen, Patricia M. Fazio
Dissertation: Phytoplankton Ecology and Dynamics in the James River Estuary Virginia, U. S. A., Margaret J. Filardo
Dissertation: A Study of the Robustness of the Three-Parameter Item Response Model, James B. Flynn
Thesis: Orthodontists' Attitudes Toward Expanding Career Opportunities for the Dental Hygienist in Orthodontics, Julie A. Foster
Thesis: Selection of Sludge Conditioning Chemicals and Filter Media for Vacuum Filter Dewatering of Sludge at the Atlantic Wastewater Treatment Plant, Douglas W. Fredericks
Thesis: The Role of Colonization Predation and Season in Determining Macroinvertebrate Community Structure in a Temperate Lake, Cheryl Lynn Frew
Thesis: Fourier Series Analysis of the Relationship of Morphologic Variations and Bathymetry in Recent Bolivina (Foraminiferida) From the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico, Anthony Cavedo Gary
Thesis: An Analytical Design Procedure for the Determination of Effective Leading Edge Extensions on Thick Delta Wings, Farhad Ghaffari
Thesis: Task Performances as Functions of Level of Processing, Morningness-Eveningness, Time of Day, and Gender, Georgia Kathryn Green
Thesis: Tidewater Virginia: A Case Study in Health Planning, Maria Justice Moore Griffin
Dissertation: The Impact of CETA Activities on Selected Hampton Roads Manpower Programs: Cost-Benefit Analysis and Utilization-Focused Evaluation, Raymond A. Gromelski
Thesis: Conditioned Motor Activity and Place-Preference Responses as a Function of d-Amphetamine Dose Level, Dwight D. Hart
Thesis: How Registered Nurses in Skilled Nursing Facilities Rate the Importance of and the Frequency Engaged in Specific Nursing Behaviors Related to Their Role, Christine Anne Heine
Thesis: A Description and Analysis of the Timing of Virginia's Weakfish Fishery, Bruce William Hill
Thesis: Block Encoding of Speech Spectral Principal Components, James R. Holland Jr.
Thesis: Combined Forced and Free Convection in the Trombe Wall Channel, Jim Ginchaun Huang
Thesis: Comparative Heat Load Analysis for a Direct Gain Passive Solar Building, Hong Hu
Thesis: A Study of Loneliness and Health Related Complaints in Residents of High Rise Apartment Buildings for the Elderly, Susan H. Jones
Thesis: Design of Infrasound-Detection System Via Adaptive LMSTDE Algorithm, Camille S. Khalaf
Thesis: A Plasma Focus Interrupting Switch, Gregory Francis Knapp
Thesis: A Method for the Comparison of HDL Containing Apoprotein E and HDL Cholesterol, Steven A. Knizner
Thesis: Characterization of Trihalomethane Formation from Proteins in Chlorinated Water, Robert Aaron Kravitz
Thesis: Tectonic Implications of Late Tertiary Strata exposed Along the Piankatank River, Eastern Virginia, Daniel Stephen Lane
Thesis: Human Need Fulfillment Alteration in the Client with Uterine Cancer: The Registered Nurses' Perception Versus the Clients' Perception, Linda Lane Lilley
Thesis: Investigation of the Coenzyme Binding Site of Lactate Dehydrogenase from Chicken Muscle, Jia-hwei Lin
Thesis: Effect of Wall Temperature Control on Low-Speed Axisymmetric Body Drag, John C. Lin
Thesis: Two-Dimensional Electrophoretic Studies of Normal Spematozoal Proteins, Ying Lin
Thesis: Characterization of the DNA and Chromosonal Analysis of Embryonic Dermacentor variabilis (SAY) Cells in Culture, Stanley Nicholas Mason
Thesis: To Sing Like the Hermit Thrush, Gwen McAlpine
Dissertation: Factors Influencing College Choice of Minority Students and Their Implications for Recruitment, Linda Blount McCluney
Thesis: The Adams Image in American History, Mary Helen McCoy
Dissertation: The Effects of Person-Job Environment Congruency on Individual and Organizational Outcomes, Eileen J. McDonald
Thesis: Correlation Studies Between Human Seminal Plasma Trace Metal Concentrations and Semen Quality, De-Shen Mei
Dissertation: Triple Trigonometric Series and Their Application to Mixed Boundary Value Problems, Gordon Melrose
Thesis: A Method for Determining Creosote Contamination of Sediment from the Elizabeth River, Norfolk, VA, Elizabeth G. Merrill
Thesis: Walter Heron Taylor and His Era, Emanuel Meyer
Dissertation: Estimating the Parameters of Truncated Distributions, Mukul Mohan Mittal
Thesis: Biographical Themes in T. S. Eliot's Early Poetry, Jeo-Yong Noh
Thesis: Stratigraphy and Textural Analyses of a Beach Ridge Complex, Cape Henry, Virginia, Daniel Leland Oyler
Thesis: Finite Element Thermal-Structural Analysis of Cable-Stiffened Space Structures, Ajay Kumar Pandey
Thesis: Design of a Combustion System Simulating Waste Heat Recovery from Diesel Engine Exhaust Gases, Nikolaos Papadopoulos
Thesis: Nineteenth Century English Choral Music, Ann Boley Parker
Thesis: The Great Day: A Fantasy Play in Five Acts, Six Scenes by Vladimir Kirshon, Christopher Lee Philips
Dissertation: Studies on the Interference of Wings and Propeller Slipstreams, Ramadas K. Prabhu
Thesis: The Effects of X-Irradiation on the Metamorphosis and Budding of Aurelia aurita, Michael John Prokopchak
Thesis: A Survey of Burnout Among Dental Hygiene Educators, Sandra Boggs Ricks
Thesis: Derivations for Discrete-Time Cumulant Control, Henk Albert Roelant
Thesis: The Spatial and Temporal Distribution of the Larvae of Sympatric Pagurid Hermit Crabs (Decapoda, anomura) in Virginian Estaurine and Coastal Waters, Philip Wesley Sadler
Dissertation: Facilitating and Hindering Factors in Implementing Managerial Technology: A Socio-Technical System Process, Eduardo Alejandro Salas Garcia
Thesis: A Molecular Phylogeny of the Grunts (Perciformes: Haemulidae) Inferred from Nuclear RAG1 Gene Sequences, Millicent D. Sanciangco
Dissertation: Determinants for the Timing of Escapement From the Sockeye Salmon Fishery of the Copper River, Alaska: A Simulation Model, Howard A. Schaller
Thesis: The Effects of Tri-O-cresyl Phosphate on 2',3'-Cyclicnucleotide-3'-Phosphohydrolase Activity in Neural and Non-Neural Tissue of the Rat, Mark K. Schlager
Thesis: The Shenandoah National Park: Its Impact on a Mountain People, Scott Shelton
Thesis: Timing of the Blue Crab Fisheries of Virginia and Its Application to Harvest Management, J. Dale Shively
Dissertation: Block Transform Coding of Presample Filtered Data, Thomas A. Shull
Thesis: The Effects of Training and Rating Formats on the Accuracy of Performance Ratings, Todd A. Silverhart
Thesis: Suboptimal Algorithms for Improvement of Pipeline Through Insertion of Delays, Sukhamoy Som
Thesis: Groundwater Management by Linear Programming, Seungho Song
Thesis: Numerical Experiments with the Quasigeostrophic Potential-Vorticity Equation, Peter L. Spence
Thesis: An Experimental and Analytical Investigation of the Iosipescu Shear Test for Composite Materials, Barry Stuart Spigel
Thesis: Investigation of Flow Phenomena in a Repetitively-Pulsed Gas Flow Switch, Shivakumar Srinivasan
Thesis: Demographic Analysis and Microhabitat Relationships of a Small Mammal Community in Clearings of the Great Dismal Swamp, Jean Ferguson Stankavich
Thesis: Radiation Damage to GaAs Solar Cells Including Isotropic Effects, Larry Victor Stock
Thesis: The Effect of Anonymity, Expectation of Validation, and Expected Reward, on the Accuracy of Self-Evaluations of Ability, Mark Stanley Teachout
Dissertation: The Aquatic Geochemistry of the Particle-Reactive Radionuclides PO-210, PB-210, and BE-7, James Forrest Todd
Thesis: The Uneasy Triangle The Impact of China on U.S.-Soviet Relations in the 1970's SALT: A Case Study, Karen Elizabeth Toenjes
Thesis: Analysis of Central Equatorial Pacific Water Masses by Method of Principal Components, Ross Tuxhorn
Thesis: Investigation of Matrix Effects on the Furnace Atomic Absorption Signals of Chromium, Nickel and Selenium, Susan Marie Viet
Thesis: Underwater Acoustic Wavefront Phase Fluctuations, George L. Vojtech Jr.
Thesis: Activity Levels of Arboreal Rodents Peromysus and Ochrotomys Evaluated with Nest Cans in Seasonally Flooded Forests, John W. Walke
Thesis: The Development of a Microprocessor Controlled Linearly Actuated Valve Assembly, Raymond H. Wall
Thesis: "A Terror and a Dream": Domestic Imagery in the Poetry of Anne Sexton, Frances S. Waters
Thesis: Trait Anxiety in Female Heads of Household, Bonnie Martinette Wheeler