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 1988
Thesis: An Evaluation of Injury Incidence and Typology in Industry, Shirlee Ann Brooks
Thesis: Low Pressure Gas Flow Analysis Through an Effusive Inlet Using Mass Spectrometry, David Robert Brown
Thesis: Discovery and Denial: Exploring Reality and Possibility in Original Prose, Deborah Porter Bryson
Dissertation: Holocene Geology and Migration of a Low-Profile Barrier Island System, Metompkin Island, Virginia, Mark R. Byrnes
Thesis: Calculations of Three-Dimensional Transonic Flows Using the Implicit Formulation of the Isenthalpic Euler Equations with Flux Vector Splitting, Frank E. Cannizzaro
Thesis: A Structured Light Method for Sensing Alignment During Automated Truss Assembly, Jayesh K. Champaneri
Thesis: Self Consistent Model of the Glow Discharge, Hao Chen
Thesis: A Simulation Study of a Space-Borne Optical Disk Mass Memory System, Kenny G. Chen
Thesis: Effect of Fabric on Stress-Strain Relation, Volume Change, and Dynamic Shear Modulus of Ottawa Sand, Ming-Tarng Chen
Dissertation: Integral Equation Solution of the Full Potential Equation for Three-Dimensional, Steady, Transonic Wing Flows, Li-Chuan Chu
Thesis: Gesture Studies, Andrea Virginia Collins
Thesis: Recent Benthic Foraminifera of Breton and Stake Islands Northern Gulf of Mexico, Eric S. Collins
Dissertation: Principles of Design for Complex Displays: A Comparative Evaluation, Sharolyn Ann Converse
Thesis: The Influence of Nursing Experience and Education on Nurses Inferences of Patients' Suffering, Patricia A. Coots
Thesis: Modulation of Queuine Uptake in Cultured Human Fibroblasts by Phorbol Esters and Interferons, Debra L. Crane
Dissertation: Theory of Alpha-Nucleus Collisions at High Energies, Francis A. Cucinotta
Dissertation: Parent Participation in the Educational Process and Student Achievement, Linda Worrell Deans
Thesis: Economic Considerations for Artificial Reef Development in Coastal Virginia, Dean Thomas Devereaux
Thesis: The Effect of Internal vs. External Attributions and Level of Information on Perceptions and Concessions in a Conflict Situation, William Walter Docalovich
Dissertation: The Impact of Writing-to-Learn Techniques on the Science Achievement of Fourth Graders, Deborah J. Dyer
Thesis: The Development and Comparative Morphology of the Mandibular Symphysis in Salamanders, Jennifer Lorenz Elwood
Dissertation: The Emergence of a Medical School in Hampton Roads, John Pierce Flemming IV
Thesis: Distribution of Suspended Particulate Matter, Patuxent River Estuary, Maryland, Christopher W. Frye
Thesis: The Chimney Fireplace in Colonial Virginia, Catherine Howe Grosfils
Thesis: Use of 52Cr for the Quantitative Determination of Red Cell Volume, Claude Michael Hanbury
Thesis: Interactions Between Aquatic Chromogenic Bacteria and Pathogenic Vibrio SPP., John Louis Harris
Thesis: Preschoolers' and Third Graders' Sorting Preferences and Strategic Knowledge of Taxonomic Associative and Perceptual Organizational Strategies, Helene Ann Hembrooke
Thesis: The Application of the Peabody Developmental Motor Scales Administered to 20 Developmentally Delayed Children, Jan H. Henderson
Dissertation: Natural Language Human-Computer Dialogue: Menu-Based Natural Language and Visual Performance, Jeffrey John Hendrickson
Thesis: Nutrient Cycling in Bordenstake Bay Sediments: A Backbarrier Lagoon, Mark J. Herrenkohl
Thesis: Self-Labeling of Body Weight: Relationships with Body Image Eating Behaviors and Well-Being, Karen HIcks
Thesis: Forced Sex in Battering Relationships: An Ethnographic Investigation, Leigh Hofheimer
Dissertation: A Comparative Study of the Effects of Two Urban Kindergarten Beginning Reading Programs on Student Oral Reading Performance and Attitudes Toward Reading, Ann-Carol Banton Holley
Thesis: Patients' Perceived Benefits of Home Health Services, Rita M. Holley
Thesis: Age and Growth of the Tautog, Tautoga onitis (Pisces: Labridae), from Lower Chesapeake Bay and Coastal Waters of Virginia, E. Brian Hostetter
Dissertation: Full-Potential Integral Solutions for Steady and Unsteady Transonic Airfoils With and Without Embedded Euler Domains, Hong Hu
Thesis: Job Satisfaction Among Three Different Dental Hygiene Occupational Settings, Ruth Halstead Hull
Thesis: Kingdom by the Sea: A Screenplay, John C. Jarvis Jr.
Thesis: Dual Task Performance: The Effects of Task Emphasis and Ear of Input, Pamela R. Jordan
Dissertation: Application of Advanced Grid Generation Techniques for Flow Field Computations About Complex Configurations, Monchai Kathong
Thesis: "Wretched, Bloody, and Usurping Boar"? An Evaluation of the Historicity of Shakespeare's Richard III, Kathryn Kiff
Thesis: A Method for the Large Scale Purification of HCG (Human Chorionic Gonadotropin) from the Urine of Pregnant Women, Chun-Shyan Kuo
Dissertation: Self-Concepts of Christian and Public High School Seniors, Dorothy Potts Lee
Dissertation: Viscous Shock Layer Analysis of Hypersonic Flows Over Long Slender Vehicles, Kam-Pui Lee
Dissertation: A Finite Element Formulation for the Large Deflection Random Response of Thermally Buckled Structures, James Eugene Locke
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