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 1982
Thesis: Blueprints for a Small Theatre, Thomas J. Gale
Thesis: Absorption Coefficients of Ozone at Low Temperature in the Visible Region, Hessameddin Ghiassi
Thesis: Speech Spectral Modeling and Speech Synthesis Using Finite Impulse Response Digital Filters, Paul Edward Gordy
Thesis: A Comparison of Emotionally Disturbed Adolescents' Math Achievement on the WRAT PIAT and Key Math, Bridget Dalton Gorman
Thesis: Aseptic Techniques Currently Used in Dental Hygiene Clinics Within Accredited Dental Hygiene Programs, Jan Shaner Greenlee
Thesis: Pedodontists' Attitudes Toward Pit and Fissure Sealants as a Preventative Oral Service, Kathern Rheanice Hamlin
Thesis: The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised and the Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Cognitive Ability: Performance Comparisons of Elementary Students Being Referred for Special Education Services, Priscilla Mazza Hardiman
Thesis: The Contributions of Robert Grosseteste and Roger Bacon to the Development of the Scientific Method at Oxford, Isabel Charles Duncan Hatchett
Dissertation: Improving the Accuracy of Performance Evaluations: A Comparison of Three Methods of Performance Appraiser Training, Jerry Willard Hedge
Thesis: Comparison of Steady-State Pipe Network Computer Programs, Michael Bernice Holloway
Thesis: The Relationship Between Job Characteristics and Job Satisfaction for Engineers and Engineering Students, Sherry L. Hoy
Thesis: Ortho Cyclization Reactions of Catecholamines, Robert Lee Hudkins
Thesis: An Investigation to Model Radar Backscatter from Ridged First Year Sea Ice, Betty Lou W. Jackson
Thesis: The Effects of Naloxone and Interstimulation Interval on Post-Ictal Depression in Kindled Seizures, Michael Frederick Jarvis
Thesis: Stratigraphy and Depositional Environments of a Late Pleistocene Barrier Island Complex, Southeastern Virginia, Alan K. Jasper
Dissertation: A Comparison of Recruitment Strategies Among Brachyuran Crustacean Megalopae of the York River, Lower Chesapeake Bay and Adjacent Shelf Waters, David Franklin Johnson
Thesis: Burnout Among Elementary and Secondary Special Education Teachers in Self-Contained and Resource Classrooms, Pamela Knox Jones
Thesis: The Effects of Varying Fresh Water Discharge on Dispersion in an Estuarine Hydraulic Model of the Lafayette River, Norfolk, Virginia, Michael J. Jugan
Thesis: Factors Effecting Phytoplankton Assemblages in the Lafayette River Estuary, Laurie Ann Kalenak
Dissertation: Causal Modeling of Organizational Commitment, Karin E. Klenke-Hamel
Thesis: Interaction of a Two-Dimensional Transverse Jet with a Supersonic Mainstream, Gilbert Otto Kraemer
Thesis: The Effects of Dredged Material (Suspended Solid Phase) on the Hatching Success of Spot Eggs (Leiostomus xanturus), Meryl A. Masters
Thesis: An Attributional Analysis of the Expectancy Component of Motivation Theory, John Edward Mathieu
Thesis: Environmental Influence on the Migratory Behavior of the Brown Shrimp in Pamlico Sound North Carolina, Michael Andrew Matylewich
Thesis: A Study of the Predictive Utility of SEARCH as a Means of Early Identification of Potential Learning Problems, Sheila Ann Miller
Thesis: Morphological Variation of the Foraminifer Elphidium excavatum (Terquem) on Crumps Bank and Willoughby Bank, Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, Pamela Kay Painter
Thesis: The 1969 Democratic Party Gubernatorial Primary: A Watershed in Virginia Political History, Patrick Anthony Parr
Thesis: The Effects of Modeling and Direct Instruction on Learning Disabled Children's Atypical Numerical Cognition, Mary Crossland Phelps
Thesis: Examination of the Self-Starvation Phenomenon, Elizabeth Woodard Pitts
Thesis: Myology and Osteology of Lupinoblennius Herre (Pisces: Blenniidae), William A. Roumillat
Thesis: A Structural Analysis of Phytoplankton in the Chesapeake Bay Plume and Adjacent Shelf Waters, Charles K. Rutledge
Thesis: Kazakh Nationalism in the Gorbachev Era, Steven O'Neal Sabol
Thesis: The Influence of Lamaze Classes and Delivery Room Presence on Paternal Attachment Behavior, Cherie Sammis-Gonzales
Thesis: The Historical Development of the Radical Anabaptist Movement, 1525-1535, Ronald Edward Sawyer
Thesis: Measuring Interpersonal Dependency in Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatients, Susan D. Schaffer
Thesis: The Effect of Syntactic Structure and Semantics of the Comprehension of Content Area Prose by Mainstreamed Learning Disabled Adolescents, Kathleen Charlotte Shelton
Thesis: Experimental Investigation of a Direct Expansion Solar-Assisted Heat Pump, James Yau-Jwo Shen
Thesis: Calculation of Potential Flow Past Non-Lifting Bodies at Angle of Attack Using Axial and Surface Singularity Methods, Jin-Yea Shu
Thesis: The William H. Sheppard African Art Collection at Hampton Institute, Richard A. Singletary
Thesis: Isomers of 5.8S Ribosomal RNA, David Smith
Thesis: Modeling Charge Diffusion from Proton-Induced Ionization Tracks in Silicon Photodiode Arrays, Lee Cole Smith
Thesis: A Comparative Analysis of Factors Influencing Registered Nurse Retention and Turnover Below the Head Nurse Level in Acute Care Hospitals, Jean M. Snyder
Thesis: Feeding Behavior of Three Species of Spionid Polychaetes, Thomas Lane Stokes Jr.
Thesis: Effects of Aperiodic Noise on Serial Reaction: A Study of the Range and Consistency of Individual Differences with Repeated Measures, Stephen Victor Strunk
Dissertation: The Marine Geochemistry of Selenium, Kazufumi Takayanagi
Thesis: The Effects of Rater-Ratee Discrepancies and Interview Processes on Appraisal Effectiveness, Scott I. Tannenbaum
Thesis: Development of an On-line Computer System for Enzyme Kinetics Studies, Jacqueline R. Thweatt
Thesis: A Capacitance Wavestaff and Measurements of Wave Height Decay in the Surf Zone, David L. Timpy
Thesis: The Regioselective 3-Alkylation of Piperidine, Richard Dunn Todd
Thesis: A Pattern Analysis Algorithm for Wind Ambiguity Removal, Jaime R. Tormos
Thesis: The Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Hydrocarbons in Atmospheric Deposition From Stations Surrounding Lower Chesapeake Bay, David Benjamin Webber
Thesis: The Effects of Salinity on Growth and Survival of the Blue Tilapia Oreochromis aureus (Steindachner) (Pisces Cichlidae), Maylon Lowell White Jr.
Thesis: The Effects of Kepone on the Estuarine Copepod Acartia tonsa, Judith Marie Wilson
Thesis: The Effects of Task Experience, Goal Setting, and Knowledge of Results on Performance and Task-Goal Attributes, Edward Scott Wright
Thesis: Analysis of Organic N-Chloramines in Chlorinated Drinking Water, John Po Wen Yang
Thesis: Emancipation & Renewal: English Catholicism in the Nineteenth Century, Cheryl E. Yielding
Thesis: Analysis of Heavy Minerals in Arenaceous Lutites From the Northern Canada Basin, Arctic Ocean, Kim Zauderer
Theses/Dissertations from 1981
Thesis: Algal Dynamics in a Cypress Stand in the Seasonally Flooded Great Dismal Swamp, Joseph A. Atchue III
Dissertation: Effects of Multiple Scattering and Surface Albedo on the Photochemistry of the Troposphere, Tommy Reinhold Robert Augustsson
Thesis: A Quantitative Description of Migratory Behavior of the Brown Shrimp (Penaeus aztecus) with Applications in Fisheries Management, Anne Madolyn Babcock
Thesis: The Relationship of Cognitive Complexity-Simplicity to Occupational Role Perception, Raymond Boetcher
Thesis: The Relationship of Student Sex, Attractiveness, and Self-Esteem to Teacher Preference of Seventh Through Eleventh Grade Private School Students, Susan Montgomery Booker
Thesis: Chemistry of Organic N-Chloramines, Formation of Arenesulfonamides by Derivatization of Organic N-Chloramine with Sodium Arenesulfinate, Katherine F. Bowdring
Thesis: Characteristics of Sediment Transport in Overwash Surges, Paul Richardson Bowen
Thesis: Analysis of Aerothermodynamic Environment of a Titan Aerocapture Vehicle, Hsing Chow
Thesis: Experimental Investigation of a Rectangular Surface Thermal Plume, Li-Cheng Chu
Thesis: The Seasonality of Occurrence of Larval and Juvenile Sciaenids in a Virginia Seaside Estuary, James Howard Cowan Jr.
Thesis: A Technique for the Isolation and Identification of Aliphatic Amines in Water, Peter Alan Drew
Thesis: Mining the Deep Seabed Implications for International Law and American Foreign Policy, Steven H. Fitzgerald
Thesis: Incorporation of Carbon-14 Metabolites into the Sex Pheromon 26-Dichlorophenol of Dermacentor andersoni Stiles; and the Disruption of Pheromone Activity in D. andersoni and D. variabilis (SAY) by Quinones, Daniel Martin Gainsburg
Thesis: In Vitro Enzymatic Assay of RNA Methylation, Pamela Jean Eubanks Gallup
Dissertation: A Method of Modeling Multirate Two-Dimensional Recursive Digital Filters Author, Albert P. Gerheim
Dissertation: Sound Absorption in N2-H2O Gas Mixtures at Room Temperature and Low Frequency/Pressure Ratios, William Axam Griffin
Thesis: Photoelastic Investigation of Load Transfer in Eccentrically Loaded Single Lap Joints, Stephen Antrim Hann
Thesis: Fine Structure of the Nucleus and Cytoplasmic Feulgen-Positive Areas in the Developing Oocyte of Argus (Persicargas) radiatus, Bonnie J. Harding
Thesis: Growth and Recruitment of Two Penaeids in the Bay of St. Louis, Mississippi During 1979, Teresa C. Heaton
Thesis: The Effect of Kindergarten Entrance Age on School Success in Kindergarten and First Grade in Selected Portsmouth Private Schools, Mary Lindsey H. Hester
Thesis: The Effects of Copper on Skeletonema Costatum (Greville) Cleve, Susanne Sybille Jackman
Thesis: High Performance Liquid Chromatographic Analysis of Biogenic Amines, Thais Edwina Ahrendt Keegan
Thesis: The Evolution of the Fleet Submarine in the United States Navy, Robert P. Kendall
Thesis: The African Foreign Policy of the German Democratic Republic, Heide R. Kersey
Thesis: A Direct Formulation and Computer-Implementation of a Symbolic Network Analysis Algorithm, Timothy James Knerr
Thesis: Low Speed Handling Characteristics of a Supersonic Transport by Eigenstructure Assignment, Michael Peter Lazar
Thesis: Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay for Anatid Herpesvirus, Margaret Anne Lewis
Thesis: Effects of the Dental Hygiene Curriculum on Student Creativity, Linda Kathryn Martin
Thesis: The Synthesis and Evaluation of the Biological Activity of Heterocyclic Analogs of Phencyclidine, Julian Dew McKenney Jr.
Thesis: Correlation Between Glutathione Peroxidase Activity and Selenium Concentrations in Both Plasma and Erythrocytes, Agatha Dudzai Munyanyi
Dissertation: Water Wave Refraction with Non-Linear Theory, Im Sang Oh
Thesis: "The Tide of the Unconscious" Jung, Bosch and the Archetypes of The Garden of Earthly Delights, Andrea R. Peck
Dissertation: Geomorphology and Dynamics of a Sand Wave in Lower Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, Gerardo Miguel Eduardo Perillo
Dissertation: Numerical Model Simulation of Offshore Flow During the Winter Season, Maria Cintia Piccolo
Thesis: Thomas Sully (1783-1872): Beginning Portraitist in Norfolk, Beth N. Rossheim
Thesis: Relationship Between the Empathy Levels of Dental Hygiene Students and Their Teachers, Claudia Hudak Sanderlin
Thesis: Games and Gaming of the Stuart Aristocracy, Vicky Ann Sanderlin
Thesis: Synthesis of Dihydroisoquinolines and Tetrahydroisoquinolines, John J. Schlager
Thesis: Incidental and Intentional Recall of Item Names and Spatial Locations, Lois Ann Scovel
Thesis: The Banker's Briar Patch: The American Banker's Association and the Glass-Owen Bill of 1913, Robert Drake Scull
Thesis: Design and Analysis of a Hybrid Thermoelectric Solar Collector, Kay Eddie Shaheen
Thesis: Reciprocal Self-Disclosure in Mixed-Race and Same-Race Dyads, David Roger Sholis
Thesis: Jewish-Non-Military Resistance During the Holocaust, Debra J. Simmonds