ODU theses and dissertations since 1965 are available in this collection.
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Theses/Dissertations from 1983
Thesis: An Arms Race in Outer Space Between the United States and the Soviet Union Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy, Gary Morgan Jensen
Thesis: The Effect of a Cardiac Education Program on the Knowledge, Stress, and State Anxiety Levels of First Time Post Myocardial Infarction Patients in a Post Coronary Care Unit, Jeanine L. Johns
Dissertation: An Error-Dependent Model of Instrument-Scanning Behavior in Commercial Airline Pilots, Dennis H. Jones
Thesis: The Effects of Amphetamine and Ethanol on Habituation of Exploratory Responses of Rats in Novel and Familiar Environments, Kuen-Teng Kao
Thesis: The Effect of Sea Nettle Abundance on the Food Chain of the Lower Chesapeake Bay, Michael Glenn Kelly
Thesis: Effect of Transducer Size on the Statistical Properties of a Simulated Turbulent Wall Pressure Field, Mehdi R. Khorrami
Thesis: Effects of the Rater's Sex and Sex-Role Orientation and the Applicant's Physical Attractiveness Sex and Qualifications on Resume Evaluation, Robert N. Kilcullen
Thesis: The Distribution of Phytoplankton in Frontal Regions of the Lower Chesapeake Bay, Richard V. Lacouture
Thesis: Viscous Modeling and Computation of Leading-And Trailing-Edge Vortex Cores of Delta Wings, Balakrishnan Lakshmanan
Thesis: The Renascence of Classical Thought and Form in the Carolingian Period, Sara James Laster
Thesis: Determination of Erythrocyte Zinc Concentrations Using Zeeman Effect Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy, Tanya Maranda Lewis
Thesis: A Study of Increased Flow Off the Eastern Seaboard of the United States Within Four Synoptic Flow Patterns During the Winter Months, John Dale Liechty
Thesis: The Use of Complex Versus Normal Modes in Structural Model Improvement, Chih Lin
Thesis: High Resolution Two Dimensional Electrophoresis of Soluble Proteins in Human Spermatozoa, Hsing-Ying Liu
Thesis: The Growth and Feeding Behavior of Juvenile Spot, Leiostomus xanthurus Lacepede, in the Nursery Region of the James River, Virginia, John Thomas McCambridge Jr.
Thesis: Circuit Analysis of a Gas Flow Switch, Teri Marie Owens
Thesis: The Relationship of Size Class Distribution to Migratory Behavior in Brown Shrimp (Penaeus aztecus) in Pamlico Sound, North Carolina, Mario A. Paula
Thesis: Locus of Control As A Function Membership in Alcoholics Anonymous, Christine B. Philput
Thesis: Three Disappearances, Mari LoNano Polansky
Thesis: Experiments Conducted on the Electron Beam Produced by a Dense Plasma Focus, Mark Steven Pronko
Thesis: Adaptations of Dolphin Vision to the Oceanic Environment, Andre Rivamonte
Thesis: A Quantitative Study of the Aquatic Macroinvertebrates in an Irregularly Flooded Salt Marsh, Smith Island, Virginia, Leon L. Robert Jr.
Thesis: Experiments on Melting Around an Isothermal Horizontal Cylinder Under Computer Control, Timothy Moore Rothgeb
Thesis: Valuing in the Arts, Nonna B. Runner
Dissertation: Stability Analysis of Closed Surge Tanks By Phase-Plane Method, Mostafa A. Sabbah
Thesis: Homing and Ecology in the Southern Flying Squirrel, Glaucomys volans in Southeastern Virginia, Sherrie Lynn Sawyer
Thesis: Character and Mood in Prose: Nine Original Pieces, Georgianna A. Schroeder
Thesis: The Development of Learned Helplessness in Retarded and Non-Retarded Children, Jennifer Miller Schwartz
Dissertation: Employee Perceptions of Performance Appraisal Systems: Causal Determinants of Fairness, Accuracy, and Acceptability, Michael Dale Secunda
Thesis: Large Amplitude Free Flexural Vibrations of Laminated Composite Plates of Arbitrary Shape, Mo-How Shen
Thesis: A Comparative Study of Teacher Burnout in Regular and Special Elementary and Secondary Teachers, Carolyn Yvonne Wells Simmons
Dissertation: Implementation Evaluation of a Social Detoxification Program, Thomas M. Slaven
Thesis: Kuropatkin in Manchuria, Merlin Van Statzer
Thesis: Evaluating the Effects of Alum with Polyelectrolyte Coagulant Aids in Treatment of Low Turbidity Waters, Kenneth John Stockwell
Dissertation: On the Space Shuttle Wing Thermal-Structural Analysis, Kumar Krishna Tamma
Thesis: Stress Appraisals and Performance in an Academic Setting, Michele Terranova
Dissertation: Close-Coupling Calculations for NaAr, NaNe, and NaHe, Linda Lindroth Vahala
Thesis: Registered Nurses' Ability to Discriminate Similar Human Need Fulfillment Alterations Specific to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and to Diabetes Mellitus, Kathleen Bowen Waite
Thesis: Collision-Induced Bands of Lithium-Rare Gas Molecules, Wen Jong Wang
Thesis: The Effects of Varying Doses of Orally Ingested Bee Pollen Extract Upon Total Exercise Time to Exhaustion Performance Recovery and Ratings of Perceived Exertion, Michael Lee Woodhouse
Theses/Dissertations from 1982
Thesis: The Evening Parade A History of the Marine Corps' Most famous Ceremony, John H. Admire
Thesis: An Approach for Including Reliability in Control System Designs, Ime Isaac Akpan
Thesis: An Analysis of a Sample of Parents and University Freshmen in Regard to Their Attitudes Toward the Needs of Sex Education in Community Schools, Linda C. Aleksa
Thesis: A Laboratory Study of Nongenetic Embryonic Adaptation to Salinity and Its Subsequent Effects Upon Larval Development of the Grass Shrimp Palaemonetes pugio Holthius, Paul Jay Anninos
Thesis: Some Effects of the Polychaete Nereis Succinea Frey and Leukart 1847 on the Distribution of Copper Cadmium and Zinc in Sediments and Water, Gabriela Kitzig August
Thesis: Variation in Leaf Macronutrients of Overstory Trees as Influenced by Species Season and Soil Type in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia, Bruce J. Bandle
Thesis: Old Dominion University Master of Science in Dental Hygiene Degree Program: Graduate and Employer Survey, Deborah Blythe Bauman
Thesis: Children's Representation of Spatial Information, Rebecca L. Beard
Thesis: The Effects of Exercise on Women's Self-Esteem, Wendy Laurie Biddle
Thesis: Client Acceptance of the Role of the Nurse Practitioner, Mary Elizabeth Butt
Thesis: Dental Hygiene Students' Perceptions About the Behavioral Characteristics of the Effective Clinical Teacher, Frances Gaby Carson
Thesis: Influence of Touch and Preferences for Control on Visual Behavior, Teresa Whitehurst Caudill
Thesis: An Analysis of the Relationships Between Environmental Stimuli Personality Variables and Levels of Burnout in Intensive Care Nurses, Catherine Via Cauthorne
Thesis: Application of Least-Squares Method to the Determination of Orthotropic Elastic and Photoelastic Constants, R. G. Chermahini
Thesis: Development of a Procedure for Analysis of High Density Lipoprotein Subclasses, Chan Chin
Thesis: An Ecological Study of the Troglobitic Cirolanid Isopod Antrolana lira Bowman from Madisons Saltpetre Cave and Stegers Fissure, Augusta Co., Virginia, T. Lynn Collins
Dissertation: Electroimmunoassay a New Competitive Protein Binding Assay Using Antibody Selective Electrodes, George Raymond Connell
Thesis: Electroimmunoassay: A New Competitive Protein Binding Assay Using Antibody Selective Electrodes, George Raymond Connell
Thesis: Forgotten Campaign: The Siege of Suffolk, April 11 - May 4, 1863, Steven A. Cormier
Thesis: Charles M. Davies (1828-1910): Cleric, Writer, Educator, Spiritualist, Thomas M. Costa
Thesis: Determining the Uptake and Possible Assimilation of the Plant Component of Spartina Detritus by Palaemonetes Pugio Using a Rapid Radiolabeling Method, Michael Peter Crosby
Dissertation: Improved Finite Element Methodology for Integrated Thermal-Structural Analysis, Pramote Dechaumphai
Thesis: Food Habits and Ecology of Beavers in Southeastern Virginia, John Lennox Echternach Jr.
Thesis: Victim-Defendant Relationship and Juror Attitudes Towards Rape as Mediators of Attribution of Responsibility for Rape, Robert L. Fauber Jr.
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