ODU theses and dissertations since 1965 are available in this collection.
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Theses/Dissertations from 1981
Thesis: The Christian Republicanism of Timothy Dwight and Jedidiah Morse: The New American Israel and the French Antithesis, Kim Alan Snyder
Thesis: Petroleum-Utilizing Bacteria: The Biological Line Defense Against Oil Pollution, Steven W. Sokolowski
Dissertation: Usage and Limitations of Characteristic Vector Analysis of Remote Sensing Multispectral Data for the Identification and Quantification of Water Quality Parameters, Theodore A. Talay
Thesis: Breeding Birds of Two Atlantic White Cedar Stands in the Great Dismal Swamp, Karen Terwilliger
Thesis: The Effect of a Movement Education Program on Self Concept Among First Grade Children, RoseMarie Zumbo Tyree
Thesis: Lithium Chlorine-Induced Food Aversions in the Toad (Bufo americanus), Paul R. Vaughan
Thesis: Goertler Instability in Compressible Boundary Layers Along Curved Surfaces with Suction and Cooling, Alok K. Verma
Thesis: The Use of Microscopic Vegetative Characteristics and Leaf Characteristics and Leaf Deterioration Rates in the Formulation of Keys of Some Wetland Plants, Bruce Foy Williams
Thesis: Decay Rates and Nutrient Dynamics in Confines and Nonconfined Leaf Litter in the Great Dismal Swamp, R. Frederick K. Yates
Theses/Dissertations from 1980
Thesis: Eigensystem Assignment Using Singular Value Decomposition, Ronald Dean Alley
Thesis: Natural Convection in Shallow Inclined Enclosures, Effendy Arif
Thesis: The Carter Administrative Elite: A Background Analysis, Susan Adomaitis Armstrong
Thesis: The Association of 5.8 S with 28S Ribosomal RNA, Nandita Banerjee
Thesis: Dental Hygiene Students' Perceptions of Themselves and the Typical Dental Hygienist in Regard to Feminism, Christine M. Berg
Thesis: Effectiveness of Dental Plaque Charts in Motivating Adolescents Toward Improved Oral Hygiene and Oral Health, Lee Ann Branscome
Thesis: An Evaluation of Small Rodent Populations in Four Dismal Swamp Plant Communities, Fiona Elizabeth Breidling
Thesis: The Ability of Young Children to Recognize Facial Photographs of Young Children, Young Adults, and Senior Citizens, Barbara Bell Bruff
Thesis: Effects of Sleep Loss on Information-Processing in an Absolute Judgment Task as a Function of Task Difficulty, Frieda O'Steen Carlton
Thesis: A Dimensionality Reduction Algorithm for the Karhunen Loeve Transform, Salomi T. Charalambous
Thesis: Thermodynamic and System Performance Analysis of a Heat Pump That Employs a Two-Phase Flow Collector as Evaporator, Yu-Fang Chiang
Thesis: A Nonlinear Hybrid Vortex Method for Wings Having Side-Edge Separations, Li-Chuan Chu
Thesis: The Association of Semen Factors with the Recovery of Ureaplasma urealyticum, Rebecca D. Cintron
Thesis: The Effects of 712-Dimethylbenz (A) Anthracene on Ovarian Steroidogenesis and Uterine Growth in the Mouse, Jeffrey Lynn Clark
Thesis: The Feasibility of Commercial Scale Culture of Atlantic Sturgeon, Acipenser Oxyrhynchus, Christopher John Coffing
Thesis: The Effect of Tone Frequency Spacing on Perception of Order in Repeating Tone Sequences, James Raymond Comstock Jr.
Thesis: The Irish Land Question 1848-1870, Sara A. Coski
Thesis: Cornelius L. Moore: A Northern Soldier's Perspective on the Civil War, Roger T. Crew Jr.
Thesis: Polydipsia's Contribution to the Temporal Discrimination of Rats in the Development of Fixed Interval Behavior and as a Function of Fixed Interval Length, Linda Griffith Cruser
Thesis: The Effects of Salinity on the Growth and Survival of the Crayfish, Procambarus actus actus (Girard), Emily Deaver
Thesis: The Effect of the Herbicide Metolachlor on Nutrient Levels in Zea Mays L., Tamsey Dawn Warren Ellis
Thesis: The Significance of Peel Stresses in Cyclic Debonding, Richard A. Everett Jr.
Thesis: The Effects of Family Counseling on the Treatment of Juvenile Status Offenders of the Norfolk Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court, Valerie Karen Freeman
Thesis: High Resolution Two-Dimensional Electrophoretic Study of Human Seminal Plasma Proteins, Edward E. Gaunt
Thesis: Dr. Félix-Roland Moumié and the Revolution in French Cameroon, 1948-1960, Gregory Kurt Glassner
Thesis: The Analysis of S-Adenosylmethionine and S-Adenosylhomocysteine in Normal and Neoplastic Cells, Kathryn Elizabeth Godburn
Thesis: Litter Production and Nutrient Content of Litter in the Seasonally Flooded Dismal Swamp, Marta M. Gomez
Thesis: Filtration Ingestion and Assimilation Rates of the Mysid Shrimp Neomysis Americana Smith, Fed Three Food Sources, Robert W. Grabb
Thesis: Sulfatides as Opiate Receptors: An Evaluation of the Opiate Binding Potential of Sulfogalactosylgylcerolipid, Darby Geoghegan Hand
Dissertation: The Development of a Stepped Frequency Microwave Radiometer and Its Application to Remote Sensing of the Earth, Richard Forrest Harrington
Thesis: Macrobenthic Communities of an Industrialized Seaport Ecosystem: The Southern Branch of the Elizabeth River, Virginia, Steven D. Hawthorne
Dissertation: Coherence Between Wind and Current Events in a Nearshore, Shallow Water, Wave Dominated Environment, George Milton Hecker
Thesis: The Retention and Maintenance of an Information Processing Skill, Jerry Willard Hedge
Dissertation: Surface Circulation and Horizontal Diffusion Processes of the Lower Chesapeake Bay, Frederick A. Hilder
Thesis: Vocational Interests of Dental Hygiene Professionals, Renee Johnson
Thesis: Experimental Study of Delta Wing Leading-Edge Devices for Drag Reduction at High Lift, Thomas Dwight Johnson Jr.
Thesis: Effects of Practice on the Rate of Gain of Information in a Paper and Pencil Task, Dennis Howard Jones
Thesis: The Effects of an Alternative Training Program and Increased Rates Information on Halo Error and Accuracy, Robert J. Jones
Thesis: Short-Term Effect of Preventative Oral Health Services on Drug Rehabilitation Clients' Self Concept, Susan Elizabeth Jones
Thesis: Disidentification and Volitional Activation: New Approaches to the Treatment of Cigarette Smoking, Paul Donley Lidstrom
Thesis: The Effect of Blood Infusion Upon Perceived Exertion, Mary Aubert Lindhjem
Thesis: How Young Children Perceive Their Teachers: A Developmental Study, Mary Meta Lowe
Thesis: Evaluation of the Impact of a Health Education Program on the Rate of Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections in a Selected Female Outpatient Population, Lo Lumsden
Thesis: The Synthesis and Biochemical Evaluation of Potential Acetylcholinesterase Reactivators, Andrea McDearmid Lunsford
Thesis: High Resolution Laser Absorption Spectroscopy of Ozone Near 1129.4 CM-1, Lawrence N. Majorana
Thesis: Oral Health Care Services Available to Mentally Retarded Individuals in Public Residential Facilities, Marilynn Mattox
Thesis: Figural Identity Effects on the Perception of Apparent Movement Produced by a Bistable Multielement Motion Display, Don Michael McAnulty
Thesis: Morphological Variation Among 14 Species of Callogobius Bleeker (Pisces: Gobiidae), James Francis McKinney
Thesis: Sound Absorption in N2-H2O Gas Mixtures at Elevated Temperatures, Roger W. Meredith
Thesis: The Effects of Elevated Calcium Chloride and Magnesium Chloride Levels on Larval Growth and Survival of Macrobrachium rosenbergii (De Man) (Decapoda Palaemonidae) Reared in the Laboratory, James Thomas Michaels II
Thesis: Feasibility of Quasi-Random Band Model in Evaluating Atmospheric Radiance, Navin Mirakhur
Thesis: Structural Studies of Preimplantation Rabbit Embryos Using FTIR ATR, Amy R. Moler-Booth
Thesis: The Distribution of Cesium-137, Copper, Lead and Zinc in Various Sedimentary Environments of the James River Estuary, Virginia, Colin Stevenson Moy
Thesis: Isolation and Enumeration of Enteric Viruses From Primary Wastewater Sludge, Michael Wayne Nath
Thesis: A Different Light: Jefferson Views Henry, 1759-1784, Thomas Wesley Redman
Thesis: Attitudes of Students in Selected Virginia Colleges and Universities Related to Death and Dying, Jacqueline J. Rochele
Thesis: Finite Element Model of a Timoshenko Beam with Structural Damping, Louis Ablen Roussos
Thesis: Multiple Methods of Analysis of 2'-O-Methylation in 5.8S rRna, Sharon H. Ryan
Dissertation: Analytic and Experimental Studies of a True Airspeed Sensor, Joseph Yao-Cheng Shen
Thesis: Germination and Haustorial Development in Orobanche Minor Smith (Orobanchaceae), David L. Spelce
Thesis: Self-Starvation of Rats in Running Wheels as a Function of Activity-Food Interval and Food Consistency, Ingrid Kalwas Stephens
Dissertation: Influence of Nonequilibrium Radiation and Shape Change on the Flowfield of a Jupiter Probe With Ablation and Mass Injection, Sundaresa Venkata Subramanian
Thesis: Use of Disclosing Tablets and Signs of Gingival Bleeding for Improving the Oral Health and Oral Hygiene Status of Adult Dental Clients, Susan Elaine Thompson
Thesis: The Historical Development of the Church of God Publishing House 1908-1935, Robert Joel Trammell
Thesis: Civil Pageantry in the Reigns of Elizabeth I and James I of England, 1558-1625, Marjorie Ann Watkins
Thesis: The Relationship Between Attributional Style and Learned Helplessness in Interpersonal Situations, Hedy L. Weinberger
Thesis: Distribution of the Dinoflagellate Symbiosis in Astragia danae as Affected by Light Attenuation, Michael Perry Weston
Thesis: Multiple Forms of Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide Glycohydrolase from Bull Semen, Stanley D. Yeatts II
Theses/Dissertations from 1979
Thesis: The Effects of Proton Irradiation on the Absorption of Multi Component Glasses, Marcia Frances Bartusiak
Thesis: The Effects of United States Inter-American Policy on U.S. Relations with Chile, 1958-1978, Michael Hunter Brown
Thesis: Swimming as a Determinate to Immigration for Two Small Mammals in Coastal Virginia, Jeffrey Lewis Carter
Thesis: Proposed Rule Changes in College Basketball, Joey Caruthers
Dissertation: Turbulence Spectra in a Well-Mixed Estuary, Jong Yul Chung
Thesis: The Effects of Physical Attractiveness and Sex-Role Stereotyping on Peer Performance Evaluations, Claire Trimer Edwards
Thesis: Effect of the Rubber-Cup Prophylaxis and the Self-Administered Prophylaxis on the Oral Hygiene Performance of the Pedodontic Patient, Kay Diane Edwards
Thesis: Core Size, Pricing, and Cost Structure, William K. Edwards
Thesis: The Comparative Ecology of Two Populations of the Troglobitic Isopod Crustacean Lirceus Usdagalun (Asellidae), James Alexander Estes
Thesis: Cognitive and Behavioral Effects of Participant Modeling: A Comparison with an Equally Credible Placebo, Bruce Dennis Etringer
Thesis: Structure of a Subtidal Benthic Community Near Cape Charles, Virginia, R. Michael Ewing
Thesis: Franck Condon Factors and R-Centeroids for Six Diatomic Molecules, Patricia M. Fazio
Thesis: Blacks In Norfolk Virginia During the 1930's, Norma Cromwell Fields
Thesis: The Development of Techniques for the Enumeration of Selected Pathogenic Bacteria in Lynnhaven Estuarine Sediments, Mark T. Frank
Thesis: Feeding Morphologies and Distribution Patterns of Marine Cladocera in the Lower Chesapeake Bay, Sandra Layne Gilchrist
Dissertation: Production of a Population of the Stout Razor Clam (Tagelus plebeius Solander) in a Virginia Estuary, Mark James Grussendorf
Thesis: The Source and Substance of Liberalism in the Protestant Episcopal Church, Jo Ann McAllister Hobart
Thesis: A Painful Case: The Wright-Sanborn Incident in Norfolk, Virginia July-October, 1863, Ervin Leon Jordan Jr.
Thesis: The Effects of Stimulus Flooding Procedures with Acrophobia: A Test of Nonspecific Treatment Effects, Gil Krawitz
Thesis: Detection of Unique Tumor-Associated Proteins in the Urine of Patients with Transitional Cell Carcinoma by High Resolution Two-Dimensional Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis, Robert David Lehman
Thesis: The Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Fish Eggs and Larvae in Hempstead Bay Estuary, Joseph Adelard Lessard
Thesis: Measuring Empathy in Female Hygiene Students, Patricia R. Mason
Thesis: Menstrual Cycle and Training Effects on Physical Work Capacity, Sarah Jane Miller