ODU theses and dissertations since 1965 are available in this collection.
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Theses/Dissertations from 1977
Thesis: The Problem of Social Change as Seen in the Life and Work of Jean Jaurès and George Sorel, Frances Boyce Glover
Dissertation: Evaluation of Hydrogen as a Cryogenic Wind Tunnel Test Gas, Richard Carl Haut II
Thesis: Unifying Principles in the English Renaissance Sonnet Sequence, Deborah Fairfield Heatwole
Thesis: U.S. Security Policy in Postwar Japan; The Making of a Cold War Ally, Thomas James Hehman
Thesis: A Study of the Zooplankton Composition at a Twenty-Four Hour Station in Waters North of Cuba, Judith Lee Hensley
Thesis: Effect of Nitrite and Nitrate on the Larval Development of the Grass Shrimp Palaemonetes pugio Holthuis, Carl Bingham Hinesman
Thesis: Temperature and Salinity Tolerance of the Larvae of the Sand Shrimp, Crangon Septemspinosa (Say), Karen Lyttle Hinsman
Dissertation: Precise Frequency Control of the Voltage Controlled Oscillator Using Finite Digital Word Lengths, Timothy Peter Hulick
Thesis: Creativity in Dental Hygiene Students and Dental Hygiene Professionals, Frances Lynne Jarrett
Thesis: Sediment Interstitial Dissolved Mercury and Carbon Relationships in an Artificial and Natural Marsh, James River, Virginia, Apostolos Katsaounis
Thesis: Demonstration of Unique Mycelial Components in Candida Albicans, David Jon Mancuso
Thesis: The Priest in Gulliver's Travels, Mary Virginia Green Mathews
Thesis: Description of the Larval Development of Squilla empusa Say (Crustacea Stomatopoda) with Aspects of Larval Ecology in Chesapeake Bay, Steven Gaines Morgan
Thesis: Contributions to the Reproductive Biology and Natural History of the Pirateperch, Aphredoderus Sayanus, Edward O. Murdy
Dissertation: Optimal Control of a Large Space Telescope Using an Annular Momentum Control Device, Arun Anant Nadkarni
Thesis: Static Temperature Measurements in Supersonic Flow Using Lasar Raman Spectroscopy, Paul A. Nystrom
Thesis: France, the United States and the Spanish-American War, Richard Henry Owens
Thesis: A Follow-up Study of Graduates of Undergraduate Teacher Education Programs of Old Dominion University, 1973-1976, Gerald F. Patout
Thesis: The Influence of Renaissance Neoplatonism on Michelangelo, Judith Carole Riley
Thesis: The Effects of Electron Irradiation on MOSFETs, Mark D. Skeldon
Thesis: The German Communist Struggle 1918-1923, Steven Ross Thulin
Thesis: Plant Distribution and Succession Within Interdunal Depressions on a Virginia Barrier Dune System, Robert Wayne Tyndall
Thesis: The Effects of the Couples Communication Program on Marital Communication and Perceived Satisfaction with the Relationship, Candace Barbara Waller
Thesis: The Influence of Item Wording on Scale Scores, Ratchaneewan Wanichtanom
Thesis: Samuel Becket's Use of "Silence", Russell V. Watkins
Dissertation: Fundamental Analysis of the Linear Multiple Regression Technique for Quantification of Water Quality Parameters From Remote Sensing Data, Charles Henry Whitlock III
Thesis: Selected Letters from the Parker Family Papers: The Correspondence of Margaret Parker, Carmeline V. Zimmer
Theses/Dissertations from 1976
Thesis: The Acquisition of Dental Skills: Value of Exercise in Teaching Instrumentation, Deanne Shuman Allen
Thesis: A Comparative Study of a Salt Water Impoundment with Its Adjacent Tidal Creek Pertinent to Culture of Crassostrea Virginica (Gmelin), William D. Anderson III
Thesis: Effect of the Chesapeake-Elizabeth Sewage Outfall Virginia Beach, Virginia on the Distribution and Ecology of Benthic Foraminifera, James M. Bates Jr.
Thesis: Studies of the Purification of NAD-Dependent and NADP-Dependent Isocitrate Dehydrogenase by General Ligand Affinity Chromatography, Geoffrey H. Bertkau
Dissertation: Similitude of Mass Transfer Processes in Distorted Froude Model of an Estuary, Carvel Hall Blair
Thesis: Effectiveness of the Phase Contrast Microscope in Dental Patient Motivation, Denise Marie Bowen
Thesis: Effects of Hypothesizing on Concept Learning, Barbara Blinn Bryant
Thesis: Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoretic Studies Demonstrating Cytoplasmic Protein Components Unique to the Mycelial Phase and to the Yeast Phase of Candida albicans, Theresa Catherine Burgess
Thesis: Elementary Science Study and Science Process Skills, James B. Chapman
Thesis: The Effect of 4-Chlororesorcinol on the Growth Potential of Dunaliella Tertiolecta Butcher (Dun Clone), John Anthony Chigges
Thesis: Sex Pheromone Activity in the Foveal Glands in the Two Species of Ixodid Ticks: Dermacentor Andersoni (Stiles) and Dermacentor Variabilis (Say), Lynn Anne Collins
Thesis: Vitruvian Influence in the Design of the Fortune Theatre, 1600-1621, James Boyd Crawford
Thesis: The Pathophysiology of Acute Venous Occlusion, Lewis H. Curd Jr.
Thesis: Structural Comparisons of Four Plant Communities in the Great Dismal Swamp, Claire Virginia Dabel
Thesis: The Distribution of Submersed Hydrophytes in Currituck Sound, Steven Harry Davis
Dissertation: Numerical Simulation of Thermohaline Convection in the Mixed Layer of the Ocean, Victor Eli Delnore
Thesis: Variation in the Ecology Morphology and Behavior of the Troglobitic Amphipod Crustacean Crangonyx Antennatus Packard (Crangonchidae) from Different Habitats, Gary Wayne Dickson
Thesis: Therapist Warmth as a Factor in Automated Relaxation Training, Kenneth Dittmar
Thesis: The Tiffany Glass Collection of the Chrysler Museum at Norfolk, Paul Edward Doros
Thesis: Control of Clay Mineral Distribution by Estuarine Circulation, James River Estuary, Virginia, Jean-Pierre Feuillet
Thesis: Topography, Shallow Structure, and Sedimentary Processes of the Atlantic Continental Slope off the Carolina Coast, Robert Michael Fitchko
Thesis: Comparison of the Belgrad Skin Suit to a Conventional Race Suit in the Swimming Speed of Females, Mary Lucinda Fleet
Thesis: Learning Factors in the Development of Environmental Aversions, Jon S. Freda
Thesis: An Efficient DFT Algorithm Using the Walsh Transform, Albert P. Gerheim
Thesis: The United States Great Britain and the Status of Thailand (Siam), 1940-1946, Peter Goodwin
Thesis: Seasonal Distribution and the Retention of Some Decapod Crustacean Larvae Within the Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, Joseph William Goy
Thesis: Dynamics and Sedimentology of Inner Middle Ground - Nine Foot Shoal, Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, Mitchell Alan Granat
Thesis: An Investigation of the Nucleotide Cyclic 3'5' Adenosine Monophosphate in Young Hypocotyls of Pisum sativum L., Gary Marsh Hilton
Thesis: The Natural History of the Naked Goby Gobiosoma bosci (Perciformes: Gobiidae), Leonard L. Nero
Thesis: A Multidimensional Scaling Analysis of Sex Guilt, Kevin E. O'Grady
Thesis: The United States and the Anschluss; Reactions and Repercussions, Joseph Pociask
Thesis: Improved Techniques for Marking, Night-Viewing, and Aging White-Tailed Deer, Odocoileus Virginianus, Barnard Hodge Powell
Thesis: A Batch Method for the Isolation of Immunogenically Pure IgG, IgA, and IgM from Human Sera, Samuel Christopher Powell
Thesis: A Dynamic Test for Comparison of Rebound Characteristics of Three Brands of Tennis Balls, Kenneth Talmadge Rand Jr.
Thesis: The Effects of Dredging on the Stability of an Ebb-Tidal Delta, Lynnhaven Inlet, Virginia, Donald Keith Riggenbach
Thesis: Kinetic and Binding Studies on L-∝-Glycerophosphate Dehydrogenase, Paul Richard Rosevear
Thesis: Test Variation in the Sand Dollar, Mellita quinquiesperforata (Leske), George Glynn Rountree
Thesis: The Food Habits of Ictalurus Natalis, Centrarchus Macropterus and Perca Flavescens in Lake Drummond in the Dismal Swamp of Virginia, Steven C. Russell
Thesis: The Effects of Central and Peripheral Graphics on Personal Disclosure, Louis C. Saksen
Thesis: Stability and Local Effects of an Offshore Sand Storage Mound, Dam Neck Disposal Site, Virginia Inner Continental Shelf, William Joslyn Saumsiegle
Thesis: A Numerical Model for the Prediction of Tides and Tidal Currents in the Lafayette River, Norfolk, Virginia, G. McAllister Sisson
Thesis: An Exploration of the Roots of the Feminist Heroine in the Lives and Selected Works of Robert Browning and Thomas Hardy, Pamela L. Smith
Thesis: Evaluation of Upwelling Infrared Radiance in a Nonhomogeneous Nonequilibrium Atmosphere, Sundaresa Venkata Subramanian
Thesis: The Role of Serotonin Depletion on the Behavioral Effects of Ethyl Alcohol, Linda J. Ward
Thesis: An Intensive Study of the Spring Phytoplankton Bloom in Lynnhaven Bay, Virginia, Donald Lynn Webster
Thesis: James H. Burton and the Development of the Confederate Small Arms Industry, Eugene K. Wilson III
Thesis: Effects of Physical Attractiveness and Warmth on the Perception of Deviant Behavior, Midge Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 1975
Thesis: Analysis of Spread Multi-Jet VTOL Aircraft in Hover, Leroy F. Albang
Thesis: Fresh-Robed/ In Flesh: The Incarnation Theme in the Poetry of C. S. Lewis, Margaret P. Anderson
Thesis: Osteology of Trypauchenichthys sumatrensis Hardenburg, Christine Parrish Baer
Thesis: The History of Men's Intercollegiate Swimming at Old Dominion University 1936-1975, William B. Baylor Jr.
Thesis: Northerners in the Reconstruction of Hampton, Virginia, 1865-1870, Gladys A. Blair
Thesis: The Synthesis of New Maleimide Addition Polymer Precursors, Richard B. Brown
Thesis: The Buchanan Administration and the Closing of the African Slave Trade, 1859-1861, David Earl Buckingham
Thesis: Sensitivity of a Gas Filter Correlation Instrument to Variations in Atmospheric Profile and Earth Surface Temperatures, Joseph C. Casas
Thesis: Measurement of Transpiration in Pinus Teada L. and Liquidambar Styraciflua L. in a Closed Environment Growth Chamber Using Tritiated Water, Jean K. Czoch
Thesis: A Method for Improving the Accuracy in Phase Change Heat Transfer Data Through Increased Precision in Thermophysical Property Determinations, John Philip Drummond
Thesis: Heavy Mineral Distribution in the Lower Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, Frances Firek
Thesis: The Elements of Mathematics Program: How Can It Be Evaluated?, Marilou Shames Giacofci
Thesis: The Analysis of Volatile Organic Compounds in the Southern Chesapeake Bay, Virginia by Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry, James D. Haluska
Thesis: The Effect of Training on the Attitudes of Freshmen Professional Nursing Students Toward Death and Dying, Yolanda Cardelli Hampel
Thesis: Effect of Rod Gap Spacing on a Suction Panel for Laminar Flow and Noise Control in Supersonic Wind Tunnels, William D. Harvey
Thesis: Changes in Perceived Guilt as a Function of False Heart Rate Feedback, Darryl Lee Hawkins
Thesis: Genetic Studies of Cave and Spring Populations of the Freshwater Amphipod Crustacean Gammarus Minus Say, Steven Wolf Hetrick
Thesis: The Use of Analogy in the Learning Process in Piers the Plowman, Carol Eason Jones
Thesis: Imre Nagy and the First Phase of the Hungarian Revolution, William B. Liverman
Thesis: An Experimental Investigation of a Cold Jet with Solid Centerbody Emitting from a Flat Plate Into a Subsonic Free Stream, Danny K. Livingston
Thesis: Intimacy and Content of Self-Disclosure as a Function of Target-Status, John Richard McCallum
Thesis: The Norman Conquest in English Historical Thought, Ann Gutting Mercer
Thesis: Application of Satellite Data and Lars' Data Processing Techniques to Mapping Vegetation of the Dismal Swamp, Jeffrey Allan Messmore
Thesis: Urbanization and Environmental Change in Lynnhaven Estuary, Don W. Oswalt
Thesis: Benjamin Butler and the Bureau of Negro Affairs in Tidewater, Virginia, 1861-1865, Steven Frank Petrine
Thesis: An Engineering Solution to Improve Water Quality in a Tidal Lagoon, Richard Warren Price