Welcome to the School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies' Electronic Theses & Dissertation site. These pages are dedicated to help you find all the information you might require in order to format and successfully submit your graduate thesis for examination and publication electronically.
Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) are prepared as text-based PDF files. ETDs can contain non-text elements such as sound, video, and hypertext links. ETDs are available through Scholarship@Western, Western's digital library repository, and also released to the world-wide web with priority in many search engines, enabling scholars worldwide to locate, search, and download the University of Western Ontario's ETDs.
The most significant benefit is the dramatic increase (50-250%) in citation impact that results from electronic publishing. This leads to increased rewards from universities, in the form of promotion and increased salary, and from granting agencies.
Other benefits include:
- publicity for research - authors of electronic theses become more widely known and their reputations are enhanced
- easy worldwide access to your theses for colleagues and collaborators
- easy worldwide access to theses for job and grant applications
- a raised profile for research institutions
- reduced costs at the point of graduation since there is no need to have multiple copies printed.
For an overview of the Electronic Thesis and Dissertation process at The University of Western Ontario, please refer to any area from our site dedicated to supporting ETD at Western:
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
DNA hydrolysis and genome editing applications of GIY-YIG family homing endonucleases, Benjamin P. Kleinstiver
Biomimetic Poly(ester amide) Biomaterials for Vascular Tissue Engineering, Darryl K. Knight
Reproductive behaviour of Western bean cutworm, Striacosta ablicosta (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), females under different abiotic and biotic conditions, Joanna K. Konopka
Performance Comparison of 3D Sinc Interpolation for fMRI Motion Correction by Language of Implementation and Hardware Platform, Andrew B. Kope
The effects of acute high- and low-intensity exercise on Hsp70 and Hsp90 accumulation in rat skeletal myofibres and vasculature, Hana Kowalchuk
Through the Carnival Looking Glass: A Carnivalesque Reading of Bruno Schulz's A Street of Crocodiles and Guy Davenport's A Table of Green Fields, Tamara A. Kowalski
Vehicular Instrumentation and Data Processing for the Study of Driver Intent, Taha Kowsari
Spinal Cord Control of Ejaculatory Reflexes in Male Rats, Natalie Kozyrev
Timing of developmental stress and phenotypic plasticity: Effects of nutritional stress at different developmental periods on physiological and cognitive-behavioral traits in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata), Buddhamas Kriengwatana
Cracking Down on Exotic Dancers: How the Act, the Media and Interest Groups Frame Human Trafficking Policy in Canada, Leanne E. Kuchynski
Who Produces Urban Space?: Gentrification and Contestations Over Urban 'Authenticity', Daniel Kudla
Auditory Temporal Processing in Children with Specific Language Impairment Compared to Same-Age Controls, Elaine Yuen Ling Kwok
Role of carotenoid cleavage dioxygenases in volatile emissions and insect resistance in Arabidopsis, Shailu Lakshminarayan
PEGylation as a novel tool to investigate the topology of Escherichia coli WecA, a membrane enzyme involved in lipopolysaccharide O antigen initiation, Stéphanie L. Lamothe
Co-pyrolysis of Birchwood Bio-oil and Reduced Crude in a Mechanically Fluidized Reactor, Ryan Lance
Internationalizing Canadian Higher Education through North-South Partnerships: A Critical Case Study of Policy Enactment and Programming Practices in Tanzania, Allyson M. Larkin
Dopamine Modulation of Emotional Learning in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex, Nicole M. Lauzon
Eigenvalue Methods for Interpolation Bases, Piers W. Lawrence
Professional Athlete Self-Presentation on Twitter, Katie Lebel
Health Literacy of Individuals Living with Parkinson's Disease, Nicole D. LeBlanc
Effect of groundwater-lake interactions on the distribution of arsenic in a freshwater beach, Jacky SK Lee
Stochastic simulation and spatial statistics of large datasets using parallel computing, Jonathan SW Lee
Flexible Partially Linear Single Index Regression Models for Multivariate Survival Data, Na Lei
Piezoelectric Transformer and Hall-Effect Based Sensing and Disturbance Monitoring Methodology for High-Voltage Power Supply Lines, Sneha Arun Lele