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
Investigations of Cost-Effective Biodiesel Production from High FFA Feedstock, Lesly N. Lesmes Sanchez
Rank, Competition, and the Etiquette of Community at a Squash Club, David E. Levine
ATRX regulates H3.3 incorporation and gene expression at G-rich ancestral pseudoautosomal genes, Michael A. Levy
Physical-Layer Security Enhancement in Wireless Communication Systems, Hao Li
Secure OFDM System Design for Wireless Communications, Hao Li
Joint outcome modeling using shared frailties with application to temporal streamflow data, Lihua Li
Developmental plasticity of muscle cellularity and swim performance of juvenile Chinook salmon in response to temperature, Dan Dohyung Lim
The Religion of Success: The Religious and Theological Roots of the American Success Industry of Self-Help, Personal Growth, and Wealth, Sharon M. Lindenburger
Negotiating Elder Care in a Transnational Context: Taiwanese Families and Vietnamese Migrant Workers, Stephen Lin
Development of Advanced Nanomaterials for Potential Lithium-Ion Battery Application, Jian Liu
Protein Structure and Interactions Studied by Electrospray Mass Spectrometry, Jiangjiang Liu
Oil-in-water Emulsification Using Oscillatory Micro-screen, Jiangshan Liu
Stochastic Simulation of Multiple-Station Ground Motions and Its Applications, Taojun Liu
Asymptotic Theory for GARCH-in-mean Models, Weiwei Liu
GIS-Based Local Ordered Weighted Averaging: A Case Study in London, Ontario, Xinyang Liu
The Academic Grind: A Critique of Creative and Collaborative Discourses Between Digital Games Industries and Post-Secondary Education in Canada, Owen R. Livermore
Hierarchical Classification and its Application in University Search, Xiao Li
Electrospinning of Core-shell Collagen Nanofibers, Ying Li
A New Algorithm for Protein-Protein Interaction Prediction, Yiwei Li
Development of Novel Nanomaterials for Lithium-Air and Sodium-Air Batteries, Yongliang Li
Small mammal foraging and population responses to northern conifer mast, Nikhil Lobo
Children's Neighbourhood Geographies: Examining Children's Perception and Use of Their Neighbourhood Environments for Healthy Activity, Janet E. Loebach
Multimodal Literacy Learning Opportunities in One Grade Six Classroom: Possibilities and Constraints, Terry S. Loerts