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
Capacity Assessment of a Transmission Tower under Wind Loading, Thomas G. Mara
The sub-lethal effects of repeated cold exposure in insects, Katie Elizabeth Marshall
Evaluating and Improving 4D-CT Image Segmentation for Lung Cancer Radiotherapy, Spencer P. Martin
An Exploration of Early Childhood Education Students' Knowledge and Preparation to Facilitate Physical Activity for Preschoolers, Olivia Martyniuk
Computer Vision Algorithms For An Automated Harvester, Alireza Masoudian
Talking Nonsense: Spiritual Mediums and Female Subjectivity in Victorian and Edwardian Canada, Claudie Massicotte
The Roles of Thematic Knowledge in Sentence Comprehension, Kazunaga Matsuki
The Effect of Selective Hypothermia on Stroke Volume, Thomas K. Mattingly
Advances in Manipulation and Recognition of Digital Ink, Vadim Mazalov
Degradation Kinetics and Functional Design of Linear Self-Immolative Polymers, Ryan A. McBride
Effect of Concurrent Walking and Interlocutor Distance on Conversational Speech Intensity and Rate in Parkinson's Disease, Cassandra M. McCaig
Microbially induced magnesium carbonation reactions as a strategy for carbon sequestration in ultramafic mine tailings, Jenine McCutcheon
Investigation of Sox9 Ablation on Neural Stem Cell Behaviour after Spinal Cord Injury, Stephen McDonald
Carboxylic Acid Functionalized Butyl Rubber: From Synthesis to Applications, Matthew John McEachran
Gravitational Darkening of Classical Be Stars, Meghan A. McGill
In Defense of a Livelihood: Ontario Growers and the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program Debate, Matthew McKarney
Print Literacy Opportunities for Young Children in a Multimodal Literacy Ensemble, Lori McKee
An Investigation of Subaxial Cervical Spine Trauma and Surgical Treatment through Biomechanical Simulation and Kinematic Analysis, Stewart D. McLachlin
Attracting and Retaining the Highly Skilled in Medium-sized City-regions of Ontario: The Role of the Built Environment, Catherine A. McLean
“The Future is Medieval”: Orality and Musical Borrowing in the Middle Ages and Online Remix Culture, Claire E. McLeish
Ecological Constraints and the Evolution of Cooperative Breeding, David McLeod
Stimulus Control by Timing in Pigeons, Neil McMillan
Second-order Analysis of Cable-stayed Bridge Deck Slabs, Zachary McNeil
Increasing atmospheric nitrogen deposition: implications for tallgrass prairie restoration, Jennifer M. McPhee