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
Knowledge Organization Practices in Everyday Life: Divergent Constructions of Healthy Eating, Jill R. McTavish
Tree Seedling Establishment in Response to Warming and Nitrogen Addition in a Temperate Old Field, Bryana D. McWhirter
News, Copulas and Independence, Ivan Medovikov
A Comprehensive Mental Health Training Format for Adult Education Teachers, Fiona Meek
Effect of plant hormones on the production of biomass and lipid in microalgae, Malihe Mehdizadeh Allaf
Describing the Falls Prevention Program at an Acute Care Hospital in Ontario Using Leveson’s Systems Model, Mahboubeh Mehrjoo
Promotional Ubiquitous Musics: New Identities and Emerging Markets in the Digitalizing Music Industry, Leslie Meier
Evaluation of Ontario's Street Racers, Stunt and Aggressive Drivers Legislation, Aizhan Meirambayeva
The Role of Kisspeptin and KNDy Cells in the Reproductive Neuroendocrine System, Christina M. Merkley
A C-terminus Mitochondrial-localization Region and BH3 Domain of Puma are Required for Apoptotic Function, Liz A. Merwin
Reliability Models Applied to Smartphone Applications, Sonia Meskini
Intermittent Hypoxia Affects Leptin and Leptin Receptor Signaling in the Rat Carotid Body, Scott A. Messenger
Executive Functions and the Interaction Between Category Learning Systems, Sarah J. Miles
Detecting Multilingual Lines of Text with Fusion Moves, Igor Milevskiy
Development of Novel Contrast Agents for Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Mark Milne
Modeling and Optimization of Next-Generation Wireless Access Networks, Maysam Mirahmadi
Cognitive Function in BK Channel Knock-Out Mice, Magdalena N. Mirkowski
Crevice Corrosion Behavior of Ni-Cr-Mo-W Alloys in Aggressive Environment, Ajit K. Mishra
Transformation, Transduction and Prolonged Formation, Laura E. Mitrow
Play In the Land of Footnotes: Hipótesis de un diálogo (in)estable con el pasado, Miharu Miyasaka
A single cell based model for cell divisions with spontaneous topology changes, Anna Mkrtchyan
Flows in Grooved Channels, Alireza Mohammadi
Mitigating permafrost degradation due to linear disturbances in sub-arctic peatlands, Aaron A. Mohammed
Structures in Real Theory Application: A Study in Feasible Epistemology, Robert H. C. Moir
Interactions among biotic and abiotic controls of carbon dynamics in a global change field experiment, Eric R D Moise