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
Collaborative Policy-Based Autonomic Management in IaaS Clouds, Omid Mola
Measuring vocal performance in song sparrows (Melospiza melodia), and its relationship to age, morphology and song complexity., Steven D. Moore
Development and Application of an Experimental Model for the Fluid Coking Process, Carolina B. Morales
Intermittent Hypoxia Alters Metabolic and Cardiovascular Neural Pathways, Jason Michael Moreau
Applying the Reference Condition Approach to bioassessment of Cape Breton Island streams, Kari A. Moreland
Money, Morals, and Human Rights: Commercial Influences in the Marketing, Branding, and Fundraising of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, Danielle Morgan
Language in genetics research informed consent: The language gap and unrecognized miscommunication, Justin Morgenstern
Gait Retraining in Parkinson’s Disease: A Cognitive Cueing Approach, Stephanie J. Morrison
Addressing Conscientious Objection of Rural Canadian Nurses and Physicians, Natasha T. Morton
The Roman Ethnozoological Tradition: Identifying Exotic Animals in Pliny's Natural History, Benjamin Moser
Soft-Switching DC-DC Converters, Ahmad Mousavi
Alignment, Mass and Orthoses in Medial Compartment Knee Osteoarthritis, Rebecca Moyer
Dynamic Light Scattering Study of Hydroxyapatite Formation: Effect of Osteopontin and Bone Sialoprotein, Maryam Mozaffari
Single Stage Flyback Micro-Inverter for Solar Energy Systems, Aniruddha Mukherjee
Understanding honey bee worker sterility: a conceptual-empirical framework, Emma K. Mullen
Resilience as health promotion in action: University students who grew up amid violence directed towards their mothers, Tatiana Murkin (Zdyb)
The effect of pacing strategies on oxygen kinetics and muscle hemoglobin status and energy system contribution in a 6 min exercise performance, John D. Murray
Galina Ustvolskaya (1919-2006): Analytical Approach To The Pitch Content of Selected Compositions, Lindsay S. Murrell
Enhancing the Performance of Organic Thin Film Transistors By Cross-Linking the Organic Gate Dielectric, Soheila Naderi Gohar
The Influence of Mood and Motivation on Cognitive Flexibility, Ruby Nadler
Design of a minimally invasive single port HDR brachytherapy applicator for the treatment of lung cancer, Mauricio Nahum Leroy
Epigenetics of Stress Adaptation in Arabidopsis: the Case of Histone Modifications, Behnaz Najafi Majdabadi Farahani
The Money of Qaroon and the Patience of Ayoub: Women and Land in Egypt's Mubarak Resettlement Scheme, Dina Najjar
Automated Segmentation of Left and Right Ventricles in MRI and Classification of the Myocarfium Abnormalities, Cyrus (Mohammad Saleh) Nambakhsh
Analysis of Re-advanceable Mortgages, Almas Naseem