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
Interacciones narrativas árabe, cristiana y judía: convivencia literaria en el Medievo peninsular, David Navarro
Development of Biodegradable and Stimuli-Responsive Macromolescules and Their Assemblies, Ali Nazemi
Adjustment of pulmonary O2 uptake, muscle deoxygenation and metabolism during moderate-intensity exercise transitions initiated from low and elevated baseline metabolic rates, Joshua P. Nederveen
Investigating the pathological response to beta amyloid toxicity in rats: the role of age and the antioxidant catalase-SKL, Hayley J. Nell
Diffusionless Transition in Tricosane and Reversible Inhibition of Calcium Oxalate Monohydrate: Two Studies of Crystal Growth, Shailesh S. Nene
Amyloid beta resistance and the Warburg effect: Re-examining Alzheimer's disease, Jordan Taylor Newington
'Massa Day Done:' Cricket as a Catalyst for West Indian Independence: 1950-1962, Jonathan A. Newman
Two dimensional angular domain optical imaging in biological tissues, Eldon Ng
NFA reduction via hypergraph vertex cover approximation, Timothy Ng
Parkinson's Patients' Upper and Lower Limb Motor Impairments Differentially Influence Action Verb Processing, Peter Nguyen
Musical Mood and Musical Arousal Affects Different Stages of Learning and Memory Performance, Tram Nguyen
The influence of proficiency and age of acquisition on second language processing: An fMRI study of Mandarin-English bilinguals, Emily S. Nichols
The New French Extremity: Bruno Dumont and Gaspar Noé, France's Contemporary Zeitgeist, Timothy J. Nicodemo
Developmental characterization of tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase domain functions in Xenopus laevis, Michelle A. Nieuwesteeg
Uncommon Ecology: Reading the Romantic Oikos, Shalon Noble
Structure of C-terminal Domain of Parkin, IBR-RING2, Yeong Ju Noh
Maps of Lessons Learnt in Requirements Engineering, Ibtehal Noorwali
Semi-automatic Tracking of the Hyoid bone and the Epiglottis Movements in Digital Videofluoroscopic Images, Seereen Noorwali
"Radiant Imperfection": The Interconnected Writing Lives of Robert Bringhurst, Dennis Lee, Tim Lilburn, Don McKay, and Jan Zwicky, Kostantina Northrup
Aging and Obesity Models in Osteoarthritis, Sara Ohora
Essays on Skilled Workers and Economic Development, Dozie Okoye
Specimen Size Effect on Shear Behavior of Loose Sand in Triaxial Testing, Tarek Omar
Role of branched-chain amino acid transporters in Staphylococcus aureus virulence, Sameha Omer