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
Resource Allocation in Uplink Long Term Evolution, Aidin Reyhanimasoleh
Upgrading Pyrolysis Oil to Produce Liquid Transportation Fuels, Ehsan Reyhanitash
The Philosophy of ‘Playing’ Games: A Lusory Introspection of the Sincere Player and the Meaning of Play Amidst the Moral Morass of Contemporary Sport, Justin M. Rhoden
Investigating Adenosine’s Role in Controlling the Cerebral Metabolic Rate of Oxygen following Hypoxia-Ischemia, Mustafa Ridha
Conjoint Therapy for Intimate Partner Violence Among Aboriginal Couples: Service Providers' Perspectives on Risk and Safety, Ellissa M. Riel
Gendered geographies of food security in Blantyre, Malawi, Liam John Riley
Potassium Metasomatism at the Polymetallic NICO Deposit, Northwest Territories, Canada, Gregory B. Robinson
Cognitive Roles of Anterior and Posterior Pedunculopontine Tegmentum Subregions, Jordan C. Robinson
El espacio torcido en la narrativa mexicana de temática homosexual: 1977-1997, Juan Carlos Rocha Osornio
Heterologous Production and Characterization of Cell Wall Degrading Enzymes Using Plants as a Bioreactor, Eridan Orlando Rodrigues Pereira
Sport Event Volunteer Role Perceptions at the 2012 Ontario Summer Games, Kristen A. Rogalsky
Tu envidia es mi progreso: An Ethnographic Account of the Development of Squatter Settlements in San Juan de Miraflores, Lima, Peru., Brandon E. Rouleau
Delay Extraction based Macromodeling with Parallel Processing for Efficient Simulation of High Speed Distributed Networks, Sourajeet Roy
Modeling leafhopper populations and their role in transmitting plant diseases., Ji Ruan
“Alma” o “arma”, evidencia de la neutralización /l/ /r/ en la variedad dialectal andaluza de Sevilla, Maria de la Esperanza Ruiz-Peña
Topological properties of modular networks, with a focus on networks of functional connections in the human brain, Estefania Ruiz Vargas
A Case Study of Pedagogical Practices and Learning Environment in an Ontario Francophone Child Care Centre, Alan D. Russette
A Quantitative EMG Assessment of Motor Unit Recruitment in Patients with Ulnar Neuropathy, Kayla N. Ryan
Glass-Ceramics for Non-Metallic Dental Implant Applications, Selma Saadaldin
Carbon Dioxide Adsorption by Metal Organic Frameworks (Synthesis, Testing and Modeling), Rana Sabouni
Batch and Continuous Studies of Chlorella Vulgaris in Photo-Bioreactors, Claudia Sacasa Castellanos
Geographic Issues in Evaluating the Food System and Effective Interventions for Health and the Economy, Richard Casey Sadler
Numerical Simulation of an Open Channel Ultraviolet Waste-water Disinfection Reactor, Rajib Kumar Saha
Missing Requirements Information and its Impact on Software Architectures: A Case Study, Md Rounok Salehin
Cold-activation of the Drosophila melanogaster immune system, Golnaz Salehipourshirazi