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
Balanced Bilinguals' Unique Emotional Expressiveness, Maya Salloum
Some disputed aspects of inertia, with particular reference to the equivalence principle, Ryan S. Samaroo
Hydrodynamics in Recirculating Fluidized Bed Mimicking the Stripper Section of the Fluid Coker, Francisco J. Sanchez Careaga
Particle Fluidization in Upward and Inverse Liquid-Solid Circulating Fluidized Bed, Long Sang
The Resilience of a Refined Higher-Order Thought Theory of Consciousness, Lee-Anna T. Sangster
Fate of Estrogens in Anaerobic Digestion and their removal in Advanced Oxidation, Shubhajit Sarkar
The quest for territorial autonomy: Mapuche political identities under neoliberal multiculturalism in Argentina, Lucas Savino
Effect of fluid loss following hemodialysis on tibialis anterior muscle strength in people with end-stage renal disease, Anuradha Sawant
Orthodontic Retainers: A Survey of Patient Compliance and Satisfaction, Bhavana Sawhney
A quantitative method for measuring and visualizing species' relatedness in a two-dimensional Euclidean space., Abu Sadat Md. Sayem
The Study of Optoelectronics in Semiconductor and Metallic Nanoparticle Hybrid Systems, Daniel G. Schindel
Song as an Honest Indicator of Developmental Stress in Song Sparrows, Kimberly L. Schmidt
Ignition Method Development and First Field Demonstration of In Situ Smouldering Remediation, Grant C. Scholes
The Smart technology to Manage type 2 diabetes and Achieve health goals through Record keeping and Tailored feedback (SMART) Study, Jody C. Schuurman
Transition of Newcomer Youth in Ontario Educational Policies: A Critical Discourse Analysis, Cameron Scott
Concrete Bridge Girders with Exposed Flexural Reinforcement, Trevor K. Scott
Family Structure and Children's Socioeconomic Attainment in the Transition to Adulthood, Jamie Seabrook
Socialization of Depressive Symptoms in Pre- and Early Adolescent Peer Cliques, Suzanne L. Seah
The Applicability of Co-Operative Federalism: Lessons Learned from the Assisted Human Reproduction Act, David A.M. Seccareccia
Mechanism of Ascorbate Protection Against Sepsis-Induced Capillary Blood Flow Impairment, Dan Secor
The Role of Corporate Controls, Size, and Corporate Headquarters in the Effect of Corporate-Level Strategy on Business-Level Strategy and Business-Level Performance, S. A. Pouya Seifzadeh
Design and Optimization of Efficient Wireless Power Transfer Links for Implantable Biotelemetry Systems, Shawon Senjuti
Return to Work After Retirement: Contributing Factors and Health Implications, Jason Settels
On degeneracies in the family of fibres of a complex analytic mapping, Hadi Seyedinejad
What Shapes Family Physicians' Patterns of Care for Community Patients at End of Life?, Joshua D. Shadd