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
Short term sensory and vascular responses to physical agent modalities and exercise in healthy volunteers and patients with distal radius fracture., Shaguftha Shaik
A Multispectral Assessment of Complex Impact Craters on the Lunar Farside, Bhairavi Shankar
Pharmaceutical Process Modeling, Optimization, and Control, Ehsan Sheikholeslamzadeh
On the Interoperability of Programming Languages based on the Fork-Join Parallelism Model, Sushek Shekar
Polynomially Adjusted Saddlepoint Density Approximations, Susan Zhe Sheng
An Access Control Model for NoSQL Databases, Motahera Shermin
Interpretation, Stratification and Validation of Sequence Variants Affecting mRNA Splicing in Complete Human Genome Sequences, Ben C. Shirley
New Mineralogical and Geochemical Characterization of Martian Meteorites: Implications for Habitability and Astrobiological Exploration of Mars, Jared N. Shivak
A New Diagnostic Test for Regression, Yun Shi
In the House of Transformation: Language Revitalization, State Regulation, and Indigenous Identity in Urban Amazonia, Sarah A. Shulist
The biogeochemical cycling of gold under surface and near-surface environmental conditions, Jeremiah P. Shuster
Simulation of Mobility and Retention of Selected Engineered Nanoparticles Beneath Landfills, Shumsun N. Siddique
Production of Lignin-Based Phenolic Resins Using De-Polymerized Kraft Lignin and Process Optimization, Homaira Siddiqui
Preposterous America: The Language of Inversion in Thoreau, Melville, and Hawthorne, Rasmus R. Simonsen
Aging and Stabilization of Pyrolitic Bio-Oils and Model Compounds, A. G. Manjula Taranganie Siriwardhana
British-Romanian Relations during the Cold War, Mihaela Sitariu
Investigating the functional significance of evolutionarily conserved protein motifs of the Drosophila melanogaster HOX protein, Sex combs reduced, Lovesha Sivanantharajah
A six week modified sprint interval training program incorporating extended exercise bouts does not increase maximal cardiac output, Alan R. Smith
Children At-Risk For Hearing Impairment: A Retrospective Study Of The Ontario Infant Hearing Program Population, Katherine M. Smith
Molecular Mechanisms Underlying the Early Life Programming of the Liver, Gurjeev Sohi
The Trentonian (Late Ordovician) brachiopod fauna of Ontario: Evolution through a global warming event, Akbar Sohrabi Hashjin
Design, Synthesis, and Evaluation of New Biodegradable Polymers and Nanoscale Assemblies for Drug Delivery, Rasoul Soleimani
The Chromatin Remodeling Protein ATRX in Development and Maintenance of Mouse Skeletal Tissues, Lauren A. Solomon
Barriers to Education in Homeless Youth, Michelle S. Solomon