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
Metaphor and Metanoia: Linguistic Transfer and Cognitive Transformation in British and Irish Modernism, Andrew C. Wenaus
Representing Game Dialogue as Expressions in First-Order Logic, Kaylen FJ Wheeler
Some Theoretical Models for a Critical Art Practice, Giles Whitaker
Accelerated Imaging Techniques for Chemical Shift Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Curtis N. Wiens
Three-Phase Reduced Switch Topologies for AC-DC Front-End and Single-Stage Converters, Dunisha Wijeratne
Absence of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase AtPPC3 increases sensitivity of Arabidopsis thaliana to cadmium, Ian R. Willick
Reminiscences: The Medievalisms of Wassily Kandinsky, Stephanie Wittich
The Role of α5GABA(A) Receptors in Brain Inflammation, Jason K. Wong
Reaching for the light: The prioritization of conspicuous visual stimuli for reflexive target-directed reaching, Daniel K. Wood
The effect of articulation and word-meaning on gait and balance in people with Parkinson’s disease, Kevin Wood
Understanding Gendered Pathways to Criminal Involvement in a Community-Based Sample: Relevance of Past Trauma with Female Offenders, Amelia S.Y. Wu
Improving Cardiac Repair by Stem Cell Factor Post-Myocardial Infarction, Fuli Xiang
Comparison of option pricing between ARMA-GARCH and GARCH-M models, Yi Xi
Study on Fine Powder Coating with Modified Additive, Dangchen Xue
A Support System for Graphics for Visually Impaired People, Hao Xu
Multinuclear Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of Microporous Materials, Jun Xu
Lines of Necessity, Thea A. Yabut
Magneto-Rheological Actuators for Human-Safe Robots: Modeling, Control, and Implementation, Peyman Yadmellat
Studies on Microscopic Flow Structure Inside a Rectangular Circulating Fluidized Bed Through Image Analysis, Jingsi Yang
Development of Nanostructured LiMPO4 (M=Fe, Mn) as Cathodes for High Performance Lithium-Ion Batteries, Jinli Yang
Continuum Modeling on Size-dependent Properties of Piezoelectric Nanostructures, Zhi Yan
Listening to Voices of Exceptional Students to Inform Art Pedagogy, Christina Yarmol
Characterization of the Interaction Between Bone Sialoprotein and Type I Collagen, Rose Yee
Spatial Variation and Interpolation of Wind Speed Statistics and Its Implication in Design Wind Load, Wei Ye
SUNERGOS1, a Lotus japonicus gene required for proper accommodation of rhizobial infection, Hwi Joong Yoon